If you were stranded on a remote island and
hunted by a giant, carnivorous sea monster, what would you do? I’m going to break down the mistakes made
by our shipwrecked tourists, try to make better decisions, and ultimately attempt to beat
the SEA BEAST in SWEETHEART. Getting stranded on a gorgeous tropical island
with endless white sand beaches sounds like the type of vacation we could all use right
about now. Unless, of course, the guy from The Shape
of Water just happens to live in a deep hole off the beach and comes out to stalk you when
the sun goes down. Too bad Hadley from The Cabin in the Woods
isn’t here – he’d finally get to see that cooler macho mermaid he always dreamed
of instead of whatever floppy monstrosity this is. Surviving on a deserted island is right up
there with zombie apocalypses and global plagues – a scenario we plan for, hoping it never
actually happens. Now that it has, let’s see if we can survive. It’s Day Zero. Following a shipwreck, survivor JENN washes
ashore a small jungle island in the Fiji archipelago, wearing a life jacket and a backpack. She notices a body in the surf nearby and
rolls it over to find it’s another guy from her boat, named BRAD. Brad is unconscious and bleeding from a jagged
shard of coral embedded in his abdomen. Jenn removes her life jacket, tosses Brad’s
flare gun down, and drags Brad up the beach. Unsure of what to do, Jenn calls for help. When no one comes, she rips the coral out
of Brad’s stomach and presses her shirt to the wound. She rushes into the jungle to look for water. When she finds a coconut she bangs on it with
a sharp rock, accidentally spilling most of the liquid when she picks it up. She returns to Brad to find he’s died while
she was gone. I am getting serious Stranded Deep vibes here. Jenn has no survival skills, no experience
with nature, and as we’ll find out later, no history of actually being able to fend
for herself. If only Bear Grylls was here to save us. Washing ashore on an island is just lucky
– we don’t know where her original boat wreck happened, how far away from here it
happened, or why she and Brad ended up so far away by themselves. Before Brad dies he asks her if she saw “it,”
so maybe the monster already living here was involved. Who knows. What we DO know is that Jenn is half-assing
everything right now. Like I said, she doesn’t know how to do
anything…and honestly, neither would most of us. Here, dragging Brad out of the water is obvious,
but she should be keeping a close grip on any and everything they have at their disposal. She needs to get Brad beyond the tide line
and then go grab the flare gun before it drifts away. We all saw Cast Away – you never know when
a piece of VHS tape or an ice skate is going to save your life, but we DO know that flares
are INSANELY valuable out here. Brad is pretty screwed, given the context
of the story. The 300 islands and 540 islets of the Fiji
Archipelago are scattered across 1,000,000 square miles (or 3,000,000 square kms) of
ocean. Even if rescue were coming, it’s possible
he would die of infection or bleed out before they got there. Regardless, the general wisdom says you shouldn’t
pull impaled objects out of wounds because they may be blocking vital arteries from bleeding
out. Here, even if Jenn were going to try and remove
the coral, she needs to leave it in until she has the supplies to try and handle it
properly. Hot water, clean cloth, and maybe even a fire
going just in case she has to try and cauterize the wound. Once she removes it, she has to be the one
to apply pressure to his wound. Brad is simply too weak to apply it hard enough. I’m not pointing fingers, but by pulling
it out and leaving him, she likely killed him quicker, which may be a blessing in disguise,
all things considered. As for the coconuts. They’re an excellent source of fluids, especially
because coconut water contains electrolytes, which will help keep YOU better hydrated. But honestly, giving coconut water to this
guy is like giving coconut water to Wade from Saving Private Ryan. Dude is pale from all the internal hemorrhaging. Water ain’t gonna help much besides making
his passing less painful. Regardless, instead of using a rock like this
to break it, and then spilling, she would have been better served by wedging the sharp
rock into the husk and then using a second stone to tap the sharper stone deeper until
it penetrated the shell. This would keep the opening small and prevent
spillage, even if the shell shatters inside. She would also want to do that because after
it’s empty, she could fashion a leaf funnel and use the empty coconut as a canteen for
rainwater. She should also be doing all of this sitting
