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Originally Posted by turbomelon

Addressing your spoilers

Spoiler!

1) The ship was floating above the city for 3 months before anyone decided to do anything. While it may have seemed illogical for them to take them off the ship, ultimately the people in charge ultimately decided to. Part of their rationale to do this was due to the fact that we didn't know what they were doing or planning up there and the movie touches on humanity's intrinsic curiosity. This could be exemplified by people who received mysterious envelopes and opened them up only to receive an anthrax surprise a few years back.

Also perhaps the people in charge figured there would be some advantage to getting inside the mothership. Some would say instating the HST by Gordon Campbell is a bad decision but that doesn't change the fact that the decision was made by his govt. Likewise the decision to take them off the ship was motivated by a series of factors.

2) It was said in the movie that portions of the ship were falling off constantly throughout the 20 year timespan starting with the command ship. Its entirely possible that the armory section or some other cargo bay fell off the ship.

3) Like most slums and sketchy places around the world, when organized crime takes a footing usually the governing body gives them a wide berth. Just because a govt. has lots of money doesn't mean they know how to keep things under control effectively. The same slums exist in africa and while the warlords and organized crime there do not stock pile alien energy weapons, they definitely have access to many forms of weaponry currently available.

4) Its assumed that within the 20 years at some point the researchers were on the ship to attempt to obtain some of the technological secrets held by the aliens. However since all their tech was genetically encoded and it was believed that most of the "prawns" were of a worker class and not completely intelligent, all their research would have amounted to them realizing they cant do anything with whats on that ship or the weapons. Further still, since the aliens arrived decades earlier it would be assumed that most researching bodies have lost interest in the larger more complex issues, and were primarily focused on how to get the alien tech to work with humans. Namely genetic/bio research hence the vivisection/unit23-esque MNU labs.

5) The humans attempted communication with prawns hence how they learned their language, but over time the humans determined that the prawns were unintelligent and like mentioned before the worker caste of their species. Also in the newscasts and documentary sections the people who were interacting with the prawns believed that the leaders of their race or the primary controllers had somehow died off or abandoned the 1.7 million prawns. The alien christopher johnson was probably not a leader but was more intelligent and obviously chose to hide this fact for the most part from the humans.

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Spoiler!

1) yeah you don't know what they were doing up there, but once they boarded the ship and realized ' oh shit there are things in here dying ' why would the 2nd reaction be ' hey guy's let's take them to the surface and have them mingle with the general population '. makes no rationale sense. introducing the prawns onto the surface would create so many more problems then simply sending them food and medical supplies. again, this leads up to the weakness of the plot.

2) and the humans with gps and helicopters, cannot beat a bunch of prawns on legs to the lewt?

3)okay, that's for humans though, humans have no intrinsic value to modern society, aliens with advanced technology do. why the hell would you allow stupid thugs to potentially gain a devastating weapon when you could *easily* just kill them. a simple wall, or maybe a 'authorized entry only' sign would help? I mean, the whole world probably give the South African government funding to contain and research the prawns. and i mean come on, prawns are strong enough to rip a human to pieces in seconds, yet the only thing seperating them from humans is.. a chain fence? most slums and sketchy parts of the world, do not have access to the worlds most advanced military technology, but a cripple from nigeria did.

4)so after only 20 years of attempting to study an object, all the reasearchers just packed it in and gave up? you got a huge ship that carries over 1 million inhabitants and the researchers run out of things to do?

5) so, the prawns are not capable of having memories? they cannot tell of their experiences leading UP to being stranded on earth? could they atleast say they were mining, or colonizing or wtf? poke and prod at they pysche?


the plot seems to rest on a series of convienant mistakes.