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[desert9090]

[SPEC] Script?

[Uninvited]

It has been posted before. Most likely a fake.

[Euchre]

I'd like to know which thread this was posted to before. I'd like to put my full commentary on it there. I see some serious weaknesses in it.

[Anteros]

Honestly, at this point any "script" is as good as the next.

However, many of us have posted our opinion elsewhere of how "Slusho!"
has nothing to do with the core context of the film. It's just a JJ inhouse joke
or something.

This is why I would reject any so-called script featuring Slusho as a major,
ummm, ingredient.

Of course, I'm flying just as blind as everyone else here.

[Euchre]

OK, so I found the first reference to this supposed script here, but seeing as that thread is pretty well long dead and buried I'll just state what I see as glaringly wrong here.

Symbiosis and Parasitism are complete opposites. A parasite consumes from it's host at the detriment of it's host. A symbiont consumes from it's host or partner while contributing something beneficial back. Something can not truly be both, and if it apparently does both then the balance of it's impact is what determines it's classification.

The two supposed scripts disagree on their clarity and adherence to known science (upon which any credible science fiction monster depends) relative to geologic history. One speaks of Pangea, which is well into the era of complex multicellular organisms contrary to the person's assertions. The version here speaks of a single continent but doesn't name it, but says a cataclysmic event occurred that is implied to have destroyed it. The supercontinent landmass at the time was Rodinia, which broke up through much slower geological processes. At least in this more recent rendition they got the timing pretty much right for early simple multicellular organisms. Problem is these things were not possessed of a central nervous system and hardly plausible for having the intentions spoken of as important to this 'yin-yang' arrangement. Plausibility is pretty important to good science fiction.

Basically, I think someone took a few of the things found and speculated on in the Slusho site and based on either loosely recalled or poorly researched info cooked up this little 'script'. Can you imagine someone pitching this to a film company with even a half a clue about science fiction?

[Roy Jones]

I'm going to have to disagree on this argument.

If an organism (like the passive organism described in this script) makes humans happy, may cure cancer, etc., that organism is obviously working in a symbiotic relationship with humans. It may even be advertised as "no known (detrimental) side effects".

Of course, how are we supposed to know that one of those side effects would be to bring a giant beast to destroy New York? At that point, I'd consider it a parasite.

In fact, maybe the argument will be made (in this script at least) that the passive organism is part of the aggressive organism. The passive is disbursed from the aggressive to entice other organisms (aka human) into injesting it. Once injested, the passive organism acts like a beacon to call the aggressive one. It's kind of like marking your territory.

Finally, I don't think that this "script" was saying that the organisms had over developed central nervous systems and could think. It's nature. It's the food chain. One organism eating another beacuse it is weaker.

[Euchre]

The 'script' here speaks of each type of crude multicellular organism 'preferring' a fairly complex concept of survival tactic, effectively making a choice. Calculated choices like that based on more than raw stimuli would require some sort of central nervous system. Actively controlling other beings as a choice is also attributing a pattern of thought. The supposed author here is giving a lot of credit for rational thought to creatures even less complex than the average plankton.

Oh, and any company that thought it had such a potent beneficial substance as to be able to cure cancer would market it as a far more profitable pharmaceutical, not a cute little frozen drink.

The implausibility of the content of this script screams fake.

[saneman]

As it did when originally posted, this "script" bears a striking resemblance to that which drops from the southern end of a northbound bull.

[SLUSHO_ZOOM]

the only thing valid in this thread....

'dont flames..... bitch'

[Bruce]

Which meaning?

[IronJ146]

Maybe it's Engrish to add some validity to the "leak".

[Anteros]

[Im_RawnBurgundy]

I have seen this before