next to Brad, not over here in the forest. He may need immediate help, and when she does
crack that coconut, there’s less chance of spilling carrying it six inches to his
mouth rather than fifty feet. When trying to give fluids to a wounded person,
you also shouldn’t just pour liquid into their mouth without warning them. They need to be conscious so they can prepare
to swallow and reduce the risk of choking. Of course, he’s dead now so it doesn’t
make much difference, the only sensible thing to do is loot his corpse. Jenn walks the perimeter of the island, but
doesn’t find anyone or anything else there. In the jungle, she stumbles upon a campsite. In a bag hanging from a tree, she finds expired
pills. In a cooler, she finds glass coca cola bottles
that suggest these people were stranded here back in the early 90s. She also finds a thermos and a box full of
shells, cards and a match box with 8 matches. Finally, she finds a piece of tent cloth and
a backpack containing a teddy bear, a nintendo game boy, and a book of scary stories. This doesn’t look good, but maybe the family
made it out of here alive.. Yes, let’s go with that.. A lot of survival guides use the scout acronym
STOP when assessing a crisis - “Stop, Think, Observe, Plan.” This prevents panic and wasted action in the
crucial first few hours after an event like this. Surveying the island perimeter feels like
a good step here – it allows Jenn time to exercise out her fear and it informs her of
the general size, flatness, and emptiness of the island. It would have sucked to set up camp only to
find a Sandals Resort on the other side later. Before scouting the island, however, I would
have done a quick inventory of the supplies I had with me, and made sure to move everything
of value to the treeline, in case this island has larger tides. Later we learn she has a bunch of stuff in
that backpack of hers, including a hat, sunglasses, headphones, a diary and a pen. That pen could come in handy as a makeshift
blunt instrument. That cooler could be used to collect rainwater. And those sunglasses might help her make a
fire using the sun’s rays. This is why every survival game you’ve ever
played relies heavily on inventory management. I would also take Brad’s shoes, as Jenn
seems to be walking through this tropical jungle full of venomous things and sharp objects
with bare feet. I would also carry a rock, heavy branch, or
even the flare gun for protection until I know the island itself doesn’t have any
predators to worry about. Her next step is to secure the four basic
provisions she’ll need for survival - a water source, food, a fire and shelter. The provisions she finds at the old camp site
are useful and should be added to her pile of supplies for inventory purposes, but they
also suggest that there’s likely a water source on this island. I would want to be sure there definitely ISN’T
one, in any case. This island appears to be oblong, so I would
walk through the center of the island longways to double check that there isn’t a creek
or waterhole. If there wasn’t a water source, I would
be careful to save coconut shells to collect rainwater or consider building a solar water
still, which Jenn could do with the fabric and cooler she finds at the campsite. After the walk, I would immediately take stones
and sticks and spell out S.O.S. on the beach for passing planes to see and
I would make two fires, one smaller for cooking and warmth by my camp, and a larger signal
fire away from the treeline for boats to easily spot like a lighthouse. Even the light from a normal candle can been
seen from up to 1.6 miles (or 2.6 kms) away. A bonfire emits even more light, but its visibility
is limited by the curvature of the earth. For a six foot tall person, the horizon appears
3 miles (or 5 kms) away. Making sure we are visible to passersby so
we can get off this rock is the priority, especially with the meat eating mer-man hunting
big game on this island. Back on the beach, Jenn hears noises coming
from a rotten log and gets jumpscared by a blue macaw. Hmmm, I wonder if this log is going to come
in handy later… The first night, Jenn lays out some coconut
shells and the thermos to catch rainwater and wraps herself in the tent material she
found at the campsite. In the morning, she finds that the storm washed
dozens of fish up on shore. She gathers them into her backpack, ultimately
finding a shark with its tail torn off and giant cut marks across its body. With no sign of rescue or carnivorous creatures
yet, we need to focus on keeping ourselves fed and prepared for anything.. Fish are Jenn’s main source of food here,
so gathering a load of them is smart, although I might use the cooler from the campsite to
