The Ending [Spoilers]
so if eron was under control by STEM, why didn't he implant STEM with full control over grey right away? why did he try to shut STEM down remotely? etc.
shareYeah. I found that a bit odd too. Perhaps there genuinely was some sort of 'input guards' that stopped STEM from being in full control straight away so he had to go through with the hacker doing it's thing. Though if STEM is some super smart AI, surely it could come up with a way to write a program or something to indirectly interface with it to remove the safeguards.
There must have been some actual safeguards otherwise STEM would have been in control right away. Eron must have known what was going to happen so why bother actually trying to shut STEM down. I can understand Eron telling Gey that he's going to try and shut down STEM but then not bothering. To try and maintain some illusion of control.
Another thing I noticed the story left out was that the first guy grey kills was also appeared to have a stem chip. He says "why are you making me do this" as if he was talking to the voice in his head. This sort of tipped me off that there were more stem recipients early on but this guy's stem is never mentioned again. Like perhaps the script was changed but this line for some reason was still intact. Why are the stem chips fighting with each other. For example why did eron stem put another stem in grey then have the two cooperate with each other to kill eron which would have killed the eron stem as well. The film almost implies that eron literally removed his own stem and moved it over to grey which makes no sense to me as why would eron after regaining control use follow through with moving the the singular stem chip to grey. From this I concluded that they both had stem chips at that point. So either there was one stem chip being moved to grey which didn't make sense or their were two stem chips that coorperated in an attempt to kill one of themselves which also doesn't make sense.
It feels like there were just a few chaotic rewrites to the script which lead to thise WTF endings that are not consistent with the previous events.
I was under the impression that Grey's stem was the latest gen (version) and the ones in the others were earlier versions on a different system -- hence Grey's stem was trying to kill them all off.
As for the safeguards that doesn't make sense unless stem was only assisting Erin initially but took over the company some time later - the story may have taken place over months. Its a stretch.
I'm not sure what motivated stem to want to prevent others of his kind. Its like he felt threatened by his own nature and coulden't tolerate the developement of other stems. After rewatching that scene I realized that there was no second stem yet. The plot has a lot of wtf moments in it. I'm convinced the script went through a few rewrites like prometheus did. To many subplots were started but went nowhere.
shareStem even said that later on, he was killing off the other enhanced humans.
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