So, Cloverfield... I loved it! But I've spent the last two days puzzling about the unanswered questions. I am geek, and it is our way.

==LARGE SPOILERS, VERY DANGEROUS==

1) So did they kill it? What happened at the end -- did they drop a nuke? Hard to believe the camera would have survived that, but the opening tag "recovered from the area formerly known as Central Park" certainly implies that NYC is an uninhabited wasteland.

2) Where'd it come from? Four categories:
-------> Prehistoric, Godzilla-like beast roused from slumber
-------> Science experiment gone wrong
-------> Alien monstrosity
-------> Supernatural demon-thing

3) Why couldn't they kill it? Anything biological, no matter how massive, would have some sort of penetrable skin, so its ability to shrug off carpet-bombing implies some sort of quantum armor or mystical force-field. In other words, alien monstrosity or supernatural demon-thing.

4) Why are the lice so easy to kill? Seriously, you can kill one just by swinging a stick. Where's their quantum armor?

5) What are the lice? They don't seem to be larval monsters. Symbiotic, remora-like raiders for close-up combat?

6) What happens when you get bit? Miranda's eyes bleed, then she -- explodes? The obvious thing that audiences will fill in with their imaginations is an Alien-like explosion of a baby lice monster, but I wonder if there's something more to it than that.

7) Why did Beth's apartment building tip over like that? The monster appeared to emerge near Lower Manhattan and move north, and I can't believe that little tremor at the beginning would have toppled that structure.

8) So you can't kill the monster with bombs or bazookas -- but it can't fly, and it really doesn't move all that fast. Could you contain it? with a really deep trench, a really high wall, or a bunch of goopy glue?

9) Yes, it really sucks if you're a New Yorker in this situation. But because the monster doesn't move all that fast, and would be pretty easy to track, I wouldn't be too worried if I lived in, say, Indianapolis.

Dan
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