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You don't need to use the magnetism of earth itself, but rather electromagnetic propulsion uses spinning electromagnetic fields to move, and would be able to move independent of the earth, and would be space worthy form of propulsion. It is much easier to use if you have room temperature super conductors, but doesn't need them to be made, but would require massive amounts of electricity to power without a super conductor.
Its pretty funny when I realized I did the exact same thing these aliens are doing in Stellaris before. I always like it when the aliens in movie aren't completely malevolent. "You are being saved. Do not resist."
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Did you notice how the feral grey makes itself smaller and stares intently. Like a cat, stalking prey. Only moving once line of sight is broken, triggering its stalk and ambush instincts. Facing her head on, it sizes her up and attempts to look as small as possible, and then tries to intimidate by pressing forward with flared claws and screams. It wants to attack her from behind, ensuring victory and its safety. Edit: Fixed for the grammar police.
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@@RoanokeGaming I mean. We have various inventions in our current world, that people did develop to help, but brought about a whole baggage train of other issues.
With how often the aliens were looking at her art and pictures, I think they were trying to understand her and the human species as a whole. In the scene where a Grey takes the picture frame, it carefully studies the picture, tracing a finger over it and not paying attention to her.
The greys know us pretty well they have been studying us for millions of years idk if u know this and people can definitely tell you to stay away from the Grey's in IRL
I noticed that Brynns Moms tombstone was inscribed 'Loving mother to Brynn', which considering everything that happened with Brynn and Maude and the way the town treats Brynn kinda hit me a bit. She wanted to make sure the whole town knew she stood with her daughter, even long after she died
The fact that they can make a totally functional clone outside of the ship in a moments notice tells me they are master genetic engineers and likely have heavly manipulated their species genetics, explaining the different forms they have, showing they likely engineer a particular form of alien suited to the task needed.
@@badlaamaurukehu Also the X-COM game series. In a lot of ways, much of what Roanoke has said here could easily have been in a video about X-COM and I didn't even make that connection until now. They uplift pre-sapient species and add them to their roster, they abduct humans during their grand assault and genetically engineer them to add them to the roster, they may be acting in what they think is a benevolent fashion for the greater good, and it's unknown if they're actively controlling every species under their command or if some or most of them were willing to join their cause. The similarities are striking.
@@TespriI agree, There's an award winning short story named *"The Things"* it's a version of the movie The Thing told from the aliens perspective. I don't want to spoil it but it explains why smaller offshoots of the alien were less intelligent than the bigger biomass. It tried to communicate but well we saw how that turned out 😅. There's an audiobook version on RUclips as well All Tomorrow's is another good one about an advanced species that genetically modified the hell out of us just because they could.
The ending is way funnier if you think of it like this. She’s been killing them throughout the movie. They see her flashback where she accidentally killed her friend. tell me the aliens didn’t think of her as some kind of destroyer. The aliens “she’s been killing since she was young it might be easier to coexist with her. You tell me the aliens aren’t dancing because they’re scared.
newly assimilated Drone Nr. 25032.0223.0576 - .97722 have been rebriefed, ordered to stay in location, and are now initiating active containment. Destroyer contained and aggression levels are down to zero. Situation is under control, but will be under surveillance till further notice from high command shes basically for the aliens .. some kind of SCP
@@dopplervocals Or the aliens symply want compliance on a new outpost, and discovered that her mental traumata makes her resistant to a symbiont ...but VERY receptive of a simply trick. The seem to be very goal-oriented
@@RoanokeGaming Yeah my wife and I were watching something on RUclips and they mentioned how this movie was good. Glad we checked it out but not gonna lie creeped my out come bed time. Since I was a kid aliens always freaked me out but also interested me. But I stay strapped so I don’t get clapped.
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I read someone who had an interesting take on the relationship between Brynn and the Greys (can’t remember the exact quote). He compared Brynn to a dog that has bitten someone. When a dog bites someone, there are people who will want the dog to be put down as it is a danger to others, while there are some people that would want to rehabilitate the dog. The community want to “put brynn down” because of the violence she has in her, while the greys see her and her trauma and want to rehabilitate her in society. Something that really hit me as well with this film is the discussion of grief. Brynn has not come to terms with the death of Maude, and she does not have a healthy relationship with grief regarding Maude. This is shown by how Brynn handles the death of her mother. She visits her grave, she partakes in hobbies that she and her mother had together. Brynn writes letters to Maude apologizing for what she has done, and doesn’t visit her grave until after the invasion has started. As the greys interact with Brynn, they realize that there is something different about her. The revelations the greys have about Brynn come to a head when she is taken into the ship. She is able to overcome and finally come to terms with the grief she feels regarding Maude once the aliens look into her mind. I also think that the different forms these greys come in are supposed to metaphors for the 5 stages of grief (anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance). There are 5 greys she interacts with before being taken onto the ship. As to which grey symbolizes which stage can be argued, but I think the small one is anger, the one that takes the picture is depression, the first one is denial, the one in the car is bargaining, and the final one in the street is acceptance. I believe that the aliens are acting benevolently, but that benevolence has different forms. For the other towns people, they get sent to a paradise of the mind when they are body snatched. For Brynn, her mind up until the invasion has been overwrought with grief to the point where even her mind paradise is affected (she is in tears saying sorry to Maude when she should be happy her friend is alive). For Brynn, a paradise is freedom/acceptance of her grief and being able to have a sense of community. Sorry if this is rambling/jumbled. I’m typing this on a phone lol
Yes it was rambling. But your point was stated. That's the problem with this movie. This girl was and is a killer. It wasn't a accident. She choose her actions. Now if space aliens don't agree and see her as a project then take her off world. Because their are tougher people with harder lives. Yet this girl get special treatment.
I like how the Greys didn’t dispose of her once they found out she couldn’t be controlled. Especially since she dispatched like 3 of them. But here, the Greys held no grudge or animosity towards her, we see the aliens have a sense of understanding or morality perhaps and let her be free. So it goes to show the aliens aren’t truly evil. It could also possibly be the Greys themselves being controlled by the squid parasites since it shows the squid reverberating in their throats as well. The parasites are possibly the TRUE masters behind the invasion. And they utilized Grey technology to help spread themselves. And by the ending we saw, it seems like the Greys/parasites are changing the world into a “perfect society”, perhaps to heal the planet after we caused so much harm. The captured humans would be trapped in their minds but they would live their life as if nothing happened as the parasites are feeding them a false reality (they wouldn’t be suffering). The whole ending gives off Invasion of the Body Snatcher vibes. As well as The Host by Stephenie Meyer. But this movie leans more towards The Host because in the book, they are peaceful parasitic aliens that invaded worlds that were on the brink of destroying themselves. So they stepped in and took over to help save the planet and breed a new generation of the races that occupied the planets and teach them to take better care of their planet and each other.
The Host broke me as a kid. The hosts were such an innocent species that it broke my heart. There is just too much to unpack with these sweet little aliens and their story.
23:32 Given the look on the Grey's face in that scene I honestly have a feeling that it is more afraid of Brynn hurting it given that she previously killed one of its own kind. I also think the sign thing it was doing with its hands was it trying to make itself look bigger as a way to defend itself.
I think it's closer to our "surrender" pose. A gesture to put your arms in a more useless position that shows your empty palms. And it's anger afterwards may just be an act of frustration or to panic her into poor decisions
I like how they made the smarter greys more curious than violent, especially in the basement scene. It seemed like it was just curious and trying to communicate in a way, as it already had the jump on her and could have taken her whenever, even how nonchalant it took the knife from her and just put it in the mannequin. Interesting stuff
That was the only scare that caught me off-guard, and dude was just chilling. Just that scene alone communicates so much about the aliens, but they take it further. The little guy gets bit on the arm, and he reacts like a living thing should. The big dude fucking falls off the house like a complete dipshit. It's honestly a fun movie to watch just to see how the aliens interact with the main character. When I got to the scene where the first alien slowly creeps up fridge door, I had a feeling that these dudes were going to be different, because why the fuck would it do that? The way it was acting the whole time had clicked and I realized they were trying to give them depth, some character and personality. I mean, we see the same type of alien twice, but the second one is noticeably different from the first. All the ones in the ship don't have enough screen time, though...
@@bkhai1041 Ah that’s true! The first intelligent grey they showed was far more aggressive compared to the second one, how it was running around the house, knocking shit over, slamming ol girl in the head with the door, like strictly business. But the second one especially with looking at the photos in confusion, gave them more depth. I’m pretty sure the one with the pattern on its head is the same one that looked inside her mind in the ship as well. I don’t want to turn this into a philosophy talk but it does beg the question on but it’s interesting to me that it’s possible they just did not know the concept of death or mourning of a loved one, they can probably bring their dead back no problem but with us, once your gone your gone, i think with them seeing inside her mind and i guess understanding it was why they just let her go “free”
@@bkhai1041 your comment on the big one falling off the house has me cracking up bro They’re all so intimidating and strong yet organic and imperfect, sometimes in absolutely stupid fucking ways. I loved this movie, every second. I do wish they explored the curiosity of the alien down in the basement more… that one clearly didn’t want to hurt her but she was too scared to see. And then we move on to the aggressive little one and never see the basement dude again.
@@tobenamed610 I believe basement dude was on the ship and reading her mind. Instrumentalonthem releasing her as he came to understand how best to control her. Not by trying to take her autonomy, but by allowing her to become part of the community that hated her.
I really like the idea of an alien species trying to save humanity from itself, it’s a really unique and fun twist on the usual, basic “invade the world/kill all humans” trope in alien invasion movies
You should watch The Knowing. It is a 2009 movie but it has the same concept. Aliens turned out to be benevolent beings that wanted to save the children of earth before the earth's sun consumed it.
Ehh it’s not too far fetched a lot of the U.A.P we’ve seen over the years have frequented places that held/hold WOMDs and have shut off quite a few missile tests that were going on at the time, and a lot of people have put that idea forward but I don’t think many have used the idea in cinema
I think the protagonist wasn't accepted into the alien society. They just got tired of her fighting the process, like no matter if her brain-yoked friend came back from the dead and forgave her: she would still guilt-trip herself into a sigh. *sigh*
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I don't think that's the case. If they really didn't want her, they could have just ended her. Much simpler than trying to capture her as they appear to have been doing.
*THE WRITER LITERALLY STATED IN INTERVIEW:* "The grey's aren't the bad guys here, they're sick, they're infected with something that's making them act this way. I tried to make this REALLY obvious through the use of their eye-spaces and conflicting behaviors. You can see on-screen that they don't want to do this, they're fighting against themselves."
@@Josh-bu1kr Links in comments were banned by YT years ago dude. But I believe it was an interview with IMDB. I wrote a thesis paper on this director about a year ago, can't remember the source exactly.
@@blankspace178The one thing that gave it away for me was when the parasite left the aliens body to infect the girl in the red light scene, the aliens head started twitching and it's eyes went from that starry black to a normal colored eye with an iris... That right there said they were definitely being controlled...
@@Lotek117 Yeah on first watch, I definitely got the vibe that the "parasites" were either a second high-intelligence alien species like the Go'uld from Stargate, just controlling the Greys. Or that it was some kind of non-intelligent disease, like an alien zombie outbreak, and now the Greys are deteriorating and just "going through the motions" of their normal abductions while accidentally spreading the infection. I also don't think the girl was "free" at the end, I think she was infected and we were just seeing her bliss as a side effect of infection.
How humans appear to dogs/cats is definitely a great analogy here. My own dog flinches when I reach down to pet him. Not because he thinks I'll hurt him but more it seems because my ex was abusive to him. He trusts me and I can tell because he comes to me whenever he's afraid or upset but that flinch always made me wonder if he was thinking I'd pop him on the head. It really goes to show that animals see us vastly different from how we see our own selves.
The sighing is 100% an anxiety thing for the character: she accidentally killed her best friend and is hated by everyone around her, so she's going to have clinical-ass anxiety to deal with
@@MechaShadowV2 A biologist learns a lot about how the body regulates itself, many biosanitary areas are part of the curriculum. Part of it is how the sympathic and parasympathic systems are regulated. And Roanoke has shown in the past he is, being charitable, a very, veeery bad biologist. If I was not charitable at all I could suspect he is not even one.
@@kombatwombat6579 Wasn't he a microbiologist? And I imagine scientists nowadays only focus on their specific fields. For example, a physicist will focus on a particular field (unless the they are a genius) so someone working on particle physics or nuclear physics won't be solid in astrophysics besides the basic stuff during undergrad (if they still remember the stuff).
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ The thing is most of his failures fall under the "undergraduate stuff" category. Even a molecular biologist will have been taught some applied ecology, evolutionary biology or applied botanics in his formative years. There are basic concepts every biologist worth his salt knows.
