rannum posted:

Anyway my read on the plot is all the animals are familiar-but-freaky because Neo Kenya is earth but it keeps dying and getting recreated. The ark picks up all the animals and then does a bunch of genetic engineering on them so there's genetic diversity and not instantly running into inbreeding. Same likely happens to the humans but on a smaller scale, which is why they get beast traits and it resolves the Life Force problem by rebooting humans and making them hardier and live longer. We'll probably learn something like "our" Earth, the one that already died and got remade to Neo Kenya, was probably the xTh time this has happened and our "normal" critters are just the weird genetically manipulated off spring of "more normal" creatures before; and that for hte life problem the humans are having now it was even worse in the past.
Presumably the "end result" from Scenarios A & B (& I presume C) will produce even freakier critters, and then when THAT Earth dies, even WEIRDER and so on and so forth. The remake making a lot of designs more recognizable/tame might've been to help sell the idea better.