History Headscratchers / Species

* FridgeLogic
** Why does Sil need a cocoon? Cocoons are used by animals that dramatically change their shape between the juvenile and adult form, like butterflies. Something Sill doesn't do. Not to mention that she's a shapeshifter anyway; she rearranges her body ''without'' needing a cocoon multiple times in the movie.
** In ''Species II'' {{The Virus}} infects two astronauts on a Mars mission. [[spoiler: One of them is female]]. The [[spoiler: male]] infected astronaut immediately develops the hots for Sil's clone Eve, with whom he is in telepathic contact, and wants to knock her up and make [[FetusTerrible some kind of special evil baby that only results when two aliens mate]]. [[spoiler: But he never shows any such interest in the female astronaut.]] Instead he develops the hots for the one that's locked in a ([[CardboardPrison not so]]) secure government facility. [[PlotHole No explanation is ever given or suggested]].
** Also in ''Species II'' [[spoiler: the female astronauts dies after giving birth]]. When in the first film [[spoiler: Sil gives birth and lives]]. [[PlotHole No explanation is ever given or suggested as well]].
*** remember that Sil had rapid regeneration powers, hence why she could survive the birth, while the female astronaut didn't. Though, this brings another Fridge Logic of why the female astronaut didn't turn into a hybrid while Patrick did...

** Could that's the pure and natural state of the SIL species when spawning. The budding SILs burst forth and devour all they can in order to grow and thrive; it's the most determined alone that thrives. Could be also how the SIL species lives on, it has to bred hybrid offspring, so that its progeny don't devour everything in sight.

* What is the actual failure in the chain for the hybrids? Sil was made from a fertilized human egg with the alien sperm. She produced a child with a human donor, while he didn't live long enough, we don't know for sure. However the second, Eve provided a daughter that is fertile.

So is Patrick himself the problem? And is that the human part or the "thing" that infected him? His sperm with human woman, produces problems. Yet his sperm with Eve works well. Is something in Eve's makeup fixing Patrick's problem or did Patrick just pick bad woman to breed with? Which after all what is Patrick classified as? Can he really be considered a hybrid, or an human infected? Had they have grown a male Sil, would he have done just as well as Eve or failed like Patrick?

* The alien message contained the alien genome and instructions on how to combine it with human genome. But where did they get the actual ''physical'' alien DNA? Obviously you can't send physical matter in interstellar radio signals. Did the humans build the alien genome from nothing one amino acid at a time?

** Something tells me you need to watch Alien 3, which was made three years before the first film, but Patrick was an infected, not a true hybrid, which explained some of that. Or the creators of the second film didn't give a care.
** In fact, Patrick also has bipedal [[OneWingedAngel true form]] (male version of Sil's) and [[http://cfile231.uf.daum.net/image/23643F4951E2500C2415B7 appeared in mating scene with Eve]].

** Sexual dimorphism. The male and female forms of the Sil species may just have more drastic gender differences than those of most Earth animals.

* The insane asylum guy's theories about the aliens in ''Species II'' are ridiculous. First off, he says he can tell the [[TheVirus Mars virus]] fossils in the meteorite came from another galaxy because it has a form of carbon in it that can only be found there ([[DidNotDoTheResearch and he gives a completely inaccurate figure for the distances to the Magellanic Clouds while he's at it, assuming that's what he means by "the Magellanic galaxy"]]). But that kind of carbon would only be present in the initial seed viruses the aliens dropped on Mars, all the rest of the viruses would be made entirely from Martian carbon. So either we got phenomenally lucky and the meteorite ''just happened'' to contain a little of the seed virus (which would be an extremely improbable coincidence), or the aliens would have had to deluge Mars in such ridiculous quantities of that black snotty stuff it would pretty much defeat the whole idea of using a biological weapon (you can do a lot of damage with small initial quantities). Also, since the aliens would have to have a presence within a few dozen light years of Earth to pick up our radio signals it means they'd have to be an incredibly vast and powerful civilization. If guys like that wanted to wipe us out they'd have much more effective ways of doing so than sending us a blueprint for a bioweapon and hoping we're stupid enough to create it ''and'' allow it to escape into the environment. That kind of thing only makes sense as a poor man's weapon, used by a civilization that doesn't have the resources and/or technology for anything more effective. There's also the matter of why, if they wanted to kill us and they've been in our neighborhood for billions of years, they just sat around all that time until we developed a technological civilization instead of pre-emptively ruining Earth's environment before sapience could evolve. And then there's how unlikely it would be that a virus designed to infect billions of years dead Martians could infect a human, drastically alter his biology, and produce something other than a corpse. Well, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation the guy WAS]] [[UnreliableNarrator in an insane asylum]] and even if he was sane and intelligent he was [[SubvertedTrope probably speculating about stuff]] [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist outside his field]] (and no, there's [[TakeThat no way I think the writers of that script were clever enough]] [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation to do that deliberately]]).

* FridgeLogic from the Main Page:
** Why does Sil need a cocoon? Cocoons are used by animals that dramatically change their shape between the juvenile and adult form, like butterflies. Something Sill doesn't do. Not to mention that she's a shapeshifter anyway; she rearranges her body ''without'' needing a cocoon multiple times in the movie.
** In ''Species II'' {{The Virus}} infects two astronauts on a Mars mission. [[spoiler: One of them is female]]. The [[spoiler: male]] infected astronaut immediately develops the hots for Sil's clone Eve, with whom he is in telepathic contact, and wants to knock her up and make [[FetusTerrible some kind of special evil baby that only results when two aliens mate]]. [[spoiler: But he never shows any such interest in the female astronaut.]] Instead he develops the hots for the one that's locked in a ([[CardboardPrison not so]]) secure government facility. [[PlotHole No explanation is ever given or suggested]].
** Also in ''Species II'' [[spoiler: the female astronauts dies after giving birth]]. When in the first film [[spoiler: Sil gives birth and lives]]. [[PlotHole No explanation is ever given or suggested as well]].
*** remember that Sil had rapid regeneration powers, hence why she could survive the birth, while the female astronaut didn't. Though, this brings another Fridge Logic of why the female astronaut didn't turn into a hybrid while Patrick did...

** Because she's a HalfHumanHybrid. They're a side-product of her human genome. Her alien form isn't what the aliens "really" look like, even if those who sent the data used their own DNA, but a combination of the human and alien traits.

** Considering just the first movie, you can cast the aliens as [[WellIntentionedExtremist trying to be helpful]]("randomly following advice you get from [[strike:the internet]][[RecycledINSPACE space]] is a [[{{Understatement}} Bad Idea]]"), if you assume they value individual life less than the average American(of course, they could have just as easily been {{troll}}ing). As for the NoBiochemicalBarriers thing, convergent evolution gives the writers a {{handwave}}.

* How did the aliens who sent us the message even ''know'' the human genome? It's implied the message was a reply to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message Arecibo message]], but the Arecibo message didn't contain the human genome, just the chemical formula for the DNA base pairs (the Human Genome Project wasn't even finished at the time the message was sent). In fairness, the second movie demonstrates that they've visited our solar system in the past so they might have probed Earth in historical or prehistoric times.

** Something tells me you need to watch Alien 3.

** She can onloy shift between two forms, and for all we her internal organs are radicly different as a child.

* Why does Sil's alien form have nipples? Her young seems to be able to feed itself from birth, so it doesn't make a lot of sense for her to have them (aside from maintaining fake breasts as part of her human disguise).