Okay, it's been awhile since I saw this, so my memory's a bit foggy...but the pod clones don't make sense. The movie sets up the premise that people are being replaced with the pod clones, right? But then in the last act, it's shown that all the aliens have to do is just wait for someone to fall asleep to take over their original bodies. Was this just a writing goof?
sharepods are necessary to replace humans. the replacement process takes place while humans are sleeping.
shareI just saw the movie again this past week. It seems as if the writers goofed.
In an earlier scene, the characters say that the pods themselves are what replace the human beings. When they completely form and come alive, the original body of the person it was meant to replace disintegrates.
But then in the last act, the movie shows the opposite happening. The original human body remains alive. It's just that the pod clone transfers itself into the original person when he or she falls asleep.
I just watched it again and I see how you would think that. The Becky clone tells Miles she went to sleep and it happened. Then in the narrative, Miles says a moment of sleep caused him to lose Becky. The transformation was really fast and where was the pod?
shareI am confused because they show the pods creating a new clone in that garden.
So how come Dana Wynter, at the end of the movie, changed to one of them when she fell asleep in the tunnel? That means there could be two versions of yourself walking around? The latter movies always established the original host would shrivel and die as it is no longer useful.
they went for the dramatics and had him kiss the clone. they didn't show the transformation process in the 1956 version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuL2QwsNeM8
I thought a pod would have to be placed nearby for it to happen. But it seems some users here (the more I'm reading around) have the theory a pod was probably placed nearby by the mob earlier.
That's quite a fast transformation, but as you said they were probably going for dramatics. Still quite chilling to see her completely change like that.
she's also fully dressed. they couldn't have any hint of nudity in 1956.
shareYeah. I think that is a legit problem.
They were in that cave-tunnel when Dany Wynter falls asleep, and in a matter of moments she becomes a pod person. Where did her replacement body come from? It's not explained in the movie, and I can't come up with one either.
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Scene in garden: "What happens to the original bodies?" "I guess they must disintegrate." (Establishing that the pods are what replace the human bodies.)
Scene in cave: "It happens when you sleep." (Establishing that her body was never replaced by any pod, that a consciousness was transferred instead, since she expressed exhaustion the entire time while trying to escape the townspeople.)
Early on it was demonstrated that incomplete pod people are capable of getting up and moving ~before~ they absorb their target's mind. I didn't think too hard about it during the movie, but IMO it's feasible that Becky's pod person, after being discovered in the basement by Miles, took off and hid and bided its time until Becky finally fell asleep and then it took Becky's place. Maybe once they "imprint" someone's identity and take their form, they can sort of sense where they are and track them until they get a chance to become them? I really don't think it's necessary to put so much thought into this stuff, from a writing standpoint or a viewer. Just learn to develop some suspension of disbelief for chrissake, it's an ancient sci-fi horror movie.
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