re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Making them humanoid just means it is easier to use motion-capture CGI techniques with live actors.

If a writer makes an alien species too non-human or non-Earthlike, the reader or audience will find it hard to empathize or identify with them. Evil aliens tend to be insectile or reptilian, good aliens more humanoid or furry-animal based.

Real aliens probably resemble nothing we’ve ever seen on Earth.