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29th Mar '13 3:35:04 PM Austin

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* PlotHole: 
** [[spoiler: Why would aliens tell a young girl every disaster there will be when the world is going to end in 50 years anyway? Also what the heck were the numbers that Caleb was writing all about? There couldn't have been that many disasters in 24 fricken hours!]]
*** The point was to show that [[spoiler: the aliens were forcing many other kids to write the numbers throughout history and all over the world.]] This way the first girl at the start of the movie is not the only one with the numbers. And thus several people would learn about the numbers, realize that [[spoiler:everyone will die]] and parents will be OK with [[spoiler:aliens taking the kids on the spaceships]]. This troper is making a large assumption about this based on the fact that we see several space ships leaving at the end.
*** Double plot hole since [[spoiler:the aliens could easily kidnap the kids against the parents will at any time they want. And they freaking do at the end.]]
*** Was Cage's character the only person on earth to ever figure out the purpose of the numbers? Because otherwise someone else would have told the media and easily proven that the numbers were true and become a famous billionaire. [[spoiler:Did all of the other ships at the end come for kids who were kidnapped because their parents did not notice?]]
** [[spoiler: Why don't the aliens just tell humans in a normal way that shit will go down on the last day and to be ready instead of giving the numbers which only super geniuses could figure out?]]
*** [[spoiler: [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Because they're aliens]]. Chances are they don't understand how humans communicate on a large scale. Hell, chances are large scale communication may be against the conventions of polite behavior for them. They're alien. They don't think like us. Also, there is the possibility of phenomenal cosmic power, itty bitty living space: they might not be ''able'' to communicate in a way we see as normal, and as far as they know, that ''was'' normal.]]
**** [[spoiler: Yet if they knew how humans notate dates and coordinates well enough so that they could induce CHILDREN to write them down, they can't have been that ignorant of human society or psychology. And there's no explanation of why such a technologically-advanced species couldn't learn to friggin' speak English, or at least make devices that could translate their thoughts for them!]]
** [[spoiler: Why did they not start picking up people until the last day, why not start gathering people 50 years ago?]]
*** [[spoiler: Causality. If they'd interfered before the flare, it would alter our history. Even the parts that hadn't happened, yet. Again, they're aliens. Rules of biology, legality and communication are vague.]]
** [[spoiler: Why do aliens care at all about the humans?]]
*** [[spoiler: Everybody needs a hobby. For some [entities], it's wildlife preservation. CosmicHorrorStory, remember?]]
** [[spoiler: Why do the aliens only grab some people, specifically kids who can "hear them"? Nick Cage asks why he is not allowed to go with his son and not be burnt alive but was told that he could not basically "just because".]]
*** [[spoiler: Because YouthIsInnocent. The adults had their chance and they messed everything up. Which is a logical fallacy, but again... aliens.]]
** [[spoiler: Why did the aliens have to drive to the center of a forest for pickup? They are aliens, they can land anywhere. And they already have the kid in their possession and who cares if people see the aliens?]]
*** [[spoiler: Well... why not? They're trying to be nice about all this, and mass hysteria wasn't part of their planned effect, but honestly, the answer is why not? If they did decide to land in the middle of civilization, you could just as easily ask why they didn't go in the woods.]]
** [[spoiler: Why do the aliens give black rocks to the kid? There are black rocks at the pick up point, but the aliens drag the kid to the point, the kid does not go to the point himself.]]
*** [[spoiler: Imagine a guy with crazy hair holding an invisible ball with standard meme letters: ALIENS. That black rock may have been perfectly clear instructions... ''to them''. They tried to explain the details of the appointment, but the tall human was going to make the kids miss their ride. He wanted to put them in a subterranean burn hole. What choice did they have, really?]]
** What was the point of giving Lucinda the vision in the first place? If she was one of the chosen ones to be saved, why did the Strangers drive her so insane that she eventually ''killed herself''?
*** Unfortunate side effect. The paper needed to be in the capsule. That was the whole of her purpose beside having a grandchild. The fact the the imported information knocked her out of her mind was an accident.

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