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Fridge Brilliance

  • Grig obviously knew Centauri wasn't dead, but used his death as motivation for Alex. Sly old lizard.
    • Makes even more sense when Grig later states that he doesn't even think of death the same way just about everyone else does. Believing that when people die, they go off to continue battling evil in "another dimension".
  • When the Rylan officer issues Alex with a universal translator device, the background chatter switches from Rylan to English.
  • Could also count as a Funny Background Event: during the opening shots of the trailer park, a radio is giving the morning news report and mentions strange lights in the sky, leading to the conclusion that it's a UFO report. Doubles as Fridge Horror when, later in the film, Grig mentions that the Star League isn't due to contact Earth until it matures, leaving one to wonder if it's the Ko-Dan preparing for an invasion.
    • Not necessarily, it could have been Centauri dropping off Starfighter games or checking up on them.
  • After Alex gets the news about his loan being rejected and runs out of the trailer, he spends a few moments looking at the night sky, where he sees a shooting star. This was really Centauri's Star Car arriving on earth.
  • Beta needs to repair his ears one night after Alex left with Centauri the second time. Earlier, when Alex first found out about Beta, we're told that Maggie stuck her tongue in Beta's ear. I guess human saliva isn't too good for alien electronics either...
  • The placement of Alex in the front seat of the Gunstar, with Grig's pilot seat in the back, seems odd, but it makes sense given the Gunstar is a weapons platform, and it gives the Starfighter the maximum field of view to fire (this is considered so important to the in-universe ship designers that they even made the chair the gunner sits in rotate to allow maximum viewing ability). This also parallels the design of the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, which went into service around the same time as the movie.
  • Not all Starfighter machines were intended to test unsuspecting humans of their gunner ability. Otis ordered the Starfighter machine, but he got sent one of the rigged machines by accident. It would make sense Centauri would have the rigged machines sent to high population areas like Las Vegas (or Los Angeles or New York).

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