Cuz REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

@Altaire. said:

Cuz REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

What?

@Renovatio said:

@Altaire. said:

Cuz REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

What?

cuz wamen

@Altaire. said:

Cuz REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Ahhhhh, of course. I can hear the screeching now... (by the way, has Oceans 8 bombed yet?)

@MongoLloyd said:

Maybe I missed something, but what was the point of the all female team?

Because it's 2018, easy.

@MongoLloyd said:

@poit57 said:

@MongoLloyd said:

Maybe I missed something, but what was the point of the all female team?

I'm pretty sure Ventress explained it in the movie. The previous teams have pretty much been made up of all soldiers, and this time they are sending a science team. She's leading because she's been there so long that she wants to see it first hand, plus she's dying of cancer, so she doesn't care that she probably won't return.

It's probable, though I don't think it was explicitly stated, that the teams of soldiers were all male. With the exception of Lena who volunteered at the last minute, the rest of the women have been working on the base for a while. Within the movie's narrative, I don't think that they were chosen for this mission because they were women, but the scientists available at the base just happened to be women. The assembly of the team was also likely voluntary. Sheppard explained to Lena how each of them had suffered loss of some sort before they came to work at the military base.

None of that explains anything. Who cares if each of them "suffered loss"? What's that got to do with anything? And what are the odds "the scientists available at the base just happened to be women?" SIX women!

The point was to change to challenge the expectation for a mixed or all-male presence, then to say that this is one expedition out of several attempted expeditions. The time frame illustrates that several teams went out there in search of Shane. It was random that they were all-female. The central theme of both the book and the movie is replication in cancer and evolution, which has no motive; even though our first instinct as individuals is to assign a motive.