Talk:Goop Fight/@comment-3234158-20111023130238

First off, I'll just say that this series is positively epic. :D The new aliens are great, the plots make sense, quite brilliant, and seems like they could fit into the canon series right now, and the characterization (although the format you're using doesn't show much of it) is spot on.

Anyway, the backstory you came up with for the Polymorphs is very interesting. I really like it, but there is a detail that we already know from canon sources that wasn't mentioned, which is that Viscosa isn't their original home planet and they moved there for some reason or another. Also, there's the issue that they probably wouldn't evolve to be conscious if they couldn't do anything with their intellect, and they also wouldn't find that lifestyle "horrible".

Maybe instead of just evolving not being able to do anything like that, they originally came from a low gravity planet where they could move around just fine (Polymorphs do have some ability to move their bodies, as shown by Goop's pathetic attempt at a gravity-disk-less attack on Ssssserpant in Perfect Girlfriend). Then something happened, and a bunch of them decided to evacuate the planet by picking a planet relatively close to their own that they could survive on and sending a ship full of survivors there. (It's also possible that they didn't have FTL yet so they put everyone in suspended animation; I think this would make it more believable that they hadn't developed anti-gravity themselves.) But unfortunately they miscalculated and Viscosa ended up having a much higher gravity than expected, leading to the unfortunate existence that you described in this episode.

I dunno, it's not like I want you to change the episode or go with this or anything, this just got me thinking and I wanted to share with someone. :3