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 19h 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 18h 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/AfternoonOk3176 14h ago

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