Quote from: windebieste on Dec 10, 2017, 04:29:22 AM
Instead of a frill necked lizard, you could have posted a picture of a brown, taipan or tiger snake. No. I wouldn't encourage anyone to play with those, either.
Australian wildlife. Pick it up. Play with it.
If you don't know what it is, you could be royally f**ked. Just like Milburn.
-Windebieste.
Snakes don't normally attack people, only if you go messing with it. Milburn didn't even touch the Hammerpede. There are a couple of cases where a snake has eaten a human. But those are the extremely large pythons that do that.
Quote from: SiL on Dec 10, 2017, 05:14:43 AM
I'm not sure you realise how silly your argument is. You're saying every film can be absolved of any fault so long as the filmmakers intended to fix it at some point and we must read this information into the film even when it's not there.
That's not how it works.
How does it work then? Who says it is a fault? It's merely missing information.
Nearly every film does this as well.
QuoteHe sees a big dead thing that ran from something and then a small alive thing threatening him. Hm.
But it wasn't even threatening him. The body language was clear, it was saying back off. If it were threatening him it would pretend to lunge or strike or do something like that.
QuoteMilburne is in the thing's territory, so what you're saying is he has every reason to read it as a threat gesture. Thank you.
Territory also means personal space. You don't have to physically touch an animal for it to get aggressive. If you get too close most of the times it will run away but in some animals they do aggressive displays like the frill necked lizard.
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Again, you're saying in one scene he runs from something dead because "he doesn't know if it's harmless", then sees something alive and threatening and sticks his hand in its face because "he doesn't know if it's harmful".
All you're doing is proving the point that his character is terribly written.
I said that he ran away from the dead bodies because he doesn't know what killed them. It could have been a virus, toxic gas, etc.. any number of things.
But being a biologist he knows about animal behaviour presumably so it makes sense that he would feel less threatened about those things.