The problem is that Ray (omg was his nickname ‘Heat’?) has to make the decision to go to Rachel and abandon Robbie, and it has to be the right decision. But actually, Rachel was going to be taken away by people who were going to look after her so the logical thing was to let her go and stop Robbie
I feel that a lot of issues with the film would have been fixed by sticking to a longer timescale like the novel. You could have easily had Robbie going off the join the army and being thought lost but actually being OK if it takes place over weeks not days.
Yeah that would work. Hell, you could even work a longer timeline that way so that he takes the role of the artilleryman.
Yes! Now I’m thinking about it, what was the point of the machines already being here? I don’t really get why that’s necessary, other than to afford the cool ‘unscrewing’ sequence
Yeah, it's hard to accept 'one day thousands of years in the future there might be a civilisation we need to conquer, let's make preparations' as a plot point lol. If they could send them here then, just take over then.
And if they had these tripods waiting here for millennia, would they not also have been analysing the environment for things like microbes?
You would think so, I mean we put Aldrin and Armstrong in quarantine for a fortnight after the moon 'just in case'.
Like Prometheus but even more dumb