BafflingBeerMan

I never said the Prawns were stupid, just that Chris was smarter than the average Prawn

Case in point: Chris's friend didn't know the difference between Prawn tech and human tech in the dumpster. Chris called human tech junk and while he liked his friend, it appeared at times he was impatient with him. Chris had to beg the friend not to rile up the humans and to act polite and his friend disobeyed him. The fact that Chris didn't approach any other Prawn to help with his plan may also indicate that Chris was set apart from the others.

And the film did say that the Prawn on earth were "specialists" in the sense that they seemed to be a worker class. Manual labor stuff or their equivalent. Not that you can't find smart people who do manual labor, but the film paints the Prawn as a more physical type of alien than mental. The fact that they appeared to be unorganized and somewhat brutish (tearing of limbs and such) would seem to indicate that the Prawns that did survive (again, remember, the film mentions that a lot of Prawns were dead on the ship, probably due to a disease) were not intellectuals. They were, for lack of a better term, the blue-collars of the Prawn race. Average.

Prawns no doubt have the capability for higher thought. But even if when they arrived on Earth, they fell into the situation you described, losing everything (and they did, but I don't know that this group ever thought beyond their roles as "workers") and struggling to survive, that doesn't make you dumb, no, but it does dull your intellect. Chris Johnson, on the other hand, found a way to break from those shackles and concentrate on something other than surviving. So, yes, in the end, he was smarter than the average Prawn on Earth, whether it be because he was naturally smarter or because he had the "luxury" of becoming smarter.

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Like I said, I did find it a bit jarring as it seemed like two different movies. But I am a sucker for mockumentaries, so I really enjoyed the first half. Once they abandonded the docu setup, I turned off my brain a bit and enjoyed the many ways the alien tech killed humans (loved the death of the Nigerian warlord). It is like the movie "Adaptation" in a way. That was purposely two different styles of movies mashed together in two parts (the first half representing Charlie's writing style, the second half, Donald's). That was on purpose, but it was a meta-change, not explained in the movie. I don't think this movie's change in tone was meta, just convenient, but I could still "separate" the two halves and enjoy them on their own.



Good point about the broken arm possibly being the trigger.

Just to the larger debate over who ID'ed the fuel: I do think the kid Prawn ID'ed it as fuel (or at least, said "Fuel goes here" and that is where he placed the cannister later). Of course, there is somewhat of a language and cultural barrier between aliens and humans (see: various Prawns not knowing what eviction means), and what the aliens may call fuel is not what we would consider fuel here on Earth.


Yeah, they had no idea what the fuel was, otherwise, it'd be more closely guarded. They did try to merge alien DNA with human DNA before though, as an off-hand comment seemed to indicate Wikus was the first time they saw someone live that long while transforming. They also seemed to know how long the transformation would take.



As others have said, everyone saw it drop once. Then they did a massive search but found nothing. Not surprising, since the craft was actually hidden underground. So they didn't forget it, they just couldn't find it.



Yes, I would have liked more info on the aliens as well, but like Cloverfield (another movie I like), I don't think the point was so much the why or what of the sci-fi aspect, but more the who.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Sorry, dipped into Roger Daltrey mode there.

I'll just jump into my forward time machine and...blast, went right past it!

After they skipped past the Sexy Women with The Time Machine Future, I pretty much expected time to loop back on itself. Of course, I did not see them looping around twice

This episode reminded me of the Farnsworth Parabox, because it both had a Professor invention be abused and random "worlds." And I loved it!

Just be careful reading. I make references to things in Season 6 for some of the answers/themes for Season 1.

Of course, I don't describe anything too in detail, but I just want to warn you.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!

One possible explanation: Smokey only uses the body if he wants to "live" in that form for a while and use that person's memories to his advantage. Hence why he can recall what Locke's dying thoughts were. This is more dangerous to The Others because Smokey can hide in that form more easily.

He can take the form of other dead people, like Isabella and Ben's mom, but they are only "figments" of their target's imagination. So Smokeybella was how Richard would think of her and Ben's mom is how he thinks of his mom and who she would act, etc. It would explain why Ben's mom looked like Alice in Wonderland and was wary of crossing over the sonic fence. Also can be why he scans people: he wants to see who he can appear to them as without their bodies being around. So Richard was wondering if Momma Linus was the Smoke Monster trying to infiltrate Dharma by using her memories and life to his advantage, or just a parlor trick of Smokey.

Heh.

I like this pic and another one I found of Christian opening the church doors. They allow me to take something from the finale and aren't spoilerly without knowing the characters and the context of the shot, since they are kinda "fuzzy."