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100 Things we learned from "Arrival."

posted 8 years ago by cableaddict
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Well, SOMEBODY had to do it.

1: In a distant galaxy, the most intelligent beings live in a liquid environment, yet they are able to fabricate things out of metal & other hard materials.

2: Those intelligent beings look very much like the Earth's squid, and amazingly they will create dark ink just like Earth's squid, even though they don't share a common ancestor.

3: Those intelligent beings, despite being emersed in liquid, can somehow create stable, complex designs with their ink, and those designs don't even move around, although the liquid certainly does!

4: The female human, once she is immersed in their liquid world, (without drowning, no less) will somehow be able to make the same exact inky circles, even though her ancestors are neither squid nor Heptapods.

5: ?

[–] Arthur_Desmond 8 years ago

*: The most intelligent aliens in the universe have elephant skin, squid tentacles and a voice like Leonard Cohen being drowned in a fish tank with a microphone next to his face. They didn't yell "Cthulhu fhtagn" because it didn't come up in the conversation.

*+1: if you stare at coffee cup stains long enough, you'll see the future and even know whether your child has cancer.

*+2: It is OK to plagiarize whole segments out of Lovecraft's oeuvre as long as you don't cite them.

*+3: If humans bomb your ship and leave one of your folks in "death process", it is OK to give them another chance.

*+4: it is possible to know whether you'll need an inferior species' help 3000 years from now, but not to avoid the reasons for needing such help in all that time.

*+5: it is OK for future mothers to have their children even if they know they'll die young.

*+6: Definition: TWIST ENDING -- anything you didn't figure out during the first 15 minutes.

*+7: Languidness is the ideal narrative tone for a science fiction film.

[–] AndyKing1967 (38411) 3 years ago

24. Sheena Easton had hits in at least 12 territories.

[–] chilone (17913) 3 years ago

25. Aliens that are intelligent enough to travel presumably light years and possess technology far superior to ours, leave it up to us to figure out how to communicate with them, rather than simply make their ink squirts in English.

[–] RickGee (265) 8 months ago

The most advanced species we have ever met is a giant octapus.