Saucer Country #5 - "Run, Part Five"

[laughing_tree]

Warning for rape

Media representation of these things as serious and real and scary may have gone away, but out there in popular culture they're still abducting people. The mythology has rolled on; in fact, it's gained a huge number of dimensions since the end of The X-Files. The Lizard Men have arrived and started infesting our royal families, things like that. The Grays have now become this inflatable cartoon figure. We've got this word: "probing." We have a funny word for anal rape! This is because we're terrified. We're scared that this might be true. And that fear has led us to take this bogeyman and make this court jester out of it. It's fascinating. -- Paul Cornell

Comments

[pyrrhocorax]

I’m disappointed this got cancelled, it’s very interesting. The way Arcadia instinctively trusts them, then is abused, and then has to fight away from the feeling that *she* was the one responsible...obviously it’s classic abuse aftermath stuff, but I’ve never seen it applied to UFO mythology before.

[captainbellman]

I mean, at least the sequel series is out now.