Nice try? She choose a dangerous course of actions and killed her friend. If she was a friend she would have chosen jail and serve maximum time to atone. Nope she out here sipping wine, dancing, etc.
So basically shes like a pet they've decided to keep cause they felt bad for it 😭😂 And the whole invasion was like me holding down my cat when I need to give her medicine and she's convinced I'm trying to kill her 😂
@Googleisstupid-sk3hm in the comparison humanity is the cat. And likewise while a cat is capable of communication to some degree with cats but not something of higher intelligence like Humans, Humans are too stupid to communicate with Greys. Better for the conservationalists to go in, get the scary part over with first then work on building trust when the species being preserved is safe
The Sequel to this would be "No one Will Save You 2: Sigh Another Day" As for the bones breaking and the larger grey falling, I took those as they weren't used to Earth's gravity.
Aside the messaging of the movie, I think what a lot of reviewers have failed to mention is that the real invading alien is the tentacle creatures and the Grays themselves have been infected and under control like the humans in the end. Major clue is the slime trail she finds indicating the tentacle creature leaving the Grays body after she killed it and the Gray's robotic body movement indicating some level of control.
As for the cracking and creaking of the Greys: is it possible their skeleton is actually cartilaginous, rather than osseous? Maybe their homeworld's gravity is lower than ours, and Earth's gravity adds pressure to the synovial fluid of their joints, leading to excessive cavitation. A cartilaginous skeleton might also explain their superior flexibility.
That would explain how they're able to contort Also in reality if someone would transform into say a werewolf their bones would create a lot of Creatine and cartilage over bones, which would explain why most feel like they're on fire and basically get a high fever
Ive had near panic attacks thinking about how, if we ever did encounter aliens, it would be entirely impossible to accurately communicate with them. Its so stupid to worry about, but I can't help it lol.
We have things in our pockets that were considered science fiction only 20 years ago. Aliens, if true, have been aware of us for hundreds if not thousands of years and were already advanced enough to travel the galaxy. I highly doubt simple communication would be an obsticle for them.
I'm sure the aliens would watch us for awhile before showing up. At the very least, it's safe to assume they have the technology to view our interactions through a satellite of some sort since we're capable of viewing distant planets in reasonable detail. There would be nothing stopping them from kicking back and watching a few families for a month to see how we interact with our kin, strangers, law enforcement, etc. so I'm 100% certain that they'd figure out the universal gesture of "hands up, don't shoot" when introducing themselves. Think of it like when you meet a new dog that's wary of you, you extend your hand with the palm up so they can smell you because you know they respond well to that. What you don't do is kick the door in and chase them
dO NOT, REPEAT DO NOT, watch Fire In The Sky!! I had a legit panic attack and ran out of the living room and instinctively hid under the kitchen table when he sees the alien. Same stuff happened to me as a kid for real.
My favorite thing about EMP blasts is that the military has been working extensively to EMP "proof" their equipment, and some of that has also expanded into the civilian market. I like to believe it's in no small part due to movies constantly showing EMP Blasts wiping out society. One weird fact that nobody asked for, there was a Super Mario 64 glitch that happened that nobody could replicate for a long time that speedrunners considered a holy grail, turned out it was due to some space particles(No joke) hitting the console and shifting a byte. Space is constantly shooting us with stuff all the time~
@@alexsuetopka Basically altered his height position. So he pretty much teleported vertically, which coincidentally was also a very good time for that to happen.
@@greasybumpkin1661in case you haven't found it yet, the speed runner's name was DOTA_Teabag. Veritassium has a video called "The Universe is Hostile to Computers" where he talks about it. Enjoy!
I think that the telekinesis might not have to be a power coming from the bodies of the aliens at all. If the ships are assumed to stay nearby while the aliens are doing their thing, then they could just be communicating with the ship in some way to direct it to move things for them.
If I may offer a thought, perhaps Brynn merely skipped over the assessment process by unintentionally proving she'd already overcome the impulses the Greys were trying to curb in humanity? Brynn had personally experienced violence and causing another persons death through thoughtless action. However that death was accidental and had a very significant impact on her psychology that the Greys slowly recognized over the course of the film by the pictures that she kept as well as the thoughts they eventually read. As a direct result Brynn was willing to fight in self-defense as well as to use lethal force if it seemed justified but had a significant respect for life such that she wouldn't recklessly take a life for no good reason. She even attempts to show restraint only stabbing that one Grey in the bathroom in the shoulder then trying to render it unconscious rather then kill it. By comparison most of the towns people were spiteful jackasses holding an accident from when she was twelve over her head for her entire life. From all accounts they're hostile, bias against her, cruel for no reason, and only really seem a half step from killing Brynn out of misplaced hatred on a good day. If the Greys are actually looking to curb the sort of behavior that would eventually lead to self destruction like spite and long term resentment without cause Brynn is the only person in town who already curbed those behavior. Additionally because the pure happy thoughts trance didn't work on her the Greys had assess her personally to determine why that was. The Greys needed to learn what in her psychology wouldn't be amenable to that when the others were and what they found was a peer. Someone else who would use lethal force if it was necessary but wouldn't needlessly hold grudges, engage in petty vengeance, and who had a healthy respect for the value of life in the specifics rather then the abstract. As a result they opted to fast track her to the stage where a symbiote was not required since she'd already passed all their requirements for that position. Over the next several months, possibly a few years, all the other humans will be assessed one by one and the symbiote will modify any behaviors that need modifying until they don't need it anymore. At that point continued symbiosis becomes a choice.
What if the "Parasite" IS the Grey and the "Greys" are just the equivalent of vehicles? They are shown to create biological vessiles in seconds before crawling in and taking over, so why not create custom vessels for different uses? Like an on demand alien exosuit, could be why some of them have issues moving, they arnt used to piloting that model.
That actually makes a lot of sense, cuz I was also wondering why a species would willingly break their own bones to move, but the idea of them being vehicles makes a lot of sense when you think that the different bodies could be like branches of a military with the smart greys being the scouts, officers, and scientists and the tiny feral greys are more like an attack force
@@blakemcmillan5680 I was thinking about the "Feral" Grey and something clicked. The gesture it made like a Y looks a lot like someone with thier hands up. She had already fatally injured one Grey, what if they were trying to tell her "Hands up!" and when she ran, it tried to forcibly detain a dangerous target, when she locked the door, it tried to make foricble entry. It literally acted the same way a police officer or military agent would with a dangerous suspect.
Perhaps she never actually overcame the Parasite. What she saw the entire time was just the Parasite showing her something that made it easier to assimilate? The first was a bit too perfect. So instead it showed her "escaping" and still assimilated her. This is why she and everyone else were so happy at the end. That is what she truly wanted all along was acceptance. So the Parasite gave that to her?
I think if you are attempting to control someone externally and can't use internal locus, like mental manipulation or embedded control systems like the parasyte, and your species is spending too many resources and manpower for little reward. She rejected the parasyte, further embedding attempts would be futile, she rejected her clone, what other options? Then what if they shift into external control locus? If she was an outcast, aliens would see her need for society and allow her to stay uncontrolled. Just make it so the rest of the controlled humans act friendly and welcoming to her. That would be enought to keep her controlled. I bet the aliens could clone her friend and she would be even more compliant.
This was one of my favorite alien movies. The fact that you actually get to see the aliens a lot during the movie was so cool. Almost no dialogue made all the little sounds, aliens noises, and music so dope! Should check this movie out!!
I’ve been watching Roanoke for like nearly three years and I absolutely love his one off jokes and comments. His humor is amazing. On with the rest of the video.
As an Ohioan I can confirm that there is only an illusion of safety. A lot of us have moved out of Ohio and try and blend in where we moved. The best way to spot one is to see if they’re wearing any OSU gear. If they’re wearing scarlet on a fall Saturday you know it’s an Ohioan.
Literally everyone in the United States of America forget how powerful Ohio is. Just think about all the great achievements that came from our state. The canadets for President fight harder over Ohio every election then most other states.
I also noticed that when the aliens were trying to communicate with her that the noises they were making almost sounded more monkey like with more grunts and chirping sounds, while when they communicated with themselves it was more of the warbling sounds
Movies made by and for clueless city folk. Also, notice how "townspeople" always seem, behaviorally speaking, like they'd fit right in on a New York City block or an LA neighborhood? Urban myopia is real.
You know, at the end of the movie I looked at my dog and wondered "Imagine a whole ass alien species coming from light years away to take over or help or whatever. But they end up taking so much pity on you that they forgive you for killing/hurting a couple of their kind. Then they leave you alone and give you the ability to control other people." My dog said "well shit be like that I guess" and then I died. lol But in all seriousness, I wonder if she has a mental thing that makes the alien parasite not able to control her.
@@RoanokeGamingthe aliens learned the reason why some people would resist and why some would fear them. They learned what it means to be human and so maybe they decided these humans are not so bad after all. And instead of enslaving them we'll just leave them in a state of perpetual joy or the aliens were trying to help and they realize that all she wanted was to be loved and that she doesn't need to be changed because she's a good person at heart. She's human so for that reason I guess they didn't feel the need to keep her calm because she's a good person and she doesn't want to hurt anyone she just wants to live.
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The theory that the aliens are trying to save humanity from itself and prevent humans from destroying a habitable world, allowing them to mature is an interesting one and seems likely with this movie. Just part of me is saying "no, they are not" but that could be the animal fear in me or just me going "no, I'll save myself, you can go away"
*habitable, and I like your theory! Makes sense to protect the natural resources and maybe put humans into some involuntary parasite therapy for a while so we stop screwing up the planet
No you're correct. The aliens lie. They didn't not give you choice. They come in night. They force parasite in you. They don't even discuss or give choice options. It seems like your free will is taken. An easier to control population.
Wild Speculation 1: The Parasites are the true aliens. The various Greys are merely vehicles. 2: The aliens let her go because Brynn's trauma makes her too hard to control.
I agree with no1. The parasites are the real alien. They got the greys bcos we humans have been portraying them as what aliens would look like. They probably are biologically engineered.
part of the reason why I like this movie because some one did some research on alien lore, the idea that the grey's themselves arent the alien but rather a sort of bio-machines they use to interact with us. The greys coming in different sizes that serve unique functions.
The bone cracking is probably caused by the aliens being subjected to heavier gravity. Their skeletal structure seems to suggest a lighter gravity world, and they've likely been adapting to low g space travel for thousands of years. This could also explain the stumbles/falls. The finger-toes could have been an adaptation to space travel, allowing them to navigate easier in low gravity. I think the other forms of greys aren't other species, they're just greys that are genetically designed soldiers. The short one would be a grunt, a soldier, like you said to clear buildings and hiding places. The crab like soldier was designed to run down prey on exterior terrain.
There was a series on NBC a long time back called "Dark Skies" (not the alien invasion series with the skitters) where hive parasites took over the Greys, then targeted humanity. Very similar concept.
Wifeanoke was just voicing what we were all thinking. It's like jump scares or lens flares or match cuts; even if somebody does it well, it can always be overdone enough to be distracting. Good call Wife person.
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I definitely didn't see the ending as her passing some kind of test and instead saw it more like the aliens thinking "oh, this is a more dangerous specimen, let's just let it go so we don't lose any more guys. Since it doesn't seem to act aggressive unless provoked, let's also make sure all the uplifted ones make sure not to provoke it too."
yeah id imagine the aliens being like Alien 1 - fuck even the clone we made went out to stab the original Alien 2 - nah bro, its worse Alien 1 - how? Alien 2 - Look, the original just slit a literal copy of herself in the throat, she's insane! Alien 1 - ... Alien 1 - your right, we better leave these ones alone shes ruthless
probably not though, they had her dead to rights at the end. she took out a few of them but pretty much always 1 on 1, 1 at a time. she was literally surrounded by them in the ship lmao, they could have done anything they wanted to her.
Yet there are far more tougher harder to control humans than a stupid little girl with murder issues. If that was case the aliens wouldn't be able to control 50% of humanity. Much the far more aggressive members true killers, soliders, police
The idealist in me suggests that her forgiving herself suggests a capacity for change and self-reflection, which may be a trait they want to encourage instead of snuff out. The value she has being alive and happy is more than she would have being controlled, to the point that they control humans around her. That or they realize that not only would she be okay with living alongside them, she's more than capable of clocking them out if she's not.
Agreed! They were able to witness her capacity for change and her capacity for compassion which includes self forgiveness. The scene where her clone stabs her and in the final act of her self defense is to kill herself in return and then compassionately hold and comfort her dying self - her aggressive self - this was the moment that changed her and they were witness to this. Every prior scene she fights in a reactive way (what also occurred when she was 12) but now she’s put this part of her to sleep by killing this part of herself. That is what I got out of this.
