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From what I've read, Preacher survives in the original ending, he just doesn't kill the shark in it.


* BrokenBase: Depending on who you ask, Susan stripping down to use her rubber wetsuit to avoid electrocution is either tasteless gratuitous {{Fanservice}}, enjoyable gratuitous {{Fanservice}}, or a way to show the character being resourceful and vulnerable.



** Music/LLCoolJ's character Preacher spends most of the movie alone, separated from the main cast, who never even seem to remember he's there. This makes one wonder if he was even originally intended to be in the movie, but eventually he turns out to be a lot more intelligent and even more likable than the other characters. Apparently he was popular enough that the movie was rewritten to have him survive at the end.

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** Music/LLCoolJ's character Preacher spends most of the movie alone, separated from the main cast, who never even seem to remember he's there. This makes one wonder if he was even originally intended to be in the movie, but eventually he turns out to be a lot more intelligent and even more likable than the other characters. Apparently he was popular enough that the movie was rewritten to have give him survive at a bigger role in the end.climax.

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* FanPreferredCutContent: ''Deep Blue Sea'' provides a less universal example than most but still has some passionate advocates. Most fans still enjoy the theatrical ending, where Susan, the scientist who creates the sharks for Alzheimer's research, [[spoiler:is dramatically killed while using herself as bait]]. However, there is a steadily growing minority that feels that an alternate ending where [[spoiler:she survives]] should have been used instead of [[MultipleEndings or along with]] the theatrical one. One factor bending this is the lack of real-world progress in treating Alzheimers since the film's release, loaning more sympathy to both Susan's motives and [[spoiler:fans' desires to see a character who could potentially cure the disease survive.]]

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** Several deleted scenes further develop Jim and Janice's relationship and have Susan show a warmer side during her birthday party. Many fans wish they'd remained in the movie for the sake of better CharacterDevelopment.
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''Deep Blue Sea'' provides a less universal example than most but still has some passionate advocates. Most fans still enjoy the theatrical ending, where Susan, the scientist who creates the sharks for Alzheimer's research, [[spoiler:is dramatically killed while using herself as bait]]. However, there is a steadily growing minority that feels that an alternate ending where [[spoiler:she survives]] should have been used instead of [[MultipleEndings or along with]] the theatrical one. One factor bending this is the lack of real-world progress in treating Alzheimers since the film's release, loaning more sympathy to both Susan's motives and [[spoiler:fans' desires to see a character who could potentially cure the disease survive.]]
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* FanPreferredCutContent: ''Deep Blue Sea'' provides a less universal example than most but still has some passionate advocates. Most fans still enjoy the theatrical ending, where Susan, the scientist who creates the sharks for Alzheimer's research, [[spoiler:is dramatically killed while using herself as bait]]. However, there is a steadily growing minority that feels that an alternate ending where [[spoiler:she survives]] should have been used instead of [[MultipleEndings or along with]] the theatrical one. One factor bending this is the lack of real-world progress in treating Alzheimers since the film's release, loaning more sympathy to both Susan's motives and [[spoiler:fans' desires to see a character who could potentially cure the disease survive.]]

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* FirstInstallmentWins: There are two DirectToVideo sequels. The first film is the one that's most remembered.



* MemeticMutation: Pick any Creator/SamuelLJackson [[FountainOfMemes memes out there]]. Good. Now, [[spoiler:pretend that the shark does just those memes with Sam as the victim this time.]] One of the most common ones is...

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Pick any Creator/SamuelLJackson [[FountainOfMemes memes out there]]. Good. Now, [[spoiler:pretend that the shark does just those memes with Sam as the victim this time.]] One of the most common ones is...



** "Black history - in 1999, James Todd Smith aka LL Cool J, became the first black man in horror history to survive the whole movie..."[[note]]Not entirely correct. BlackDudeDiesFirst is in actuality more of an action movie trope rather than horror.[[/note]]



* TakeThatScrappy: [[spoiler:Susan's death]].

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* TakeThatScrappy: [[spoiler:Susan's death]].death was intended to be this after test audiences shouted "die bitch!" during the original cut where she survived]].


