ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
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~ A Question for the Members: Can we really assume that the Ymir was not an intelligent, sentient being?

~ My Theory: Actually, we can't. Consider the facts.

The Ymir hatched out of a gelatinous egg and began growing at an accelerated rate because of Earth's atmosphere.





It's growth rate was said to be abnormal according to the character played by William Hopper, based on what the scientists told him.

By the end of the film the Ymir is only about eight days old — despite being big enough to battle an angry bull elephant and kill it!





Did this eight-day old creature do this (and all the other things we saw) just by animal instinct? Or did it have a keen intellect — despite being a veritable newborn)!

I think it was the Ymir's intelligence which allowed it to —

~ break out of a steel cage,

~ defend itself from an attacking dog (but refrain from killing it),

~ react with both anger and a certain restraint to a man who stabbed it in the back with a pitchfork,

~ realize it was surrounded at the Colosseum and choose to
seek out high ground as the best way to defend itself from its attackers!





I submit that the Ymir's behavior demonstrates evidence of rational thinking, rather than mere animal behavior.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)