My part of the
B-Movie Beach Party Roundtable is now online.
http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/HumanoidsFromTheDeep/The Humanoids supposedly started off as coelacanths that ate the DNA-5 saturated salmon that escaped into the sea, mutating, evolving and changing over a short amount of time. I can buy that (for movie purposes of course). However, why would they evolve into a humanoid form? They’re freakin’ fish for crying out loud! What is it about their watery, undersea environment that would influence them to develop the body of a bipedal creature with lungs? How did natural selection choose those characteristics for survival when they are so ill suited for life under the sea? The movie makes that common assumption that humans are the top of the evolutionary ladder and that all less evolved species would naturally become more like us as time goes by. WRONG. We are what we are due to our own unique biology, our environment and our ability to learn and adapt. Another species would evolve a form that is best suited for them.
