More Fuzzy thoughts

I've already done one post about my immediate reaction to Fuzzy Nation and how unsatisfying I found it in comparison to the original Little Fuzzy. That post felt vaguely incomplete and I couldn't put my finger on why. Yesterday, it clicked for me what bugged me so much about the reboot, possibly more than all the other changes combined. When you get right down to it, the extra killing and the completely unnecessary love triangle and the Newer!Shinier!More Heinleinesque!Jack are fairly superficial changes in comparison to this other thing. The more I thought about it, the more certain I became that Scalzi's most radical departure from Piper's original work undermines the most important social, scientific, and philosophical point of Little Fuzzy.

( Major spoilers for Little Fuzzy and Fuzzy Sapiens and Fuzzy Nation beneath the cut )