Posted by Hunter [24.9.27.34 - c-24-9-27-34.client.comcast.net] on 17 January 2004 at 10.17.44 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Re: Did you? posted by Psycho on 15 January 2004 at 16.18.30 ZuluTime:

The things they used for the "Extreme Alternate Ending" were called "Storyboards".

As far as the first two alternate endings, they were about equal to the original release ending. There might've been some problems, just 'storywise' with the one character doubling back on herself, and becoming the same person she began as. Lack of character progression and all that.

But the extreme alternate...had problems. Big problems.

One drop of blood in the eye infects the guy almost literally instantly. Which means that, while the 'virus' is in the blood, it's also able to move through other cells. And it moves fast. Fucking fast. Theatrically fast.

And we're talking about an...agent...that ultimately effects behaviour. It's affecting the brain. Even if the thing that communicates it is in the blood, it's pretty much throughout the entire body. So no matter how much blood you transfuse, it's going to spread to the new blood by way of the other bodily cells.

But let's overlook that for a minute. Suppose the ONLY thing it touches is blood. How do you get all the blood out of InfectedGuyA without killing him? And when I say all, I mean all. There can't be so much as a drop in his capillaries. I think they went over this in the commentary/voiceover/readthrough thing. You'd have to drain the guy of all blood in his tissues, and then run bleach through his system, all before ever letting CleanGuyB's blood into him.

Even then, I don't see how it would work. Good idea; slightly more 'dramatic'. Nice way of looping back on the beginning, where it 'all started'. But holes big enough to sail ships through. They were smart to not go that route.