Species: The Awakening story
A beautiful young woman discovers that she is the outcome of an experiment to combine human and alien DNA. It is the fourth and final installment of the Species film series. It is not a sequel to the first three films, instead as a stand-alone film.
10 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human-alien hybrid | choice | The main novelty of the film is that Miranda and others are composite beings that resulted from the coupling of human and alien DNA. |
| coping with having to destroy one's own creation | major | Tom Hollander was forced to consider the possibility that he'd have to kill the beloved half-human, half-alien "niece" of his own creation Miranda when it became apparent that her existence may imperil humanity. |
| father and daughter | major | Tom Hollander looked upon Miranda, a human-alien hybrid of his own creation, as a daughter, and loved her dearly. |
| invasive life form from outer space | major | If Miranda, who was the result of an experiment to combine human DNA with parasitic alien DNA from outer space, reproduced, then her spawn might just wipe out every last human being on the planet Earth. |
| maker and monster | major | Tom Hollander created Miranda by combining human and alien DNA back when he was a college student, raised her as his niece, loved her as a father, and then was faced with the terrible prospect of having to kill her when it became apparent that she posed a threat to other people. |
| speculative genetic engineering | major | The story is premised on the idea that Tom Hollander had somehow spliced human and alien DNA to create his "niece" Miranda. Forbes Maguire had done the same thing to create his sex-partner Azura. Later, Forbes and Tom worked together to fix the imbalance in Miranda's DNA in an over the top experiment involving stem cells. |
| Ancient Greek mythology | minor | In her lecture, Miranda spoke of how Zeus punished men for having discovered fire by giving them women. |
| falling out of friendship | minor | Tom Hollander went to Mexico to track down an old college friend, Forbes Maguire, with whom he'd had a falling out. |
| human self improvement | minor | A safely in Mexico Miranda was determined to take responsibility for having killed several hospital workers by going back to the United States to turn herself in to the authorities. |
| speculative ability | minor | Miranda could osmose information from books just by touching them. |