Line #18 WMG/ETTheExtraTerrestrial


1	WildMassGuessing for ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
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3	[[WMG: ET was the first alien ambassador to Earth.]]
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5	Never forgetting his "connection" with the stars, Elliot eventually became an astronaut. His great-grandson will eventually be the first man on Mars, and his family will carry on a proud spacefaring tradition.
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7	Thousands of years later, with humanity dispersed to other planets in the galaxy, a distant descendant of his will briefly consider joining the space fleet of the central galactic military, until [[Franchise/StarWars a certain moisture farmer from an obscure desert planet]] will convince him to take up the rebels' cause...
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9	** That doesn't work, because Star Wars took place "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Elliot would have to be the descendent of Luke Skywalker - not the other way around.
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11	PS: Elliot's DisappearedDad was a [[Franchise/IndianaJones somewhat libertine archaeologist]] who loved treasure-hunting a bit more than a quiet suburban life.
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13	Okay, now we just need the mandatory guesses about Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya, Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion and [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lords]].
14	** People keep getting the impression that Star Wars takes place in the future. The "Long time ago in a galaxy far far away" most likely means that it's set millions of years before our planet was created and civilized. Many galaxies could have humans and humanoid lifeforms with technology that may seem advanced but are older than ours.
15	*** The thing about humans in ''Franchise/StarWars'' is a bit debatable. [[WordOfGod Lucas and co.]] have always been [[ShrugOfGod deliberately vague]] about the origin of humans in the ''Star Wars'' universe, but it's been established that, while humans are the dominant species on many worlds in the galaxy (Alderaan, Corellia and Coruscant, to name a few), they aren't indigenous to any of those planets--they're colonists who arrived from some unknown planet thousands of years in the past. Theories abound, but it's natural to assume that said planet was Earth.
16	*** And there was a [[WhatCouldHaveBeen planned (but unreleased)]] novel called ''Star Wars: Alien Exodus'' that would have established that humans wound up in the galaxy after fleeing Earth and traveling through a time warp. Some fans still consider this explanation {{canon}}. If this is true, it would mean that the humans ''are'' from Earth's future, even if the events of the series take place in the past. The meeting with E.T. could have inspired humans to make the trip into space that would end with them going through the time warp.
17	** This is actually somewhat {{canon}}. In ''The Phantom Menace'', Creator/GeorgeLucas purposely included a shot of a group of aliens in the Galactic Senate that look like E.T. as a ShoutOut to Spielberg. It's since been [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips established]] that they come from a planet called "Brodo Asogi" (one of the names given to E.T.'s home planet in the spin-off novel ''E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet''), and that their ambassador to the Senate is named [[SdrawkcabName "Grebleips"]]. An entry on the ''Franchise/StarWars'' website "[=HoloNet=] News" also mentions that Grebleips was involved in funding an exploratory expedition outside the Star Wars Galaxy, but the results of it are unknown...
18	*** And when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1SLrPXLc0 E.T. sees a kid in a Yoda costume]], he makes a beeline for him, saying "Home! Home! Home!" He thinks it actually IS the esteemed Jedi Master! (Or at least a member of his species.)
19	* Not only is E.T. from the Star Wars galaxy, he's a Jedi. He used TheForce to make the bicycle fly.
20	* Yeah, but let's not forget Elliot shows E.T his collection of Star Wars toys.
21	** The Force somewhat screwed up and waves of pictures of the past somehow wound up in earthling George Lucas's dreams one night. He made a movie out of it. (Not the real George Lucas: his counterpart in the E.T. universe that made the movie the toys are based on.)
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23	[[WMG: Elliot's Father]]
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25	Instead of [[Franchise/IndianaJones a certain archeologist]] suggested in the WMG above, Elliot's father is actually Mutt Williams aka Henry Jones III.
