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Originally Posted by dna82

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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. Also to address your piss poor population control.. this is a parallel to the situation going on in africa right now. Millions of africans reproducing having uprotected sex contracting various diseases and giving birth to children without the means to take care of them.

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.

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1) Them taking the aliens off the ship was as a result of the govt's initial humanitarian effort. While it was implied that the contractors and corporation was mostly evil, there was obviously a lot of people who cared about the well being of the prawns even if they were alien. I'm sure once they found out they were starving on the ship, it could have been inferred that there was something causing them to die on the ship. Also simply shipping food up there would've probably been more difficult.

Touching on the evil corps, they obviously wanted the aliens out of there so they could do research and take the alien tech. But when it was determined after much studying that they couldn't do much with it most interest in the immediate technology waned.

2) They may have gps and helicopters, but obviously the alien tech doesnt have a beacon attached to it. In an area like the slums where everything is such a mess, it would be pretty easy to hide some alien tech. Afterall the command module ship was pretty big when it initially fell, but they couldn't find it all those years. It was implied in the movie that they looked for it a lot but couldn't find a thing. Of course one could say oh that's just what the movie is telling you, but get deep enough one could do that to any premise from any movie.

3) As mentioned in rslaters post, the alien weaponry was mostly useless since the researchers couldn't make and ends up or down about it as the tech was bioengineered to work only with the aliens. Hence, this would explain why the govt didn't swoop down and take all that stuff when it was mostly inoperable garbage. Also since most of the alien prawns were of a lower societal caste as in the worker class, they were evidenced to be much more compliant and gullible, albiet at times highly aggressive when their dwelling places were threatened. This was highlighted when the cripple african tricked on alien into staying behind to get chopped.

On the advanced weapons issue, even the warlords in north africa have fully automatic weaponry rocket propelled grenades and what not, it wouldnt be much of a stretch for them to obtain a bunch of weapons which are pretty much useless to human beings.

4) They didn't so much run out of things to do but instead refocused their efforts on genetics as that was what was preventing them from utilizing the advanced alien tech as I mentioned earlier.

5) The prawns have memories, but as evidenced in the movie, they aren't exactly on the best terms with humans. Why would you want to disclose your information to someone you view in a poor light. Just the same would a tribesman be inclined to tell some new authority about all his previous actions? Also with regards to your command ship issue, the ship probably had chris johnson in it, so when it dropped out, he couldve taken quick steps to make sure its hidden, then afterward built his shack on top of it. With the advanced alien tech, heck even a decent sized explosion wouldve made a quick enough hole for the ship to be buried.