Everyone was labouring under the delusion that Jill,Bill and gangs
human mind had been erased or shut down,and reactivated with nasty
new alien programming.The reality was much more complicated then that.
One way to look at the human mind is to view it as a record player playing a 33 lp record or as a 386 compuer .
if one uses the record player analogy imagine that the arm randomly tracks back and forth across the record and you hear snatches of different songs over the loudspeaker.
Thats a normal human mind.
If one uses the 386 computer analogy imagine that the machine devotes its time equally to checking on the printer,monitor,modem,keyboard
floppy drives and a myriad of other tasks at a steady pace of 25 Mhz
Thats a normal human mind.
Thats the mind Jill,Bill,drones and Great Aunt Bertha from the old country used to have.
Then their human brains transformed into throbbing six lobed green masses with acid blood,varying ph balances and a lot of other weird stuff inside that organ.
Yet what happenned to their minds was even more astounding cuz they
really didn't alter that much.
Jill still knew she was Jill and remembered all the Aliens movies,
paperbacks and paraphernalia she had collected
,Bill still remembered the class on insects he had taken 5 years earlier and Great Aunt Bertha still remembered
planting pototoes in a plough furrow 65 years earlier.
So what had changed?
Well to use Jill as our example,the record player which was her mind suddenly zoomed up to 300 rpm and the needle was stuck playing one tune-the theme song for Alien.And that needle wore a groove in her mind so that her mind kept returning to that tune.
Or if we use the computer analog,suddenly that 25Mhz machine was running at 1 Ghz and all its processing time was devoted to one task,seeking information which would help the Directive.
And the floopy drives ,keyboard,modems monitor and printer were all being
commandeered to fufill the Directive.
Yet the only memories stored in Jills brain about aliens dealt with nasty things which crawled around tunnels and laid eggs and killed people.
Jill was essentially a happy pschopathic killer mom to be.
She was suffering one whopper of a mental breakdown as her mind pushed itself to the limits to achieve the Directive.
Everything she had learned,all her aquired life skills were being utilized to fufill the Directive.
Some people think they are Napoleon Bonaparte,others think their Teddy Roosevelt.
Jills mind was telling her she was an alien.Which physically she was.
For three days there were some happy aliens around doing alien things.
However they behaved according to the human live they had lived.
Aunt Bertha had never seen a movie called Alien.For her the Directive
did not mean killing and eating humans.It meant eating pototoes and turnips like in the old days in order to survive.
Bill knew how to kill,but she had never eaten her prey as a human.Thus she left the bodies in the post office unmolested.
Jill ,ah Jill,she knew exactly what an Alien Queen was supposed to do.
And she did it!And her drones,not knowing any better,followed their queens example.
The behaviours of the aliens over the initial three days would have perplexed Ms Weaver.And made her very very afraid.
All you had to do to see a Alien mind was look in the mirror and imagine yourself with a temporary mental breakdown.
On the fourth day Jill heard the echoes in her head as the record player started to smoke and slow down.
The needle arm began to bounce wildly all over the record.Nothing can
run at full throttle forever.However the damage was done.The groove in her mind was permanent.
Jill moved slower up and down the tunnels,her mind tired and she was barely aware of being followed by her drones.
On the sixth day she realized with a start that she was a naked alien with an exoskeleton crawling through slimy tunnels being followed by her alien babies.And she had killed and eaten humans.
Normally someone under those conditions just curls up naked under the bed for a week or so and wishes it would all just go away.
But for Jill,Bill,great Aunt Bertha,the relatives and the babies it
couldn't go away.They were trapped in alien bodies,thinking with altered human minds which automatically filtered out information
contrary to the Directive,enhanced information which fufilled the Directive.They didn't need alien instincts.Their obsessive-compulsive disorder as a psychologist would put it,or their alien spiritual rebirth-as a shaman might put it,ensured they could never return to the human race.
And Ms weaver wanted to kill them all.
And the mad little buerecrat wanted to take over the world.
Great Aunt Bertha had the easiest time of all.She hadn;t eaten anybody.She'd survived the nazis,red army and 45 years under communist rule.She flicked her talons and diced another turnip.
So now she was a drooling insect thing.Well she was still alive.
She was great at surviving.