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* An average for a bachelor’s is 4 yrs, plus another 2 years for a masters and maybe another 8 yrs for a doctorate, depending on the topic. That’s less than 30 years, and they had all the information they needed from the ship’s database, according to the film. The fact that they lived an idyllic lifestyle, in harmony with their planet doesn’t mean they couldn’t understand or had the ability to learn. When we reach out to customer service for help with our tech, more often than not, we are speaking to someone in a so-called 3rd world country. Also, energy or power seems to be part of their physical make-up, like the pearls they are named after. Their bodies glitter and shine like xmas lights. Remember how the princess washed her face with pearls when she woke up? That looked like washing, but maybe it was breakfast. And remember how the empress was able to see her daughter in Valerian? She saw her energy. She woke the commander with a touch. She released her daughter’s soul with a hand gesture… There is also a scene in which the Emperor explains how they survived, escaped and learned.
My question is how they got a crashed ship to fly before the planet was destroyed.
My question is how they got a crashed ship to fly before the planet was destroyed.
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** When Laurelie finds Valerian on the shelf, where the Boulan Bathor are fishing, there is a sign on the wall that said “deactivated”. Maybe it’s deactivated because they have fishing rights and no one should be there?Anything/anyone caught there is dinner as they are trespassing. Not only is there territorial sovereignty at play but there may also be “castle doctrine” laws. As for specialized eating tools, with a thousand planets represented on Alpha, I’m sure those specialized eating tools are not limited to “humans”. How many of us use a salad fork exclusively for salads or a soup ladle just for soup?
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** The tourists needed helmets and gloves to interact in the Big Market. Valerian had one of those gloves on his left hand. The question is…how did Valerian get the pearl out of the Big Market dimension? It was never in a box…
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* The Pearls attack the station and engage in a firefight - while almost completely naked?!?!?!?
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** Maybe they just didn't care? Plenty of real-world wars have been fought without much attention paid to the innocent people caught up in the crossfire.
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* What was the point of the cover-up anyway? Why didn't either side in the space battle above Planet Mul offer to help the Pearls, a neutral civilization that got caught in the crossfire of their conflict, with aid and reparations for destroying their world's biosphere?
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*** ^Then perhaps the station's administration is actually doing a bad job here. There are real-life governments that work too hard to appease an enemy they'd be better off confronting. See Neville Chamberlain, for instance.
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** Maybe the rest of human interstellar civilization has expanded in the opposite direction, and Earth is no longer the center of UHF government (or at least of its court system).
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** One fringe benefit of being part of a society which accommodates thousands of disparate alien species, many of whom are a ''lot'' more inhuman than the Pearls, may be that technology is customarily made '''extremely''' user-friendly. If, say, an alien diplomat that looks like a squashed jellyfish and thinks solely in complex polynomials might have to figure out how to use the escape pods, the food dispensers, and/or the can unassisted on an Alpha ship, why ''wouldn't'' all devices be made self-explanatory by default?
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* How did the inhabitants/survivors of Planet Mül, who lived a stagnant, "idyllic", non-technological life on a planet surface, without any knowledge of our technology...manage to commandeer a broken spaceship, escape their planet, survive on a spaceship, repair the same spaceship, learn libraries of information, live on a scrap ship, sneak onto Alpha, ''AND'' build a second spaceship...all in the space of a ''few years'' since [[spoiler:Commander Filitt]] led the armada battle above Mül?? And without being detected by ''anyone'' in charge?? Remember, [[spoiler:Filitt]] was an adult during the battle, and looked not much older during the time of the film, no more than a decade.
** Really, no matter how smart they could have been, it would have taken decades, at least, to do all of those things. Their feat is even less believable when you realize that we ourselves often can't get our ''own'' technology working correctly when it's broken, '''when we know how it works, and have the parts and resources to fix it'''. And yet some aliens without a history of technology, or any initial knowledge of our civilization, somehow did all those things...??
** Really, no matter how smart they could have been, it would have taken decades, at least, to do all of those things. Their feat is even less believable when you realize that we ourselves often can't get our ''own'' technology working correctly when it's broken, '''when we know how it works, and have the parts and resources to fix it'''. And yet some aliens without a history of technology, or any initial knowledge of our civilization, somehow did all those things...??
