Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Let's theorize about things that were not in District 9 (spoilers)

[quote name="Fullofkittens"]So, here's the big underlying question about District 9: Why did the ship stop at Earth in the first place? Two theories floated by characters in the movie: <ol><li>They ran out of gas. <ul><li>REJECTED. They clearly had enough fuel-containing objects on the ship to get the ship back home, because that was Christopher's plan. It took him 20 years to accumulate the fuel that he used to reactivate the ship, but during that period he was collecting the fuel from objects that originated on the ship.</li></ul> </li> <li>Their hive mind crashed because their Queen(?) died. <ul><li>PLAUSIBLE. Christopher and his son seem to be smarter and more capable than the other aliens, so one would presume that they are part of a different caste, but they were around at the beginning so why didn't they step up before the ship stopped at Earth? Still, if they are supposed to have an insect-like social structure, there is a precedent for a certain category of worker to be elevated to royal status in the absence of royalty, so maybe that's what happened. </li></ul> </li></ol> Apparently the whole thing is a big apartheid analogy so I guess I can set aside the other core question of: if you were a group with weapons as destructive as these aliens had, would you let yourself be pushed around like that? Would you trade those weapons for cat food? The protagonist guy fucked up really bad when he coldcocked Christopher and stole his ship. What the fuck did he think he was doing? [/quote]