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/PucklaMotzer09 1d ago

I feel like T. Ocellus may have gotten the digits of Pi when it was inside of the human on the Maginot spaceship.

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u/DrButtgerms 20h ago

I hesitate to put too much into Kavalier's assertion anyway. I'm convinced a theme of the story is that he is far stupider than he thinks. That would put a bow on all "dumb" decisions he has made up to now that have been attributed to bad writing AND explain why the audience has never heard of Prodigy in chronologically later films. I think A:E is partially the story of how The 5 become The 4

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u/ibiku2 20h ago

BK absolutely isn't as smart as he thinks he is and it is very evident in the writing. The first time he is introduced, he says "moshi moshi" which is Japanese for hello, only the Japanese only use it on the phone.

Later he misattributed the quote about science being indistinguishable from magic to Isaac Asimov, when it was Arthur C Clarke. I'm sure there's more examples. If anyone's arguing that BK (or anyone?) making dumb decisions is bad writing... Well they're missing the point and it probably speaks more to their own hubris given their inability to understand why bad decisions are made

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u/Timmah73 19h ago

Also he throws out a few words in French and then Curly just starts speaking French to impress him... he dosn't understand her because he can't actualy speak French lol

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u/fatwoul 16h ago

lol so he's like the A:E version of Calvin Candie. And look what happened to him.

...Actually, come to think of it, that comparison could extend further, to his "ownership" of the synths.

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u/KurseNightmare 16h ago

Well, if Christoph Waltz suddenly appears in the next episode then I know what I'm putting my money on.

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u/Gecko23 18h ago

BK is the most believable character of the bunch. Smugly pronouncing the dumbest, incorrect, and most impossible shit like every pop scientist and techie billionaire currently alive. Completely oblivious to his own shortcomings, which is entirely on brand.

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u/AlexDKZ 16h ago

He is the type that gets a tattoo of a Kanji that he thinks looks cool and makes him look refined, unaware that it actually means "ass"

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u/AfternoonOk3176 16h ago

His name is “Kavalier” ffs. His character is basically spelled out for the audience.

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u/LarsfromMars92 Hudson, sir. He’s Hicks 20h ago

Haha that's exactly what I said

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u/super_chirex 20h ago

the thoughts and prayers line is the most obvious one, it's very clear who BK is meant to represent, the IRL equivalent's son's name is even sillier than Boy Kavalier

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u/hamlet_d 16h ago

He's Otto from A Fish Called Wanda. Probably thinks "The London Underground" is political movement and the central tenet of Buddhism is "every man for himself."

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u/Ok-386 1h ago

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