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Advanced aliens tracking Friday relentlessly

posted 8 years ago by jeffyoung1
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I mentioned this in an older post.

The movie never explained why the advanced aliens so relentlessly tracked just one, escaped slave.

I had a theory that perhaps the aliens were actually tracking the Earthman who was with Friday. It's highly possible the advanced aliens did not want Earth to know about their existence. Yet, nothing in the movie suggests the advanced aliens knew of the earthman, Draper.

Another poster thought the advanced aliens did not want their slaves to be encouraged by the successful escape of one slave. However the aliens murdered all their slaves before departing Mars. There would be no living slave witnesses to the escape of one slave.

Still, I could be guilty of assigning Earthman logic to the advanced aliens. The advanced aliens, though appearing like humans, might bear completely different cultural and logic thought patterns than us. The lost of that slave might be such a detrimental effect on their beliefs of honor or beliefs of ownership that they would expend great effects to retrieve that slave.

[–] rogueforte 8 years ago

I'll give it a shot.

I suggest a tie-in with the 1953 War of the Worlds. In that movie, Martians in virtually identical machines (although they operated on the surface) attempted to wipe-out all life on Earth.

The same thing applied to the guys in the similar (but faster moving) ships on Mars. They were leftovers from the earlier mission which failed on Earth, and they were simply pissed-off and were relentless to kill any humanoids.

It might not have been anything psychotic, either. Consider that in WOTW, it was airborne germs that finally killed the Martians, so maybe the guys in the ships were simply trying to avoid being wiped-out by any germs Draper might have brought with him.

Of course, there's always the question why Earthlings would want to go to a planet eleven years after the inhabitants of that same planet had nearly killed all the humans on Earth.