Quote from: Trash Queen on Feb 27, 2021, 01:22:12 AM
We know from earlier in the film by observation that Leward disturbs a Pod on the ground and, then a black mass of particles flies out in a formation into his ear canal then into the exposed skin, later he births the first Neomorph we see.
So if David's looking at the displayed Neomorph collection and refers to the parasite under the microscope as being responsible, and it comes from an egg, ergo obviously:
Egg: Pod
Parasite: Mote
Enviable union: Neomorph
The film shows the pods produce motes, tiny particles -- not tiny insects. It does it twice, even, so it's not reasonable to assume the insects come from the same source.
And if the insects
do come from the same pods, we're still left with "does whatever" as the pathogen's function. Sometimes it's a mote, sometimes it's an insect, sometimes it turns you into a zombie, sometimes it makes something grow inside you, f**k it.
QuotePerhaps it is indeed, perhaps not, perhaps he's just describing it being "fiendishly inventive in fact" as displayed in the film under his care.
He said the pathogen itself is fiendishly inventive based on his observations, before he started working with it.
The only consistent thing is that it destroys, but how it does that changes on the whim of whatever scene the authors want to create. So f**k it, it destroys you by turning you into a Giger monster, why not. It's all stupid.