willowscarlett:ds9vgrconfessions:Follow | Confess | Archive[Rocks and Shoals made me feel bad for th
willowscarlett:ds9vgrconfessions:Follow | Confess | Archive[Rocks and Shoals made me feel bad for the Jem'Hadar. They are sentient beings yet their only purpose is to die for the Founders. They are bred to have no self value, and are slaves to the whims of their merciless overseers. Not to mention their forced addiction to the white.]There’s this distressing trend in speculative fiction to invent species as stereotypes - all elves are good, all orcs are bad - and I love how DS9 plays on this. It starts off with very clear definitions of the species (evil Cardassians, noble and scrappy Bajorans, money-hungry Ferengi, merciless Jem’Hadar etc) then gradually inverts and demolishes these to show that there’s great variation among any species because, you know, there’s variation from person to person. -- source link
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