ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

Island of Lost Souls (1932)
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Let's Create a Sequel!

~ A Question for the Members: Would all the "manimal" slowly revert to their original or near-original forms? Or would they retain their altered conditions and learn to deal with their ungodly physicality?

~ Here's what I came up with.: The Wikipedia summary of H.G. Wells' novel is very different from the movie. The main character live the island for months with the "Beast Folk", and during that time they do in fact slowly revert to some degree.

The 1898 novel states that the animals are changed by "vivisection" — which wouldn't seem to explain how animals could be changed in so drastic a manner, especially the raising of their intelligence.]


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However, here in the 21st century we know that the story is suggesting genetic modification, not just some kind of "plastic surgery" on animals to make them look human.

So, we should grant Wells some leeway and accept the results he describes as being accomplished by scientific methods Wells didn't try to explain to his readers, even if he knew about the research in that area himself.







Having said that, if the Beast Folk were created by advanced gene slicing (and some method of accelerating the change in the subjects), they might not actually revert to the animal state as time goes by.

In fact, the final transformation in some of the subjects might take several more years! If that were true, the island might end up with a group of very human-looking Beast Folk who retain very few characteristics of their original form.

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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[tmlindsey]

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"Have you never wondered what it would be like to walk between the ticks and tocks of Time?"

[Bud Brewster]

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Tim, your ideas are terrific. They'd make an awesome sequel to this classic!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Pow]

Your idea would make for a splendid movie, tmlindsey.