Jarrod
Why was he so special? When the alien takes his brain, Jarrod takes over the alien body. Why? How?
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I think it was insinuated that it had something to do with the fact he looked into the light a bunch of times which changed something in his brain, making him able to control an alien body I guess?
shareI think it´s symbolic. Someone on another post said it best: That a lot (but not all) of the LA residents seemed pretty "brain dead" and "selfish". Jarrod and his girlfriend, however, come from somewhere else (AKA not brain dead). They´re in love and completely focused on each other and their baby and each one of them would always protect the other two, no matter what.
shareYeah, that only works if you're saying that no one else in the whole world gave a *beep* about anyone else.
The powers don't make any sense. He gets power from the light, but that doesn't happen to anyone else, apparently in all the time these aliens have been doing this *beep*
The powers actually make a whole lot of sense to me. He was exposed to the lights far more than anyone else. And he always managed to get away before he was sucked in. Maybe that's how he managed to stay himself even after his brain was implanted into an alien - like he worked up a kind of "immunity".
I think the other theory could work, too (apart from a few glitches). I thought of it more as a criticism of today's self-centred society.
But that can't have been that rare. What about people who couldn't actually go into the light, such as those in wheelchairs?
shareThat wouldn´t really be an issue, as they would probably be sucked in. Having no way to escape, they would be easier targets. You saw how that old man was sucked in. He didn´t walk himself. Jarrod would have been sucked in, too, if someone hadn´t been around to pull him away.
shareJarrod had stared into the light multiple times during the course of the movie, and you actually saw proof on his body that he had undergone a form of 'transformation'.
His body had somehow adapted and adjust itself to whatever method the aliens had for mind control.
"You have offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin Temple..."
I agree. His brain was probably immune by the time it was implanted.
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