hold them, instead of gunking up a good backpack. Since Jenn doesn’t know how long she’s
going to be here, she needs to think about how to catch fish herself without relying
on storms to do it. She eventually fashions a pointy stick, which
is good, but spearfishing is inconsistent, can be dangerous, and can expend loads of
energy. Instead, I would probably try creating a fishing
weir, in which you gather sticks and create a little fence in the water with an opening
for the fish to swim in. Once a fish enters, you can close the exit
and collect the fish. Jenn also has the shirt she used on Brad’s
wound, which would make a great fishing net, either for the weir, or for the opening of
a trap she lays in the water to help funnel the fish inside. As for the torn up shark, it looks freaky
but it could easily be explained away by a run-in with a boat propeller. I wouldn’t immediately jump to a predator
attack without more to go on. Manatees tragically get hit by boat propellers
all the time. Sometimes the marks are precise and obviously
look mechanical. Sometimes they look like claw marks. Jenn tries to clean a fish, destroying it
in the process. Next she tries and fails to open a clam, banging
it on a rock. While wandering through the island, she finds
the graveyard for the campsite she found, where at least three bodies are buried. This inspires her to bury Brad’s body on
the beach. He’s already starting to smell. She drags him away from her camp, digs a foot
deep hole in the sand, covers him in palm fronds and buries him. As night falls, she wedges a stick between
two trees and drapes the tent material over it for shelter, then builds a small fire and
roasts a fish. Okay, the family not making it out of here
alive is a bit demoralizing.. If there’s such a thing as an ideal stranding,
it’d be one where you have a knife on you to clean fish and kill sea monsters. Since Jenn doesn’t have a knife, she’ll
need to use a bit more finesse if she wants to eat this century. She could break one of the coke bottles she
found in the campsite cooler, or just use the rock with the sharp edge…but, ya know,
better. To clean the fish, lay it out on a leaf and
scale it by taking a firm hold of the tail, setting the rock edge at a slight angle and
scraping from tail to gills. Once those slide off, place the fish on a
clean leaf and gut it by carefully making a shallow cut along the fish’s belly from
right above the anal gland up to the neck. The cut needs to be shallow to avoid cutting
into the intestines, which will spoil the meat. To avoid that, use the sharp edge to cut around
the anal gland and remove the intestines whole. At that point, she could then go ahead and
spear the fish and cook it over a fire, head and all. As for Brad’s body. She should have done this on Day Zero before
he started to rot, but better late than never. Dragging him from camp is a good way to keep
predators from entering, although it feels like for the amount of energy she’s wasting,
it would have been easier to bury him there and move camp instead. The other option here is for the people who
play survival games on hard difficulty. She could always use that meat as bait for
fishing. Yeah-yeah, cannibalism too, but it’s a little
early for that, Dr. Lector. We have plenty of fish to keep our stomach
full. On Day Two, Jenn discovers that something
has dug up Brad’s body and torn it apart. Jenn fashions a pointy stick for defense and
stands guard all night, watching the jungle for signs of predators. Jenn is right to be scared when she finds
Brad’s body has been dug up, torn apart, and dragged away. Fiji doesn’t really have any large land
animals that could do this and most of the scary things live in the ocean, like sea snakes,
sharks, irukandji jellyfish, and saltwater crocodiles. Crocs have been known to eat human remains
when the body’s left out in the open, but they only dig to lay their eggs. The only things that could have dug the body
up are either mongrel dogs OR humans OR something worse than both. Jenn fashions a spear and stands guard, but
if I were in her shoes, I would make as many spears as I could before nightfall AND I’d
climb into the tallest tree I could find to spend the night. At the very least, I’d rig a circle of outward-facing
spikes around my camp. On Day Three, Jenn spots floating debris a
few hundred yards off shore – it’s her suitcase and an ice bucket. She peers below the water and discovers a
massive hole in the ocean floor, with a current pulling sand down into it. She returns to the beach and investigates
the suitcase, but it only contains clothing. Later that night, Jenn finds a hidden compartment
in the box from the campsite with pictures of the stranded family and eyes of a creature
