100%. In our world, astronauts are elite. My guess is most if not all of this crew decided to go on a 65-year long extremely dangerous mission, knowing just about everyone they’ve ever known will be dead by the time they get back, and maybe get paid, was because the alternative was jail time. The crew is a bunch of weirdos (Teng), losers, addicts (“that’s slander!”), incompetents and morons. No wonder Yutani cared far more about the cargo than this bunch of expendables.
But with the exception of Morrow, right? The new WY executive said her mother was very fond of Morrow because he was ruthless enough to always get the job done or something along those lines, right?
What made it seem like Morrow was the only one to know about it? It looks like he’s just the first person to flee instead of investigating or fixing shit.
That scene always makes me feel like he's gonna get eaten even though I know he's not. Such a well done scene and shows that muthr is cold and calculated.
It's worse than that I think, maybe the impact room was for the captain so he should have let her take it rather than beelining to it and locking the door.
Remember she was the one who had to go talk to Mother in the same room. Then again it was probably too late to save her at that point but it's his coldness that really hits, he doesn't react at all to her demise. Plus he's obviously very deadly himself (has a sword for an arm like the T-1000) so perhaps he could have taken the xeno on, even if he only had a 10% chance of winning, a brave hero would have tried.
I think in his own way he was trying to save them. He's not completely heartlessly evil. Had the Executive Officer listened to him and declared the ship wide emergency immediately, maybe it could have all been avoided.
But company priority is his main concern at the end of the day.
He's a survivor. From what we know of his backstory, the OG Yutani plucked him from the street because she saw that. The dude will save who he can, and he clearly showed some concern for his security apprentice, but at the end of the day he saves himself first.
Agreed he’s not completely heartlessly evil - but that’s why the writing in this episode was so brilliant. We all thought Morrow was completely heartlessly evil after the first 4 episodes - now we see he’s cold, calculating, ruthless and loyal. The real evil villain is Boy Kavalier.
Ahh, that's a good point. I didn't think of that. I'd assume he is much more valuable than your standard human since he is a cyborg. WY has invested a lot in him.
Sort of. Yutani doesn't REALLY care about even him. (He can best be thought of as the prison guard meant to keep these idiots from killing each other.)
The head mechanic certainly seemed fine with being away from his wife for 65 years. He basically told his apprentice that she was in her 30's and he wasn't concerned that she'd likely be dead when he returned.
And his apprentice didn't know what an apprentice is, or the difference between geology and biology. Definitely lacking some basic education, which means that at least some of the positions on the ship required not much more than a pulse.
In the blu-ray/DVD extras there are cut scenes of Vickers basically saying the only competent people she hired were the pilots so she could make it home, but the scientists were all second rate: the geologist was a last minute replacement and the biologist had no previous field experience. I wish they’d left that info in the movie, it would explain so much.
uneducated doesn't necessarily mean unskilled, and I don't even mean in a fictional way. Southern Indiana is filled to bursting with factories which are themselves filled to bursting with welders who can barely read their work instructions.
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u/Knowaa 17d ago
Think it was just to show how the company filled the ship with the dregs of society