disc@houxz.UUCP (S.BERRY) (05/14/84)
> As we all know the Space Nazi Lizards were left handed. Those humans > who were captured and converted (whatever that means), started using > their left hands as well. Please offer some justification for ALL of > the main characters using their RIGHT hands to fire weapons. Further, > Diana always fired first at the victims shoulder. Not the left but > invariably the RIGHT one! I did not see "V" the first time around, but I did see the "Final Fiasco" and read the novelization by A. C. Crispin. Nowhere did I see anything to indicate the ALIENS where left-handed--only those HUMANS who were "converted" were left-handed (and only because they were RIGHT-HANDED before the conversion). According to the book, during the conversion process, there was some sort of "right/left brain reversal" (Holy Corpus Callosum, Batman!) which apparantly got the poor victims to thinking backwards (or is that sideways?). The handedness switch was an incidental development; or at most one which merely indicated the completion of the process. It seems the writers of the screenplay are as bad at their neural science as their biology, astrophysics, ecology, behavioral science, immunology, etc., etc., ad infinitum. I don't blame Crispin for this; he just had the impossible job of making all these things believable--an unenviable position!! "There's no one in space....to hear you wretch" SJBerry