>>9878539That i suppose could at least be that whatever disease it was had already done the damage to her, so curing the disease doesn't save her life. Whereas fixing it for Maisie was doing it before the disease ever caused damage. Obvious next point being that she did not have enough time to figure out DNA magic to fix her own damage before she died.
She only knew to fix the disease because it suddenly showed up for her and fucked her up to the point of KNOWING she needed to fix it in Maisie. So basically a 'too late for me, but ill save you'
I thought the same thing during the movie as you did and felt the above made sense to me as a fairly reasonable and simple reason that wouldn't feel forced at all either.
>>9878373>And why didn't Maisie's mom share this groundbreaking discovery?As for this being the original question. I assume because she died right after. Plus the whole reasoning behind what she did would expose maisie as a clone, opening up a whole can of worms for maisies life. (Though thats also in a weird spot, her being a clone seems fairly secret during FK, but then seems like a bunch of people already knew before that reveal anyway, going by JWD).
For your main question. I also don't really get why DNA rewriting was needed for the locusts rather than a disease as you say. How did it pass on DNA changes if not with some disease or something anyway. So why not a disease that just kills them?
This whole movie was a bit flimsy. I enjoyed it for the most part, but it was flimsy/weak in many areas for sure.
