Erik Max Francis <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Michael Ash wrote:
>
>> I've read The Locusts, although I hadn't thought of it in this context.
It
>> does pretty much have the same end result, although getting there is
>> different. It would be interesting to compare Earth of The Locusts with
>> Children of Men.
>
> If I recall correctly, not much detail about Earth is given in "The
> Locusts," outside of a few transmissions. The story actually takes
> place on a planet of Tau Ceti, humanity's first colony. (And that fact
> is actually tied into why these things start happening.)
Right, but I believe it was at least speculated that the same process must
be happening on Earth as well. I don't recall if it was ever confirmed.
That's why I mentioned Earth, though; the story happens on Tau Ceti but
the Earth of that setting would end up looking like Children of Men except
with ape-children running around.
>> As far as head scratching, it didn't affect my enjoyment of the movie
at
>> all. It helped that they never even tried to explain it. Also that the
>> world was mostly familiar. It was basically not an SF movie at all
aside
>> from the McGuffin and slightly more intelligent cars than we're used
to.
>
> Well there was a big fat unexplained McGuffin, of course, but more
> im****tantly, there was a big fat exception to it, and neither were
> explained. Not explaining both is fine, but it seems like the
> prominence of the McGuffin _and_ the exception to it, explaining one or
> the other might have been in order. I actually don't in principle mind
> prominent non-explanations of things, as it sidesteps the issue of
> scientific accuracy or plausibility entirely; it's just that they piled
> up a bit here.
>
> Still, it's an objection that only really sunk in after fini****ng the
> movie; the movie itself was sufficiently engrossing on its own. And, I
> suppose, the explanation wasn't _all_ that relevant, since none of the
> characters would have changed their behavior even if they had known
> precisely what was going on -- they still felt needed to do what they
> needed to do. But, eh.
Well, it's not *necessarily* an exception. The process could have started
reversing itself, and the young woman at the focus of the story may just
have been the first of many. It would have to be a pretty slow process for
nobody else to have noticed it, though. And of course it makes the entire
story pointless, since everybody else will start having babies regardless.
Oops.
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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software
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