Why did Patrick blow his head off?
Only to have it grow back immediately? What was he trying to do? Makes no sense.
shareHe was trying to kill himself, he did not know it would grow back.
shareI thought of that, but he didn't look despondent before, and once he did it, he just sat there while it grew back and once it was back completely he just sort of got up and went about his business.
Perhaps a "Wow, that didn't work. I was so ready to off myself.....this life sucks" line from him after would have made sense!
The actor's acting aside, I think it's a weird thing about how he got infected. With at first he seemed to have a normal human part to his character. When he got his head off and it grew back he mostly was more alien like after that.
Most of this is all hazy guessing considering our only backstory on that part you know came from someone in a looney bin....
Sil/Eve were of course grown in a lab from a fertilized egg, so they are hybrids. Patrick went to space human and came back with somehow alien dna inside him, that ended up taking over completely. The full extent of what infected him also is souly placed on someone who might not be that credible.
Which in a fan guessing way raises some decent questions given that the series went on to have a lot of his offspring be flawed. I think that might make the case that either the transformation or the "goo" or "DNA infector" might not have been perfect in itself. Or at least not "normal" for this alien species on any normal day.
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