just the fact that the debate has gone on this long means that the writer accomplished his goal, broken plot or not. there is not a chance an AVP thread would have this endless discussion on the meaning of all the little nuances that weren't explained. maybe a cheap way to get the word of mouth going, even if a lot of moviegoers were irritated by it.
that being said, I also concur about the mess of alien characters. that black goo is the most convoluted biological weapon ever conceived...it turns worms into acid snakes that jump down your throat but don't impregnate you with anything. it turns humans into raging Frankenstein monsters with squid sperm that can give birth to giant squids that will jump down your throat and impregnate you with xenomorphs. what's the point of that, I'd say the giant squid is a lot more dangerous than the xenomorph it gives birth to.
Maybe the biological weapon was engineered to be so complex that it destroys your brain just thinking about it...I bet that one dead engineer re-awakened and tried to remember what they were working on, which is why his head exploded.
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