I want a baby


Anyone know why she all of a sudden wanted a baby? There was no explanation in the movie. Pretty frustrating.

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Her instincts were to reproduce. When it comes down to it, that's the goal of any creature: reproduce to propagate your species (no pun intended). Not sure why you think that was "all of a sudden". She was looking for a mate within a few hours of hatching on the train. It's not like she spent 3/4 of the movie wandering around aimlessly before suddenly wanting to be a mommy.

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She barely understood what or who she was, was raised in a very closed experimental environment with no access to boys her age (or girls for that matter). She had no education about a) what sex or 'mating' is or b) the purpose of said mating. She was raised as a human until she ran away...unaware of her species' intense mating habits, not to mention there were no other aliens near her to communicate this message telepathically (as was shown in the second movie) so yes...I said 'all of a sudden'. Her desire to reproduce was sprung on the audience with no rhyme or reason. Basically I'm saying the writing was very lazy.

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All creatures have an innate sense to mate. Sil was no different, in fact, her being alien it was probably even stronger (to take over the planet).

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Her HUMAN side wouldn't know about it, but she also had a creature side. I never talked to my cats about sex, haha, yet they still went into heat and wanted to mate. She has animal instincts basically.

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Don't be so nieve. Humans will instinctivly mate no matter how neive and sheltered they are raised.

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They actually did explain it. She had an accelerated life-cycle and had reached the point where the need to mate becomes urgent.

It seems clear that the alien intelligence that sent the designs for her intended there to be an infestation, so it's not strange that this creature would be driven to reproduce.

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WHAT?!

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I'd say it's a pretty big plot detail. It wasn't exactly all of a sudden.

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Has anyone explained puberty to you?

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I'd thought'd it be pretty obvious to the OP why Sil wanted a child.

I remember back in 1995 when the entire theater bursted out into laughter when the guy's reaction was, "what?" After Sil said she wanted a baby.

Some folks in the theater were telling the guy to "go for it!" It was hilarious.

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to bred more monsters to take over the world. Were of the impression she can lay thousands of eggs or something so if she fucks man kind is doomed.

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But humans were nice to her, why would she want to destroy them?

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He who pays no attention.

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