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1: Julia panics, flinches, and fires the gun forward.
2: The figure’s body briefly bulges out the back as the bullet pierces their torso.
3: The body explodes into black blood and gore, splattering against the wall behind it.
4: Julia, gun pointed down to the floor now, stares in shock and horror.
5: In the observation room, Jackson has stood up in shock while staring at the screen, hands on the table before him.
6: Julia stands over the destroyed body. The remnants are those of a grey-purple, bug-like alien, mutated with long, black, tentacle-like growths.
Wow!
I didn’t expect for Julia to get a second wind! đ
Yeah…probably trying to knock out someone, who thinks you’re a threat, + a monster in a yellow suit, is a [bad] idea!
;D đ
Bug survived the Old West but lost this shootout.
ââŚmutated with long, black, tentacle-like growths.â
Well, thatâs not good, but does go toward explaining how he lived this long.
I remember a Doctor Who episode, in which the Doctorâs companion at the time (Martha Jones) was holding a gun and aiming it at someone who had been taken over by an alien (or the alien disguised themselves as them? I donât remember).
The alien said something like, âYou wonât shoot me, youâre too scared.â
And I thought that was such a stupid thing to say, and I almost thought it was just bad writing, but then Martha said, âYeah, scared and holding a gun! Good combination, do you want to risk it?!â At which point the alien backed off.
It took me a while to realize that saying she looked too scared to shoot was a manipulation tactic, not an observation. As such, itâs actually a surprisingly well-written scene, especially given that I thought it was such a stupid thing to say on the surface.
And here we see the reason why itâs stupid. âYou wonât do it.â LOL sheâs mad enough and believes she just lost her girlfriend. Maybe that body âdoesnât matterâ, but saying it doesnât matter is also what youâd do if you were trying to manipulate them in the same way as the alien on Doctor Who.
Did he really expect her to start passing out, and not immediately freak out and shoot? Even if she didnât see him turn into an insect?
Uh.. Only ‘not’ was meant to be in bold. Turns out I put a ‘strong’ opening tag, but a ‘/em’ closing tag. I think I was using ’em’ at first, but changed it to strong, and forgot to change the second one. Whoops.
EEUUHH bug blood all over Everything!!
this would make sense of his longevity!! He must have Injected himself with a Bit of the Goo.
I think the DH episode is “Ark in Space”