Whoever made the decision to turn those first two scientists into redshirts, ie the idiots who decided that cobra-shaped alien life forms should be played with, should have been fired. Seriously. It was at that point that the movie lost a lot of its power over me.

Indeed. Mine was already waning at that point but only-minutes-earlier terrified scientists deciding to coo lovingly at a freaky looking alien snake did, indeed, jump the proverbial shark.

Well to be fair, it was only one of the two scientists who was lovingly cooing at the transformed worms like some innocent 5 year old kid seeing a tiger for the first time at a zoo.

However, what is truly sad is that this guy was a BIOLOGIST. You'd think he would have known better.

I think the documentary on the Blade Runner set goes into that dust-up with the crew. Scott made a comment in an interview about how the crews in the UK and US were different, how the UK crews were all "good morning, gov" or whatever, and the US crew got all ticked off and even made T shirts mocking that phrase.

Anyway, I think that scene was originally a replay of Hurt's scene in Alien, and it was rewritten to let them see the whatever-it-is before it attacked as opposed to it just being an instant attack. Besides, if you were a biologist, wouldn't you stare at a pale cobra with a vag for a mouth???



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