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THe universe is big and God plays with no dice. Pandora is possible.Clover though….well to be totally honest it didn’t look like it coud walk right during the whole movie. In fact I think that was the point.
I’m pretty sure the Cloverfield monster is impossible and that the mass involved would pretty much collapse under its own weight.Cameron was asked about the Pandorans and the characteristics they shared with humans and he said while there is a possibility they may not have necessarily evolved separately from humans (implying some sort of seeding) he said the main reason was so we’d be able to identify with them. He understands that true aliens would look truly alien and that chance makes it highly unlikely for aliens to have developed similar bipedal forms as Earth has.
The Cracked article talks about all that. Clover walked pretty well for not being designed to be on land.