ONE medical pod for 5000 + people? - Passengers (2016) Discussion

[–] master_fromthecrown 8 years ago

Yeah and say that pod breaks down no matter how unlikely it may be and that's it for everyone....game over.

Major plot hole agreed with totally

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[–] durham100 8 years ago

Great film but I was about to post the same thing - all those people waking up from hibernation and there's only one autodoc to check out people recovering from something that was depicted as making people feel a bit urgh at the least.

The People's Front of Judea. Splitters.

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[–] lgoogus 8 years ago

This has puzzled me as well.

And Jim keeps saying: There are spare parts for everything.

So there are probably two scenarios from here:
1. There would be a spare auto doc somewhere on the ship.
2. There are spare parts to build an extra auto doc.

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[–] SomebodyWicked 8 years ago

Yeah that puzzled me too. Why not use spare parts to build another autodoc if there are parts for everything and why there would only be one.

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[–] jjbeggs-978-463614 8 years ago

Yes might have made sense to only be able to control them from outside the doc. Then it could have kept in line with the story

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[–] Packiderm 8 years ago

Yeah its like IKEA. When 300 people get sick from bad chicken, they can grab a box from the storage and build one in their one quarters. Only there is one screw missing in every single box and they blow up when they plug em in. Some people cant even find the right box from the god damn storage. "This is an armoire, not a *beep* autodoc!"

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[–] [email protected] 8 years ago

Yeah, don't think so. THe logistics just don't work. If you had multiple serious injuries many of those hurt would die. A serious plot hole.

5000 people carefully selected as colonists before departure, all young and healthy, in a benign environment, where are these "multiple serious injuries" going to come from? You aren't going to be getting a six-car pileup on the Interstate you know.

And why would "many of those hurt die"? It took the thing about five minutes to restore the dead--what makes you think it will take longer for a less serious ailment?

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[–] Killer_Croc 8 years ago

The autodoc was a device for the medical staff to use when treating patients, it wasn't the whole of the medical provision on board.

How many times did the thing say something like 'Procedure may not be performed without authorised medical personnel'? If there were no doctors/nurses on the ship the autodoc could never treat anything critical, so why bother having it there at all.

When the sun comes up you better be running!

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[–] gswan 8 years ago

Yeah, don't think so. THe logistics just don't work. If you had multiple serious injuries many of those hurt would die. A serious plot hole.

The closest thing we have to the Avalon, today, are cruise ships. But we couldn't compare the infirmaries of those cruise ships to the medical facilities the Avalon might need.

Most cruise ships voyages are only a week or so. And, in cruises of the Mediterrean, the Alaska passage, the Caribean, in emergencies, the ship is in range of a long range medivac helicopter.

Some smaller, luxury cruise ships visit Antarctica. They may have relatively larger medical facilities.

Patients on Avalon can't look forward to a transfer to a more advanced medical facility. If I were designing Avalon I would have the visible medical facilities on Avalon have room for at least dozens of patients. But since there are no more advanced medical facilities to which patients can be transferred, and since space travel may be inherently more dangerous than travel on a cruise ship, and since the voyage lasts close to a year, not a week, I'd hide hundreds of autodocs in the hold, for robots to fetch during a genuine medical emergency.

Colonizing is dangerous.

The Avalon could arrive at Homestead II and find some, many, or even all of the earlier colonists were in the midst of an epidemic. I think the safest thing for the Captain to do then would be to land the Passengers on a separate continent from the earlier colonists, and then bring aboard five thousand of the sick original colonists.

The one autodoc we saw seemed to be a premium quality autodoc, capable of detecting and treating cancer, doing every medical procedure that could be automated. If I were designing the Avalon I would want to be able to turn every empty sleepcicle pod into a barebones medical bed, capable of monitoring the medical state of a patient, administering drugs through an IV, or whatever the 31st century equivalent is.

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