I actually have a theory I came up with doing my senior dissertation before med school that cats are potentially doing something extremely similar to this with toxoplasmosis. If they are we wouldn't be capable of being aware of it regardless given what we know it does to mice. But ya, there's extremely strong evidence they have convinced us to spread them worldwide to infect all of humanity
So there was a great episode of Justice League where Mongul decided to take out Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman by giving them a "gift", a flower that attaches to your brain and shows you visions that make you happy. It was the heartwrenching and amazing. Very much what I'm seeing here. Also, there was a great game called Portal 2. In the end, the villain decides that, although she finally has the protagonist at her mercy and could kill her with a thought, the attempt would probably horribly backfire and everything would be ruined forever, so she just tells the protag to get the hell out and don't come back. After the sheer body count this girl has racked up, I can easily see them reading her mind and going "ah, yes, she's one hundred percent at our mercy, which means one wrong move and we're all dead. She literally just murdered herself without batting an eye. She is a force of destructive power unlike anything we've ever come across. Time to play really nice so she doesn't hurt us." This woman is *brutal*. Gotta admit, I'm a little in love.
I'd say you're right on the money. They obviously have more advanced and destructive technology than us and go invade the classic way. They seem very interested in the "history" of individuals, expending all that time and energy just pursuing one person most of the movie.
6:00 As someone who went to college for Electronics, yes, it's possible. But it would have to be so strong that everything with even a hint of iron in it within a very far range would fly to the ship at breakneck speeds, destroying the ship at worst and weighing it down at best.
In lab, we would levitate things by charging it a ton, and it takes an incredible amount of energy to levitate something light, and it goes up in power exponentially the heavier it gets
@@ZackBurnsOGwhat if you did it in a pulse? The energy consumption would definitely be higher... but theoretically could it be possible to juice up a small model space ship with enough of a burst of energy creating a electromagnetic field to produce an amount of propulsion to get it airborne? I imagine it would certainly oscillate between bursts, but do you think that would allow a ship to fly without destroying itself with metal fragments?
@@MrMacchiato97 yeah, you could do that, but it would still attract everything. I can't imagine doing it with electromagnetism, honestly. It would take such a huge amount of power and magnetism because the earth's magnetic field is so weak. Seriously the things we would levitate in lab were so ridiculously light to make it possible. But I am not a physics expert, there are much smarter ppl than me who could possibly see how it would be possible. I just don't see how.
The thing that gets me about alien movies is. If a species is advanced enough for intergalactic travel, you think they’d have some sort of failsafe for communication with other species of varying intelligence.
Maybe when an individual/species reaches a set point-that is when communication is made/ proven. Of course that would mandate observation & monitoring of said species. Also means they could or or still do try to communicate, but it's confusing.
Honestly, I kind of like this ending. My interpretation is that her rejecting the parasite's bliss was why the higher ranking aliens allowed her to remain uncontrolled. To voluntarily reject a pleasurable and blissful dream in favour in autonomy and reality might be viewed as a valuable trait for members of their society. Strange and forceful but somewhat well-meaning aliens seems like a sound analysis.
I think it's twofold that they found someone with a lot of willpower which they respect, and maybe after the deeper dive into her mind they feel she will remain free and not interfere with their plans for earth. Individual autonomy has only been a recent invention in the known history of humanity, we still have a lot to learn about our own psychology, maybe from the grays POV a lot of people are better off living in ignorant bliss.
My personal theory on their bones making noise is that perhaps the EMP gives them a sort of freedom or movement in an area, but their physiology actively struggles against our atmosphere or gravity and that causes the uncomfortable sounds. I think this is further reinforced by their use of human proxies when not actively deployed via ship.
This actually such a cool concept. The aliens seem to just be trying to help. But they know it wouldn't be taken all that well. So its like, "fuck it, youre being rescued. Dont resist" like others are saying lol. Still intrigued on why they'd leave her alone. I don't think the ones she killed are dead dead. Not after they cloned her so damn easily. So maybe death is just a whatever thing for them. "You killed a few of us, but no hard feelings. They'll be back in time to dance with you"
Well I can guess that if you are going to make a species into a host species for whatever reason then the host that can fight back easily would either be eliminated or negotiated with. That's what happened in The Host movie. The aliens were benevolent but when they couldn't find anyone to control a host they killed it.
I imagined that after they read her mind, like that (perhaps the first human they've done it to so far), they recognized that at her core she was averse to violence at an intellectual level but still is clearly a slave to her baser instincts. When they see that she recognizes the life she took, and is so distraught over the event (because clearly it wasn't intentional) they acknowledge her as worthy of her own independence. Like a dog who bit your hand when playing but knowing if it went over the line by going too hard.
I think it's more likely they saw her alienation and decided that being friendly with the townsfolk would be sufficient to get her to go along with the alien nation.
There was this old show, late nineties/early 2000's maybe, called "Dark Skies". Think "X-Files" with a focus on an ongoing alien infiltration/invasion. In this show, it is revealed that the Greys, originally believed to be the masterminds behind the invasion, are in fact a slave-species used as host bodies for the actual orchestrators of the invasion; the parasitic Ganglions. And they have come to Earth to do to us what they did to the Greys. It wasn't a particularly ground-breaking show, and it only went on for, like, a season, maybe two. I have like four episodes on an old VHS-tape. But the general premise does sound quite similar to what this movie seems to portray.
I thought the same having watched it myself...a bit of inspiration for this i thought. A bit of inspiration from a lot of other films Close Encounters, Communion, etc. I loved this movie though! Instant classic and unique in its own right
I love this 🙌 Idk if you believe in aliens or not, but I had a few encounters. Ik there's different types of greys, anyway the ones I met are fairly peaceful & mostly vegetarian with exceptions for bugs or fish. I hate seeing majority of aliens in film being played out as evil.... Simply because they're different and successful technology wise. You can be peaceful and still be highly advanced in technology.
I like how the Greys didn’t dispose of her once they found out she couldn’t be controlled. Especially since she dispatched like 3 of them. But here, the Greys held no grudge or animosity towards her, we see the aliens have a sense of understanding or morality perhaps and let her be free. So it goes to show the aliens aren’t truly evil. It could also possibly be the Greys themselves being controlled by the squid parasites since it shows the squid reverberating in their throats as well. The parasites are possibly the TRUE masters behind the invasion. And they utilized Grey technology to help spread themselves. And by the ending we saw, it seems like the Greys/parasites are changing the world into a “perfect society”, perhaps to heal the planet after we caused so much harm. The captured humans would be trapped in their minds but they would live their life as if nothing happened as the parasites are feeding them a false reality (they wouldn’t be suffering). The whole ending gives off Invasion of the Body Snatcher vibes. As well as The Host by Stephenie Meyer. But this movie leans more towards The Host because in the book, they are peaceful parasitic aliens that invaded worlds that were on the brink of destroying themselves. So they stepped in and took over to help save the planet and breed a new generation of the races that occupied the planets and teach them to take better care of their planet and each other.
I swear roanoke must be the coolest guy to know in real life. He's in damn good shape, very intelligent, and just straight up relatable and funny. Also I love it every time he mentions quarians.
Their feet having opposable digits points more toward them coming from an arboreal life style as opposed to the semi aquatic you mentioned in the video. The presence of water in the ship might suggest that they require a very humid environment. There home world might have at some point resembles a mangrove swamp of rain forest.
The toes operating as they are are built for lifting purposes not grasping purposes. The hands are arboreal but the feet do not suggest this IMO. I actually thought about this extensively before going with this idea
@@RoanokeGaming We don't really see an example of their grip strength but there are a few things we see that would suggest that it might be proportionately quite strong. Assuming their physiology is at least somewhat similar to ours. Our fingers flex and contract with tendons running down one side of the digit making them strong at gripping but less strong when going the other way. The orientations of their toes suggest they are structures in a similar way. The lift the creature off of the ground using the pulling forge on the digit as it would to grip something. As such I would surmise that feet in that layout would be pretty good at say hanging from a tree branch. Or whatever passes for a tree on their home world. Obviously its speculation but I love these sorts of thought exercises. Thank you for the excellent video by the way. I stumbled upon your channel the other day and have been binge watching.
completely unsupported, but I'd like to think the ship is just flooded because of leaky pipes or condensation like in Alien, and they walk like that like we do when we're trying not to step IN water.
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It's interesting how Brynn had her own idealized fictional version of the two in her house. And the aliens also wanted to make their own idealized fictional version of the town. The townspeople weren't great. And both Brynn and the aliens wanted it to be another way. That explains why the aliens let her be.
I get the feeling the aliens were doing that too. The parasite could be a means of interspecies communication as well as a form of control, given some of the greylikes were definately what a stellaris player would term a combatform. Specialized varients with lobotomized aspects controlled by a brainslug/polypod. In addition for scorn players with the artbook, that slug could be a form of primary intelligence, and the grey bodies are tools which function through, and by merging with us they gradually and darkly 'reeducate' the species into a more docile and communal state. In the end, when they freed her. It was her grief for causing harm and the fact she only harmed others for self defense, and even stayed with her clone as they bled out consoling it as it passed despite it stabbing her. They knew she wasnt a threat, she was what they respect. She is a true pacifist, she avoided conflict, and only using the tool of violence when no other option seems available, and feels grief when using it even when a traditional mind would try to justify it. She tried to evade their staff as i will phrase it long before using any form of violence, the cross symbol could have held a meaning of 'disarm' she took it as a chance to flee so it gave chase, she only used lethal force when she needed to, not immediately in all cases. They wanted to curb out violent tendancies, and they found she already had hers curtailed and was grief-stricken by her past use of it. The quote 'speak in soft words and carry a big stick' holds meaning, she and they attempted soft speak, but miscommunication led to issues requiring measureable force, each use of force was incremental and never a jump to excessive Happily in the end they found a common cord albeit after further measure of force, and once they saw her nature and why she resisted so fiercely, they realized she was not a hostile threat, but exceptionally defensive, avoiding conflict at all costs until left with violence. edit: repetitive tangent X'D
The way I interprete the ending, even the parasite aliens didn't like the main character they're like "Sigh, nah we ain't putting one of us in her just leave her be"
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If this chick can take out 4 of them then I am sure the world's military wouldn't have that much trouble, considering that guns are a thing, and unless they emp all of our missiles, even the submarines then there is no chance for them to win. Plus the whole bacteria and virus thing would probably take them out.
@@hoznarygamingThey came to out world using an esoteric form of propulsion we couldn't even begin to understand, consuming astronomic amounts of energy to do so, and you don't think they have countermeasures capable of backhanding our bombs like they're nothing?
@@Quintonias This is true. They just weren't expecting any kind of resistance, especially from a single human. If they detected a military presence, they would certainly come completely prepared.
@@theminerwithin9316 Jesus Christ, no. How do you people get this stupid? "They just weren't expecting any kind of resistance." Right, and and the Spaniards expected the South American natives to just lie down and die too. "If they detected a military presence..." My guy, they knew full well what was waiting for them. They had forcefields and space planes. The movie makes it abundantly clear they were more than prepared. What the movie ALSO makes clear is that humans fuck shit up. The end. Nothing deeper.
To me it looked like the aliens were trying to infect everyone that was a bad person to keep people from hurting each other. Everyone in the town was a douche, the aliens probably assumed Bryyn was also awful since she managed to goon on them and kill a few. They realized they completely misunderstood what was happening with her and let her go free because it was not necessary to pacify her
This reminds me of a book. I read a long time ago when I was a kid. I think it was called Childhoods End or something. In it Aliens land on earth but never formally introduce themselves. Instead, the influence of their presence starts to transform children into a post human state of being. At first, kids were sick, some born with rare defects but gifted with some ability at the same time. Eventually it becomes clear that these children are evolving into a higher state of being. Eventually, one of the main characters sneaks onto one of the ships and discovers that the aliens are helping humanity evolve into this higher state but are unable to undergo this process thenselves.
It's not really connected, but you reminded me of a book called Footfall, where elephant-like aliens invaded Earth. I don't recall the reasoning, but it was a good book. Had a hilarious scene near the end where Earth had managed to convert a battleship into a spaceship by sealing it up, adding a couple shuttles, and after standing it up on it's tail they slapped an Orion Pulse Drive to the end and sent it up to fight the alien ship. Rather effectively too if I recall correctly. (I think the shuttles were auxiliary thrust/maneuvering drives and so they could get back to Earth)
I remember Syfy) Scifi channel making this into a series. Then the aliens revealed themselves at some point and they DID NOT look like what humanity expected. Don't want to spoil it for others.
@@RamielNagisa The fithp believed, I can't recall if correctly, that earth was their ancestral homeworld or one of the stops on the migration journey they were making. I think. Yeah, once the Michael (that's what the human spaceship was called, after the archangel) got into space, chucking nukes at the fithp mothership turned out to be a very effective tactic.
