In the movie we see Rebecca Ferguson's character scratching her finger, later we see a tiny piece of the creature burst out. If the creature could grow from a single cell, it seems they were screwed no matter who landed on Earth. She was already infected.
shareI was wondering about that too. I couldn't tell if the movie was suggesting that or simply making a point that the creature is attracted to blood.
I was also confused because the whole time I thought there were TWO creatures -- one that got stuck outside when the French lady died and then the one that seemed to have grown inside while it was attached to the British dude's leg. I thought maybe it had split or something.
I willing to bet things got changed on reshoots. There probably was a more subtle ending where Rebecca's character is the one who lands, but it's implied that were screwed anyway because she's infected. The studio probably wanted a more obvious ending.
There were two creatures, but we don't see much of the second one after it bursts out of her finger. Plus, I think it's likely it left a couple cells behind in her body as a backup.
There was only one creature, and nothing burst out of her finger. They showed a close-up of her bleeding finger (and a droplet of blood floating out)...to show that the creature was attracted to blood and could key in on it. Again, there was never two creatures. The creature was indeed outside of the ship with that lady trying to fix the communications.....but it was able to get back inside through the engine thrusters.
shareThat's what I thought too, how did people see another creature? It looked like a regular floating piece of blood that was used to transition into the alien sniffing out the floating blood particles to hone in on the next target.
shareI could have sworn I saw a little wormy thing pop out of her finger before eating the blood. Thats why she was scratching her finger, there was a little piece of the creature that got under her skin and at some point it popped out and went for the blood that came out.
sharethats what I thought. When they ran out of thruster fuel it just went inside. It was clearly trying to enter the thrusters which is what prompted them to fire on it. But I'm not sure why the thrusts would some how function as an airlock. and not just act like a complete breeach if the creature penetrated through it.
And after watching the blu-ray they show one of the thruster gages swung up then down again with a voice over saying. "We just let it back in here". Considering that the film isn't showing footage of the creature getting back in maby this was a script edit.
heres the shot of the blood
http://162.209.73.6/calvin_or_blood.png
The blood is moving to the right you see her finger on the left. For a split second we see the blood join together (In this shot two dropps almost reach out to each other and combine but then split apart again). I don't know if this is bad CGI imitating something that doesn't happen in physics. The two drops literally stretch out to each. See the thin protrosion connecting the two. In real life the blood drops would only reach out towards each other only after their surface tentions touched cousing the surface tension to quickly attempt to wrap around bouth dropplets and merging them into more or less a sphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJDEsAy9RyM
So either this is a new calvin or a bad physics engine producing the CGI of blood joining. or maby just an artist playing with nurb surfaces.
French lady? She was Russian.
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The short answer would be no.
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Yeah - hmm.... I looked at that scene a few times, but the vid I had was out of focus - it seemed like the droplet had tentacles - but again, it was out of focus. So either it was a blood droplet and it was a hint as to how they would lure the big organism into their trap, or it was an offspring of the big alien organism and they were screwed either way.
I don't see why this alien creature wouldn't leave a few of its cells when it comes in touch with anything it sees as food - given that a single cell is all that's needed for the development of another organism.
At the end of the day, this alien creature beats 'Alien' creature in every way. It grows way faster, and is a LOT stronger (even when tiny, it seemed to possess an infinite amount of strength). It's also much more intelligent (thought the Queen alien was also pretty intelligent). From what I can tell, it gained knowledge from humans - hence why it placed its tentacle into the black astronauts head near the end. Though.... given that it knew which capsule it had to sabotage, I suspect that it also had telepathic abilities.
It was basically the 'superman' of all the alien creatures I've seen in the movies thus far. Humanity was doomed regardless of what these astronauts did or tried to do. From what I gather, it actually shrived in heat. It was also able to withstand the lack of heat/air in space for a very long duration of time -hell, it was so overpowered, I'm surprised it didn't just push off the space station to fly towards the Earth.
A creature this advanced would leave cells behind as a rapid way to reproduce. It would multiply so fast the moment it came into our atmosphere theres nothing we could do its contaminating everything. We don't want this creature to shed cells that could feed and grow up as that would be a pretty unstopable creature. Like its no longer a fun horror organism as we know earth is pretty much screwed.
With the original alien we know we at least have a fighting chance. Yes they reproduce rapidly and are hard to kill but they are at least killable with the right weapons so those movies are still fun. With creatures like calvin you already know how its going to end since the creature is just unstopable. Even nuclear warfare is more survivable then an invasion of calvin microbes.