watching the family in the dark. She hears a plane and fumbles trying to find,
load, and fire the flare gun. She finally manages to fire it into the sky,
but too little too late. Instead of grabbing the plane’s attention,
she grabs the attention of THE SEA BEAST. It’s watching her just off shore. Jenn hides in the jungle with her spear as
the Sea Beast searches for her. It gets way too close for comfort, but it
doesn’t find her. The only thing worse than being stranded in
The Forest full of mutated freaks and cannibals is having this fishy behemoth as your stalker. Back before the Sea Beast spotted Jenn, her
seeing a hole off the shoreline like this wouldn’t necessarily be cause for concern. Underwater sinkholes are appearing in the
ocean all the time, especially as arctic water melts. I’d be more worried about the current it’s
pulling in – that might make swimming off shore dangerous. Best to avoid the giant underwater suckhole
either way. Once we know the beast is out there, though,
it’s time to move camp – ASAP. In the morning after the beast has retreated,
I would mark the hole’s location with a branch on the beach, then move to the other
side of the island. Sure, there may be offshore holes on that
side, and it can swim anyway, but I would be trying to put distance between me and this
thing to test the limits of its territory and whether or not it will go out of its way
to find me again. It’s already attacked Brad’s body, so
it has a taste for human flesh. In this first encounter, going inland and
hiding is probably Jenn’s only option, but hiding on the floor under a bush like this
is risky. It’s why a full survey of the island – both
the perimeter and the central forest – would have been useful. She would have seen tall trees with sleeping
crooks in them, and found more potential hiding places like the rotten log. She’s lucky the sea beast stopped looking
for her here. This first encounter also tells us a couple
things about the Sea Beast: The first is that it’s amphibious, able
to breathe in water as well as on land. This may mean it has both gills and lungs
like a lungfish OR that it can breathe through its skin like frogs can. This may mean it’s more susceptible to poisons
and pollutants, including fire smoke. Jenn could test its tolerance and reaction
to fire by building a large one and seeing how it reacts the next night. The second thing is that it doesn’t seem
to have heightened senses. Not consistently anyway. It sniffed out Brad’s body under the sand,
finds her in two hiding spots later, and has no problem finding food she hangs out for
it, but can’t seem to locate her here ten feet from it in the jungle. It seems to rely on its sense of sight to
find her out of the water. Moving to the other side of the island would
be helpful because the beast appears to be watching her. This may mean we can avoid it by just staying
out of reach up in a tree. To this point, it also appears to be nocturnal,
only coming out at night. We could start sleeping during the day so
we can stand guard when the sun goes down. Jenn should also have that flare gun loaded
and ready to rock just in case opportunity strikes. Fumbling for it when a plane is overhead is
a great way to make your residence permanent. A plane going by on the first AND third night
is super good news, and means there is likely decent plane traffic through this area. Just wait until you can fire ahead of Barry
Seal's next flight through here. On the morning of Day Four, Jenn tries to
fashion a floatation device to get off the island by tucking her and Brad’s life vests
inside the suitcase, then trying to board it like a life raft. It doesn’t work. All it does is make her look about as graceful
as a golden retriever trying to drown its owner. As the sun sets, Jenn tucks herself and her
spear inside the rotten tree on the beach to wait out the creature. At night, the sea beast comes. It tries to claw its way into the side of
the trunk, but quickly gives up. I admire her hustle here, but both attempts
to help herself are problematic. For one, the suitcase was already floating
when she found it because of the air trapped inside. If she wants to use it as a flotation device,
she can simply hold on while wearing one of the vests. The problem is that her feet would be dangling
in the water and she has no idea how far it is to rescue or even the next island. She would be better off building a raft and
then using the closed suitcase as an under-structure floatation buoy, so she could stand or sit
out of the water and carry supplies with her. As for the rotten tree log, if the creature
can find her here when she isn’t moving, then it should have been able to find her
