See, that's part of what confused me - that whatever happened was bad enough to burn up everyone aft behind the hatch that stayed sealed, but the only indication of a problem on the other side of that hatch was the lights flickering. Nobody in the control even seemed to notice that - they didn't catch on that there was a problem until they couldn't raise anyone else on the ship and realized the hatch was warm. Then they go aft and of course it was dark, but the only indication that there had been a fire or explosion was that everyone aft was dead or dying. Just seemed hard to believe that something that bad could happen on a submerged sub and the people on the other side of a hatch wouldn't feel or hear something, much less that there wouldn't be more obvious, if not critical, damage to the sub itself and not just the crew in those compartments.
Really it was the only part of the story where I kinda went "huh?" because even though I could easily suss out what the script said must've happened, it just seemed odd even knowing that, okay, clearly they haven't aired out the boat in a long time, stuff is probably leaking out from all kinds of equipment, and oh no something got hot and they made a point of showing it getting hot. Then there's a flicker of the lights forward and a warm hatch and everybody aft is dead and... that's it? Even if it's a completely realistic scenario, I don't think it was spelled out clearly enough for the casual viewer who wouldn't necessarily know enough to put it all together.
Of course the casual viewer would probably just accept that something bad happened and now all these guys are dead, and not wonder about where the hydrogen was coming from, lol.
|