#gertspeak

ALSO i thought. when aliss said she killed her friend but only because her friend was going to kill her, and that she'd never even shot a gun before, and then it's revealed that when you kill the host the creature goes behind you instead, i was like aha! something about this doesn't add up! because if the best friend is the only one she's killed, then she must have had the creature behind her at the time, in which case--why did she attack aliss in the first place? half the deaths were from being behind the creature, and the other half were laser fire because of the paranoia that someone had the creature behind them. people killed each other to "get rid of it". so if the creature was behind you, why would you try to kill someone with your bare hands? why are you attacking someone if it's behind you? if she thought aliss had the creature behind HER (and she also didn't have her gun) her attacking aliss make sense, but otherwise...? so either aliss had it behind her already (hypothetically meaning she had already killed someone) or. why did her friend attack her? general paranoia is possible, but it feels funny, no?

aliss also knew something was behind her, and the way she talked about it feels to me like it had already killed people (it is possible she just knew it was behind her bc she'd already seen what had happened, but the whole "there's always something behind me" just feels. hmm) so like. what i'm saying is it just doesn't quite add up.

either she did kill someone else, who had it behind them, and the best friend tried to kill her because of it, in which case she isn't quite as innocent as portrayed (i don't necessarily think that makes her bad, the whole point is that this is what the creature does to people and i'm not judging aliss here) or like. something else is wrong here. right? like idk if i'm putting this to words right or maybe i'm just missing something obvious but to me it just felt off.

one possibility thinking is maybe there's more than one (or it can be in more than one place/behind more than one person at once, though in either case not sure why they didn't mess with them using this if that was the case, unless they were planning for stealth for this exact reason?). not sure exactly how that would work, but it would, albeit confusingly, fill the hole of why aliss's friend would have seen something behind her if she had it behind her--although it doesn't explain how it was behind aliss in the first place if it only transfers when you kill someone, meaning either aliss did kill someone (everyone died of either CreatureKillsThemItis or laser fire, and she explicitly said she'd never fired a gun before killing her best friend, and i assumed her best friend was the penultimate death considering she was literally right there, although it's possible she wasn't--but she also explicitly says "She tried to kill me with her bare hands", not with a gun? feels really specific considering they seemed to imply that everyone either died via CreatureKillsThemItis with the broken bones or laser fire) or that the creature doesn't ONLY transfer hosts when you kill, since it is a game player--meaning that isn't a hard-and-fast-rule but literally just it messing with them, not something it feels compelled to do consistently.

and if that's so, then it's weird shaya's trick worked in the place--i already thought it was a bit odd that she didn't have to actually kill belinda but... almost kill her? or the bullet goes through her into the midnight creature? i was kind of unclear on that, but if it's a compulsion--the creature has to jump to a new host when their host dies--that kinda makes sense, abandoning ship from a dying host to make sure there's still someone to hide behind and play games with, but if not, i guess it's still part of the game??

AND LIKE. if there is more than one, it explains why belinda felt sure there was something behind her and it "visibly" transferred to shaya, but there is still potentially something behind mo back on the ship (there's something on your back--cmon, we were all thinking it the whole episode, right?). it could even be there's more than two--the doctor successfully "killed" one, another got thrown in the well, and another rode out. this actually even fits with how everyone's been dead for a while, and they all went mad so quickly--if there wasn't just one hot potato of death being passed from person to person, but a more widespread like. it happening all over all at once rather than one guy at a time. not that that couldn't have worked, especially in crowded areas, we saw how fast it devolved with seemingly only one person "contaminated" as it was, and with only thirty something people that's definitely still possible, but. idk! idk