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
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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.
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And if they had these tripods waiting here for millennia, would they not also have been analysing the environment for things like microbes?
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You would think so, I mean we put Aldrin and Armstrong in quarantine for a fortnight after the moon 'just in case'.
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Like Prometheus but even more dumb
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