"Remember Portal? In particular, "Still Alive," its end-credits theme? If you've never heard it before, the long story short is that the songwritten by Internet darling and blog-era musician Jonathan Coultondrives home Portal's satire towards the evils of profit-driven, results-oriented science experiments. Its storybook melody and ironic humor ("Aperture Science // We do what we must, because we can") disguise the darker underbelly of science, where living things are sacrificed to the fires so we can learn how it feels to burn."
"In episode 7, "Emergence," Prodigy's callous trillionaire leader Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) elects to attach Species 64, a.k.a. the Eyeball Octopusactually named "The Ocellus," though it's still unknown what it calls itselfonto a living, human person. They've discovered that it has brains; all it needs now is a mouth. "We should switch it onto a person," a jazzed-up Boy says in the episode. "You know, someone who talks and uses a toilet.""
Portal's end-credits song 'Still Alive,' written by Jonathan Coulton, uses a storybook melody and ironic humor to satirize profit-driven, results-oriented science experiments. The song's lyrics conceal a darker underbelly of science, where living beings are sacrificed to learn through suffering. Alien: Earth episode 7, "Emergence," features Prodigy leader Boy Kavalier deciding to graft Species 64 — the Eyeball Octopus called the Ocellus — onto a human host after discovering it has brains but lacks a mouth. Boy proposes switching the alien onto "someone who talks and uses a toilet" and considers low-IQ test subjects, then indicates a specific target.
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