In the last episode we saw that those pods are indeed cryostasis chambers, probably intended for long term space flight. The Raps seem to be actively collecting the biggest and most problematic troublemakers to send ... somewhere very far away. People like Will Bowman and Eric Broussard. I wonder why that is? Why send the creme de la creme of resistors to a far distant world instead of the Factory, or just killing them? Another question to ponder.
sharechrisjdel, I enjoy your posts very much. Reading them is like sitting on the couch and watching it together. YOU might just be the catalyst for me to get a little more enthused about the show.
Hmm, *pondering* maybe the bodies, the blood, the DNA, or their labor on the moon. Like Katie, the Red Hand leader, etc also. I dunno. I can't figure ahead on this show.
Well I'm glad you enjoy my posts. I can't figure out what's going on ahead of time either, which is one reason I like this show. It has a habit of going in unconventional directions. Who knows? Maybe the Raps are fighting a war somewhere and ship out the best fighters from their conquered worlds to use as cannon fodder. Those people being sent to the moon to work at the Factory aren't put in cryostasis for the trip, as we saw last season. Just a quick hop in one of their transports. So wherever the pod people go it's clearly a lot further away.
share>Maybe the Raps are fighting a war somewhere and ship out the best fighters from their conquered worlds to use as cannon fodder.
I really like this idea. If the raps are more advanced, they may just see humans as we might see horses, tools for war. Now I wonder what kind of threat they face, and does that threat extend to Earth? So many possibilities.
Why assume he's being taken somewhere to be punished?
In keeping with my theory that they are transferring consciousness into high-desirability humans, maybe when this process happens the aliens don't just wipe the human brain (like replacing Windows with Linux on a hard disk) but instead it's some kind of merging process or memory implantation where they acquire some base traits of the human they grab. Will is thus seen as a desirable target.
This kind of aligns with a previous episode where they were climbing the wall and the aliens zapped the others, but let Will go. And the mechanical genius in the last episode who built a mini-gun may also fall into that same category.
But why not just do it here? Why put them in pods for (presumably) interstellar travel? They clearly want exceptional subjects. A small percentage of the population they consider worth transporting to some distant place (their homeworld or a nearby colony planet?) while the rest of humanity is driven back into the stone age or worked to death for another unknown purpose. Still a lot of unanswered questions. I hope we get at least a few more answers in the season's remaining episodes.
shareI don't think the pods are for interstellar transfer, but more like sedation and transport to their local labs or clinics where they perform the consciousness transfer.
My guess is that big-picture even the aliens lack the capacity for near-term return to interstellar travel, meaning they are stuck here for now (which is why they start the invasion and colonization instead of just packing their shit up and flying home or getting rescued by their own civilization).
So they're taking over human bodies to return to physical form and to gain control of Earth. Maybe with bodies, a labor force and long-term control over Earth's resources they can rebuild enough technological base to regain interstellar travel, or maybe they are existentially stuck with Earth and just plan to take control over it permanently, eventually breeding their own offspring and killing off native humans until the alien-human hybrids are all that's left.
Where is this consciousness transfer idea coming from? Maybe I missed it but I haven't seen any hint of it yet - I mean on TV, not here.
shareNowhere specific on TV, but inferred from various things that have been shown.
The limited and apparently fragile nature of physical alien bodies -- they use humans for nearly everything, and they require complex suits and don't appear much. It doesn't seem likely the alien civilization is like 10 aliens, so where are the rest of them? My guess is some kind of machine storage, perhaps even contained within the drones.
The cube that Maddie touched in her space alien religion ceremony very strongly suggests some kind of device capable of tapping into consciousness. It could just be a parlor trick or some kind of brain stimulator, but it would kind of make sense if it was part of some kind of consciousness exchange system.
And then there's the question of what they want humans for at all. They're not eating us, that doesn't make sense, so they must have some use for human bodies. Direct parts replacement is a possibility if they are very close to us biologically, but if they aren't or their physiology isn't compatible with Earth's biosphere then implanting their consciousness into humans as replacements for their own bodies makes sense.
Complex suits, might just be because they don't breathe the same atmosphere and of course want to defend themselves from attack when going a few of them in a planet with billions of us. I don't see it as proof of fragility.
They might need humans for cannon fodder in some other conflict they might be fighting against other foes.
All this over-the-top consciousness transfer, I don't like. It feels too "Lost" to me, and of course it's my fear, given who is making this show.
"All this over-the-top consciousness transfer, I don't like. It feels too "Lost" to me, and of course it's my fear, given who is making this show."
Exactly.
My guess is that they are fragile due to evolving in micro gravity.
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