Shaw's father and the Sacrificial Engineer died similar deaths (Ebola connection?)

Thank goodness (for broader humanity) that it is so aggressive (i.e. FAST) that it tends to be unable to spread broadly across communities.

Shaw's personal story felt a little forced on the plot, in my opinion. It's certainly setting grounds for more development in the sequel, but this ebola / black goo parallel is a little far-fetched. It's there, though. And we just have to say "coincidence" for now.

In one of my posts I mentioned a similarity between Ebola and some effects of the genetic engineering mutagen contained in the black goo. However, I didn't mention any connection with the the death of Shaw's father. I think there are more clues left to explore in this hypothesis. Also, I saw a recent article that mentioned a cure for Ebola.

Hot Zone, great book but scared the crap out of me.

I didn't think of that at all :s I was more thinking, when the engineer liquified, the first new organisms would have been strings virues bacteria cells etc and bigger and bigger, no?

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there appears to be a bit of a HANTVIRUS (ebola) outbreak in USA, according to 'coincidental timing'. http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1892579/pg1 [i]There are currently hantavirus cases in: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Mammoth Lakes, California Linn County, Oregon Millard County, Utah Salt Lake County, Utah Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota Iroquois County, Illinois[/i]

The movies will always have a difficult time with pacing when it comes to details story information as compared to books.

Think you might be onto something the scene with shaws father did seem a little forced into the movie for me maybe this is why they were there to link to the creation scenes and it gets tied up in the sequel Would this make humans a side effect of disease??? Wouldn't that be reason enough for the SJs to want to exterminate us?

Of course it is subjective and probably coincidental, but still it was nagging me the whole way through the movie. I just think it was interesting that they both died the same way.

The Only thing Nagging me during this film was I hope It doesn't take 33 years for the 2nd part if it? cause thaT WAS JUST A OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY IS WHAT TI WAS AND A GAME CHANGER AS FAR AS THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY GOES quite frankly Svanya, maybe the single most creative motion picture I have seen in 5 decades of watching films.

Actually, if I remember correctly, it's David that tells Shawn the similarity in those two deaths right after she wakes up, so it's nothing that hidden.

It may just be a emotional point to cast Shaw into a low spot from where she can rise and be the hero. Imagine loosing your long time partner and colleague. Then some asshole robot brings up the similarity to your fathers death, which by the way he learned by watching you dream. The similarities may also just be a plot point to support the fiction of the black goo. Oh, I believe the hantavirus is slightly different from Ebola. It is found in feces of rats. People usually catch it in the Western deserts of the U.S. by vacuuming dried rat poop which puts the virus in the air. People breath it and it breaks down the lungs. Ebola is contracted through blood contamination and attacks the whole body. Both are hemorrhagic though. Luckily no one has weaponized either of them yet, that we know of. Still Ebola plays on Scott's fear of a biological attack and the worst biotech can do. In an interview, he mentions the possibility of someone dropping a virus or bacteria in a reservoir and how quickly it would multiply and infect people. He sees biological weapons as something scary.... Yea.

@Tuvok; How would David know what the sacrificial engineer drank 35 000 years ago?? All David said to Shaw is: "Must feel like your God abandoned you, to lose Dr.Holloway after your father died under such similar circumstances."

ooops, I meant, Charlie's death and Shaw's father's xD

"It may just be a emotional point to cast Shaw into a low spot from where she can rise and be the hero. Imagine loosing your long time partner and colleague. Then some asshole robot brings up the similarity to your fathers death, which by the way he learned by watching you dream." I've been thinking about this...there seemed to be intentional hints at man's inhumanity or cruelness towards his fellow man in the film...Holloway towards David, Holloway towards Shaw chastising her (hypocritically I might add when he removed his helmet) for breaking protocol to get the engineer head, David towards Holloway in infecting him, David's cruelty towards Shaw in the lead up to the medipod scene, the apparant lack of concern for shaw who shows up completely bloody following the operation, David's cruel comment to Shaw about not thinking she "had it in her" to join them, etc., etc., I think there is an underlying theme RS was trying to make about man's cruelty towards one another..these all seemed intentional towards the larger story to me...

[url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/14-killed-in-uganda-by-deadly-ebola-virus-outbreak-7985622.html]14 killed in Uganda by deadly Ebola virus outbreak[/url] that was from end-July, is this EBOLA epidemic still 'live'?

Yep Ebola is one nasty piece of work.

Maybe many millennia ago, the Engineers brought ebola to Earth to wipe us out but realized it may take too long. Around 2,000 years ago, they decided that the titular creatures from the [i]Alien[/i] series would do the trick, but the ship they tried to send to Earth got sidelined and crashed on LV-426. Any takers?

@Custodian-

Dont believe that crap from that website trust me I went there and its a conspiracy bullsh*t and its rampant everything from chemtrails, reptilian alien bull, and somehow the government is trying to kill us. In other words its NOT a viable source for any information. They make up bologny all the time for discussion.