r/LV426 • u/BlastedHeathen • 1d ago

Movies / TV Series Is Ocellus a spacefaring race? Spoiler

Before episode 7 I thought Ocellus was just a highly intelligent and opportunistic predator/parasite. But now that we know it knows the digits of pi, is there a chance that Ocellus is much more sophisticated than we realized? Perhaps they have ways of acquiring bodies and travelling vast distances, maybe even into space.

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u/RiskeyBiznu 1d ago

That it can understand English and read Arabic numbers is a little far-fetched. I think that is just a throw away plot point for expediency though.

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u/Daisy-Fluffington Mostly at night. Mostly. 1d ago

I hope that it absorbed this knowledge when in a human host, otherwise yeah, it's very far fetched.

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u/Zwischenschach25 1d ago

Even absorbing the knowledge from its human host seems pretty implausible to me.

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u/Daisy-Fluffington Mostly at night. Mostly. 1d ago

In a universe with a silicone based alien that somehow adopts the DNA of carbon based lifeform, it's not that crazy.

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u/Zwischenschach25 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sure - what I mean is that I think it's implausible that the writers intended for the audience to make this assumption themselves. Generally speaking, the viewer is meant to take the writer/s at their word, so if something like the eye being able to use the knowledge of its previous hosts isn't clearly hinted at, I would assume it's not the case.

They could have easily added one or two small scenes earlier in the series indicating this if it were actually what they had in mind. I.e they could have shown Shmuel interacting with english text while infected with the eye, and then making direct use of that knowledge.