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* WinBackTheCrowd: A lot of critics praised this for being a better film from Renny Harlin after the failures of ''Film/CutthroatIsland'' and ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight''.
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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: A review of the film said that it works because everyone [[HamAndCheese isn't taking it seriously]], making it quite fun. The exception is Creator/SaffronBurrows, who "behaves as it was an art film" (and unlike most of the examples here, gives a ''bad'' performance).

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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: A review of the film said that it works because everyone [[HamAndCheese isn't taking it seriously]], making it quite fun. The exception is Creator/SaffronBurrows, who "behaves as it was an art film" (and unlike most of the examples here, gives a ''bad'' performance).with mixed results).

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Erasing both Nam examples for not applying. For the first one it seems likely the food chain comment is referring to the specific situation that group is in at the moment. For the second (as mentioned on either the character page or headscratchers) it isn't said that Susan didn't try to lie to her father, just that she had to tell him multiple times. Also adding a spoiler under Unintentionally Sympathetic.


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** "You just knocked us down to the bottom of the food chain!", said in response to the idea that sharks now have enhanced intelligence. Putting aside that we still possess abilities that they lack (tool-making etc), the fact remains that humans don't even ''form'' part of the aquatic food chain. And even if there's some kind of united food chain, are we really below ''rabbits''?
** Susan describing how she had to keep telling her Alzheimers-afflicted father over and over again that his wife was dead, and watch him take the news as totally fresh every time. You just have to wonder if it ever once occurred to her to just ''lie'' about it.



* UnintentionallySympathetic: The AllForNothing ending was clearly intended to show how 'bad' Susan was for daring to successfully engineer a way to cure Alzheimer's Disease. What is really galling is that Susan is 100% correct - they could wipe out degenerative brain disease with this research. Alzheimer's is ultimately fatal, and affects an estimated 5million people ''in the US alone''. But no, apparently we should cheer the death of the scientist that would have saved MILLIONS.

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* UnintentionallySympathetic: The AllForNothing ending was clearly intended to show how 'bad' Susan was for daring to successfully engineer a way to cure Alzheimer's Disease. What is really galling is that Susan is 100% correct - they could wipe out degenerative brain disease with this research. Alzheimer's is ultimately fatal, and affects an estimated 5million people ''in the US alone''. But no, apparently we should cheer the [[spoiler:the death of the scientist that would have saved MILLIONS.]]

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Music/LLCoolJ's character Preacher spends most of the movie alone, separated from the main cast, who never even seem to remember he's there. This makes one wonder if he was even originally intended to be in the movie, but eventually he turns out to be a lot more intelligent and even more likable than the other characters. Apparently he was popular enough that the movie was rewritten to have him survive at the end.
* FanficFuel: It's interesting to wonder what would have happened if [[spoiler: Franklin]] hadn't been killed. Would he have been able to save more of the others? Would he have fought one of the sharks himself?

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Music/LLCoolJ's character Preacher spends most of the movie alone, separated from the main cast, who never even seem to remember he's there. This makes one wonder if he was even originally intended to be in the movie, but eventually he turns out to be a lot more intelligent and even more likable than the other characters. Apparently he was popular enough that the movie was rewritten to have him survive at the end.
** Despite being TheChick and having less screen time than almost everyone else, Janice is fairly well-liked. Her sunny and skillful delivery of the film's exposition and her role as the only one of the three scientists who respects the laws against genetic engineering both make her endearing.
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It's interesting to wonder what would have happened if [[spoiler: Franklin]] hadn't been killed. Would he have been able to save more of the others? Would he have fought one of the sharks himself?
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** And what if the sharks ''had'' escaped? Given that they're essentially a NonMaliciousMonster simply trying to escape back to their natural habitat, what would a smart shark even ''do''? Would their intelligence eventually allow them to become genuinely ''evil''?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: While Susan gets most of the blame for genetically modifying the sharks, Whitlock was also involved, and she never outright says that it was her idea. Whitlock's haughty attitude towards their work doesn't exactly rule out the idea that he may have been behind the enhancements.
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Tweaking after re-watching the movie.


