Even if it is panned, we'll always have the Orbs...

I was actually quite astonished with how HUGE and grandiose everything in this movie was. I really liked it. Whatever. On face value - I liked it in the exact same way I liked the first one. Big, dumb popcorn alien movie. But just like the first one, there were some things to really latch on to. In this one I loved the design of the ships - really all the aircraft but particularly the space tugs, I liked the super-sized cargo planes at the Groom Lake base and of course I love that our helicopters went and got all awesome in 20 years.

But KUDOS for at least attempting to describe the worldwide phenomenon of the orbs. Seriously. I am referring to those gravity-defying, there-but-not-there orbs so often described by UFO watchers. They seem to be the 2nd or 3rd most common type of unknown aerial phenomenon described (dubious or not, there **are** certain types described and some commonalities exist among the reports) and most are at a loss to describe what they are (behind the 20 ft discs and the black triangles). If we are being visited -right now- by at least one intelligent race, but they have only sent probes to us, well those probes are the orbs.

Or at least that's what the Disclosure people say, Mufon, et al.

So. A sweetly idiotic, yet strangeley powerless little perfect ball of perfect science & tech facts that Dr. Okun fell in love with as soon as he got it in a room? Yeah... yeah... until someone comes up with something better I can get behind that. Sure. At least they had the cojones to go after a phenomenon that actually gets reported in the real world and threw some thought, some mirth, some interesting fiction story behind what those things are about.

I liked the movie plenty. But I loved the orb.

Love,
Orb