Up until last month I wasn’t home on a Wednesday night for close to ten years and I managed to set the VCR to tape two hours instead of one.
YOU ARE NOT FORGIVEN. ::: glowers :::
The question then becomes whether the “manta” has the sophistication to recognize whether the two are intended to be separate entities. I’m envisioning a scenario along the lines of the Doctor Who episodes “The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances” where they create the new Larkin with the fetus incorporated as best as possible. A perpetual second-trimester pregnancy could be equal parts hilarious and horrifying.
But my best guess would be that she’d lose the baby and she and Russell would either conceive another (which would result in much angst about the species-mixing) or they’d refrain (which would result in much angst about the lost baby and inability to have another).
In trying to catch up on all of the things I have on my DVR, we finally got around to the last three episodes of Invasion. (Had no idea until I read this thread that the series had been cancelled.) We had seen all of them up until that point.
OK, so with three left to go, we watch the first of the final three and half way through, my SO and I looked at each other and said, “we quit.” Erased it, and also erased the final two episodes without watching them.
Sorry, but the show simply was going off into too many directions and we just Lost interest. Too bad. It had started off with such promise.
And although we still like Lost, we have to admit it too is starting to wander all over the map. It seems like behind every tree there is a new village, new pod, new character…won’t be surprised if they go to the other side of the island and find Charlton Heston shaking his fist at a half buried Statue of Liberty screaming, “Damn you!”.
I didn’t know it was cancelled, either, but I can see why. Too bad, good show, and I love me some William Fitchner - although I could happily never lay eyes on Tyler Labine again. The “slob” stereotype was too lazy, and rarely gave me any reason to like him.
But it did drag its feet a bit much. During the next-to-last show, Mr. singular strolls into room, says “what’s up?”, I say “somethin’s finally happening. Wanna see?” “Nah…”. It stuttered too much. The screwed-up scheduling didn’t help any either…
:smack: I knew that – just mis-typed. From now on, just read what I mean, not what I type…
On the DNA discussion (would there be a baby in Larkin, etc), the hybridization process would have to take more than just extracting the DNA and creating a genetic copy. Because the new “being” still retains the memories and experiences of the original person. Some are better at adapting than others (retaining their old personalities, coping, etc) – think Mariel vs. Christina. But still, the DNA wouldn’t contain information about the memories and experiences. And how would the manta critter know to age that “clone” to the same exact age as the original? There has to be more to it than just DNA cloning.