I have 3 theories about the movie. 1. Your theories about it being an animal restoration project may be accurate and this is because of my second theory. 2. This is about the parasites serving 2 functions. A. As a sedation device as well as a transportation unit because animals are dangerous when being captured. B. The clones they make are more aggressive capture devices for a larger number of subjects. 3. The ending might be the Grey's terra forming the planet with the clones in order to better the environment for the captured species and the reason the MC was released into this working environment is during the examination process she proved to be a healthy specimen because she was able to face her trauma and be healed from the experience thus no longer being a threat to herself or others.
my theory is that there's some form of martial culture involved, perhaps in line with the caste system you proposed. seems like she moves up the social ladder quite a bit once the invasion is done, perhaps these aliens went "oh, wait, this one's in charge, it beat like, four of us in fights and rejected the parasite-implant thing, just like our higher castes do." in the same way we looked at ants or bees and went "oh hey, that one's the queen" and decided that she was clearly the one in charge, simply because we lived under a monarchy and assumed that was simply how stuff worked, it might be that they saw this pretty neat somewhat clever animal, saw it "had that dawg" in it, and basically just decided that it would be best to domesticate/observe it by letting it continue in what they presumed is it's natural position in the human hierarchy, ergo, letting her basically be in charge and loved by all in her town, as they now have the "this one's strong and in charge and you should like them for that" imprinted on them by the parasites. i think the clone was sent as a "hey is this species/her just fucking strong" test, which she passed by showing she wasn't just being lucky, the clone, presumeably less smart or complete than her, just kinda shanks central body mass, while she, understanding the basics of human weak spots, absolutely destroys that thing with a single strike to the right area, especially cause it seems they didn't noticeably do this to anyone else, perhaps some kind of ritualistic "face yourself to prove you're worthy" type deal? side note: I almost get the feeling the parasites are more implants than separate creatures, bioengineering used to create a little living machine to allow brain interfacing, letting one, say, speak an entirely different species/cultures language, and communicate with higher ups directly, akin to our phones(I imagine we'd likely hand a species we view as pretty intelligent a phone if we met one, infact I think some primates gave been given mobile phones for short periods of time, someone gimme data on this)
It could be like the Ethereal Empire from XCOM. The Ethereals, which was an ancient race of psychically gifted aliens, were dying off because their bodies were decaying from being so old. They tried to genetically engineer new bodies, but the sectoids (similar to the greys) were a failure. So then they developed Thin Men which were physiologically similar to humans and were used as infiltration units, but their aforementioned psychic powers were too powerful for the thin men's bodies so as they continued their experimentation, they discovered Humanity which was the perfect host for their psychic powers to inhabit. They used the races that they genetically engineered for specific roles to defeat humanity and abduct them so they could transfer their consciousness to them and live on. This makes sense with this movie as well, because I believe it could be genetically engineered hosts that the throat parasite could more easily control. The experiments failed and they could still control them, but it wasn't a perfect fit, so now the parasite puppets the race of greys and uses them to subjugate others until they find a proper host. It would also explain the cracking of bones, as it could be imperfect genes causing bones that push into each other during movement.
I think the aliens might have had their planet destroyed and it might have been their fault. In the end they might have seen what the main character has done and understood how she felt because they also felt the same way (feeling of great loss and regret). Either way the invasion could've been to find a new home, they didn't necessarily wanna do any harm but had to make sure that they were in control.
I don’t think they would’ve destroyed their home planet. A species capable of expanding to other worlds as fast they can, likely has no interest in self destruction. From what I gathered, the Grays seem to care and understand our pain and might even judge us based off of our past experiences. I think that they only want us to reach this sort of peace within ourselves and each other, so that one day we will be able to be free of our worldly shackles and enter a universe of infinite knowledge and power.
@@dopplervocals and also, with that level of technology they wouldn't even need a planet, they could build a better environment in a space colony or they could terraform either venus or mars in a few hundreds of years, perhaps even less
12:50 If I remember correctly, the pinky finger used to be important when sword fighting. It served as a bit of a leverage point that allowed the wrist to flick the pommel of the sword towards the forearm, increasing centrifugal force on the blade. It'd be better to lose your ring finger than your pinky for this reason.
I was thinking that the reason for their bones popping is because they come from a planet with a lower gravity, and that their feet adapted to cling on to branches and stuff.
Maybe the greys decided not to take her because of her habits of ending other living things, maybe they think she would be a liability. Or maybe they found her disturbing, you know, for all the unaliving she does, even herself, and also after seeing her unaliving the other girl. I mean, there have been cases of animals too aggressive to remain in captivity, so it's a real possibility.
Bout time. They said she is cleary psycho. These town people were very kind to accept and put up with her. They need our help. Prehaps that's why the aliens came, to protect humans from girls like her
Except if they saw her as a liability and threat they'd... just end her instead of leaving her alone. An animal that's too aggressive tends to be put down for the safety of others. They let her live, meaning they don't see her as dangerous and instead felt it was better to give her the sense of community she had been denied since Maude's death.
Here's an interesting idea for you Roanoke I've been toying with for a little over 5 years. Ships do use magnetic fields to fly through the air but the ships also push and or move air particles out of the way, so the ship is constantly in a gas free pocket of sorts. Kinda like a bubble or in space that way the ship can constantly gain incredible velocity and make high rate of turns.
Right?! Hell, you can make chlorine gas from household cleaners in about 30 seconds. Anything with a respiratory system exposed to it without a protective mask is in for a really rough fucking time. Also, while attacking these ETs, save the four legged babies!
I'm glad to see you recommend "Haunt" as well. It was a surprisingly good film. The story was good and the makeup/costumes were refreshingly different. I still can't get one particular "face" out of my nightmares(you'll know when you see it😮).
They weren't helping humanity. The basement dude who looked at the photo was later on the ship and the one that read her mind. Convinced them to release her as he came to understand how best to control her. Not by trying to take her autonomy, but by allowing her to become part of the community that hated her. The clone was their last attempt to take her out and just felt it easier and more interesting to see if other humans could be controlled the same.
i could see the "long arms short legs" and "long limbs" grays being similar to the Gray versions of Apes. the "long arms short legs" one even resembles the body plan of an orangutan.
It feels kinda like TNRing a feral cat colony. The cats that are able to be adopted are adopted (or in this case are given the parasite) and the ones that are just too feral aren't adopted out and are returned to the street to live out their lives under the watchful eye of a colony caretaker.
Saw this movie despite having a fear of aliens ever since i was a kid watching signs, but i actually enjoyed the movie and was waiting for my fav youtubers such as Roanoke to make a video! Did not disappoint! 🙏🏽
I have an idean on why she was able to remove the parasite, since she was morning that could mean she was also in a state of depression which could interfere with the parasites ability to "create" the bliss basicly the amount of bliss the parasite puts out is enough for a regular human but with someone in a depressed states it might not be enough so they can snap out of it
I remember hearing Neil Degrasse Tyson saying something around the lines of Nicola Tessla wanted to run electricity through the air instead of cables and im interested in what Roanoke thinks about this
Im so happy you covered this Ro! Love extratesticle flicks, and this one was really good. When i was wee i had nightmares regularly about being abducted and trying to hide from aliens. This movie did a good job of showing that hopelessness.
I absolutely love that watching the movie you get, surface level, what happens, but there are so many questions and things to nerd about. I absolutely loved this movie.
Roanoke have you covered The Last Days on Mars? Its about bacteria being found on Mars and when some space people guys come in contact with it they become zombie like, I think it would just be really entertaining for you to cover it.
It's confusing to why the Grays would let her go, let alone live. She has murdered several of their own and clearly a threat based on her history. (Yes' I know. Self defense) Or maybe they have the predator aliens sense of...good sportsmanship? Not sure what else to call it. Or she never escaped without being parasite-jacked. She is living a better life after the invasion. Could be an illusion.
all of the alien movies (greys at least) are based on "real life" lore. this comes from a bunch of different places, but stuff gets cross-referenced and then "accepted" as plausible. part of that collective lore is that they're in replacable bioengineered bodies. they just jump to another one knowingly so its just an inconvenience. alternative lore also states that greys are just a means to an end, pilots, drones, whatever you wanna call it. a cursory search for this stuff would yield these ideas, so presumably the writers would've adapted these ideas. tldr ; disposable bodies /=/ death is an inconvenience
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Can you do the strain
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You don't need to use the magnetism of earth itself, but rather electromagnetic propulsion uses spinning electromagnetic fields to move, and would be able to move independent of the earth, and would be space worthy form of propulsion. It is much easier to use if you have room temperature super conductors, but doesn't need them to be made, but would require massive amounts of electricity to power without a super conductor.
Its pretty funny when I realized I did the exact same thing these aliens are doing in Stellaris before. I always like it when the aliens in movie aren't completely malevolent.
"You are being saved. Do not resist."
100% accurate meme quote
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The least genocidal Stellaris player
@@davg.2589I prefer the term: Purge Inclined Player
Clearly they got the brain slug event.
Did you notice how the feral grey makes itself smaller and stares intently. Like a cat, stalking prey. Only moving once line of sight is broken, triggering its stalk and ambush instincts.
Facing her head on, it sizes her up and attempts to look as small as possible, and then tries to intimidate by pressing forward with flared claws and screams.
It wants to attack her from behind, ensuring victory and its safety.
Edit: Fixed for the grammar police.
I did notice that! I figured it was a sub species of some sort
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It made me think of Brave New World, with genetic castes@@RoanokeGaming
It's reminded me of "the thing".
The way the Aliens intellect is only as good as the hosts. Small dumb host , small dumb alien parasite.
Idk if is because I watched too much X-Files as a kid but I was thinking they were the “babies”
I love the idea of Aliens showing up, trying to help, and instead just fucking up everyone and leaving
I wouldn't wish the fate of having to be humanity's wrangler on any alien species.
@@MoaRider Yahweh, the Celestialsapien, got so fed up he just left
I think it works more like they do help, but its like that meme "Congratulations you are being rescued, Do not resist"
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@@RoanokeGaming I mean. We have various inventions in our current world, that people did develop to help, but brought about a whole baggage train of other issues.
With how often the aliens were looking at her art and pictures, I think they were trying to understand her and the human species as a whole. In the scene where a Grey takes the picture frame, it carefully studies the picture, tracing a finger over it and not paying attention to her.
"Not paying attention to her" Sends her through a wall "Im busy let me look alittle longer
might just be going "i used to make art to, but then someone stuffed a parasite in my neck,. and now all my bones crack"
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The greys know us pretty well they have been studying us for millions of years idk if u know this and people can definitely tell you to stay away from the Grey's in IRL
Alien looks at laptop full of tentacle hentai in confusion.
I noticed that Brynns Moms tombstone was inscribed 'Loving mother to Brynn', which considering everything that happened with Brynn and Maude and the way the town treats Brynn kinda hit me a bit. She wanted to make sure the whole town knew she stood with her daughter, even long after she died
The fact that they can make a totally functional clone outside of the ship in a moments notice tells me they are master genetic engineers and likely have heavly manipulated their species genetics, explaining the different forms they have, showing they likely engineer a particular form of alien suited to the task needed.
That's actually a common theory and also a common sci fi trope. See the "V" series
@@badlaamaurukehu Also the X-COM game series. In a lot of ways, much of what Roanoke has said here could easily have been in a video about X-COM and I didn't even make that connection until now. They uplift pre-sapient species and add them to their roster, they abduct humans during their grand assault and genetically engineer them to add them to the roster, they may be acting in what they think is a benevolent fashion for the greater good, and it's unknown if they're actively controlling every species under their command or if some or most of them were willing to join their cause. The similarities are striking.
Very common trope, it's either that or galactic federations where different species are given different tasks according to their natural strengths.
@@TespriI agree,
There's an award winning short story named *"The Things"* it's a version of the movie The Thing told from the aliens perspective.
I don't want to spoil it but it explains why smaller offshoots of the alien were less intelligent than the bigger biomass. It tried to communicate but well we saw how that turned out 😅.
There's an audiobook version on RUclips as well
All Tomorrow's is another good one about an advanced species that genetically modified the hell out of us just because they could.
The ending is way funnier if you think of it like this. She’s been killing them throughout the movie. They see her flashback where she accidentally killed her friend. tell me the aliens didn’t think of her as some kind of destroyer. The aliens “she’s been killing since she was young it might be easier to coexist with her. You tell me the aliens aren’t dancing because they’re scared.
I hate that this makes sense.
newly assimilated Drone Nr. 25032.0223.0576 - .97722 have been rebriefed, ordered to stay in location, and are now initiating active containment. Destroyer contained and aggression levels are down to zero. Situation is under control, but will be under surveillance till further notice from high command
shes basically for the aliens .. some kind of SCP
This was my thought- like they assumed keeping her alive would be less trouble 💀😂
omfg, if that were the case💀💀 SHES A MIGHTY DESTROYER! Best leave THIS one alone
@@dopplervocals Or the aliens symply want compliance on a new outpost, and discovered that her mental traumata makes her resistant to a symbiont ...but VERY receptive of a simply trick. The seem to be very goal-oriented
I don’t think I’ve ever been so interested in a movie with basically no dialogue.
it was a really good one, Hulu is killing it lately
@@RoanokeGaming Yeah my wife and I were watching something on RUclips and they mentioned how this movie was good. Glad we checked it out but not gonna lie creeped my out come bed time. Since I was a kid aliens always freaked me out but also interested me. But I stay strapped so I don’t get clapped.