26	* This is actually much more likely. If he's 10 years old, Elliot would have been born around 1972, at which point Indy would be 73 years old (he was canonically born in 1899) and pushing 80 when Gertie came around. Even for Franchise/IndianaJones that's a bit hard to believe. Mutt, assuming he was conceived during or shortly after the events of Raiders, would likely have been born in early 1937, which would make him a much more reasonable 35 for Elliot's birth.
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28	Or instead of being related to Indy,he was actually recruited to be an agent with [[Film/MenInBlack a government agency dedicated to protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe]]. "Going to Mexico with Sally" was actually the cover for how Elliot's dad's previous identity was erased.
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30	[[WMG: Keys is Elliot's father]]
31	Keys is first shown listening to Elliot when he's talking about his dad and Keys seems to be emotional (the way his face looks in the shadow is similar to the way Elliot's mom looked when she thought of Elliot's dad). Then later when Elliot and ET are with the doctors, Keys talks to Elliot very warmly; while it's probably due to Keys just being a nice guy, he seems to be acting a little too close towards someone he's just met. He almost acts like he already knows Elliot and cares for him, such as if he were his father. Finally, he is the only one present when ET leaves who is not officially a member of the family. His being there could signify that he actually is a part of the family as the father. Not to mention the way he's standing next to Elliot's mom also seems a little close for someone who's more or less a stranger to these people.
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33	[[WMG: The aliens seen in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' are based on a true story InUniverse.]]
34	Franchise/StarWars exists in the E.T. universe. Towards the end when the house is quarantined and blocked off we see a crowd of people, including a news van. The story of an alien being found more than likely made the news, and pictures of E.T. were published. George Lucas used it as a background detail when he made another movie down the road.
35	* Or maybe Eliot remained alien-obsessed as he grew up, got involved in science fiction, and wound up working for ILM as a creature-designer. When the chance to work on the prequels to his favorite childhood film-series came along, he made sure that his long-lost friend E.T. wasn't left out.
36	* In alternative: within the universe of the movie, Franchise/StarWars really was based by an alien chronicle called ''Journal of the Whills'', which showed pictures of many nonhuman alien species. When pictures of E.T. made the news, George Lucas was not surprised.
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38	[[WMG: The planet that E.T. came from actually is Uranus]]
39	* Well, that certainly would explain his color...
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41	[[WMG: ET didn't actually exist]]
42	It was just an imaginary friend Elliott made up to cope with his loneliness. E.T. may've been a frog or lizard he found in the yard, or he pretended the dog was E.T. Elliott's mom never actually acknowledges E.T. except when Gertie asks if he's dead.
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44	[[WMG: ET was marooned deliberately.]]
45	One question nobody ever seem to ask is why ET needed to phone home in the first place.
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47	I mean, you’d think that after accidentally abandoning one of his crew on an alien world, the first thing any decent space captain would do is turn around and start using all his ship’s space-sensors to find his guy so they can rescue him.
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49	Even if the space sensors couldn’t find the sad little turd-person, they should have picked up his phone home signal in, like, three minutes, and been there within the hour. Instead Elliott and ET waited all night, then had to spend, like, two more days being probed by the government and dying in ditches before getting the flying bicycle back to Spaceville.
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51	The conclusion of all this is obvious: ET wasn’t forgotten by his crewmates, he was marooned. They dumped him deliberately and then -- as evidenced by the length of time it took them to get back -- they flew off in a direction that was Away.
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53	So why did they come back at all? Well, clearly a ship that advanced would have a computerised log. And they couldn’t very well get back to their home planet and tell their glowy-fingered alien masters: “Yeah, we got a distress signal, but we decided to ignore it because screw that guy.”
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55	What they could tell their glowy-fingered alien masters, of course, is: “Yeah, we rescued him, but he turned out to be infected with weird Earth diseases, so we were forced to savagely beat him with our space-clubs, and then throw him out the airlock. It was really sad; we were forced to hold an awesome party to make ourselves feel better.”
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57	And now you know why there was never a sequel.
