[xeromal]

I had night terrors for years as a 30 year old and I finally fixed them.

* Removed all blinking lights from my room. Cover up smoke detector LED or turn it off. This seems to trigger my night terrors.

* Let the brain rest before bed. No phone, screen, book, anything about 20-30 minutes before bed. Hop in the shower, hop in bed. Don't think.

[amelius]

We need more movies where the bad looking people/creatures are the good guys and the good looking people are the bad guys.

[ryandrake]

Reminds me of Clarke's Childhood's End, where the good guys have to wait decades before revealing their physical appearance, because they happen to look like the bad guys from a certain religion.

[blue_dragon]

It wasn't happenstance, though. There is a specific reason as to why humanity's depictions of demons look the same as those aliens, and it's a critical plot point. (Can't say more or I'll spoil one of the best sci-fi books of all time for those who haven't read it).

Edit: it's also highly debatable whether the Overlords are in fact the good guys.

[wruza]

Don’t want to spoil it either, so only can reply that literature and movies are good at masking the real horrors of the world that most of the world has to live in. Can’t remember how well society was in the book though.

[ViktorRay]

Hey I wanted you guys to know I picked up and read the book just from the curiosity you guys sparked in me from the descriptions in this thread!

I just finished reading it. The book was excellent! Definitely glad I read it!

Also I’m glad you guys were careful not to spoil what happens. It was very memorable!

[krapp]

Please no. An inversion of a trope is still just a trope.

[kadoban]

Nothing wrong with tropes, they're the building blocks of stories.

[krapp]

It's an overused trope that people think is far more clever and subversive than it is.

[fragmede]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InvertedTrope

[kazinator]

Maybe Nightbreed (1990) is a bit like this.

[rustcleaner]

No, please, I'm tired of what Amazon-Netflix are doing. Don't make it worse!

[amelius]

Yeah, well I'm tired of the good guys always being better looking than the bad guys. Maybe I should try a Netflix subscription.

[wruza]

It’s not that sort of a spectrum though. Netflix has very specific goals in mind, it doesn’t represent reality either.

[bandie91]

just as much as we need stinky drinking water and deliciously tasting poison.