in the jungle…so maybe it likes playing with its food. Either way, this log puts the beast at a strategic
advantage. The beast can attack this log from all directions
while Jenn can only attack if it comes to the open end of the log. It would have been better to bury part of
the log at an angle in the sand and then use the cooler or fashion a small plate-guard
of spikes to cork the opening. Which brings me to the monster again. How did it not realize it could just walk
over to the end of the log where it’s open and grab her? This is great news – this fish head has
got size and strength on us, but it’s not exactly clever. We can exploit this. On Day Five, Jenn takes proactive measures
after she crawls out of the shredded tree. She catches minnows in a tide pool and crushes
them into chum, which she uses to spear fish a blacktip shark. That night, she hangs the shark up on the
beach as a sort of offering to the sea beast, and hides in a hole covered in palm fronds. The beast seems to accept her offering and
leaves her alone. We’ve reached the tribal stage of our civ
development. Time to feed the old gods. Creating this chum is great – if she wants
to use it to spearfish, more power to her. However, I might have rigged a fishing weir
and used it there too, to pull double duty and save her energy just in case she has to
fight. If she had chummed a weir, sharks would come
anyway and she could trap multiple at once, so she wouldn’t have to shark-fish every
day and she could use the extra time to either build a better monster trap or a better shelter
or raft. As for feeding the creature, this may be how
the former family stranded on the island survived, at least for a while. It’s not really a sustainable way to live
long term. One bad fishing day and you’re on the menu. However, it could give Jenn enough lead time
to experiment and devise a way to make it extinct. My initial go to move is a signature special
of feces tipped punjis in a punji pit under the food, hidden with our tent material or
just a bunch of palm fronds. Alternatively, a noose trap shouldn’t be
too hard to create. All we need is 2 Sticks, 1 Rope, and 5 Logs. Problem is finding a counterpart big enough
to haul this giant into the air, and you know, we’d still have to kill it by hand while
it’s thrashing around. Although, one of my strats in The Forest game
was to leave a bonfire pile at the base of the noose trap, and once the freaks were strung
up, all you need to do is flick a match at it. It’s a snare and rotisserie all in one. OR we could attempt to hurt the beast by stuffing
the shark with jagged shards of coral or broken coke bottles so that when it bit down or swallowed
it, its mouth or stomach would be damaged. If these remote traps weren’t successful,
we could rig a fire around a shark to see if it’s afraid or vulnerable to fire. This would also let us see the beast in more
detail and look for weak spots we need to hit if it comes down to close quarter combat. On Day Six, a body washes ashore wearing a
life jacket. It’s another member of Jenn’s party ZACK
who seems to have deep cuts to his neck and face as well as, ya know, being torn in half. Jenn hangs Zack from the offering tree. That night, the sea beast feeds on Zack’s
body a few yards from Jenn’s camp while she watches from a dugout with a leaf over
her head. A plane cuts the feast short and the sea beast
suddenly rushes closer, seemingly to either prevent Jenn from firing off another flare
or to find her if she does. On Day Seven, Jenn tears up the tent material
and fashions a hammock high up between two palm trees to keep her up out of the sea beast’s
reach. At night, she peers out into the darkness
to see the beast silently moving through the jungle toward her. Suddenly it hits the palm trees, sliding the
hammock ropes down and bringing Jenn within reach. She tumbles out of the hammock and sprints
for the beach. The beast follows. It plunges into the water and chases her down
the beach, knocking her into the surf before disappearing. When Jenn thinks the coast is clear she manages
to get up into the crook of a tree to wait out the rest of the night. What a waste of a lifeless body. She should have rigged it up as a trap like
we discussed. And that leaf dugout was an awful hiding spot. While she couldn’t risk popping a flare
with the creature right next to her, that doesn’t mean she couldn’t have signaled
the plane another way. She’s already witnessed two flyovers at
night. Chances are, the dude flying one way will
eventually fly back the same way. Or it’s a frequently flown flight path. It’s likely the monster begins its hunt
right after sundown every night, which means the plane flyover is roughly around the same