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59	** ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' seems to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhxUinBnxo support this theory]]
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61	[[WMG: E.T. is related to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Bulbasaur]]]]
62	Bulbasaur is more of a plant than an animal and the two do make flowers bloom when they're at the top of their game.
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64	[[WMG: E.T. was the captain of the ship that left him behind.]]
65	Related to the above theory about being left behind deliberately.
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67	Even if the crew basically decided to say "sod that guy", there would still be questions about just how they managed to sustain casualties on a scouting mission, and judging by how they did it privately they wouldn't want to leave behind a body, meaning simply saying "a native animal mauled him" and any attack by a human would surely lead to war.
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69	Therefore, I propose that E.T. was the captain of a ship that decided to mutiny against him, leaving him behind on a backwater planet where he wouldn't be able to arrange rescue, giving the renegade ship time to escape. E.T. getting rescued means that things just got a lot worse for that crew now he's been rescued, and judging by the level of competence E.T. shows, they may not have been wholly unjustified in mutinying.
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71	Alternatively...
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73	[[WMG: Earth is like a penal colony.]]
74	E.T. managed to earn the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters ire of the government while appealing to the people]], resulting in him being arrested and deported, preventing him from earning martyr status but hopefully stopping his cause. Unfortunately for the government and fortunately for the people, his message reached his fellow rebels, who tracked him down (hence why they took so long to arrive) and now it's time for a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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76	[[WMG: This movie really is set in the ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' universe.]]
77	Spielberg has said this was kind of a sequel, but it could stand there as one on its own merit. See, after first contact in the 1970's in the first movie, the government has been watching the skies. They detected ET's ship landing and sent a group to invstigate, this being the first time aliens have landed since the 1970's. ET, of course, is a completely different race from the other aliens and they may or may not know about each other. This explains why the humans were aware of the landing and why they already had devices to scan for alien traces, and all the stuff all ready to roll to close off a house with plastic for study. Keys said he's been dreaming about this since he was a kid - that's because he wasn't at the 1970's landing himself, so he's still never seen a real space alien. Humans want to study an alien because the 1970's crew didn't drop off a body of theirs for us to study.
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79	[[WMG: ET is starving.]]
80	Oh, yeah - he can eat earth food, but it's a chemical he usually gets in his normal food he's lacking. One of the injections they tried when trying to bring ET back was the stuff or close enough to give him an extra boost.
81	** This is supported by the scientists' background dialogue -- they say that E.T.'s DNA is encoded with six bases instead of the four that terrestrial life has.
82	** So he basically had alien scurvy? That could explain his very rapid recovery. It's possible for a human to die of scurvy if we don't get any Vitamin C, but even a small amount will cure it fairly rapidly.
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84	[[WMG: The Organisation was not the american CIA but the SCP foundation.]]
85	Massive outlandish resources from nowhere, hiding as much as they possibly can ect ect.
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87	[[WMG: E.T. didn't actually mistake the kid dressed as Yoda for Yoda himself.]]
88	The Star Wars Saga explicitly takes place "''a long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away," which means Yoda would've died...well, a long time ago. While we can't be sure exactly how long "a long time ago" is, even if E.T. knew Yoda due to being similarly long-lived, he likely would've known by then of the Grand Master's death. Perhaps instead, he mistook the kid in the costume for another member of Yoda's species: namely, a grown up [[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]].
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90	[[WMG: Why was there a corn field planted right next to Elliott's house?]]
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93	[[WMG: Elliot's Mom was the one who asked for the divorce.]]
94	Given the real life context of the film's story, that Spielberg being a child of divorce, it's likely that Elliot's mom asked Elliot's dad for a divorce. Seeing that Spielberg was mad at his father because he left, he had no clue the reason behind it at the time. Elliot and his siblings think their father chose to up and abandon them, unaware that their mom initiated a divorce and allowed the kids to believe it was their father's choice.
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