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[Woogy]

[SPEC] Marlena

[adriansd1986]

I would like to express my opinion on the popular belief that people are becoming 'infected' by the monster(s), and theories that Marlena, in particular, has an infection that is causing her to bleed from the nose and mouth.

Severe trauma to the gut or the chest can cause internal bleeding, which can be vomited/coughed up from the stomach or the lungs. For anyone who hasn't vomited before, or coughed up copious amounts of fluid, it can come up through the mouth and nose. The reason I'm telling you this is because even the worst bacterial and viral infections NEVER infect and cause disease within a few hours of contact. We're usually looking at 24-72 hours before the kick in and do some damage. Given that I believe that Abrams is a smart bloke, and that he would have taken these things into account, I'm not entirely convinced that we have an infection on our hands.

This is assuming, of course, that Abrams hasn't bent the rules of infection and made up a bacteria or a virus that does.

Another thing to take into consideration, is that some toxins can cause rupture of blood vessels and cause bleeding from every orifice, and this needn't take more than a few hours depending on a toxin's potency and the amount administered. It is possible that if there are 'smaller' monsters terrorising the city, they may be poisoning the citizens of N.Y.

All in all, Marlena Diamond is more likely to be suffering from trauma or the effects of some sort of toxin that has entered her system, rather than an infection.

[underwaterdonkey]

However, she does seem to be bleeding from the eyes as well in one of the publicity shots. I doubt trauma to the midriff would cause that.

[rers613]

I don't think the monster(s) are infecting the humans, I think the humans are doing it. I think in an effort to contain the monster, the military uses everything it can in its arsenal. I think they turn to biological weaponry to kill the monster. In an effort to save the rest of the world they decide to destroy or contain the area formely known as Central Park. Think about it. Since terrorism is on all our minds one of the things we have come to be terrified of is biological weapons getting loose or detonating in a city. This I think is why the military is there and why I think they are trying to cover it up. Just my 2 cents

[underwaterdonkey]

Definatly a possibility. I think it would make an interesting twist if it isn't the big scary monster who destroys NYC, but our own paranoia, fear and heavyhanded approach to terrorists monsters.

[jojo]

[casemyo]

Re: [SPEC] Marlena

[adriansd1986]

[Euchre]

Based on the style of hair and body build, wouldn't you say that the woman silhouetted in the one shot with the person in the biohazard suit trying to restrain her is Marlena?

That woman, if you watch closely, is basically exploding.

In the better quality recording of the trailer (where you can see the people with Marlena in the tunnel) you can actually hear sounds like the breaking bones and rupturing of her body. It would seem that the 'infection' could be a parasitic sort of thing, perhaps even larval. It would be pushing the bounds of reality to have a being that can gestate quite that fast, but it's not actually so far from possible as to be out of bounds for a sci-fi oriented movie like this. Considering how relatively debilitating this 'infection' seems to be in a short period of time, something growing really quickly and feeding on her from the inside makes some sense. Also makes for a cool exploding chick scene.

[Evil]

Marlena's veins bulging?

[MrToasty]

Saw that too - wasn't sure if it was really there or not. Looks cool!

[adriansd1986]

[rhesusmonkeyboy]

Invasive Waterbear Reproduction

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[terrapinbear]

 Re: Marlena's veins bulging?