Line #7 WMG/Pandorum


1	[[WMG: The albino mutants are distant descendants of crew awakened centuries ago]]
2	Mutations that drastic can't have happened to an adult organism, [[HollywoodEvolution jumpstarted evolution]] or not. When the ''Elysium'' landed it automatically woke a couple hundred colonists and they couldn't escape the ship so they stayed and evolved into albino cannibals.
3	** Actually, I believe that's exactly what happened. According to Leland's story Gallo had been playing games with the colonists for centuries.
4	*** Actually, he wasn't playing them for centuries, cause he just stayed for a few years and then went back to cryo sleep. The albinos in the film are the descendants of cannibalistic colonists he twisted and sent to the cargo hold. The accelerator was meant to help humans adapt to Tanis' conditions; instead the crazy colonist's descendants adapted to a dark ship.
5	** That means they are not mutants since they are not a product of mutation.
6	*** Technically, all biological evolution is just genetic mutations (i.e. a change in the genome). It's a matter of whether the change is beneficial or not.
7	** Mutation didn't happened to adult organism, but to their children and grandchildren. Also, I think that hunters sleeping in a core room, probably for generations, might have some effects too - radiation anyone? Maybe too weak for noticeable effect during one lifetime, but after hundreds of years of exposure, who knows...
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9	[[WMG: The Tanis Colonists will evolve into fish-people]]
10	* Well, they did land in an ocean. Land wasn't too far away but still they're going to be doing a lot of swimming salvaging the ''Elysium''.
11	** Impossible. Evolution does not happen in an individuals life time but through over the course of successive generations. That why Gallo who was awake for decades never transformed.
12	*** And salvaging a ship that size could take centuries without heavy equipment.
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14	[[WMG: The whole film is the dream of Bower the night before the start of the mission.]]
15	* His girl friend did just dump him. This brought on a nightmare about how his mission could go. Think about it-the film seems to be completely based around how sucky life could get for Bower, and then he meets a beautiful girl and he saves her numerous times. Then they find out life is not all that bad and they get to live on a foreign planet for the rest of their life.
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17	[[WMG: Alternatively, the whole film is a hallucination of Bower's brought on by Pandorum]]
18	* Just like the last case, he began to believe the ship was 'cursed'. In his case, the curse was one of cannibalistic zombie goblins.
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20	[[WMG: Earth was never destroyed]]
21	* Gallo thought that it was as a result of Pandorum, and subsequently told everyone he released. He may even have killed his fellow crew mates specifically because he genuinely thought they were crazy for denying that Earth was gone. There is, after all, little that could cause Earth to literally vanish from a map, and Gallo seems to be the only witness to that. Even if some horrible catastrophe did befall Earth, it could still be Pandorum that let Gallo believe Earth was completely gone, which made him discount the possibility that the human race might have survived whatever it was and thus cemented his fall into nihilistic madness.
22	** What about the message? Leland had a record of it.
23	*** There must have been a serious disaster all right, and the old civilization may be gone, but it's hard to imagine how the entire planet could have ceased to exist.
24	*** Or the message was a deliberate hoax sent from Earth, because there'd been some kind of political upheaval back home, and the ones who'd seized power didn't want anyone from Tanis to ever try to return and overthrow their new empire. A similar message was disseminated to Earth's population at the same time, to say that the ''Elysium'' had been destroyed so no one living under the new regime would ever try to contact the colonists.
25	*** Or it was sent by another colony ship that departed ''after'' the ''Elysium'' did, and that realized they weren't going to make it. Hence, "you're the last of us" meant "you're the last colonists headed for Tanis", not "you're the last humans".
26	** Earth is never stated to have been destroyed in the first place. What happened to it is left a complete mystery. All we know is that it completely disappeared.
27	*** No, all we know (by the word of a lunatic) is that the sensors could no longer detect it.
28	*** Unreliable source, indeed! The key point is absolutely correct: Earth is never stated to be destroyed. The wording of the message is ambiguous, as is its source. Assuming it's coming from some kind of mission control on Earth, "you're the last of us" can have a ''lot'' of possible meanings, from the purely figurative (the nation/faction/organization is about to be absorbed) to the purely literal (all other humans will be dead shortly) to anywhere in between. It can also be an overstatement, that while humans as a species may not be done for, that there will be no further support or information from Earth because they simply won't be able to provide any for some reason (global resource depletion, CME, etc). At the range the ship is implied to be at, the inability to detect an object the size of Earth with what would have to be fairly small sensors is hardly conclusive.
29	** Maybe the actual message was "You're all that's ''best'' of us", only the well-meant message got garbled in the worst possible way in transmission. Sort of like how "One small step for a man" lost a word in transit.
30	** Possibly the strongest evidence that Earth really is gone, or at least has gone through some ''really'' drastic changes? [[spoiler: It's been nine centuries since ''Elysium'' set out for Tanis, the nearest habitable planet, and yet nobody ''else'' from Earth has settled there. (Assuming all of those 1213 humans came out of the cryopods, that is.)]]
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32	[[WMG: Shepard is the alternate universe counterpart of ''[[Franchise/MassEffect Mass Effect's]]'' Shepard]]
33	Elysium launched in 2174, and Shepard was born in 2154 in both universes. Elysium's Shepard had no team or resources to draw on, so it was all he could do to survive as long as he did.
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35	[[WMG: Both ''Eden'' and ''Elysium'' were deliberately sabotaged.]]
36	It's known that pandorum is exacerbated by psychological trauma. Both ''Eden'' and ''Elysium'' were undone when members of their flight crews went crazy from this disorder. If anti-space extremists who didn't want humanity to leave Earth could set up a fake transmission, they could send each ship a phony message suggesting Earth had been destroyed, putting enormous emotional stress on their flight crews and triggering pandorum as an explosive-free alternative to setting off a bomb on board. They also tampered with the computers on both ships while the vessels were under construction, inserting viral commands that were triggered by the "You're the last of us" transmission, blinding the ships' sensors to Earth's continued existence.
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38	[[WMG: This movie takes place in the same universe of ''Film/EventHorizon'']]
39	Courtesy of Webvideo/GoodBadFlicks, who theorizes that after the disastrous wormhole experiment of 2047, people have decided to abandon that idea and invest in the construction of space arks to allow humanity to reach out the farther corners of the universe instead.
40	* The events of Event Horizon directly led to the creation of ODS/pandorum. We see that pandorum causes hallucinations similar to what the crew sees in Event Horizon, and it's implied that the 'evil' inhabiting the Event Horizon is everywhere, not just confined to the gravity drive. It's possible that the Event Horizon was salvaged and melted down so the metal could be reused. In that case, ships like the Eden and the Elysium were made with remnants of the Event Horizon. This would mean that the pandorum experienced by their crews is actually a result of the evil still possessing the metal.
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42	[[WMG: None of the other Tanis survivors will believe a word of Bower's and Nadia's story.]]

Context WMG / Pandorum