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I was also wondering why, when Capa found the mutant intruder who slashes at him with a scalpal, he didn't alert the others about his presence.
He just ran and let solar-man go on a slasher-movie rampage.
Was there not a comm system set up on this ship? Shouldn't he have been able to call out a general intruder alert to the others?

I also didn't get why Searl just went off to flame himself right after opening the airlock for the others.
Didn't they say there was a lifetime supply of food and air from the garden? The mutant survived for 7 years there.
They just didn't have fuel.
I mean he didn't even have time to get bored to death here, he just went straight to the sun-room and flamed himself on purpose.

The ending felt like a cop-out to me but I'm hoping the DVD might have an alternate ending of some kind.
Maybe even some deleted scenes explaining some of the inconsistancies I've mentioned.

I was also wondering why, when Capa found the mutant intruder who slashes at him with a scalpal, he didn't alert the others about his presence.
He just ran and let solar-man go on a slasher-movie rampage.
Was there not a comm system set up on this ship? Shouldn't he have been able to call out a general intruder alert to the others?

I also didn't get why Searl just went off to flame himself right after opening the airlock for the others.
Didn't they say there was a lifetime supply of food and air from the garden? The mutant survived for 7 years there.
They just didn't have fuel.
I mean he didn't even have time to get bored to death here, he just went straight to the sun-room and flamed himself on purpose.

The ending felt like a cop-out to me but I'm hoping the DVD might have an alternate ending of some kind.
Maybe even some deleted scenes explaining some of the inconsistancies I've mentioned.

1 - Capa couldn't alert the others until he obtained some sort of communication device. The crew was outfitted with dog tags that had a small head-set/microphone attached to them. You see these in use a few times throughout the film. When Capa is attacked, the scalpel slices the lanyard around Capa's neck and the thing hits the floor. He is cut off from contacting the rest of the crew until Mace attempts to contact him in the airlock using the hard-wired comm-set in the space suit. No flaw there.

An aside about the "slasher movie rampage." Although the sequence is lit and shot very much like a slasher film, there is really no rampage to speak of. He kills exactly one crew member. He cuts Capa when he is discovered, kills Corazon in the oxygen garden, unloads the mainframe from the coolant, and then attempts to go after Cassie when she stumbles upon his location, but she escapes. Over the top? Maybe a little, but Boyle pulled it off, sort of like Raimi pulling off an Evil Dead chain-saw sequence in Spiderman II.

RE: Searle (love the name with SEAR in it) - Why did he immolate himself? Remember the scene where Kaneda is stuck on the shield, with a wave of fire coming at him.

"Kaneda...what do you see??? What do you see???" - Searle

Searle slowly becomes obsessed with the observation room and being enveloped in the light as the film progresses. He explains the allure at the beginning of the film, and you see clues to his growing addiction with chapped lips and peeling skin appearing as the story goes along. I Searle represents some of the deeper philosophy in the film, which is also discussed by Pinbacker when Capa discovers him.

"There will come a moment in time, when there will be only one man, one man, alone with God. Am I that man?"

Searle wanted to see God. He wanted to see beyond. Also, he couldn't have stayed on the Icarus 1 and survived...

"We have had a major event. We are floating free from Icarus one, I repeat, we are floating free. The airlock has been totally destroyed. Wait...****, You have a hull breach, you are venting atmosphere!"

The Icarus 1 was slowly venting, and would have become inhabitable after a few hours. Otherwise the decision about who got the last suit wouldn't have mattered, really. No flaw there. I love this chain of events, and the underlying development in the character of Searle. Great stuff.

On your last point, about the ending. I absolutely love this ending. Ambiguous, inspiring, and haunting. A wonderful show of restraint. Going beyond...touching God...

1 - Capa couldn't alert the others until he obtained some sort of communication device. The crew was outfitted with dog tags that had a small head-set/microphone attached to them. You see these in use a few times throughout the film. When Capa is attacked, the scalpel slices the lanyard around Capa's neck and the thing hits the floor. He is cut off from contacting the rest of the crew until Mace attempts to contact him in the airlock using the hard-wired comm-set in the space suit. No flaw there.

An aside about the "slasher movie rampage." Although the sequence is lit and shot very much like a slasher film, there is really no rampage to speak of. He kills exactly one crew member. He cuts Capa when he is discovered, kills Corazon in the oxygen garden, unloads the mainframe from the coolant, and then attempts to go after Cassie when she stumbles upon his location, but she escapes. Over the top? Maybe a little, but Boyle pulled it off, sort of like Raimi pulling off an Evil Dead chain-saw sequence in Spiderman II.

RE: Searle (love the name with SEAR in it) - Why did he immolate himself? Remember the scene where Kaneda is stuck on the shield, with a wave of fire coming at him.

"Kaneda...what do you see??? What do you see???" - Searle

Searle slowly becomes obsessed with the observation room and being enveloped in the light as the film progresses. He explains the allure at the beginning of the film, and you see clues to his growing addiction with chapped lips and peeling skin appearing as the story goes along. I Searle represents some of the deeper philosophy in the film, which is also discussed by Pinbacker when Capa discovers him.

"There will come a moment in time, when there will be only one man, one man, alone with God. Am I that man?"

Searle wanted to see God. He wanted to see beyond. Also, he couldn't have stayed on the Icarus 1 and survived...

"We have had a major event. We are floating free from Icarus one, I repeat, we are floating free. The airlock has been totally destroyed. Wait...****, You have a hull breach, you are venting atmosphere!"

The Icarus 1 was slowly venting, and would have become inhabitable after a few hours. Otherwise the decision about who got the last suit wouldn't have mattered, really. No flaw there. I love this chain of events, and the underlying development in the character of Searle. Great stuff.

On your last point, about the ending. I absolutely love this ending. Ambiguous, inspiring, and haunting. A wonderful show of restraint. Going beyond...touching God...