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fandomsecrets2013-07-16 06:53 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-07-16 06:53 pm
[ SECRET POST #2387 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2387 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #341.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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An object that is believed to be an alien space ship is found in a rather deep part of the ocean and a team of people are gathered and sent down there to examine it.
They find when they get down there the space ship is actually American and has apparently traveled through time, but inside it is a large, strange, totally smooth and featureless sphere.
A storm cuts off contact from the surface and they concentrate on trying to figure out the sphere, eventually finding a way to open it, with the group's computer expert getting inside.
Strange things start happening after that, they get in contact with some intelligence (who they call "Jerry") and groups of strange sea-life start appearing. The various sea creatures (including jellyfish and squid) soon start to become dangerous, and Beth, the biologist (and the POV character Norman's ex-girlfriend) says the animals they have managed to catch are biologically impossible.
Jerry claims the strange animals are something he's "manifesting" and becomes increasingly threatening and demanding, with the manifestations starting to kill people.
Between examining the computer code Jerry's transmissions are coming through as, and Norman's psychological assessment, they figure out that somehow Harry is causing things to happen - somehow the Sphere has given him psychic powers which make his subconscious appear in the real world (he's causing inexplicable squid too appear because he's always been scared of them since he tried (and failed) to read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as kid.
Norman and Beth sedate him, but the manifestations keep happening and Beth accuses Norman of having entered the sphere. Norman some time after finds security footage that shows Beth went into it, and figures out that while Harry was causing the squid, Beth is the one causing Jerry. Beth, as a biologist has nothing to fear from animals, but a powerful, childishly demanding Unknown? That's right up her alley in fears.
Beth, in her increasing paranoia, has planted explosives, and believes Norman is a threat and tries to kill him, forcing him to go and enter the Sphere so he can fight her on the same reality-altering level.
He considers escaping on his own, but turns back because he just can't leave Beth and Harry (the last two left, besides Norman) to die, has to fight Beth. He gets the upper hand and takes the two of them with him to the surface.
While in decompression, the three discuss what to tell the navy, deciding that the powers the Sphere grants are too dangerous for anyone to have - look what happened to them! Humans don't have enough control over their minds to be able to control abilities like that safely. They decide they need to cover it up, using their powers to wipe their memories totally. They do so, coming out of it believing the mission was an attempt to recover a crashed plane, and the deaths of the rest of the team was do to technical failure.
The part about the movie I dislike is that it has Norman going into the Sphere at an unknown earlier point, contributing somehow to the sea-life attacks and Jerry. I always felt a good deal of the point of the book was that when he finally did enter it, he, as the psychologist, was the only one who could control the powers because (again, due to his profession) he understood how minds in general, and how his in particular worked.
The movie had Dustin Hoffman as Norman, Sharon Stone as Beth, and Samuel L. Jackson as Harry.
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