User blog comment:Thailog/Ep. 204 "Salvage" discussion/@comment-5069635-20120523073428/@comment-5069635-20120523095334

"He cannot age outside but he can age inside."

I may just be generally un-aquainted with this ficitonal concept, but how exactly does one "age" internally? Simply by living, right? There's no difference between this "aging internally" and being imortal, like a vampire, just accruing more mental experience. You can't NOT mentally age, under any circumstances, once you've reached adulthood. Unless you consider mind slowing down due to age, and I don't think that's what he's talking about, because that has physical factors, and would be paralleling his physical aging.

But there's also a difference between teenager's minds and adults' minds. So, Miss Martian was aging physically half as fast as humans, but does that also mean she had an still developing mind during the first season, equivalent to a teen's?

Humanoid aliens in general perplex me. The idea that they'd be similar to us much at all is rather absurd, and the Star Trekian method of making them simply equivalent to different human races, and an alien girl crushing on SB in a typcial Earth fashion is just plain strange. If they had had any development, in the first season, talking expressedly about how the shapeshifter, unconcerned with appearance, was impressed/infatuated with his mind, it would have been more interesting. Looking back at it retroactively, it's cool, but while it was going on. ..