User blog comment:SolZen321/What Annoys me about the Attack teams/@comment-5920426-20151019231451/@comment-5527544-20151019232304

Paranoid, by it's definition is going overboard, it's being suspicious even when you don't need to be. if they were paranoid, Dan would never have joined the Ultra Garrison and the Earth would've been conquered a long time ago, and various other main characters would never have joined the defense team.. Also, the series has repeatedly held to the idea that paranoia is bad, even if your are dealing with aliens. Dealing with aliens is pretty much like an international incident, you can't just assume they're the bad guys, or YOU will be the bad guys. I think the words you may have meant are; alert, suspicious, concerned and cautious.

My issue is that no one but the main character took notice of the obvious the fact that their friends were acting weird in a situation that had a high chance of dealing with alien invaders. That's not being paranoid, that's common sense being used.