They should win an award for "getting it"

[seriousfic]

Seen in an advert for the remade The Day The Earth Stood Still (I'm still surprised they haven't managed to fix an abbreviation with an X into the ad campaign. DESSX!): On December 12th, we make our stand.

Played over scenes of jet fighters, tanks, and such going to fight the big globey things. Which is, umm, actually called for, as in this version Klaatu wants to destroy the world.

You know, Hollywood, I accept that you're going to make movies about benevolent/superior aliens who lecture us Earthlings about polluting the environment and waging war and voting no on Prop 8. But for the love of God, when you put in bullheaded military officers to be misguided about our condescending alien friends, could you please not make their fears totally justified?

I mean, James Cameron cut out the mile-high tidal wave subplot from The Abyss (watch it again, knowing the insane military commando is right about everything and our "heroes" are actually unknowingly helping commit planetary genocide. It's called the director's cut), so you've gotta know this lesson. Just... either give us evil aliens whose ass we can kick or benevolent aliens for our kids to play with. Not... both... at the same time...

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[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

I kinda don't get the perspective of "It's wrong that you're killing each other with nuclear weapons, so we're going to kill you all with a giant tidal wave."

It's a little like the "why do we murder murderers to show that murder is wrong?", only now it's "why do we murder murderers and 6.5 billion people who were standing next to him to show that murder is wrong?"

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

I kinda don't get the perspective of "It's wrong that you're killing each other with nuclear weapons, so we're going to kill you all with a giant tidal wave."

Some lifeforms would survive a Waterworld. NO lifeforms (except for cockroaches) would survive a Nuclear Holocaust.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

So dolphins get to live over cows and puppies (assuming humans don't count)? Not very environmentalist of those aliens.

And of course, I find it hard to believe that flooding the entire globe wouldn't fuck up the aquatic ecosystem. Just for instance, say a lead factory or nuclear reactor goes underwater...

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's an extremist solution by any stretch, but again, if it's a choice between SOME life and NO life?

At least the Abyss aliens have an excuse, unlike Klaatu, since it's their planet too.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

Bah. Any aliens who can't whip up a decent bioweapon don't deserve their saucers.

I mean, really, all you need to do is beef up AIDS or influenza and bam, job's done. Mile-high tidal waves must be the ET equivalent of the Bridge to Nowhere...