History Headscratchers / Oblivion2013

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It's never stated that the Tet was created to do what it's doing. Maybe it was created for an entire different purpose (for example a mobile defense fortress operated by aliens), but because AIIsACrapshoot (for example it might have developed a god complex once it noticed it's able to ''create'' life) it instead decided to conquer other worlds by itself, even though it sucks at it.

** It's never stated that the Tet was created to do what it's doing. Maybe it was created for an entire different purpose (for example a mobile defense fortress operated by aliens), but because AIIsACrapshoot (for example it might have developed a god complex once it noticed it's able to ''create'' life) it instead decided to conquer other worlds by itself, even though it sucks at it.

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[[folder: Tech 52]]
Jack is referred to (and refers to himself) as Tech 52. There is a 52 on his uniform. There is a 52 on their station. There is a 52 on his bubble car. Yet they do not seem to have any curiosity ''at all'' about the possibility of a Tech 51, or a Tech 53.

** The pods are probably shielded against radiation to protect their occupant, which would also act to block things like detecting the power emissions of an active fuel cell rigged to explode inside. Note that the drones looked in the windows to see what was in the pods and target the humans inside when the ''Odyssey'' first crashed.

** Regarding using other methods to contact Jack - it's implied that the Scavs have tried at lesat some of these methods without success. Approaching a Jack openly as humans or leaving messages at a downed drone apparently hasn't convinced one of the truth in the past, or if it has then that Jack was eliminated by the Tet as an "ineffective team" before the Scavs realized that it had worked. They capture Jack-49 and threaten Julia rather than trying to tell him the truth because a threat seems to have the best chance of getting Jack-49 to do what they want. Beech decides to try something else when that doesn't work, but he's not going to waste his time on the same long explanations that have failed to convince other Jacks that they are clones working for the wrong side. He believes Jack-49 will only be convinced if he finds out the truth for himself.

* Sally seems to have terrible contingency protocols. When Victoria declares that she and 49 are no longer an effective team, rather than detonating the entire platform, or unlocking the moorings to send it crashing to the ground, Sally simply unlocks all the doors and sics a single barely functioning drone on the two. Why not disable the bubble ship of the "innefective" team?

* The idea of stealing Earth's water for hydrogen or whatever, bothered the heck out of me. MST3K mantra aside, hydrogen is THE MOST ABUNDANT ELEMENT IN THE UNIVERSE!!! Lot's of other way to collect the needed hydrogen. Hell, Europa has huge deposits of (frozen) water. Perhaps Tet was looking for deuterium in heavy water...who knows. There isn't that much deuterium on Earth. Exterminating and then cloning humans in order to steal water is an extreme waste of resources. Especially water, as last I checked...humans are made of about 40 litres of water. And don't get me started on Tet's "blind side"...too little of the movie made sense to me to enjoy.

* Rather than focus on details, let's think about the big picture for a moment. Why is the Tet even attacking planets at all? To recharge its batteries? Going from planet to planet sucking up water seems like a very inefficient and risky way of doing that. It forces the Tet into a nomadic lifestyle whereby it has to build up sufficient energy reserves to survive the trip to the next solar system, all the while blindly hoping that the next solar system will have a suitable planet that can be harvested. Why do that? The Tet can evidently manufacture specialized, purpose-made machinery and equipment, as evidenced by all the buildings, weapons, bubble ships, etc., all apparently specially designed and built to be usable by humans. So why not just build a load of solar panels and deploy them into orbit around the sun? Yeah, you'd need a lot of them, but the energy and resources necessary for an interstellar trip are vast and would be much better spent building the beginnings of a Dyson swarm. Judging by Sally's stinginess with spare parts and drones (of which there are *thousands* inside the Tet), harvesting planets is barely enough to meet the Tet's needs. Creating a bunch of solar power satelites would provide a constant source of energy, and the energy thus obtained could be used to keep adding even more satelites and generating even more energy, eventually dwarfing the energy production capacity of the water towers and supplying the Tet with more energy than it knew what to do with for billions of years.

* Rather than focus on details, let's think about the big picture for a moment. Why is the Tet even attacking planets at all? To recharge its batteries? Going from planet to planet sucking up water seems like a very inefficient and risky way of doing that. It forces the Tet into a nomadic lifestyle whereby it has to build up sufficient energy reserves to survive the trip to the next solar system, all the while blindly hoping that the next solar system will have a suitable planet that can be harvested. Why do that? The Tet can evidently manufacture machinery and equipment as required, as evidenced by all the buildings, weapons, bubble ships, etc., all apparently specially designed and built to be used and maintained by humans. So why not just build a load of solar panels and deploy them into orbit around the sun? Yeah, you'd need a lot of them, but the energy and resources necessary for an interstellar trip are vast and would be much better spent building the beginnings of a Dyson swarm. Judging by Sally's stinginess with spare parts, harvesting planets is barely enough to meet the Tet's needs. Creating a bunch of solar power satelites would provide a constant source of energy, and the energy thus obtained could be used to keep adding even more satelites and generating even more energy, eventually dwarfing the energy production capacity of the water towers and supplying the Tet with more energy than it knew what to do with for billions of years.

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* Why is nearly every example of Tet/Sally being stupid dismissed with "the AI wasn't programmed for creativity" or "the AI doesn't understand humanity"? Think about it, this AI singlehandedly destroyed human society in a colossal war, invented or at least uses weapons that are generally familiar by human standards such as assault rifles, and above all else, made a hugely elaborate lie to keep the clones motivated and avoid asking questions. You're telling me the AI that could do all of that didn't understand humans enough to suppose that Jack might want to fight back if he figured out the truth? That the AI that created the mother of all Big Lies didn't understand that Jack might try to deceive it ''even after deducing that he lied to it?'' Or that the AI that specifically paired off pairs of Jacks and Vikas in romantic relationships honestly thought Jack-49 would think absolutely nothing of Vika-49 being killed?

* At the end, why don't they scan and detect, you know, major anatomic differences (at the bare minimum) between Julia and Beech? Or a big explosion waiting to happen elsewhere in the craft?[[/folder]]