As I was writing the story yesterday, it got me to thinking a lot deeper into the movie "Independence Day", the first of many Will Smith films to integrate some form of alien or monster or robot or fish.
I'll be blunt, the aliens in Independence Day were dumb. Straight up.
First of all, why did they care so much about hovering over the White House and attacking that? Was that really necessary to do? If they're going to do the most amount of damage to the most amount of people, I really doubt that blowing that up was the best idea. I feel like the aliens were just being cocky about it. Seriously. They could have just sent in a couple alien dudes to go in and get things done.
How much energy does it take to use that damn weapon, anyway? I figure if their entire race depended on the sole idea that they had limited resources, and thereby they had to go get other planets' resources, they'd be pretty damn economical when it came to putting their resources to use.
But regardless of that little bit that was confusing, why in the hell were they blowing everything up in the first place? Weren't they coming to earth to reap us of all our precious, precious resources? Oh man, here's a great idea, let's blow everything all the hell up and see what's left to reap.
I just feel like the aliens didn't plan this thing out at all.
Why the hell is the Statue of Liberty tipped over in this scene in the movie? Did they go and just tip it over for good measure? What the hell.
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First of all you have no idea what you're talking about with the whole "aliens not being economical" thing. If anything the aliens are being the most efficient by attacking the major cities and thought processors of the world. Think about it for one second, if you blow up the white house and killed everyone in it, no one's going to be left to set up a solid defense against you. Also by striking at the major cities of the world your killing the most people per square mile. It's a lot smarter than sending in a bunch of armies to sift through the country side trying to find the humans.
And what the hell makes you think that they are destroying any of the resources that they came to "reap". For all you know they simply want the oxygen, It's obvious that that is indeed what they breath because they were surviving in our atmosphere while Will was dragging it through the desert. And how do you know that shooting those beams could have even wasted energy, it could have been solar energy and it just a small amount of energy to harness it and then unleash it.
Think of it in terms of the US in Iraq. They're there to get oil, we all know it. But first of all they are going to bomb the shit out of it. Yeah there are some ground forces but the majority of the damage is with air strikes and such. Even dropping a bomb on the damned place wouldn't hurt the oil in any way which is the resource that we're trying to get. That's exactly what the aliens are doing, except while we're trying to win the war without killing a lot of people, they're trying to do it by killing everyone.
Think before you speak.
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