Question of the week.

[Glenn McCrabb]

Here is the question of the week: Just what was it that Anton Zoref transformed into? Also, did the transformed entity retain enough of Zoref to help the Alphans at some point in the future?

Please respond, the forum is way too quiet lately… 😉

[Steve Foster]

I think Victor summed it up quite well at the end of the episode – some kind of creative evolution. A next step in its development.

I personally think Zoref… was absorbed. The entity that absorbed him, was acting on pure instinct imo. I wouldn’t call it… consciousness. After it absorbed Anton & then left Alpha… I think it became… something more than just instinct. Absorbing Zoref and the radiation, triggered a metamorphosis of some kind, and the birth of a new & unique kind of life form. Whether or not it retained anything of Anton Zoref’s memories, feelings, personality etc. who can say? I’d like to think so Zack. Great question mate! 🙂

It’s funny. I’ve never really thought about it. But if there is a next step for “The Entity” (the name I’ve given “Force of Life” on my own personal [b]SPACE: 1999 [/b]episode list), I’d like to think it’s something akin to DC Comics’ [i]Swamp Thing[/i]. Something new… and wonderful, that is an amalgamation of the person who died, and the being he was absorbed by.

& can I just say… “Force of Life” remains, in my mind anyway, one of the supreme sci fi/horror episodes of [b]SPACE: 1999 [/b]Year 1. I agree with JK-M, it really is a masterpiece of the genre 😉

[Patricia Sokol]

I think Zoref’s body just fried, and was not transformed per se. I’m still on the fence about how much influence he had over the energy-being. If it just needed energy, why not go into the reactor like it went through the walls of the base? OK, so maybe somehow it needed a biological host to transform the energy into a usable form, like animals w/ digestion, plants w/ photosynthesis, and Balor with his telomere-based photoreceptors.

So, if Zoref perceives that this thing is killing in the process of “feeding”, does he take it to the reactor and sacrifice himself for the good of the base? The Big Bad gets what it needs and is gone. Zoref’s consciousness may or may not go with it. I’d like to think that it does/did.

[Glenn McCrabb]

Well, two responses is better than none at all. Here is my take on the question.

I think that the energy source was a life form, it may have been the inhabitant of a star who had discovered a way to travel through space or have been thrown clear of its home in a supernova or some such. Low on energy the energy source found the moon to be a food source. The fusion with Zoref was an accident, but a fortunate one. The energy source discovered new life forms outside of a star. The fusion saved Alpha and the energy source took just one reactor. As Zoref and the being’s wandering continued they might chance upon Paul and Co on Pyxidea and pick its star as a new home, solving the problem of the star’s instability. Awww fairy tale ending… 🙂

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