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I will discuss the pros and cons of doing this in scifi.
Like Us Pros:
1. We can understand it.
2. Romance with aliens if that's your thing.
Like Us Cons:
1. Seems rather conveinient that humanoid aliens living LY away reproduce like us... with the same organs. I dunno... after taking pains to go rubber forehead, purple skin, and funny ears... yet it's all the same down below? Does not really jive with me.
2. Explanation or ignoring it is warranted. Either way your bound to ruffle some reader's feathers, either for mucking with humanity's origins to justify it or making the aliens distant relatives somehow in the future. Or just ignore explanation altogther and hope not too many care.
Not Like Us Pros:
1. Freedom to be creative with reproduction as you see fit, and can allow for unique things that do not happen in human society.
2. You do not have to explain away why they reproduce just like we do with the same parts. Because they don't.
Not Like Us Cons:
1. Human/alien romance is less likely if you wanted that.
2. Not having the same parts or reproductive cycle we do can be a challenge to write and will likely require some research, and it may not even matter in the plot at large of the story... unless you make it so.So what do you think on this subject?
Like Us Pros:
1. We can understand it.
2. Romance with aliens if that's your thing.
Like Us Cons:
1. Seems rather conveinient that humanoid aliens living LY away reproduce like us... with the same organs. I dunno... after taking pains to go rubber forehead, purple skin, and funny ears... yet it's all the same down below? Does not really jive with me.
2. Explanation or ignoring it is warranted. Either way your bound to ruffle some reader's feathers, either for mucking with humanity's origins to justify it or making the aliens distant relatives somehow in the future. Or just ignore explanation altogther and hope not too many care.
Not Like Us Pros:
1. Freedom to be creative with reproduction as you see fit, and can allow for unique things that do not happen in human society.
2. You do not have to explain away why they reproduce just like we do with the same parts. Because they don't.
Not Like Us Cons:
1. Human/alien romance is less likely if you wanted that.
2. Not having the same parts or reproductive cycle we do can be a challenge to write and will likely require some research, and it may not even matter in the plot at large of the story... unless you make it so.So what do you think on this subject?