We, The Infected

Of course, it is easier to create a convincing alien with this technology. Creating/manipulating a convincing human with it is a little more difficult, as we are so familiar with how other humans should look. In the last X-Men movie, they used similar techniques on Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen t...

Yes. In the latest picture I have seen, she looks much older. You mean, like this one? Eli at 15. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5084/5258807122_efe5b7597a.jpg This one seems to make her look older, to me anyway. http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/205098_205337549494342_135592133135551_...

Yes. In the latest picture I have seen, she looks much older.

Not read your story yet, but I agree that in a sense even 'Oskar at 40' is a better outcome. Not turning Oskar need not be that tragic either, there's also 'Love's Epitaph. ... But that's how it goes for everyone - either you break up or someone dies. Re-read it. I had forgotten how sad that one is...

I personally cannot stand the idea of things turning out like the events of "Oskar ar 40". I think unturned, this is exactly how things would have ended up. A miserable Oskar, a sad and confused Eli, and a relationship that is going down the tubes, soon to leave Eli alone again As hard as this is t...

Eli has also been deprived of the basic joys of life and devoid of happiness for 220 years. Technically, yes, she understands the difference between right and wrong on an intellectual level. I think, though, that the extraordinarily tragic life she has had to this point may have clouded her judgmen...

I, too, have mixed feelings about this. It seems that it is because of their innocence and young age that they can make a descision like this. Their world is that of a 12 year old. They know they love each other and they know that the only realistic way they can be together, without growing apart, i...

It is easy to forget that we have a unique perspective on Eli, having been able to experience the private moments between her and Oskar. Most of the things that we think about when evaluating Eli's humanity tend to be centered around her relationship with Oskar. The outside viewer, as in LTODD, woul...

About O&E, they apparently live, but whether they are happy or not is an open question . I guess that their fate and happiness is as open ended as anyone's life at this point. There is always the possibility that something goes wrong and one doesn't make it home before daybreak. I believe, though, ...

Surely Eli and Oskar have decisively turned their backs on humanity - the narrator is right to see them as predators. I can see why the narrator would see them that way but surely LTROI showed us that Eli has loads of humanity. More than most people. The predator side of Eli is a small part of Eli....