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Abed, who has Asperger's syndrome and dreams of making documentaries, is in one sense a familiar sitcom character, the gentle alien observer — like Latka, in "Taxi".
"To celebrate one's family to the maximum, to put them proudly and visibly into print, might require betraying them to the eyes of an alien observer we might call 'America,' " as McGurl puts it.
But judging from her new memoir, she was not sufficiently braced by these adventures for the foreignness and violence of Los Angeles, which she likens to "another planet," with herself an "alien observer".
Instead, when I can remember, I put on my helpful alien observer spectacles and take notice of symptoms: "Hmmm.
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Children are alien observers of adult customs and cruelty, too.
The cattails swayed inside the smoke, shushing one another and brushing close to the ship like alien observers.
As a former scientist myself, I do wonder what alien observers, untrammelled by convention and years of social conditioning, would make of our species.
Alien observers monitoring Earth for signs of intelligent life may well have choked on their intergalactic version of tea a few hundred thousand years ago when the first humans stumbled into focus, some 4 billion years after our planet's own emergence.
Alien society observers gave standing ovations when negotiators accepted recommendations by the Intergalactic Panel on Cosmic Change (IPCC) to evacuate all remaining earthlings and to replenish the Global Evacuation fund (GEF)".
Something as simple as bringing a user's eyes back into VR makes the tech appear a little less alien to a consumer observer.
Then again, this is hardly appropriate, since Si is meant to be an alien in the past, a modern observer trying hard to fit in.
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