The Mayor ,'End of Days'
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Not to mention that as fucking expensiveas that self-surgical thing is, it fucking better work on men and women. WTF is the point then. in the theater, when the machine said that, I said out loud "fucking typical."
I thought that was just foreshadowing that the shuttle was meant to hold a male passenger, who we discover later is Welyand, NOT Vickers. It would only be programmed for that one person, screw the rest of the ship, not just females.
I don't think there was any evidence that pointed to it being an issue, an auto-doc being for just a specific person. Yes, it was an anvil that it wasn't Vickers, but Weyland's, but why would you think they're programmed to work for one person?
ita,
why would you think they're programmed to work for one person?
Eh, I just didn't think my sentence through well. Male=Weyland=one person came out being all the same in my head.
Oh! Another big issue I had apart from the general lack of common sense or survival instinct among the crew was the complete ignorance of basic physics and biology on the part of the writers. Like aliens whose DNA is just like ours except they apparently react to mild electrical stimulus by instantly rotting and exploding. Funny, I don't remember hearing about people doing that. Or a freaky fetus that can make someone's womb run at 200x speed and not cause all sorts of complications beyond a couple of cramps. Or said freaky fetus then being able to gain hundreds of kg of mass out of thin air over another couple of hours post-extraction, as that infirmary didn't seem to have big crates of supplies it could have fed on.
Finding out that one of the Lost writers got a screenplay credit explains a lot...
Prometheus sounds like I can just pretend I'm having an awesome freaky dream and it's so over-the-top and unreal that it doesn't bother me that it doesn't make any damn sense.
Today's Dork Tower link the Dark Knight meets the Avengers.
Matt,
I think those examples you cite are of the weapon and not the progenitors' DNA.
I was assuming that for what happened to Charlie and Elizabeth, while still being skeptical about changes that fast not killing the person they're happening to. But you're thinking the alien head was contaminated as well, and the electric charge "woke up" the bioweapon to make it go kablooey? Why wouldn't it have exploded the head 2,000 years ago ?
Man, I'm gonna have to go to the movies now so that I can read the whitefont.
Finally saw The Woman in Black. I was glad Arthur wasn't played by a better actor, because I was able to stay mesmerized watching the background and the shadows.
yes. only because of the image of the black grime from the ears? (and that there was something moving on the scalp before they hooked the head up).
I don't recall if electricity killed the aliens in the previous movies, but perhaps this was a nod to that?