Weren't Andrei & James on the orbital unit when James died in space?
And the ground module was already on the surface?
Then how Andrei got to the ground module??
And, how the hell the creature got into the ship?
It wasn't small enough to get through small cracks made by second landing.
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As soon as she realized that contact was re-established, she popped the airlock. That's how the critter got in.
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I thought Andrei got rescued by James and remained on the orbital. It wasn't shown what happened to him. The remaining woman on the lander opened the hatch to let the water in and pointed her camera at it to see what might come through.
shareJames died long before they got to Europa. That was a flashback.
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Andrei & James were supposed to remain in orbit while the other 4 landed, according to the plan. But James was... away! And Andrei was... borderline insane. He was too unstable to be left alone "up there" so they brought him along.
Once the water started getting in? She knew she could never lift off so she opened the airlock to record what the life-form looked like. I think?
The magical travel between orbiting ship and ground module had Me scratching My head, too. The way in which they showed the order of events was clear on what was a flashback and what was 'current' EXCEPT for James and Andrei's spacewalk. They streamlined that scene to make it appear as if it happened after the ground module had landed. Just chalk it up to bad directing or editing.
They had no proof that complex life was there and so the airlock was opened to allow the creature to get in and be seen on camera at the very last second.
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It was a "found footage" film so the events didn't go entirely in sequence. Early on, there was footage with the crew talking about James' death. Then the film skipped ahead a bit - then it went back to James' death.
The ground module was not on the surface yet when James died. As another poster said, they brought Andre with them because he was unstable. Had things gone according to plan, James and Andre would have stayed on the orbital unit - but James was dead and Andre was crazy.
In the very last scene, the scientist doing the interview says that once communication with Earth was reestablished, the last astronaut opened the airlock so that the cameras would capture an image of the creature. So she sacrificed herself to get better evidence (well, she would have died anyway, but differently). That's why they went back to the shot of her saying that compared to the importance of the discovery, what were their lives really worth.
What? I always thought there were two other guys still on the orbital ship. That was a confusing order of scenes.
They should have left at least one guy on the main ship so he can at the very least fly the expensive main ship, the locally stored data, and himself back to earth to tell the story in case back in case the ground module won't make it back...
But they didn't listen to me now theyre all dead and the ship is a pile of space junk.