One word - Castaway
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A quiet place?
I read someone who had an interesting take on the relationship between Brynn and the Greys (can’t remember the exact quote). He compared Brynn to a dog that has bitten someone. When a dog bites someone, there are people who will want the dog to be put down as it is a danger to others, while there are some people that would want to rehabilitate the dog. The community want to “put brynn down” because of the violence she has in her, while the greys see her and her trauma and want to rehabilitate her in society.
Something that really hit me as well with this film is the discussion of grief. Brynn has not come to terms with the death of Maude, and she does not have a healthy relationship with grief regarding Maude. This is shown by how Brynn handles the death of her mother. She visits her grave, she partakes in hobbies that she and her mother had together. Brynn writes letters to Maude apologizing for what she has done, and doesn’t visit her grave until after the invasion has started. As the greys interact with Brynn, they realize that there is something different about her. The revelations the greys have about Brynn come to a head when she is taken into the ship. She is able to overcome and finally come to terms with the grief she feels regarding Maude once the aliens look into her mind.
I also think that the different forms these greys come in are supposed to metaphors for the 5 stages of grief (anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance). There are 5 greys she interacts with before being taken onto the ship. As to which grey symbolizes which stage can be argued, but I think the small one is anger, the one that takes the picture is depression, the first one is denial, the one in the car is bargaining, and the final one in the street is acceptance.
I believe that the aliens are acting benevolently, but that benevolence has different forms. For the other towns people, they get sent to a paradise of the mind when they are body snatched. For Brynn, her mind up until the invasion has been overwrought with grief to the point where even her mind paradise is affected (she is in tears saying sorry to Maude when she should be happy her friend is alive). For Brynn, a paradise is freedom/acceptance of her grief and being able to have a sense of community.
Sorry if this is rambling/jumbled. I’m typing this on a phone lol
Yes it was rambling. But your point was stated. That's the problem with this movie. This girl was and is a killer. It wasn't a accident. She choose her actions. Now if space aliens don't agree and see her as a project then take her off world. Because their are tougher people with harder lives. Yet this girl get special treatment.
@@Googleisstupid-sk3hmbud I don't think you really understand so go off
I like how the Greys didn’t dispose of her once they found out she couldn’t be controlled. Especially since she dispatched like 3 of them. But here, the Greys held no grudge or animosity towards her, we see the aliens have a sense of understanding or morality perhaps and let her be free. So it goes to show the aliens aren’t truly evil. It could also possibly be the Greys themselves being controlled by the squid parasites since it shows the squid reverberating in their throats as well. The parasites are possibly the TRUE masters behind the invasion. And they utilized Grey technology to help spread themselves. And by the ending we saw, it seems like the Greys/parasites are changing the world into a “perfect society”, perhaps to heal the planet after we caused so much harm. The captured humans would be trapped in their minds but they would live their life as if nothing happened as the parasites are feeding them a false reality (they wouldn’t be suffering). The whole ending gives off Invasion of the Body Snatcher vibes. As well as The Host by Stephenie Meyer. But this movie leans more towards The Host because in the book, they are peaceful parasitic aliens that invaded worlds that were on the brink of destroying themselves. So they stepped in and took over to help save the planet and breed a new generation of the races that occupied the planets and teach them to take better care of their planet and each other.
The Host broke me as a kid. The hosts were such an innocent species that it broke my heart. There is just too much to unpack with these sweet little aliens and their story.
@@Googleisstupid-sk3hm That's what makes this movie so great, so many different interpretations. It's lovely.
23:32 Given the look on the Grey's face in that scene I honestly have a feeling that it is more afraid of Brynn hurting it given that she previously killed one of its own kind. I also think the sign thing it was doing with its hands was it trying to make itself look bigger as a way to defend itself.
I think it's closer to our "surrender" pose. A gesture to put your arms in a more useless position that shows your empty palms. And it's anger afterwards may just be an act of frustration or to panic her into poor decisions
I like how they made the smarter greys more curious than violent, especially in the basement scene. It seemed like it was just curious and trying to communicate in a way, as it already had the jump on her and could have taken her whenever, even how nonchalant it took the knife from her and just put it in the mannequin. Interesting stuff
Yea.. it was scissors you knife junkie.
That was the only scare that caught me off-guard, and dude was just chilling. Just that scene alone communicates so much about the aliens, but they take it further.
The little guy gets bit on the arm, and he reacts like a living thing should. The big dude fucking falls off the house like a complete dipshit. It's honestly a fun movie to watch just to see how the aliens interact with the main character.
When I got to the scene where the first alien slowly creeps up fridge door, I had a feeling that these dudes were going to be different, because why the fuck would it do that?
The way it was acting the whole time had clicked and I realized they were trying to give them depth, some character and personality. I mean, we see the same type of alien twice, but the second one is noticeably different from the first. All the ones in the ship don't have enough screen time, though...
@@bkhai1041 Ah that’s true! The first intelligent grey they showed was far more aggressive compared to the second one, how it was running around the house, knocking shit over, slamming ol girl in the head with the door, like strictly business. But the second one especially with looking at the photos in confusion, gave them more depth. I’m pretty sure the one with the pattern on its head is the same one that looked inside her mind in the ship as well.
I don’t want to turn this into a philosophy talk but it does beg the question on but it’s interesting to me that it’s possible they just did not know the concept of death or mourning of a loved one, they can probably bring their dead back no problem but with us, once your gone your gone, i think with them seeing inside her mind and i guess understanding it was why they just let her go “free”
@@bkhai1041 your comment on the big one falling off the house has me cracking up bro
They’re all so intimidating and strong yet organic and imperfect, sometimes in absolutely stupid fucking ways. I loved this movie, every second. I do wish they explored the curiosity of the alien down in the basement more… that one clearly didn’t want to hurt her but she was too scared to see.
And then we move on to the aggressive little one and never see the basement dude again.
@@tobenamed610 I believe basement dude was on the ship and reading her mind. Instrumentalonthem releasing her as he came to understand how best to control her. Not by trying to take her autonomy, but by allowing her to become part of the community that hated her.
I really like the idea of an alien species trying to save humanity from itself, it’s a really unique and fun twist on the usual, basic “invade the world/kill all humans” trope in alien invasion movies
You should watch The Knowing. It is a 2009 movie but it has the same concept. Aliens turned out to be benevolent beings that wanted to save the children of earth before the earth's sun consumed it.
Check out stargate sg 1. The Asgard are top toer
change alien to european and humans to africa and lets see if this ideia is good.
what the aliens are doing is just colonialism.
@@RozettaVyperMan, that ending was sad. At least the new planet looked cool.
Ehh it’s not too far fetched a lot of the U.A.P we’ve seen over the years have frequented places that held/hold WOMDs and have shut off quite a few missile tests that were going on at the time, and a lot of people have put that idea forward but I don’t think many have used the idea in cinema
I think the protagonist wasn't accepted into the alien society. They just got tired of her fighting the process, like no matter if her brain-yoked friend came back from the dead and forgave her: she would still guilt-trip herself into a sigh. *sigh*
An interesting line of thinking! hadnt considered that actually, an outcast in human society and an outcast in alien society
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@@RoanokeGaming i absolutely wouldn't add a known sociopath into my big hug ball
Kinda reminds me of the end of At Worlds End. The protagonist are such a colossal pain that the aliens just say eff it and bounce.
I don't think that's the case. If they really didn't want her, they could have just ended her. Much simpler than trying to capture her as they appear to have been doing.
*THE WRITER LITERALLY STATED IN INTERVIEW:* "The grey's aren't the bad guys here, they're sick, they're infected with something that's making them act this way. I tried to make this REALLY obvious through the use of their eye-spaces and conflicting behaviors. You can see on-screen that they don't want to do this, they're fighting against themselves."
Hmm. That might explain why you see them twitching and hear their bones cracking. It could be the Grey trying to resist the parasite
Can u link the source/interview?
@@Josh-bu1kr Links in comments were banned by YT years ago dude. But I believe it was an interview with IMDB. I wrote a thesis paper on this director about a year ago, can't remember the source exactly.
@@blankspace178The one thing that gave it away for me was when the parasite left the aliens body to infect the girl in the red light scene, the aliens head started twitching and it's eyes went from that starry black to a normal colored eye with an iris... That right there said they were definitely being controlled...
@@Lotek117 Yeah on first watch, I definitely got the vibe that the "parasites" were either a second high-intelligence alien species like the Go'uld from Stargate, just controlling the Greys. Or that it was some kind of non-intelligent disease, like an alien zombie outbreak, and now the Greys are deteriorating and just "going through the motions" of their normal abductions while accidentally spreading the infection. I also don't think the girl was "free" at the end, I think she was infected and we were just seeing her bliss as a side effect of infection.
How humans appear to dogs/cats is definitely a great analogy here. My own dog flinches when I reach down to pet him. Not because he thinks I'll hurt him but more it seems because my ex was abusive to him. He trusts me and I can tell because he comes to me whenever he's afraid or upset but that flinch always made me wonder if he was thinking I'd pop him on the head. It really goes to show that animals see us vastly different from how we see our own selves.
The sighing is 100% an anxiety thing for the character: she accidentally killed her best friend and is hated by everyone around her, so she's going to have clinical-ass anxiety to deal with
@@kombatwombat6579I think half of its a joke, and a biologist doesn't necessarily mean knowledge of medical issues
@@MechaShadowV2 A biologist learns a lot about how the body regulates itself, many biosanitary areas are part of the curriculum. Part of it is how the sympathic and parasympathic systems are regulated. And Roanoke has shown in the past he is, being charitable, a very, veeery bad biologist. If I was not charitable at all I could suspect he is not even one.
@@kombatwombat6579 Wasn't he a microbiologist? And I imagine scientists nowadays only focus on their specific fields. For example, a physicist will focus on a particular field (unless the they are a genius) so someone working on particle physics or nuclear physics won't be solid in astrophysics besides the basic stuff during undergrad (if they still remember the stuff).
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ The thing is most of his failures fall under the "undergraduate stuff" category. Even a molecular biologist will have been taught some applied ecology, evolutionary biology or applied botanics in his formative years. There are basic concepts every biologist worth his salt knows.
Nice try? She choose a dangerous course of actions and killed her friend. If she was a friend she would have chosen jail and serve maximum time to atone. Nope she out here sipping wine, dancing, etc.
Imagine mastering space flight while being naked.
Those aliens dudes are true sigma.
Like me in my house!
No need for reproductive organs cause they can 3d print meat suits from light
They might have had clothing, but it was discarded by the parasite after they took over.
So basically shes like a pet they've decided to keep cause they felt bad for it 😭😂 And the whole invasion was like me holding down my cat when I need to give her medicine and she's convinced I'm trying to kill her 😂
That feels so accurate xDD
Just finished, and basically, this was the conclusion. We thought they felt bad, too, because being an outcast and all.
You just gave the perfect summary to this movie
Yet the cat doesn't want you saving her. And can't tell you. Where the alien can talk ,communicate.
@Googleisstupid-sk3hm in the comparison humanity is the cat. And likewise while a cat is capable of communication to some degree with cats but not something of higher intelligence like Humans, Humans are too stupid to communicate with Greys. Better for the conservationalists to go in, get the scary part over with first then work on building trust when the species being preserved is safe
The Sequel to this would be "No one Will Save You 2: Sigh Another Day"
As for the bones breaking and the larger grey falling, I took those as they weren't used to Earth's gravity.
"No One Will Save You 2: Sighing Boo-Hoogaloo"
Aside the messaging of the movie, I think what a lot of reviewers have failed to mention is that the real invading alien is the tentacle creatures and the Grays themselves have been infected and under control like the humans in the end. Major clue is the slime trail she finds indicating the tentacle creature leaving the Grays body after she killed it and the Gray's robotic body movement indicating some level of control.
As for the cracking and creaking of the Greys: is it possible their skeleton is actually cartilaginous, rather than osseous? Maybe their homeworld's gravity is lower than ours, and Earth's gravity adds pressure to the synovial fluid of their joints, leading to excessive cavitation. A cartilaginous skeleton might also explain their superior flexibility.
Interesting.
Grey skin, big black eyes, cartilage instead of bone? Alien sharks?
That would explain how they're able to contort
Also in reality if someone would transform into say a werewolf their bones would create a lot of Creatine and cartilage over bones, which would explain why most feel like they're on fire and basically get a high fever
It could be deliberate...clicks and clacks are used in human language and effective at long distance.