* BaseBreakingCharacter: '''Susan!''' For a very long time, she was listed as TheScrappy on this page due to being primarily responsible for the sharks' rampage and trying to justify the first few deaths as worth the risk. Test audiences hated her so much they shouted "Die, bitch!" during the screenings [[spoiler: and the studio changed the ending to accommodate them.]] However, over the years, more fans have come to sympathize with Susan due to her sympathetic motive of finding a cure for Alzheimer's (and her story about what the disease did to her father), how easy it was to believe that the first shark escaping was just a fluke, her competence against the second shark, and how she is put through a lot by having to strip down while fighting the second shark and losing [[spoiler: the research she'd worked so hard for.]] Most, although not all, of the people in the second camp wish that [[spoiler: Susan had lived, and hope that a future home media release will include the alternate ending where she ''does'' live.]]

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* BaseBreakingCharacter: '''Susan!''' For a very long time, she was listed as TheScrappy on this page due to being primarily responsible for the sharks' rampage and hesitantly trying to justify the first few deaths as worth the risk. Test risk. Test audiences hated her so much they shouted "Die, bitch!" during the screenings [[spoiler: and the studio changed the ending to accommodate them.]] However, over the years, more many fans have come to sympathize with Susan due to her sympathetic motive of finding a cure for Alzheimer's (and her story about what the disease did to her father), how easy it was to believe that the first shark escaping was just a fluke, her competence against the second shark, and how she is put through a lot by having to strip down while fighting the second shark and losing [[spoiler: the research she'd worked so hard for.]] Most, although not all, of the people in the second camp wish that [[spoiler: Susan had lived, and hope that a future home media release will include the alternate ending where she ''does'' live.]]
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* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: The most famous spoiler from this movie - [[spoiler: Samuel L. Jackson getting eaten alive halfway through a RousingSpeech]] - isn't even that relevant to the plot, or the climax.
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* JerkassWoobie: Susan has watched Alzheimer's ravage her father, is forced to destroy the medical research she's devoted her life to, and has a couple of extremely terrifying run-ins with the sharks, [[spoiler: the last of which she doesn't escape.]] However, she loses some sympathy for disregarding safety protocols while experimenting on the sharks (making her partially responsible for their rampage) and taking a while to show remorse.
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* OneSceneWonder: The four teenagers Carter saves from an escaped shark do a good job showing fear during the attack and come across as a bit more endearing than the average horror movie MakeOutKids.
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* BaseBreakingCharacter: '''Susan!''' For a very long time, she was listed as TheScrappy on this page due to being primarily responsible for the sharks' rampage and trying to justify the first few deaths as worth the risk. Test audiences hated her so much they shouted "Die bitch!" during the screenings [[spoiler: and the studio changed the ending to accommodate them.]] However, over the years, more fans have come to sympathize with Susan due to her sympathetic motive of finding a cure for Alzheimer's (and her story about what the disease did to her father), how easy it was to believe that the first shark escaping was just a fluke, her competence against the second shark, and how she is put through a lot by having to strip down while fighting the second shark and losing [[spoiler: the research she'd worked so hard for.]] Most, although not all, of the people in the second camp wish that [[spoiler: Susan had lived, and hope that a future home media release will include the alternate ending where she ''does'' live.]]

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* BaseBreakingCharacter: '''Susan!''' For a very long time, she was listed as TheScrappy on this page due to being primarily responsible for the sharks' rampage and trying to justify the first few deaths as worth the risk. Test audiences hated her so much they shouted "Die "Die, bitch!" during the screenings [[spoiler: and the studio changed the ending to accommodate them.]] However, over the years, more fans have come to sympathize with Susan due to her sympathetic motive of finding a cure for Alzheimer's (and her story about what the disease did to her father), how easy it was to believe that the first shark escaping was just a fluke, her competence against the second shark, and how she is put through a lot by having to strip down while fighting the second shark and losing [[spoiler: the research she'd worked so hard for.]] Most, although not all, of the people in the second camp wish that [[spoiler: Susan had lived, and hope that a future home media release will include the alternate ending where she ''does'' live.]]

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I'm adding Fanfic Fuel and making Susan a Base Breaking Character instead of The Scrappy, although I'm still mentioning the depth of her unpopularity for many fans.


