Saran999 288 Report post Posted October 17, 2013 Think After Earth is just about Will Smith reconnecting with his son on a dangerous future Earth? WRONG. There's a whole baffling alien backstory, that you don't even know about. It's just not in the trailers. Journey with us as we attempt to untangle M Night Shyamalan's ridiculously complicated movie. And meet the Skrels, who kill humans! For unknown reasons! Spoilers ahead... Thanks to the movie companion book the United Rangers Corps Survival Manual, we now (kind of) understand the wickedly overcomplicated plot behind After Earth. Turns out, there are aliens in this movie — lots of them. Different species, in fact, which sound infinitely more interesting than a boy with a spear in the woods. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UdDWHOshKhI I've not been able to download it from here, perhaps due to my location http://kebisone.edublogs.org/2013/07/05/after-earth-united-ranger-corps-survival-manual-book-downloads/ but someone else will be maybe more lucky and make it available for all of us In order to fully explain it we're going to need to break down what leads up to the jungle adventure, year by year.1908 - An alien ship crash lands in Russia. All collective world governments then keep this discovery a secret basically forever. (But they let smarties like Nikola Tesla and Albert Einstein play with the remains).2012 - NASA announces that they've invented WARP ENGINES. By secretly tapping into the alien spaceships knowledge of the universe's "dark energy." Tah Dah!2071 - 2072 - Earth is all GTFO, humans. No one can live here any more, because it's poison for us, so 750,000 survivors leave on ARKS (one is named the Asimov). The Arks were created thanks to additional information pulled (over the years) from the downed spacecraft. 32 AFTER EARTH - The Rangers (who are basically the super militarized government now) invent a religion while on board the Arks. Because you gotta have faith. It's called Primus, after the band. This backfires horribly.67 AE - Primus makes its own religious army, because of course they do. And they also decide to rewrite their rules, to make the head of Primus (also called Primus) the ruler indefinitely, until death. A few of the remaining Arks (some die out) start adopting the office of Primus. 100 AE - Only three out of the six Arks survive. But the rest of the folks land on their new planet Nova Prime. 222 AE - A Primus leader starts speaking out against science and industrialization on their new planet, because that's what got them all in this mess in the first place. Of Course They Do. After "much debate" the role of Savant is created to oversee the science side of the human race on Nova Prime. ...to be continued... see the second part @ http://www.cyberphoenix.org/forum/topic/212226-the-alien-backstory-you-didnt-see-in-the-after-earth-trailers-part-i/?p=292855 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