time. This is where your signal fires come into
play. Light them up with enough fuel to last hours
before sundown, and then go to your hiding spot. Rigging a hammock like this may sound like
a good idea, but we’ve already seen that this beast is huge and strong, capable of
ripping her shark offering clean off the rope. At least hang it up a lot higher and pin it
into the sides of the tree so it won’t slide down. And you’re still going to want to keep feeding
it offerings so it doesn’t bother approaching your hammock in the first place. On Day Eight, Jenn spots a life raft drifting
off shore. She swims to it, discovering her boyfriend
LUCAS and friend MIA inside. She helps pull them ashore, then feeds them
and gives them the soda from the cooler. She tries to tell them they have to leave,
that there’s something dangerous about the island, but she botches the explanation, leaning
too heavily on her visceral fear and random pieces of information that sound silly without
context. They don’t believe her and aren’t willing
to give up the cushy island – the raft was hell for them. Mia and Lucas try to convince her to light
a fire to signal for rescue. Jenn warns them they don’t have time and
tries to force them to leave, but they refuse. While Mia and Lucas are resting, Jenn loads
the cooler with fish and tries to steal the raft right in front of her friends. A fight breaks out and Mia knocks Jenn unconscious
by hitting her in the face with the oar. With friends like these, who needs a sea beast
enemy? I don’t know about you, but I very rarely
have reasons to lie about being attacked by sea monsters. I definitely don’t lie about it and then
try to panic-flee an island at the first opportunity. Attempting to steal the raft is ice cold. It’d be even colder to do it at nightfall
while the creature is busy munching on her friends. Colder, but effective. At least until she dies from exposure on the
raft or the monsters chase her down for dessert. I wouldn’t leave if I were Jenn. There’s nothing out there. The island is a hunting ground, yes, but it’s
a manageable situation. We have a steady, reliable source of food,
water and shelter, regular plane flyovers which we can signal, we can continue to offer
up fish food to the monster to keep it happy and fed, and now we have strength in numbers. It is significantly easier for a plane to
report an SOS from a mapped out island and initiate a rescue than it is to find a drifting
life raft in the middle of the ocean. She also can’t fish well from the raft,
can’t defend herself at all if a monster finds her, can’t easily source drinking
water, has no idea where she’s going, and if the raft gets a tear in it, it’s game
freaking over. She’s survived this long, she can make it
through one more night. They want to build a signal fire, which is
a good idea with planes flying over her head at regular times. So build a giant ass fire, hang up some bait,
string up some more hammocks, and let them see for themselves. If you’re going to steal the raft, obviously
don’t do it in plain sight for everyone to see. It’ll just piss them off and lose their
trust. They might even kill you outright – it’ll
be Lord of the Flies before nightfall. Instead, Jenn should be sneaky about it. She should apologize, tell them they need
wood for a signal fire, wait for them to go into the forest and then steal it. Or do your nightly routine to keep the monster
at bay, then leave in the morning before they wake up. This also gives you a headstart with the nocturnal
monsters sleeping. That night, Jenn wakes up tied to a tree. Mia says it’s been night for a while and
nothing has happened yet, but refuses to untie her. Jenn starts trying to saw through the rope. Lucas tries talking to her next, but won’t
untie her either. Nearby Mia finds a fish head in the surf. She hears something behind her and screams. Lucas comes running with a torch and finds
the Sea Beast chomping down on Mia’s midsection like a ham sandwich. Lucas hits the beast and it drops Mia, but
before Lucas can pull her out of the water, the Sea Beast drags her into the deep. Jenn breaks through her rope restraints and
pulls Lucas into the forest. Welp, I told you so? If they were bent on staying on solid ground,
all they had to do to survive was assume Jenn was correct and play along for one night. It literally can’t hurt for them to exercise
a little caution on Day 1 of being on a remote island. Jenn might have been able to talk herself
out of her restraints. While it might have been suspicious to suddenly
change our tune, just telling Mia that she’s sorry, she was desperate to leave and panicked
might get Mia to let her go. If it didn’t, grinding the rope back and