@@CharlesChristinaWH ah yes, the old bones creating creatine trick, eh?
Ive had near panic attacks thinking about how, if we ever did encounter aliens, it would be entirely impossible to accurately communicate with them. Its so stupid to worry about, but I can't help it lol.
Have the seen the movie "Arrival" yet? A really awesome movie with a plot specifically about forming a method of communication with aliens.
We have things in our pockets that were considered science fiction only 20 years ago.
Aliens, if true, have been aware of us for hundreds if not thousands of years and were already advanced enough to travel the galaxy.
I highly doubt simple communication would be an obsticle for them.
@@Joshobebid agree but if an alien wanted to communicate with us they would do so easily
I'm sure the aliens would watch us for awhile before showing up. At the very least, it's safe to assume they have the technology to view our interactions through a satellite of some sort since we're capable of viewing distant planets in reasonable detail. There would be nothing stopping them from kicking back and watching a few families for a month to see how we interact with our kin, strangers, law enforcement, etc. so I'm 100% certain that they'd figure out the universal gesture of "hands up, don't shoot" when introducing themselves. Think of it like when you meet a new dog that's wary of you, you extend your hand with the palm up so they can smell you because you know they respond well to that. What you don't do is kick the door in and chase them
@@starkilla102 explain
I had a massive fear of aliens as a kid due to signs. Idk why but this movie is reigniting that fear on a primal level
It looks like the signs aliens and the movie is dark with aliens blending in the darkness.
Same, my older siblings made me watch signs and told me it was real, I was like 6 and I still find the thought of aliens disturbing.
dO NOT, REPEAT DO NOT, watch Fire In The Sky!! I had a legit panic attack and ran out of the living room and instinctively hid under the kitchen table when he sees the alien. Same stuff happened to me as a kid for real.
@@hopeseekr oh ive seen parts of it lol i regret doing so.
@hopeseekr yeah fire in the sky was rough as a kid
My favorite thing about EMP blasts is that the military has been working extensively to EMP "proof" their equipment, and some of that has also expanded into the civilian market.
I like to believe it's in no small part due to movies constantly showing EMP Blasts wiping out society.
One weird fact that nobody asked for, there was a Super Mario 64 glitch that happened that nobody could replicate for a long time that speedrunners considered a holy grail, turned out it was due to some space particles(No joke) hitting the console and shifting a byte. Space is constantly shooting us with stuff all the time~
what did this glitch do? I've heard about it but never really understood
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Basically altered his height position.
So he pretty much teleported vertically, which coincidentally was also a very good time for that to happen.
do you know what that Mario thing is called so I can google it?
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Do a search for Teabag Mario 64.
The guy was DOTA_teabag I believe.
@@greasybumpkin1661in case you haven't found it yet, the speed runner's name was DOTA_Teabag. Veritassium has a video called "The Universe is Hostile to Computers" where he talks about it. Enjoy!
I think that the telekinesis might not have to be a power coming from the bodies of the aliens at all. If the ships are assumed to stay nearby while the aliens are doing their thing, then they could just be communicating with the ship in some way to direct it to move things for them.
They do seem to use their bodies to communicate/ impact the ship so this makes sense!
If I may offer a thought, perhaps Brynn merely skipped over the assessment process by unintentionally proving she'd already overcome the impulses the Greys were trying to curb in humanity?
Brynn had personally experienced violence and causing another persons death through thoughtless action. However that death was accidental and had a very significant impact on her psychology that the Greys slowly recognized over the course of the film by the pictures that she kept as well as the thoughts they eventually read. As a direct result Brynn was willing to fight in self-defense as well as to use lethal force if it seemed justified but had a significant respect for life such that she wouldn't recklessly take a life for no good reason. She even attempts to show restraint only stabbing that one Grey in the bathroom in the shoulder then trying to render it unconscious rather then kill it.
By comparison most of the towns people were spiteful jackasses holding an accident from when she was twelve over her head for her entire life. From all accounts they're hostile, bias against her, cruel for no reason, and only really seem a half step from killing Brynn out of misplaced hatred on a good day. If the Greys are actually looking to curb the sort of behavior that would eventually lead to self destruction like spite and long term resentment without cause Brynn is the only person in town who already curbed those behavior. Additionally because the pure happy thoughts trance didn't work on her the Greys had assess her personally to determine why that was.
The Greys needed to learn what in her psychology wouldn't be amenable to that when the others were and what they found was a peer. Someone else who would use lethal force if it was necessary but wouldn't needlessly hold grudges, engage in petty vengeance, and who had a healthy respect for the value of life in the specifics rather then the abstract. As a result they opted to fast track her to the stage where a symbiote was not required since she'd already passed all their requirements for that position.
Over the next several months, possibly a few years, all the other humans will be assessed one by one and the symbiote will modify any behaviors that need modifying until they don't need it anymore. At that point continued symbiosis becomes a choice.
Easy enslavement of a species. Good analysis.
@grahamdixon1699 hey you i can read where im not here to read a book. i walk on the balls ofcmy feet all the time.
Damn, you almost make it sound like a good deal lol
You are big brained, beautiful thoughts and analysis, nice
Honesty not reading allat
What if the "Parasite" IS the Grey and the "Greys" are just the equivalent of vehicles?
They are shown to create biological vessiles in seconds before crawling in and taking over, so why not create custom vessels for different uses?
Like an on demand alien exosuit, could be why some of them have issues moving, they arnt used to piloting that model.
That actually makes a lot of sense, cuz I was also wondering why a species would willingly break their own bones to move, but the idea of them being vehicles makes a lot of sense when you think that the different bodies could be like branches of a military with the smart greys being the scouts, officers, and scientists and the tiny feral greys are more like an attack force
@@blakemcmillan5680 I was thinking about the "Feral" Grey and something clicked.
The gesture it made like a Y looks a lot like someone with thier hands up.
She had already fatally injured one Grey, what if they were trying to tell her "Hands up!" and when she ran, it tried to forcibly detain a dangerous target, when she locked the door, it tried to make foricble entry.
It literally acted the same way a police officer or military agent would with a dangerous suspect.
This makes sense
Oh my god and humans are like that old clunker somebody hasn't tried to drive in 50 years
That make a uncomfortable amount of.sense
Perhaps she never actually overcame the Parasite. What she saw the entire time was just the Parasite showing her something that made it easier to assimilate? The first was a bit too perfect. So instead it showed her "escaping" and still assimilated her. This is why she and everyone else were so happy at the end. That is what she truly wanted all along was acceptance. So the Parasite gave that to her?
Most likely not as they probably realized that she would eventually realize it was also fake and would only accept the genuine deal.
I think if you are attempting to control someone externally and can't use internal locus, like mental manipulation or embedded control systems like the parasyte, and your species is spending too many resources and manpower for little reward.
She rejected the parasyte, further embedding attempts would be futile, she rejected her clone, what other options?
Then what if they shift into external control locus? If she was an outcast, aliens would see her need for society and allow her to stay uncontrolled. Just make it so the rest of the controlled humans act friendly and welcoming to her. That would be enought to keep her controlled. I bet the aliens could clone her friend and she would be even more compliant.
It would explain the ending
@SandJosieph this could also be true because the parasite could induce the happy chemical in the head
If that's the case there would be no reason to be able to physically see the parasite in that one guys throat still....
This was one of my favorite alien movies. The fact that you actually get to see the aliens a lot during the movie was so cool. Almost no dialogue made all the little sounds, aliens noises, and music so dope! Should check this movie out!!
I’ve been watching Roanoke for like nearly three years and I absolutely love his one off jokes and comments. His humor is amazing. On with the rest of the video.
As an Ohioan I can confirm that there is only an illusion of safety. A lot of us have moved out of Ohio and try and blend in where we moved. The best way to spot one is to see if they’re wearing any OSU gear. If they’re wearing scarlet on a fall Saturday you know it’s an Ohioan.
theres nothing beyond ohio
😨 that's terrifying
Literally everyone in the United States of America forget how powerful Ohio is. Just think about all the great achievements that came from our state. The canadets for President fight harder over Ohio every election then most other states.
Shh. Don't blow my cover.
I also noticed that when the aliens were trying to communicate with her that the noises they were making almost sounded more monkey like with more grunts and chirping sounds, while when they communicated with themselves it was more of the warbling sounds
They were using frickin baby talk
Who doesn't love when Roanoke post alien videos
Thanks for watching brother!
The most unbelievable part of this movie is her living out in a small town in America and NOT having several "Force Multipliers"...Madness.
Considering how much the town bloody hates her? No so mad
Movies made by and for clueless city folk. Also, notice how "townspeople" always seem, behaviorally speaking, like they'd fit right in on a New York City block or an LA neighborhood?
Urban myopia is real.
The whole town hates her, the local gun store probably isn’t going to sell guns to a murderer
@@badlaamaurukehu we stand on bushcraft!
@@badlaamaurukehu Uh...huh.....show me on the doll where the big bad city folk touched you.
The crouching down alien looks like "Damn I didnt know you were chill like that"
You know, at the end of the movie I looked at my dog and wondered "Imagine a whole ass alien species coming from light years away to take over or help or whatever. But they end up taking so much pity on you that they forgive you for killing/hurting a couple of their kind. Then they leave you alone and give you the ability to control other people." My dog said "well shit be like that I guess" and then I died. lol But in all seriousness, I wonder if she has a mental thing that makes the alien parasite not able to control her.
Brother what did you puff over there? XD
@@RoanokeGamingthe aliens learned the reason why some people would resist and why some would fear them. They learned what it means to be human and so maybe they decided these humans are not so bad after all. And instead of enslaving them we'll just leave them in a state of perpetual joy or the aliens were trying to help and they realize that all she wanted was to be loved and that she doesn't need to be changed because she's a good person at heart. She's human so for that reason I guess they didn't feel the need to keep her calm because she's a good person and she doesn't want to hurt anyone she just wants to live.
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he better save some for the rest of us@@RoanokeGaming
"My dog said "well shit be like that I guess" and then I died"
This read like a Quandale Dingle quote.
The theory that the aliens are trying to save humanity from itself and prevent humans from destroying a habitable world, allowing them to mature is an interesting one and seems likely with this movie. Just part of me is saying "no, they are not" but that could be the animal fear in me or just me going "no, I'll save myself, you can go away"
*habitable, and I like your theory! Makes sense to protect the natural resources and maybe put humans into some involuntary parasite therapy for a while so we stop screwing up the planet
"Beware Greeks bearing gifts."
i think we just dislike the idea of being forced to do something against our will.
habitual world?
No you're correct. The aliens lie. They didn't not give you choice. They come in night. They force parasite in you. They don't even discuss or give choice options. It seems like your free will is taken. An easier to control population.
Wild Speculation 1:
The Parasites are the true aliens. The various Greys are merely vehicles.
2:
The aliens let her go because Brynn's trauma makes her too hard to control.
I agree with no1. The parasites are the real alien.
They got the greys bcos we humans have been portraying them as what aliens would look like. They probably are biologically engineered.
part of the reason why I like this movie because some one did some research on alien lore, the idea that the grey's themselves arent the alien but rather a sort of bio-machines they use to interact with us. The greys coming in different sizes that serve unique functions.
This is what I figured. The 'greys' are biosuits, this the 'bones cracking' and erratic movements.
So the moment the girl got the parasite it was the alien changing the vehicle
@@Piedrahumo4447 right. And she was uncontrollable because of her trauma.
The bone cracking is probably caused by the aliens being subjected to heavier gravity. Their skeletal structure seems to suggest a lighter gravity world, and they've likely been adapting to low g space travel for thousands of years. This could also explain the stumbles/falls. The finger-toes could have been an adaptation to space travel, allowing them to navigate easier in low gravity.
I think the other forms of greys aren't other species, they're just greys that are genetically designed soldiers. The short one would be a grunt, a soldier, like you said to clear buildings and hiding places. The crab like soldier was designed to run down prey on exterior terrain.
There was a series on NBC a long time back called "Dark Skies" (not the alien invasion series with the skitters) where hive parasites took over the Greys, then targeted humanity. Very similar concept.
Wifeanoke was just voicing what we were all thinking. It's like jump scares or lens flares or match cuts; even if somebody does it well, it can always be overdone enough to be distracting. Good call Wife person.
She smort
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@@RoanokeGaming damn your wife sounds great, is she single?
@@TheROZOZOZOJesus man
@@Lament_the_VVitch bro I was being a smartass this was 9 months ago 😭
I definitely didn't see the ending as her passing some kind of test and instead saw it more like the aliens thinking "oh, this is a more dangerous specimen, let's just let it go so we don't lose any more guys. Since it doesn't seem to act aggressive unless provoked, let's also make sure all the uplifted ones make sure not to provoke it too."
yeah id imagine the aliens being like
Alien 1 - fuck even the clone we made went out to stab the original
Alien 2 - nah bro, its worse
Alien 1 - how?
