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I like the basic premise here, that the aliens are not evil conquerors or benevolent saviors, but basically curious and playful. In fact, modern science implies that the human species' rapid evolution may have come from a sexual selection for playfulness (a selective force still active today, btw). A Russian project shows that breeding foxes for playfulness causes rapid evolution of other traits pleasing to humans. So a more advanced alien civilization is actually quite likely to be playful and curious.
Unfortunately, the first episode gave me a hellish vibe, what with the main character's friends betraying him immediately. This is the kind of thinking that lands you in the psych ward or a pool of blood. We don't really need a potentially cute show having this kind of sinister tone.
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