Why Would the Aliens Need to Clone Jack and Victoria in the First Place? Let’s assume that they knew somehow how to do all this because one of their own was in Houston when the Tet first arrived and made their way up to safe ol’ Chicago. So how did they know the sleeping pod was out there in space still? How did they know the brief Morse Code combination to draw it back down to earth? And is that how sleeping pod recall would really work? You send a few bleeps into outer space for ten minutes, and a sleeping pod falls down?īut let’s do the script’s work for it and assume for a second that there was a NASA employee or someone with knowledge of the spacecraft’s workings who survived alongside the group that would become the Scavs. Later on, the Scavs give a short group history that involves a military background and the wartime survival of staying near Chicago (because it’s unaffected by earthquakes and massive tidal change…), but nothing in it explains how their group could have intimate, classified knowledge of the NASA mission, how the breakaway module worked, or what sequence of code could bring it back. It’s already done its work bringing Olga Kurylenko’s character Julia and her crew back down to Earth. On top of the Empire State Building ruins, he gets some flashback jitters, finds the source and disables it, but it’s too late. The first major plot development comes when Jack Harper #49 has to investigate a signal beacon that’s coming from the edge of the radiation zone. How Did the Scavs Know About the Sleeping Pod and How to Bring It To Earth? Unfortunately, this will be the answer for some of the other questions as well. It has no real explanation within the story itself, but Oblivion’s mantra is that it’s better to look good than to make sense, and this one is a very minor quibble that’s common for big action movies. They live underground, but he’s rocking BluBlockers. This one’s just a mild annoyance, but Morgan Freeman spends the entire time wearing dark sunglasses literally in places where the sun doesn’t shine. Spoilers for Oblivion abound so beware, but if you’ve already seen or just plain don’t care, let’s dive in to the bizarre question marks looming high in the sky over Joseph Kosinski’s latest film. On their own, they could have amounted to nitpicks, but the sheer number of them (and the severity of a few) made for a truly confused experience. Some of those questions are inconsequential, some slightly annoying and some vital to what could have been sci-fi success. It’s messy for how hard it tries to be smart. Plot holes, really, if we’re being honest. The movie’s created some mixed responses, but it’s also left behind some huge questions. How many times have we told it to pick up its things? Then we all step on a HAL 9000 doll in the middle of the night when we’re going for that last piece of fried chicken in the fridge, and the bruise reminds us to yell rhetorically at the Tom Cruise-starring movie the next morning. Oblivion is the kind of science fiction movie that plays with a lot of other movies’ toys and forgets to clean them up afterward.
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