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<blockquote data-quote="briggart" data-source="post: 9315230" data-attributes="member: 6805135">That was not the impression I got. When Evans explained the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood was lying, they asked to speak with the wolf*. We don't get the full context of the scene, so maybe in this specific case Evans had not clarified beforehand that was he was reading was not an account of real facts. But even in that case, when he does explain that it is indeed a story, and the nature of stories, the aliens conclude that the &quot;story is a lie about a lier&quot;. So given that apparently the aliens have just learned that humans can lie, and that stories should not be taken literally, which they equate to lying, I don't see how until that moment they had not taken at face value any information they acquired from Earth.I do not dislike the basic premise of an alien species that does not lie and once they realise that humans instead can, they decide humans are too dangerous to be allowed to live. But I think that revelation should have happened much earlier in the internal timeline of the show. *Another nitpicking: in the same scene, Evans refers to his enemy as &quot;pests&quot;, and the aliens counter that pests are animals, while Evans enemies are humans. So the aliens have at least a basic understanding of Earth's ecology, interpret what they are told literally, but they are distressed at the mention of a talking wolf only when they realise the wolf is lying?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="briggart, post: 9315230, member: 6805135"] That was not the impression I got. When Evans explained the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood was lying, they asked to speak with the wolf*. We don't get the full context of the scene, so maybe in this specific case Evans had not clarified beforehand that was he was reading was not an account of real facts. But even in that case, when he does explain that it is indeed a story, and the nature of stories, the aliens conclude that the "story is a lie about a lier". So given that apparently the aliens have just learned that humans can lie, and that stories should not be taken literally, which they equate to lying, I don't see how until that moment they had not taken at face value any information they acquired from Earth. I do not dislike the basic premise of an alien species that does not lie and once they realise that humans instead can, they decide humans are too dangerous to be allowed to live. But I think that revelation should have happened much earlier in the internal timeline of the show. *Another nitpicking: in the same scene, Evans refers to his enemy as "pests", and the aliens counter that pests are animals, while Evans enemies are humans. So the aliens have at least a basic understanding of Earth's ecology, interpret what they are told literally, but they are distressed at the mention of a talking wolf only when they realise the wolf is lying? [/QUOTE]

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