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[[spoiler: The Watchers were going to do the AdamAndEvePlot and the entire movie was them showing other aliens what will happen to Earth and what their plan is. They soon happen to show it to the Incubators, which happens to be a bittersweet thing. The Incubators decide to avert this by creating the Puella Magis, using their despair to protect the Earth from the flare. It was a success and the Watchers allowed them to protect the Earth from other threats such as the Heat Death.]]

I didn't check Wiki/TheOtherWiki, so I don't know whether this was already denied by WordOfGod. Now, let's come to the point. The girl prophesied the shit will hit the fan, and where to go to get saved (possibly knowing it'll only help her granddaughter and new buddy of her). Now jump forward these forty or how many years. Some aliens discover Sun is just about to go KABOOM: "Holy sh*t, what do we do!?" "Well, we ought to help these creatures... Find them a nice new planet or whatnot" "How? We don't have enough ships!" (for whichever reason) "So let's just take, like, some of their younglings, and yeah...".

What if, rather than the saviors these [[OurAngelsAreDifferent apparently angelic beings]] try to appear to be, they are instead looking ahead, seeing a possible way that things could come about, and then ''[[YouCantFightFate ensuring they happen that way?]]'' They knew there was a possibility that the sun would fry the Earth with a solar flare. [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy Let's not get into how ridiculous that is, for starters]]. But since that flare was caused through a series of quantum events, there was always a chance it would happen earlier, or later, or aim in a different direction. Any number of things could have happened differently.

Basically, everything is [[Webcomic/Homestuck Sburb]], minus the game element, and they're all on their way to becoming god tier.

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I didn't check TheOtherWiki, so I don't know whether this was already denied by WordOfGod. Now, let's come to the point. The girl prophesied the shit will hit the fan, and where to go to get saved (possibly knowing it'll only help her granddaughter and new buddy of her). Now jump forward these forty or how many years. Some aliens discover Sun is just about to go KABOOM: "Holy sh*t, what do we do!?" "Well, we ought to help these creatures... Find them a nice new planet or whatnot" "How? We don't have enough ships!" (for whichever reason) "So let's just take, like, some of their younglings, and yeah...".

Basically, everything is Sburb, minus the game element, and they're all on their way to becoming god tier.

[[WMG: The sheet of paper is an older version of the Manga/DeathNote, and the Watchers are it's Shinigami]]

[[WMG: The Aliens are really the trans-human robots from AIArtificialIntelligence.]]

The story takes place in a universe like [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Watchmen Dr. Manhattan's ]]. Knowing things in advance [[YouCantFightFate cannot change things. ]] Nicholas Cage's character knows about 2 disasters in advance but is unable to change the number of deaths in spite of the fact that his disruptive presence on the train should have had some random effects on who lived and who died. The angels/aliens did nothing because they could do nothing: they can see their strings. We are all just playing out roles established at the beginning of time, and all we can do is accept. Maktub: it is written.

They know that HumansAreBastards from their own timeline; therefore they are unwilling to save all humans. However, they decide that saving a small population of children to seed a habitable world, will allow them to study humanity without the risk of being overrun by possibly robo-phobic humans.

[[WMG: The Watchers are actually [[DarkCity The Strangers]].]]

[[WMG: The solar flare was stopped by the [[MadokaMagica Incubators]].]]

What if, rather than the saviors these [[OurAngelsAreDifferent apparently angelic beings]] try to appear to be, they are instead looking ahead, seeing a possible way that things could come about, and then ''[[YouCantFightFate ensuring they happen that way?]]'' They knew there was a possibility that the sun would fry the Earth with a solar flare. [[YouFailAstronomyForever Let's not get into how ridiculous that is, for starters]]. But since that flare was caused through a series of quantum events, there was always a chance it would happen earlier, or later, or aim in a different direction. Any number of things could have happened differently.

Yet, these Watchers apparently [[AMillionIsAStatistic let the holocaust of Earth happen]], rather than prevent it, and they only took [[YouFailBiologyForever a small sample of genetic sources off the planet]]. With a knowledge of quantum mechanics that advanced, [[ScrewDestiny they could have stopped the solar flare from hitting Earth in the first place]]. Instead, they apparently decided that the way they predicted was the only way things could happen, and ''forced it to happen that way.'' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking the Earth, 'Angels']]. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Or maybe they're not what they seem to be]].

[[WMG: The sheet of paper is an older version of the DeathNote, and the Watchers are it's Shinigami]]

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* It seems that [[spoiler: the aliens/whatever were the ones who communicated the prophecies to her - she was hearing the same sort of "whispering" the two kids did. And really, how small is the spaceship that they can't take the kids father along?]]

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[[spoiler: Consider the following: Early in the film there's a discussion on determinism versus 'randomness.' The thing is, in modern physics, quantum physics to be precise, there are certain things which ''cannot'' be known deterministically, such as whether an electron will show up with up or down spin in a certain case, or whether a photon will pass through or reflect off a glass pane. These random events cannot be predicted, and thus create uncertainty in the future. However, things can be predicted to be ''possible,'' and even ''probable.'']]

[[spoiler: What if, rather than the saviors these [[OurAngelsAreDifferent apparently angelic beings]] try to appear to be, they are instead looking ahead, seeing a possible way that things could come about, and then ''[[YouCantFightFate ensuring they happen that way?]]'' They knew there was a possibility that the sun would fry the Earth with a solar flare. [[YouFailAstronomyForever Let's not get into how ridiculous that is, for starters]]. But since that flare was caused through a series of quantum events, there was always a chance it would happen earlier, or later, or aim in a different direction. Any number of things could have happened differently.]]

[[spoiler: Yet, these Watchers apparently [[AMillionIsAStatistic let the holocaust of Earth happen]], rather than prevent it, and they only took [[YouFailBiologyForever a small sample of genetic sources off the planet]]. With a knowledge of quantum mechanics that advanced, [[ScrewDestiny they could have stopped the solar flare from hitting Earth in the first place]]. Instead, they apparently decided that the way they predicted was the only way things could happen, and ''forced it to happen that way.'' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice job breaking the Earth, 'Angels']]. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Or maybe they're not what they seem to be]].]]

I didn't check TheOtherWiki, so I don't know whether this was already denied by WordOfGod. Now, let's come to the point. [[spoiler: The girl prophesied the shit will hit the fan, and where to go to get saved (possibly knowing it'll only help her granddaughter and new buddy of her). Now jump forward these forty or how many years. Some aliens discover Sun is just about to go KABOOM: "Holy sh*t, what do we do!?" "Well, we ought to help these creatures... Find them a nice new planet or whatnot" "How? We don't have enough ships!" (for whichever reason) "So let's just take, like, some of their younglings, and yeah...".]]

** Remember how Nichola Cage's character drank in the first part of the movie. Clearly [[spoiler: the aliens took an invisible scan of the father's liver and decided that he wasn't long for this world anyway and rejected him.]]

The story takes place in a universe like [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Watchmen Dr. Manhattan's ]]. [[spoiler: knowing things in advance [[YouCantFightFate cannot change things. ]] Nicholas Cage's character knows about 2 disasters in advance but is unable to change the number of deaths in spite of the fact that his disruptive presence on the train should have had some random effects on who lived and who died. The angels/aliens did nothing because they could do nothing: they can see their strings. We are all just playing out roles established at the beginning of time, and all we can do is accept. Maktub: it is written. ]]