Alien 2 - Look, the original just slit a literal copy of herself in the throat, she's insane!
Alien 1 - ...
Alien 1 - your right, we better leave these ones alone shes ruthless
"Look, let's see if she chills out once the uplifted ones are nice to her for a change."
@@jamescanjuggle You should have added "Bro" or two to every line of that exchange.
probably not though, they had her dead to rights at the end. she took out a few of them but pretty much always 1 on 1, 1 at a time. she was literally surrounded by them in the ship lmao, they could have done anything they wanted to her.
Yet there are far more tougher harder to control humans than a stupid little girl with murder issues. If that was case the aliens wouldn't be able to control 50% of humanity. Much the far more aggressive members true killers, soliders, police
The idealist in me suggests that her forgiving herself suggests a capacity for change and self-reflection, which may be a trait they want to encourage instead of snuff out. The value she has being alive and happy is more than she would have being controlled, to the point that they control humans around her.
That or they realize that not only would she be okay with living alongside them, she's more than capable of clocking them out if she's not.
I agree. We release wild animals all the time.
Agreed! They were able to witness her capacity for change and her capacity for compassion which includes self forgiveness. The scene where her clone stabs her and in the final act of her self defense is to kill herself in return and then compassionately hold and comfort her dying self - her aggressive self - this was the moment that changed her and they were witness to this. Every prior scene she fights in a reactive way (what also occurred when she was 12) but now she’s put this part of her to sleep by killing this part of herself. That is what I got out of this.
I actually have a theory I came up with doing my senior dissertation before med school that cats are potentially doing something extremely similar to this with toxoplasmosis. If they are we wouldn't be capable of being aware of it regardless given what we know it does to mice. But ya, there's extremely strong evidence they have convinced us to spread them worldwide to infect all of humanity
and there ARE some possible correlations between toxoplasmosis and some behaviours in humans.
So there was a great episode of Justice League where Mongul decided to take out Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman by giving them a "gift", a flower that attaches to your brain and shows you visions that make you happy. It was the heartwrenching and amazing. Very much what I'm seeing here.
Also, there was a great game called Portal 2. In the end, the villain decides that, although she finally has the protagonist at her mercy and could kill her with a thought, the attempt would probably horribly backfire and everything would be ruined forever, so she just tells the protag to get the hell out and don't come back. After the sheer body count this girl has racked up, I can easily see them reading her mind and going "ah, yes, she's one hundred percent at our mercy, which means one wrong move and we're all dead. She literally just murdered herself without batting an eye. She is a force of destructive power unlike anything we've ever come across. Time to play really nice so she doesn't hurt us."
This woman is *brutal*. Gotta admit, I'm a little in love.
I'd say you're right on the money. They obviously have more advanced and destructive technology than us and go invade the classic way. They seem very interested in the "history" of individuals, expending all that time and energy just pursuing one person most of the movie.
6:00 As someone who went to college for Electronics, yes, it's possible. But it would have to be so strong that everything with even a hint of iron in it within a very far range would fly to the ship at breakneck speeds, destroying the ship at worst and weighing it down at best.
In lab, we would levitate things by charging it a ton, and it takes an incredible amount of energy to levitate something light, and it goes up in power exponentially the heavier it gets
@@ZackBurnsOGwhat if you did it in a pulse? The energy consumption would definitely be higher... but theoretically could it be possible to juice up a small model space ship with enough of a burst of energy creating a electromagnetic field to produce an amount of propulsion to get it airborne? I imagine it would certainly oscillate between bursts, but do you think that would allow a ship to fly without destroying itself with metal fragments?
@@MrMacchiato97 yeah, you could do that, but it would still attract everything. I can't imagine doing it with electromagnetism, honestly. It would take such a huge amount of power and magnetism because the earth's magnetic field is so weak. Seriously the things we would levitate in lab were so ridiculously light to make it possible.
But I am not a physics expert, there are much smarter ppl than me who could possibly see how it would be possible. I just don't see how.
@@MrMacchiato97 using high power rapid pulses is how a coil gun works.
@@ZackBurnsOG There is a video of a levitated frog using magnets that use the water in its body i believe.
The thing that gets me about alien movies is. If a species is advanced enough for intergalactic travel, you think they’d have some sort of failsafe for communication with other species of varying intelligence.
So maybe drawings or pictures?
Maybe when an individual/species reaches a set point-that is when communication is made/ proven. Of course that would mandate observation & monitoring of said species. Also means they could or or still do try to communicate, but it's confusing.
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Honestly, I kind of like this ending.
My interpretation is that her rejecting the parasite's bliss was why the higher ranking aliens allowed her to remain uncontrolled.
To voluntarily reject a pleasurable and blissful dream in favour in autonomy and reality might be viewed as a valuable trait for members of their society.
Strange and forceful but somewhat well-meaning aliens seems like a sound analysis.
I think it's twofold that they found someone with a lot of willpower which they respect, and maybe after the deeper dive into her mind they feel she will remain free and not interfere with their plans for earth. Individual autonomy has only been a recent invention in the known history of humanity, we still have a lot to learn about our own psychology, maybe from the grays POV a lot of people are better off living in ignorant bliss.
"Bike chain electricity" fucking killed me
My personal theory on their bones making noise is that perhaps the EMP gives them a sort of freedom or movement in an area, but their physiology actively struggles against our atmosphere or gravity and that causes the uncomfortable sounds. I think this is further reinforced by their use of human proxies when not actively deployed via ship.
This actually such a cool concept. The aliens seem to just be trying to help. But they know it wouldn't be taken all that well. So its like, "fuck it, youre being rescued. Dont resist" like others are saying lol.
Still intrigued on why they'd leave her alone. I don't think the ones she killed are dead dead. Not after they cloned her so damn easily. So maybe death is just a whatever thing for them. "You killed a few of us, but no hard feelings. They'll be back in time to dance with you"
To them "death" is likely just another state of mind.
Well I can guess that if you are going to make a species into a host species for whatever reason then the host that can fight back easily would either be eliminated or negotiated with. That's what happened in The Host movie. The aliens were benevolent but when they couldn't find anyone to control a host they killed it.
I imagined that after they read her mind, like that (perhaps the first human they've done it to so far), they recognized that at her core she was averse to violence at an intellectual level but still is clearly a slave to her baser instincts.
When they see that she recognizes the life she took, and is so distraught over the event (because clearly it wasn't intentional) they acknowledge her as worthy of her own independence.
Like a dog who bit your hand when playing but knowing if it went over the line by going too hard.
I think it's more likely they saw her alienation and decided that being friendly with the townsfolk would be sufficient to get her to go along with the alien nation.
There was this old show, late nineties/early 2000's maybe, called "Dark Skies".
Think "X-Files" with a focus on an ongoing alien infiltration/invasion.
In this show, it is revealed that the Greys, originally believed to be the masterminds behind the invasion, are in fact a slave-species used as host bodies for the actual orchestrators of the invasion; the parasitic Ganglions.
And they have come to Earth to do to us what they did to the Greys.
It wasn't a particularly ground-breaking show, and it only went on for, like, a season, maybe two. I have like four episodes on an old VHS-tape.
But the general premise does sound quite similar to what this movie seems to portray.
I thought the same having watched it myself...a bit of inspiration for this i thought. A bit of inspiration from a lot of other films Close Encounters, Communion, etc. I loved this movie though! Instant classic and unique in its own right
Does William Fichtner star in it? If it's the same show I'm thinking of, he played the sheriff?
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Idk if you believe in aliens or not, but I had a few encounters. Ik there's different types of greys, anyway the ones I met are fairly peaceful & mostly vegetarian with exceptions for bugs or fish. I hate seeing majority of aliens in film being played out as evil.... Simply because they're different and successful technology wise. You can be peaceful and still be highly advanced in technology.
My parents used to watch that show! The aliens were scary!!
I like how the Greys didn’t dispose of her once they found out she couldn’t be controlled. Especially since she dispatched like 3 of them. But here, the Greys held no grudge or animosity towards her, we see the aliens have a sense of understanding or morality perhaps and let her be free. So it goes to show the aliens aren’t truly evil. It could also possibly be the Greys themselves being controlled by the squid parasites since it shows the squid reverberating in their throats as well. The parasites are possibly the TRUE masters behind the invasion. And they utilized Grey technology to help spread themselves. And by the ending we saw, it seems like the Greys/parasites are changing the world into a “perfect society”, perhaps to heal the planet after we caused so much harm. The captured humans would be trapped in their minds but they would live their life as if nothing happened as the parasites are feeding them a false reality (they wouldn’t be suffering). The whole ending gives off Invasion of the Body Snatcher vibes. As well as The Host by Stephenie Meyer. But this movie leans more towards The Host because in the book, they are peaceful parasitic aliens that invaded worlds that were on the brink of destroying themselves. So they stepped in and took over to help save the planet and breed a new generation of the races that occupied the planets and teach them to take better care of their planet and each other.
I swear roanoke must be the coolest guy to know in real life. He's in damn good shape, very intelligent, and just straight up relatable and funny. Also I love it every time he mentions quarians.
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Their feet having opposable digits points more toward them coming from an arboreal life style as opposed to the semi aquatic you mentioned in the video. The presence of water in the ship might suggest that they require a very humid environment. There home world might have at some point resembles a mangrove swamp of rain forest.
The toes operating as they are are built for lifting purposes not grasping purposes. The hands are arboreal but the feet do not suggest this IMO. I actually thought about this extensively before going with this idea
@@RoanokeGaming We don't really see an example of their grip strength but there are a few things we see that would suggest that it might be proportionately quite strong. Assuming their physiology is at least somewhat similar to ours. Our fingers flex and contract with tendons running down one side of the digit making them strong at gripping but less strong when going the other way. The orientations of their toes suggest they are structures in a similar way. The lift the creature off of the ground using the pulling forge on the digit as it would to grip something.
As such I would surmise that feet in that layout would be pretty good at say hanging from a tree branch. Or whatever passes for a tree on their home world.
Obviously its speculation but I love these sorts of thought exercises. Thank you for the excellent video by the way. I stumbled upon your channel the other day and have been binge watching.
Could be swamps rather than trees or water
completely unsupported, but I'd like to think the ship is just flooded because of leaky pipes or condensation like in Alien, and they walk like that like we do when we're trying not to step IN water.
@@ThomasdWell lol, love this idea
This was such a good movie! Such a breath of fresh air from the usual dreg that gets released.
Agreed! and the almost complete lack of dialogue was wild how well it worked
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There's nothing I love more than explaining fictional aliens biologically. SO cool
It's interesting how Brynn had her own idealized fictional version of the two in her house.
And the aliens also wanted to make their own idealized fictional version of the town.
The townspeople weren't great. And both Brynn and the aliens wanted it to be another way.
That explains why the aliens let her be.
I get the feeling the aliens were doing that too. The parasite could be a means of interspecies communication as well as a form of control, given some of the greylikes were definately what a stellaris player would term a combatform. Specialized varients with lobotomized aspects controlled by a brainslug/polypod. In addition for scorn players with the artbook, that slug could be a form of primary intelligence, and the grey bodies are tools which function through, and by merging with us they gradually and darkly 'reeducate' the species into a more docile and communal state.
In the end, when they freed her. It was her grief for causing harm and the fact she only harmed others for self defense, and even stayed with her clone as they bled out consoling it as it passed despite it stabbing her. They knew she wasnt a threat, she was what they respect. She is a true pacifist, she avoided conflict, and only using the tool of violence when no other option seems available, and feels grief when using it even when a traditional mind would try to justify it. She tried to evade their staff as i will phrase it long before using any form of violence, the cross symbol could have held a meaning of 'disarm' she took it as a chance to flee so it gave chase, she only used lethal force when she needed to, not immediately in all cases.
They wanted to curb out violent tendancies, and they found she already had hers curtailed and was grief-stricken by her past use of it. The quote 'speak in soft words and carry a big stick' holds meaning, she and they attempted soft speak, but miscommunication led to issues requiring measureable force, each use of force was incremental and never a jump to excessive Happily in the end they found a common cord albeit after further measure of force, and once they saw her nature and why she resisted so fiercely, they realized she was not a hostile threat, but exceptionally defensive, avoiding conflict at all costs until left with violence.
edit: repetitive tangent X'D
@@thotslayer9914 indeed i do
@@thotslayer9914 not one to simply add folks ive not met atleast once. May i ask why you want to?
The way I interprete the ending, even the parasite aliens didn't like the main character they're like "Sigh, nah we ain't putting one of us in her just leave her be"
Soon as I saw the trailer I knew this was a movie you were gonna cover and I’m so excited to watch this movie!!
