goun%whoaru.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (07/22/85)
From: goun%whoaru.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Heisenberg may have slept here) I finally got to see "Cocoon" yesterday, and came away sorely puzzled at some obvious consequences of the ending. Can anyone out there enlighten me? ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** SPOILER ** The boat captain (whose name I've forgotten) is left floating in a rubber raft when the "Arcturians" and the old people are lifted up to the mothership in his boat. Presumably, he survives. A little later, though, we see the funeral scene, suggesting that the old folks are thought to have drowned. Wouldn't our hero return to civilization to find himself charged with thirty counts of manslaughter, at the very least? Should I put this down to another case of Hollywood playing fast and loose with reason, or am I missing something? -- Roger Goun ARPA: goun%cadlac.DEC@decwrl.ARPA UUCP: {allegra, decvax, ihnp4, ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-cadlac!goun USPS: Digital Equipment Corp., APO-1/B4 100 Minuteman Road; Andover, MA 01810-1098 Tel: (617) 689-1675