Are Star-Crossed's Alien Teens Entitled To Fun?

If you're considering integrating a small group of alien teenagers into a human high school, there are probably a lot of issues you've anticipated. Will there be a language barrier? Is the reservation WWII-style European ghetto Sector where said aliens live equipped with the technological and pedagogical resources the students will need to be competitive with their human classmates? How will you update the curriculum to educate the human teens about alien culture? And how will your school administration respond when aliens are affected by the accidental shooting death of their political and spiritual leader?

Of course, for the Atrians of Star-Crossed the last of these is no longer a hypothetical situation, the series premiere having ended with Officer Ray Whitehill, father to our human heroine Emery, accidentally killing Nox, assimilationist Atrian leader and father to two of the Atrian 7 who now attend Emery's school.

Naturally, this has been a pivotal event in the lives of the school's newest transfer students -- not just the two who are preparing their father's funeral while...taking absolutely no time away from their classes -- but for the human students and their parents, who are afraid for the safety of their children as long as they are sharing a school with Atrians, who've now seemingly had their reputation for terrorist activity re-confirmed. And at a meeting of whatever the PTA will be called ten years from now -- probably they'll have to throw a pointless "cyber" or "i" in there somewhere -- the bigoted human parents are not holding back with regard to raising their issues and concerns. (The still-alive parents of the Atrian 7 would probably be in attendance to share their worries if they were allowed out of the Sector.) Are the Atrians really planning terrestrial colonization? Can some of them really remove their facial markings to infiltrate human society as double agents? Is the Atrians' very existence ungodly?

All of these are great points to ponder. But only one woman dares to ask the question so important, so explosive, that surely it's the real reason all the parents have attended this meeting.

But what am I thinking? You can't possibly appreciate the depth of this mother's horror that her child or children might not experience the joy of the Homecoming carnival because of these stupid aliens and their innocent cop-killed leader unless you actually see the pain on her face and anguish in her voice. So get a load of this shit (but please, turn down your computer volume first).

Jesus, lady, what ABOUT the Homecoming carnival? Is it the social event of the season? Is that where they're naming the new FuturePope? It's a CARNIVAL. Your kid or kids will still get to shoot water in a clown's mouth even though an alien is dead, so please take it down about thirty-two notches.