LOOK AT THEM TOES lol
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I imagine these aliens had a lot of issues in the US and probably in military areas all over the world.
If this chick can take out 4 of them then I am sure the world's military wouldn't have that much trouble, considering that guns are a thing, and unless they emp all of our missiles, even the submarines then there is no chance for them to win. Plus the whole bacteria and virus thing would probably take them out.
@@hoznarygamingThey came to out world using an esoteric form of propulsion we couldn't even begin to understand, consuming astronomic amounts of energy to do so, and you don't think they have countermeasures capable of backhanding our bombs like they're nothing?
@@Quintonias This is true. They just weren't expecting any kind of resistance, especially from a single human. If they detected a military presence, they would certainly come completely prepared.
@@theminerwithin9316 Jesus Christ, no. How do you people get this stupid? "They just weren't expecting any kind of resistance." Right, and and the Spaniards expected the South American natives to just lie down and die too.
"If they detected a military presence..." My guy, they knew full well what was waiting for them. They had forcefields and space planes. The movie makes it abundantly clear they were more than prepared. What the movie ALSO makes clear is that humans fuck shit up. The end. Nothing deeper.
To me it looked like the aliens were trying to infect everyone that was a bad person to keep people from hurting each other. Everyone in the town was a douche, the aliens probably assumed Bryyn was also awful since she managed to goon on them and kill a few. They realized they completely misunderstood what was happening with her and let her go free because it was not necessary to pacify her
This reminds me of a book. I read a long time ago when I was a kid. I think it was called Childhoods End or something. In it Aliens land on earth but never formally introduce themselves. Instead, the influence of their presence starts to transform children into a post human state of being. At first, kids were sick, some born with rare defects but gifted with some ability at the same time. Eventually it becomes clear that these children are evolving into a higher state of being. Eventually, one of the main characters sneaks onto one of the ships and discovers that the aliens are helping humanity evolve into this higher state but are unable to undergo this process thenselves.
It's not really connected, but you reminded me of a book called Footfall, where elephant-like aliens invaded Earth. I don't recall the reasoning, but it was a good book.
Had a hilarious scene near the end where Earth had managed to convert a battleship into a spaceship by sealing it up, adding a couple shuttles, and after standing it up on it's tail they slapped an Orion Pulse Drive to the end and sent it up to fight the alien ship. Rather effectively too if I recall correctly.
(I think the shuttles were auxiliary thrust/maneuvering drives and so they could get back to Earth)
Dang what book is this?! I want to read it!
@@drgirlfriend211 Childhoods End by Arthur C Clark (I think)
I remember Syfy) Scifi channel making this into a series. Then the aliens revealed themselves at some point and they DID NOT look like what humanity expected. Don't want to spoil it for others.
@@RamielNagisa The fithp believed, I can't recall if correctly, that earth was their ancestral homeworld or one of the stops on the migration journey they were making. I think. Yeah, once the Michael (that's what the human spaceship was called, after the archangel) got into space, chucking nukes at the fithp mothership turned out to be a very effective tactic.
I have 3 theories about the movie. 1. Your theories about it being an animal restoration project may be accurate and this is because of my second theory. 2. This is about the parasites serving 2 functions. A. As a sedation device as well as a transportation unit because animals are dangerous when being captured. B. The clones they make are more aggressive capture devices for a larger number of subjects. 3. The ending might be the Grey's terra forming the planet with the clones in order to better the environment for the captured species and the reason the MC was released into this working environment is during the examination process she proved to be a healthy specimen because she was able to face her trauma and be healed from the experience thus no longer being a threat to herself or others.
my theory is that there's some form of martial culture involved, perhaps in line with the caste system you proposed. seems like she moves up the social ladder quite a bit once the invasion is done, perhaps these aliens went "oh, wait, this one's in charge, it beat like, four of us in fights and rejected the parasite-implant thing, just like our higher castes do." in the same way we looked at ants or bees and went "oh hey, that one's the queen" and decided that she was clearly the one in charge, simply because we lived under a monarchy and assumed that was simply how stuff worked, it might be that they saw this pretty neat somewhat clever animal, saw it "had that dawg" in it, and basically just decided that it would be best to domesticate/observe it by letting it continue in what they presumed is it's natural position in the human hierarchy, ergo, letting her basically be in charge and loved by all in her town, as they now have the "this one's strong and in charge and you should like them for that" imprinted on them by the parasites. i think the clone was sent as a "hey is this species/her just fucking strong" test, which she passed by showing she wasn't just being lucky, the clone, presumeably less smart or complete than her, just kinda shanks central body mass, while she, understanding the basics of human weak spots, absolutely destroys that thing with a single strike to the right area, especially cause it seems they didn't noticeably do this to anyone else, perhaps some kind of ritualistic "face yourself to prove you're worthy" type deal?
side note: I almost get the feeling the parasites are more implants than separate creatures, bioengineering used to create a little living machine to allow brain interfacing, letting one, say, speak an entirely different species/cultures language, and communicate with higher ups directly, akin to our phones(I imagine we'd likely hand a species we view as pretty intelligent a phone if we met one, infact I think some primates gave been given mobile phones for short periods of time, someone gimme data on this)
It could be like the Ethereal Empire from XCOM. The Ethereals, which was an ancient race of psychically gifted aliens, were dying off because their bodies were decaying from being so old. They tried to genetically engineer new bodies, but the sectoids (similar to the greys) were a failure. So then they developed Thin Men which were physiologically similar to humans and were used as infiltration units, but their aforementioned psychic powers were too powerful for the thin men's bodies so as they continued their experimentation, they discovered Humanity which was the perfect host for their psychic powers to inhabit. They used the races that they genetically engineered for specific roles to defeat humanity and abduct them so they could transfer their consciousness to them and live on. This makes sense with this movie as well, because I believe it could be genetically engineered hosts that the throat parasite could more easily control. The experiments failed and they could still control them, but it wasn't a perfect fit, so now the parasite puppets the race of greys and uses them to subjugate others until they find a proper host. It would also explain the cracking of bones, as it could be imperfect genes causing bones that push into each other during movement.
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I think the aliens might have had their planet destroyed and it might have been their fault. In the end they might have seen what the main character has done and understood how she felt because they also felt the same way (feeling of great loss and regret). Either way the invasion could've been to find a new home, they didn't necessarily wanna do any harm but had to make sure that they were in control.
I don’t think they would’ve destroyed their home planet. A species capable of expanding to other worlds as fast they can, likely has no interest in self destruction. From what I gathered, the Grays seem to care and understand our pain and might even judge us based off of our past experiences. I think that they only want us to reach this sort of peace within ourselves and each other, so that one day we will be able to be free of our worldly shackles and enter a universe of infinite knowledge and power.
@@dopplervocals and also, with that level of technology they wouldn't even need a planet, they could build a better environment in a space colony or they could terraform either venus or mars in a few hundreds of years, perhaps even less
The idea that she won but it's possible *humans* "lost" is a super interesting take on "one man army against the invasion"
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If I remember correctly, the pinky finger used to be important when sword fighting. It served as a bit of a leverage point that allowed the wrist to flick the pommel of the sword towards the forearm, increasing centrifugal force on the blade. It'd be better to lose your ring finger than your pinky for this reason.
I heard the pinky is critical for your grip strength
And likely sticks and clubs before sword tech as is represented in Escrima.
so basically when the feral Grey was sent in, that would be like the equivalent of idk a soldier sending in a chimpanzee
I was thinking that the reason for their bones popping is because they come from a planet with a lower gravity, and that their feet adapted to cling on to branches and stuff.
honestly probably a very realistic take on what aliens might actually do
Maybe the greys decided not to take her because of her habits of ending other living things, maybe they think she would be a liability. Or maybe they found her disturbing, you know, for all the unaliving she does, even herself, and also after seeing her unaliving the other girl. I mean, there have been cases of animals too aggressive to remain in captivity, so it's a real possibility.
Bout time. They said she is cleary psycho. These town people were very kind to accept and put up with her. They need our help. Prehaps that's why the aliens came, to protect humans from girls like her
Except if they saw her as a liability and threat they'd... just end her instead of leaving her alone. An animal that's too aggressive tends to be put down for the safety of others. They let her live, meaning they don't see her as dangerous and instead felt it was better to give her the sense of community she had been denied since Maude's death.
Here's an interesting idea for you Roanoke I've been toying with for a little over 5 years. Ships do use magnetic fields to fly through the air but the ships also push and or move air particles out of the way, so the ship is constantly in a gas free pocket of sorts. Kinda like a bubble or in space that way the ship can constantly gain incredible velocity and make high rate of turns.
Something like a Leidenfrost effect?
@@badlaamaurukehu yeah I guess the only force acting on a craft would be gravity since in a gas free pocket
I haven't seen like 80% of these movies, but I still watch these.
Can we all point out they had to have picked the most California small town possible? No one had a gun?
Right?! Hell, you can make chlorine gas from household cleaners in about 30 seconds. Anything with a respiratory system exposed to it without a protective mask is in for a really rough fucking time. Also, while attacking these ETs, save the four legged babies!
I'm glad to see you recommend "Haunt" as well. It was a surprisingly good film. The story was good and the makeup/costumes were refreshingly different. I still can't get one particular "face" out of my nightmares(you'll know when you see it😮).
The faces in that movie are great. One of the better movies about a haunt attraction.
I feel like the aliens were like damn. this chick killed three of our guys and got out of a body snatching, mad respect.
Quantum locking is the term used for suspending a magnet above another magnet when it is supercooled. Very interesting topic to look into.
This has become one of my favorite alien invasion movies ever, it’s so fun to see the morphology and how Brynn fights back
They weren't helping humanity. The basement dude who looked at the photo was later on the ship and the one that read her mind. Convinced them to release her as he came to understand how best to control her. Not by trying to take her autonomy, but by allowing her to become part of the community that hated her. The clone was their last attempt to take her out and just felt it easier and more interesting to see if other humans could be controlled the same.
i could see the "long arms short legs" and "long limbs" grays being similar to the Gray versions of Apes. the "long arms short legs" one even resembles the body plan of an orangutan.
It feels kinda like TNRing a feral cat colony. The cats that are able to be adopted are adopted (or in this case are given the parasite) and the ones that are just too feral aren't adopted out and are returned to the street to live out their lives under the watchful eye of a colony caretaker.
Saw this movie despite having a fear of aliens ever since i was a kid watching signs, but i actually enjoyed the movie and was waiting for my fav youtubers such as Roanoke to make a video! Did not disappoint! 🙏🏽
5:19 Pretty sure Nikola Tesla discovered this, but big electrical didn't want people to know until they needed a new gimmick.
Honestly didn’t even notice the lack of dialogue till I started watching reviews. How much it kept my attention
I have an idean on why she was able to remove the parasite, since she was morning that could mean she was also in a state of depression which could interfere with the parasites ability to "create" the bliss basicly the amount of bliss the parasite puts out is enough for a regular human but with someone in a depressed states it might not be enough so they can snap out of it
Well over 3/4 the town would have resistance.
I remember hearing Neil Degrasse Tyson saying something around the lines of Nicola Tessla wanted to run electricity through the air instead of cables and im interested in what Roanoke thinks about this
He did and the reason we don't is it's extremely difficult to do in a way that isn't a massive waste.
Im so happy you covered this Ro! Love extratesticle flicks, and this one was really good. When i was wee i had nightmares regularly about being abducted and trying to hide from aliens. This movie did a good job of showing that hopelessness.
I absolutely love that watching the movie you get, surface level, what happens, but there are so many questions and things to nerd about. I absolutely loved this movie.
Roanoke have you covered The Last Days on Mars? Its about bacteria being found on Mars and when some space people guys come in contact with it they become zombie like, I think it would just be really entertaining for you to cover it.
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I think the grays would regret trying to break in someone else's house that has guns.
It's confusing to why the Grays would let her go, let alone live. She has murdered several of their own and clearly a threat based on her history. (Yes' I know. Self defense)
Or maybe they have the predator aliens sense of...good sportsmanship? Not sure what else to call it.
Or she never escaped without being parasite-jacked. She is living a better life after the invasion. Could be an illusion.
all of the alien movies (greys at least) are based on "real life" lore. this comes from a bunch of different places, but stuff gets cross-referenced and then "accepted" as plausible.
part of that collective lore is that they're in replacable bioengineered bodies. they just jump to another one knowingly so its just an inconvenience.
alternative lore also states that greys are just a means to an end, pilots, drones, whatever you wanna call it.
a cursory search for this stuff would yield these ideas, so presumably the writers would've adapted these ideas.
tldr ; disposable bodies /=/ death is an inconvenience
@@lostspktreThink: Avatar
dang, missed the whole point of the film.
@@dopplervocals Me or someone else?
24:28 i think its just throwing down gang signs this whole movie is a turf war and the parasites are a drug of some kind