* BaseBreakingCharacter: '''Susan!''' For a very long time, she was listed as TheScrappy on this page due to being primarily responsible for the sharks' rampage and trying to justify the first few deaths as worth the risk. Test audiences hated her so much they shouted "Die bitch!" during the screenings [[spoiler: and the studio changed the ending to accommodate them.]] However, over the years, more fans have come to sympathize with Susan due to her sympathetic motive of finding a cure for Alzheimer's (and her story about what the disease did to her father), how easy it was to believe that the first shark escaping was just a fluke, her competence against the second shark, and how she is put through a lot by having to strip down while fighting the second shark and losing [[spoiler: the research she'd worked so hard for.]] Most, although not all, of the people in the second camp wish that [[spoiler: Susan had lived, and hope that a future home media release will include the alternate ending where she ''does'' live.]]



* FanficFuel: It's interesting to wonder what would have happened if [[spoiler: Franklin]] hadn't been killed. Would he have been able to save more of the others? Would he have fought one of the sharks himself?



* TheScrappy: Susan. Test audiences hated her so much they were shouting "Die bitch!" during the screenings. Creator/SaffronBurrows' DullSurprise performance doesn't help, making the character come off like TheSociopath. [[spoiler:The studio went back and reshot the ending [[TakeThatScrappy just to kill her off]].]]
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* CriticalResearchFailure: The film makes a big deal about how unusual it is that the mutant sharks would eat the Tiger shark. This ignores that cannibalism is very normal for sharks, and it wasn't even the same breed as the mutated ones.
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Moving to that film's YMMV.


* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: While ''Deep Blue Sea 2'' is considered a failure by many, the second sequel, ''Deep Blue Sea 3'' managed to get better reviews and has better than usual low budget special effects work.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-a6UJMYTEU&feature=player_embedded Deepest! Bluest! My hat is like a shark's fin!]]"
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*AccidentalAesop: Like a lot of AttackOfTheKillerWhatever movies of its era, the film's stance seems to be that scientists are cold, aloof, unethical in their pursuit of progress, and shouldn't be tampering in God's domain. If not for the fact that [=McCallister=] takes ''all'' the blame and Franklin is absolved of all responsibility, it could easily have made a valid point about how profit-driven pharmaceutical companies drive research scientists to cut corners to get a product on the market faster under threat of having their funding cut off.

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* {{Narm}}: "You just knocked us down to the bottom of the food chain!", said in response to the idea that sharks now have enhanced intelligence. Putting aside that we still possess abilities that they lack (tool-making etc), the fact remains that humans don't even ''form'' part of the aquatic food chain. And even if there's some kind of united food chain, are we really below ''rabbits''?

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"You just knocked us down to the bottom of the food chain!", said in response to the idea that sharks now have enhanced intelligence. Putting aside that we still possess abilities that they lack (tool-making etc), the fact remains that humans don't even ''form'' part of the aquatic food chain. And even if there's some kind of united food chain, are we really below ''rabbits''? ''rabbits''?
** Susan describing how she had to keep telling her Alzheimers-afflicted father over and over again that his wife was dead, and watch him take the news as totally fresh every time. You just have to wonder if it ever once occurred to her to just ''lie'' about it.
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-->'''[[spoiler:Shark]]''': (as it [[spoiler:eats Russel]]) [[Film/PulpFiction Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?]]

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-->'''[[spoiler:Shark]]''': (as it [[spoiler:eats Russel]]) Russel while interrupting his RousingSpeech]]) [[Film/PulpFiction Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?]]

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* MemeticMutation: Pick any Creator/SamuelLJackson [[FountainOfMemes memes out there]]. Good. Now, [[spoiler:pretend that the shark does just those memes with Sam as the victim this time.]]

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* MemeticMutation: Pick any Creator/SamuelLJackson [[FountainOfMemes memes out there]]. Good. Now, [[spoiler:pretend that the shark does just those memes with Sam as the victim this time.]]]] One of the most common ones is...
-->'''[[spoiler:Shark]]''': (as it [[spoiler:eats Russel]]) [[Film/PulpFiction Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?]]
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** Notably during the infamous scene of [[spoiler:the shark grabbing Samuel L. Jackson, as the shark itself looks too rubbery and the way it grabs him seems to defy all known physics.]] Even the VFX team at Creator/HammerheadProductions admit to it having flaws.

