I assume he wasn’t really talking to the octopus, and it was a delusion.
I think so, too. But the girls’ conversation with the eel? Totally real.
On the Octopus, minor spoiler if you haven't watched this episode
They showed an alien coming to Earth via an interstellar asteroid. Then showed it grow/evolve into an octopus. So I assume the octopi really are alien in origin for the the show. The conversation actually seemed reasonable to me therefore and not a delusion or why show the space rock and alien life coming to Earth’s seas scene?
I had actually forgotten about that. But didn’t it list that as a billion years ago? I assumed that to represent the common ancestor of all metazoan life on Earth, and just chose to follow the octopus as a bit. He would have had equal validity talkng to a dog, bird, or beetle. (Or human.)
Hey!
You should tell your mom to put popcorn on the shopping list.
It is funny that Max now worries about Harry’s safety.
The rock started on its journey 1 billion years ago. 790 million years ago, it had a collision, split in half, and one half landed on a green planet. 540 million years ago, the other half landed on Earth.
Using this timeline, some simple multicellular life had existed for hundreds of millions of years by that point. But 540m ago was the beginning of the Cambrian explosion, when a lot of differentiation of life forms started, including mollusks. So the way I read it is that the first rock 790m years ago landed on Alien-Harry’s planet, where they became the dominant lifeform, while the second landed on Earth and became the ancestor of either all mollusks or maybe just the cephalopods, but had to compete with the existing life forms on Earth. But I don’t see any reason to think that Harry just made it all up in his stoned mind.
Excellent point. I assumed he could speak with the octopus even if no one else could. Much funnier that way.
I doubt that the octopus conversation was real because it seemed to know Harry’s motivations and progress so far without being told.
Good point, well hopefully the show gives us some resolution on this in a future episode.
Also, the look of that octopus is really disturbing, for some reason. (I’d thought ‘puppet’ but I suppose it’s more likely to be 100% CGI. Or maybe it was a combination. At any rate, they started with a reference model that is just ookie.)
This show is not the first time this theory has come up
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798
Yes, panspermia in general is an old idea. And Wickramasinghe in specific is an old crackpot. Just completely barking-at-the-moon looney.
Not just panspermia but cephalopods in particular. Which is the main talking point in that paper.
Yes, I know of it.
Also probably influenced by this earlier nonsense.
We have the power. Let’s misuse it.
I’m glad it was renewed. I’ve been enjoying the show.
That is excellent news. I’ve become conditioned to expect the worst with shows I like.
A fun episode tonight. Asta discovers something interesting about Harry.
Intense episode. And I can’t believe they made a V reference. When is the last time anyone has made a V reference?