forth against the tree while they’re not looking is the way to go, especially since
we know this attack is coming. Mia is toast once the beast grabs her. I sure as heck am not going to run over to
hold her hand while she gets dragged off into a sinkhole by a 9 foot tall jacked mermaid. Like I said, all they had to do was assume
Jenn was telling the truth about a sea monster for one night, and not go frolicking in the
shallows looking for turtles. Ultimately, the only thing Lucas might do
differently here is aim the fiery end of the torch at the beast’s gills or head instead
of just smacking it across the back. A headshot would do more damage and could
potentially cripple it to the point that it went back to catching its own sharks. On Day Nine, Lucas is afraid to come out of
the tree they slept in. Jenn assures him she’s never seen the beast
out during the day. Jenn catches and roasts fish and Lucas stores
coconuts in the cooler. Together, they push the raft into the ocean
filled with their meager supplies. They climb aboard and Jenn gets a glimpse
of what happened to Zack – the entire bottom of the raft is smeared with blood. Lucas begins to paddle. He recoils as something monstrous swims under
their raft. A claw reaches out of the water. They draw the zipper on the raft and the Sea
Beast hits and rakes its claws along their raft from below. It tears a hole through the raft bottom and
we get a glimpse of its shark-like head. Jenn dropkicks it in the face with her Nike
Frees, then Lucas fires two flares into its face, forcing it to retreat back underwater. Moments later, Jenn is ripped through the
raft by the beast. I told you so, again. If not believing us was proof enough already,
we shouldn’t trust Lucas once we see the blood in the raft – that’s not fish blood;
that’s enough blood that somebody died there. It’s implied that Lucas killed Zack at some
point. There’s not much Jenn can do about it now
that they’re in the raft paddling away, but I’d be keeping a close eye on Lucas
moving forward. If he’s not careful, I’d make him my next
offering to the beast, since they didn’t bring any sharks with them. As for the beast, if you know where he IS,
you know where he ISN’T. They should have prepared to leave by shark
fishing and dangling several down the beach away from where they planned to set sail. It might not have gone for the distraction,
but if it did, it would have given them a significant lead and maybe even kept it off
their backs entirely. They could have also brought a shark or two
with them and attempted to feed it once it came near the boat, but it might have begun
to associate the raft with food and followed them into open water. But really, setting sail in the raft was a
dumb idea to begin with. Once the beast attacks, it’s a bad idea
to use flares, especially inside a closed environment like this raft. Flares burn hot enough to melt steel and they
contain toxic chemicals that can cause respiratory distress. They’re also specifically designed to be
hard to extinguish – all this is doing is setting fire to your raft while burning and
poisoning yourself. Also, you’re going to miss those flares
when you could have used them to signal a passing boat or plane. Instead, once the beast shows its head through
the hole in the floor, they should both be stabbing it repeated with their pointy sticks. At this point, there’s a hole in the raft
and they’ll probably have to return to shore anyway. What matters now is incapacitating this predator. The beast drags Jenn toward the ocean floor. We finally see him. He’s huge, muscular, and at least 9 feet
long. He seems to be what would happen if a mermaid
was reversed, with the head of a frilled shark and the body of Aquaman. Jenn screams in fear, but manages to keep
her head on straight long enough to pull out Lucas’ pocket knife and stab the Sea Beast
in its ribs. It lets her go. Suddenly, up above, Lucas dives out of the
raft with the spear. The Sea Beast tackles Lucas, knocking the
wind out of him, dragging Lucas to his watery grave in the black hole. Jenn is lucky she had the pocketknife on her. They both really should have had short pointy
stick knives in hand in addition to their peasant spears. The long spears are too unwieldy in the water. A makeshift dive knife is purpose made for
this situation. If you weren’t armed and in this position,
there are a few things you could do. The first is stay calm - don’t waste your
breath screaming, you might need it. Instead, bite down on his arm as hard as you
can in an attempt to cause him enough pain to let you go. If you can reach them, you also want to try
gouging out his eyes OR tearing at his gills. Lucas jumping in was chivalrous, but probably