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** Notably during the infamous scene of [[spoiler:the shark grabbing Samuel L. Jackson, as the shark itself looks too rubbery and the way it grabs him seems to defy all known physics.]] Even the VFX team at Creator/HammerheadProductions Creator/HammerheadProduction admit to it having flaws.
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** Notably during the infamous scene of [[spoiler:the shark grabbing Samuel L. Jackson, as the shark itself looks too rubbery and the way it grabs him seems to defy all known physics.]] Even the VFX team at Creator/HammerheadPictures admit to it having flaws.

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** Notably during the infamous scene of [[spoiler:the shark grabbing Samuel L. Jackson, as the shark itself looks too rubbery and the way it grabs him seems to defy all known physics.]] Even the VFX team at Creator/HammerheadPictures Creator/HammerheadProductions admit to it having flaws.

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** Notably during the infamous scene of [[spoiler:the shark grabbing Samuel L. Jackson, as the shark itself looks too rubbery and the way it grabs him seems to defy all known physics.]] Even the VFX team at Creator/HammerheadPictures admit to it having flaws.
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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: While ''Deep Blue Sea 2'' is considered a failure by many, the second sequel, ''Deep Blue Sea 3'' managed to get better reviews and has better than usual low budget special effects work.

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* TheScrappy: Susan. Test audiences hated her so much they were shouting "Die bitch!" during the screenings. Creator/SaffronBurrows' DullSurprise performance doesn't help, making the character come off like TheSociopath. [[spoiler:The studio went back and reshot the ending just to kill her off.]]

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* TheScrappy: Susan. Test audiences hated her so much they were shouting "Die bitch!" during the screenings. Creator/SaffronBurrows' DullSurprise performance doesn't help, making the character come off like TheSociopath. [[spoiler:The studio went back and reshot the ending [[TakeThatScrappy just to kill her off.off]].]]


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* TakeThatScrappy: [[spoiler:Susan's death]].
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* TheScrappy: Susan. Test audiences hated her so much they were shouting "Die bitch!" during the screenings. Saffron Burrows' DullSurprise performance doesn't help, making the character come off like TheSociopath. [[spoiler:The studio went back and reshot the ending just to kill her off.]]

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* TheScrappy: Susan. Test audiences hated her so much they were shouting "Die bitch!" during the screenings. Saffron Burrows' Creator/SaffronBurrows' DullSurprise performance doesn't help, making the character come off like TheSociopath. [[spoiler:The studio went back and reshot the ending just to kill her off.]]



* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: A review of the film said that it works because everyone [[HamAndCheese isn't taking it seriously]], making it quite fun. The exception is Saffron Burrows, who "behaves as it was an art film" (and unlike most of the examples here, gives a ''bad'' performance).

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* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: A review of the film said that it works because everyone [[HamAndCheese isn't taking it seriously]], making it quite fun. The exception is Saffron Burrows, Creator/SaffronBurrows, who "behaves as it was an art film" (and unlike most of the examples here, gives a ''bad'' performance).
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The AllForNothing ending was clearly intended to show how 'bad' Susan was for daring to successfully engineer a way to cure Alzheimer's Disease. What is really galling is that Susan is 100% correct - they could wipe out degenerative brain disease with this research. Alzheimer's is ultimately fatal, and affects an estimated 5million people ''in the US alone''. But no, apparently we should cheer the death of the scientist that would have saved MILLIONS.

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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: UnintentionallySympathetic: The AllForNothing ending was clearly intended to show how 'bad' Susan was for daring to successfully engineer a way to cure Alzheimer's Disease. What is really galling is that Susan is 100% correct - they could wipe out degenerative brain disease with this research. Alzheimer's is ultimately fatal, and affects an estimated 5million people ''in the US alone''. But no, apparently we should cheer the death of the scientist that would have saved MILLIONS.

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