When John is reshaping the city at the end, does he also create the sun or were the Strangers just blocking it out?
Also, I've always assumed that people would eventually want to cross the ocean and that John would have to Tune an entire planet for them.
No. He turns the station so the star is visible. Previously the city had been turned away from the star.
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Ah. I've seen the movie multiple times. Can't believe I didn't notice that.
shareSince we see the whole thing from afar earlier without a bright light lighting up the bottom, I assume he created a sun, or a fake sun that's not really the size of an average star. It makes sense that these aliens would have taken the ship to the darkest part of space they could find.
shareI agree, he created the sun. the 'tilt' and the 'rise' of the sun i think were just visual touches rather than mechanics... it would have looked silly to have a sun just grow out of nowhere, so the visual and i guess metaphorical tilting of the city were a way of both revealing the new sun in a way that looks good, and having the sun 'rise'.
I agree that the strangers would never have built the city so close to a light source that hurts them.