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Originally Posted by octothorp
I'm going to respond to this while the movie's fresh in my mind.
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The medical pod in Charlize's personal quarters which is tailored for her and is a separate ship, is only for men (I guess it's for the old guy then).Only a few of them were ever made, as explained in some other part of the film. If they were just a prototype that never made it in to full production, it wouldn't be surprising that they only made male versions. Perhaps Vickers thought it was better than nothing. Perhaps she had never had a situation come up where it said it was intended for male use.
Wow, that's a horrific wall of text. congrats to anyone who actually bothers to read through it.
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I understood this to be for two reasons. One it was a foreshadowing of the fact that the old guy was on the ship, because the device was almost certainly there for him and not for Vickers, and the second one was to add time and difficulty to one of the better scenes in the movie.