less helpful than if he had, say, cut his arm and let blood dribble into the water to
draw the beast’s attention back toward the raft, a place from which he could have more
easily stabbed it. And, hopefully this is obvious, but if something
grabs you, don’t just let it drag you deep into a hole in the ocean – fight back, tear,
scratch, claw, kick. If you’re going to die anyway, give ‘em
hell. Make it hurt. Jenn swims back to shore to find the tattered
raft beat her there. Jenn quickly relights her fire before the
last of the embers dies out. She tries to make more spears, but when most
of them break, she digs up the family’s bodies in the graveyard and uses a stone to
make shivs out of their bones. She gathers the makings of a bonfire. At night, the bonfire blazes for the Sea Beast
to see. It comes ashore to hunt. Jenn is waiting. As it approaches, she triggers a ring of fire
around the beast and stabs its gut with a spear. Using bone shivs and spears she placed all
around the circle, she fights it, stabbing its gut and chest over and over again. Any time she loses a shiv, she reaches for
another. When the Beast grabs her, she pulls a shiv
from her waist and repeatedly stabs him in the chest. He tosses her aside and she runs toward her
camp. When he goes to chase her, he’s too wounded
to fight. He collapses at her feet, still breathing,
and she pikes him through the head. Then she decapitates him for good measure. This is like a Wal-Mart version of Royce’s
showdown with the Predator. To be expected though. Royce was a black ops mercenary and Jenn is…not. Her bonfire ambush is another example of Jenn’s
great idea and lackluster execution. I’ve been saying all along that fire may
be the key to killing this beast. Most things - living or inanimate - are vulnerable
to fire. However, attacking a towering shark man head
on is dangerous - it’s bigger, stronger, and faster than humans. I would have set my fire ring far FAR away
from the edge of the jungle so the flames couldn’t leap over during the fight and
destroy my only source of coconut water. I would have lured the beast into the circle
and then set the circle on fire once it was trapped. Even better if we could cover the middle ground
in leaf litter before he gets in there, there’d be a higher possibility of setting him ablaze. Once it jumps through the flames in desperation,
throwing spears first would keep distance between it and us, and we could still have
a fiery torch with us to keep him back until melee fighting was absolutely necessary. As the fight currently is, Jenn should have
some cloth tied over her nose and mouth and be wearing those sunglasses we saw earlier
for a little eye protection. She needs to stab quickly and frequently at
the beast’s weak points – its eyes, its gills and neck, and its belly. A hearty stab and rip to its abdomen should
at least put the rest of the fight on an even keel. Once she puts it down, she needs to be even
quicker with the double tap to make sure. Don’t mess around and find out like Oberyn
Martell. Decapitating it is a boss move, though. Gotta get the evidence. I’d try to keep it as a trophy and taxidermy
that bitch to hang on my wall. My only complaint is her nonchalance once
the beast is dead. It’s unlikely there is only 1 creature,
since they’d have to mate to reproduce and survive. Maybe the mermaids aren’t hunters, but I'm
not going to assume that. Jenn lives to fight another day. Of course, we pull out to discover her bonfire
circle has spread to the jungle and the entire island is now ablaze. That’s definitely the sort of signal fire
someone’s bound to notice. Surviving on a jungle island comes down to
food, water, shelter, and a signal fire. Things get a little trickier when sharkboy
shows up to deal some damage. Jenn got through the ordeal in one piece with
a nifty monster head to take home as a souvenir, but there were plenty of moments when things
could have gone wrong for her. Engaging the sea beast is really a last resort,
when you can’t catch any more offerings for it or your punji pits have failed. I do think a well executed punji trap would
have effectively ended the creature preventing any deaths. Zack and Brad were gonzo from the beginning,
but if Jenn had been a little more strategic with her explanation of the sea beast, and
had they been a bit less of stubborn assholes, her friends would still be alive too. All in all, I’d say the SEA BEAST from SWEETHEART
was BEATEN. How would you have beaten Aquaman? Let me know in the comments. Hit the like button to hang up a shark for
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pit beneath it to kill the sharkman. Thanks for watching, and remember, if you
get the chance to mess with a shark…don’t.