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* How did the inhabitants/survivors of Planet Mül, who lived a stagnant, "idyllic", non-technological life on a planet surface, without any knowledge of our technology...technology or previous contact with us...manage to commandeer a broken spaceship, escape their planet, survive on a spaceship, repair the same spaceship, learn libraries of information, live on a scrap ship, sneak onto Alpha, ''AND'' build a second spaceship...all in the space of a ''few years'' '''''few years''''' since [[spoiler:Commander Filitt]] led the armada battle above Mül?? And without being detected by ''anyone'' '''''anyone''''' in charge?? charge ([[spoiler:other than Filitt]])?? Remember, [[spoiler:Filitt]] was an adult during the battle, and looked not much older during the time of the film, no more than a decade.
** Really, no matter how smart they could have been, it would have taken decades, at least, to do all of those things. Their feat is even less believable when you realize that we ourselves often can't get our''own'' '''''own''''' technology working correctly when it's broken, '''when '''''when we know how it works, and have the parts and resources to fix it'''. it'''''. And yet some aliens without a history of technology, first contact with the Alpha cultures, or any '''''any''''' initial knowledge of our civilization, somehow did all '''''all those things...things'''''...??
** Really, no matter how smart they could have been, it would have taken decades, at least, to do all of those things. Their feat is even less believable when you realize that we ourselves often can't get our
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** Really, no matter how smart they could have been, it would have taken decades, at least, to do all of those things. Their feat is even less believable when you realize that we ourselves often can't get our ''own'' technology working correctly when it's broken, '''when we know how it works, and have the parts and resources to fix it'''. And yet some aliens without a history of technology, or any initial knowledge of our civilization, somehow did all those things...??
** Really, no matter how smart they could have been, it would have taken decades, at least, to do all of those things. Their feat is even less believable when you realize that we ourselves often can't get our ''own'' technology working correctly when it's broken, '''when we know how it works, and have the parts and resources to fix it'''. And yet some aliens without a history of technology, or any initial knowledge of our civilization, somehow did all those things...??
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** He was kicking people and clambering over stuff and bouncing off pedestrians, all through the chase. Whatever sort of cross-dimensional linkage allows beings from our dimension to shop in Big Market, it isn't restricted to just what's stuck through a conduit/box.
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** Apparently there ''was'' at least one expert on Mul who'd been murdered as part of the cover-up, and there ''were'' photos of the planet's appearance from before the catastrophe on file. Possibly there'd been at least a cursory visit there, but one that landed in a region where there weren't any Pearls living, just wildlife.
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** Apparently there ''was'' at least one expert on Mul who'd been murdered as part of the cover-up, and there ''were'' photos of the planet's appearance from before the catastrophe on file. Possibly there'd been at least a cursory visit there, but one that landed in a region where there weren't any Pearls living, just wildlife.
wildlife. Their total population was probably never very large, given the simplicity of their lifestyle.
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** Apparently there ''was'' at least one expert on Mul who'd been murdered as part of the cover-up, and there ''were'' photos of the planet's appearance from before the catastrophe on file. Possibly there'd been at least a cursory visit there, but one that landed in a region where there weren't any Pearls living, just wildlife.
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** It would be pretty foolish of them to fish for people without having some means of disabling the equipment of their catch. Valerian probably only had the chance to use his gun before ''his'' gear was disabled because, unlike Laureline, he knew what to expect when he got hauled up.
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** Perhaps he ''used to'' be Emperor of their planet, but was ousted from power. He fled his homeworld with a bunch of followers, who set up a piddly little "empire" in a low-rent corner of Alpha, where whichever royal cousin usurped the throne can't arrest or eliminate his government-in-exile without angering a few thousand other races for damaging their mutual space habitat.
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** Possibly "replicators" ''in general'' are a concept that is well-known, with biological examples existing on more worlds than just Mül. However, most of the familiar types only replicate quartz or paper clips or advertising pamphlets or whatever. It's replicators that can ''mass-produce magic pearls'' that are rare and nearly extinct.
