I feel like something happened to stop the Purges entirely, because no one seems worried about human interference, from what I can see.
Something did. Probably bad writing. I'm willing to bet the Purge and everything that entailed will be completely ignored here (like it never happened). Because the setting of the movie makes no sense otherwise. Vampires are allowed to live above ground in giant castles again and in huge covens. Apparently the elite Lycans connected to Antigen who lived and thrived in the human world are also forgotten since we seem to be getting back to the pack type setting of the first movie. Just because Antigen fell means little, because technically billions of humans still live and are able to hunt the few (in comparison) Vamps and Lycans.
So yeah it will probably be completely ignored, kinda like it is common in an RE movie. Too bad, I had much higher expectations from UW. But after Awakening it doesn't surprise me. They seem to be embracing a Resident Evil style, sadly.
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majandralover30
8 years ago
bad writing and re treatment is my guess too. while we are on the subject, I got to admit I saw potential in the human purge stuff. I saw it coming ever since the end of evolution. but this series has been full of missed opportunities and untapped wasted potential as well as cool stuff.
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RjanaR
8 years ago
Oh I agree, humans had to eventually get involved once Alexander's clean up crew was gone. I've written about this before on the Awakening board (thread is sadly gone now) but I didn't want humans until maybe a 5th movie. 4th should have followed right after the events of the first 2, with internal power struggles among the clans now that their elders/leaders are dead and Selene/Michael in the middle. End that movie with an uneasy truce between the species and give them humans as a common enemy in the 5th. And of course don't forget to include some defectors (like Kraven) working with the enemy for personal gain because that is part of the verse.
Awakening pretty much negated what we thought we knew. Lucian apparently wasn't the leader of all Lycans. And neither did all Lycans live underground. Jacob and all the other ones we saw in Awakening (in the scene where he talked about vaccine centers with other guys in suits) apparently lived a very different life but trying to accomplish the same thing Lucian was trying to do. David talking about Death Dealers like some kind of myth. It's been 12 years for crying out loud, not 120. Also who knew what still has me stumped. I have to really stretch to justify how Thomas/David and anyone else not just know Selene on sight but also that she killed Victor and her and Michael being an item. But I really can't find a reason as to why they would know she killed Markus. Only 2 survivors of the whole Markus deal in UW2, Selene and Michael. And they aren't likely to blab about it, especially since they don't socialize.
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