Whilst I'm loving the debate and some of the theories that have been posited, I'm surprised no-one's really gone along the lines of Gnosticism.

Is this the fourth or fifth link to your website within this thread? Once more, and I'm sorry, but I'll start asking the mods to get involved. Comments are great, but advertising is a bit cheeky.

I'd love to know how sex with somebody infected DIDN'T infect Noomi, but did leave her pregnant. And then, the 10(?) hour pregnancy when she is hosting an alien creature in her womb - connected umbilically - also fails to see her infected? Odd. If Holloway can drink the stuff and get infected, the small amount of…

Not bad stuff, but my problem with one of those points in particular is that somebody might have noticed Jesus was a 10 foot tall mesomorphic wax-faced guy and mentioned it in the Bible.

Also, there's a couple who might be slightly more obsessed than most. [www.dailyrecord.co.uk]

Fortunately, there are at least four TARDIS (TARDISI? TARDISES?) in Glasgow right now, so we don't have to mock up photos. Nice work, though.

There's a nice reference to a mellified man in The Dervish House. And it certainly seems more appetising than some. Cannibal Baklava?

Oh, absolutely - I'm not suggesting they created us 35,000 years ago - the environment they used to depict the "creation" was clearly meant to be primordial and the petroglyphs much, much later. I think the idea is they (or some faction of "they") revisited Earth in the recent past to check on their experiment.

Yeah, but we don't know WHEN the aliens created us, or how we were shaped by them - perhaps the initial experiment created the primordial soup we crawled out of, then the aliens returned to run a few tests, say hi and leave a black obelisk around the place. Darwinism can take place alongside the interference - we saw…

I saw it more as almost a Pandora's box the Engineers had stumbled across and that some saw it a weapon, some as a tool for creation (the opening sequence with self-sacrificing monk?) and none of them entirely understanding it. The clue, to me, is in the name - referencing not just the classical myth, but Mary…

You know the second part of your comment explains the first part, right?

My name's Discodave and I have a problem... I avoided Battlefield Earth - after 6 months of reading them, I couldn't face another doorstop pulp novel.

I read all 10 books in the Mission Earth series by L. Ron Hubbard. I'm not proud, but once I started, I couldn't help myself. I hasten to add that this was in my early teens, before I had refined my tastes and, obviously, got a clue.

Hmpph. Would prefer to see one for each of the Home Nations (Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland) - this isn't the Olympics, after all.

In fairness to Dan DiDio, he's was answering a question that specifically dealt with this issue, rather than took out a full-page ad to trumpet it. It's more like it's not a big deal rather than "Look at us! We're gay friendly!" Which, really, is as it should be.

From the director who brought you " The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable"

OK, I'm kinda puzzled by this take on the book and Alasdair's synopsis

Nah, that's the last guy - I thought you were meant to be sweeping that up?

Sorry, look, you don't annoy me a lot, I just think what you're saying he did (which doesn't sound totally unlikely) is a bit like what you're doing seeing as, aside from it being him mentioned in the article isn't entirely relevant.

Now, does that mean your first post was inaccurate, or that he deleted the post or what? Besides, he probably didn't see it when it first came out as he now has a grown-up role, namely husband and father. Maybe he meant he had to act like an adult with adult responsibilities rather than run off to see a film.