Well, it seemed the aliens were very conditioned by their actual form (or lack thereof) and way of travelling; as far as we know, they couldn't even reach Earth without taking over a host (as they're either raw "energy" or some sort of sofisticated transmissions), and it's not like they could ever hope to find hundreds of astronauts just hanging out there for them to take. Furthermore, if they're actually "energy" roaming through space, how fast can they go from their home planet to ours? (Do they even have a home planet? Maybe what we are looking at are the survivors of a nearly extinct race looking for a new home.) A massive invasion under these conditions just doesn't seem very likely so, again, for all we know, we are stuck with just these two alien pilots (not captains, not generals, merely "pilots") for the time being, trying their darnest to subtly laid the very fundations for a future take over, assimilation or what have you.
Things don't go smoothly for them. Alex's body can't handle the stress and, as it turned out, is not that easy for them to travel from one host to the next. The ACV catch alien #1 by surprise and, be it by the lack of an appropiate conductor or the audience, he dies along with his host. Alien #2 is left alone in a hostile planet with only his wits and Johnny Depp's good looks to carry on their mission without raising too much unwanted attention. I believe the aircraft upgrade HE brought to the table was just one of many steps to insert himself in Earth matters. Remember the sketches the ex Nasa agent was talking about? The ships were designed with two pilots in mind... his twins or is that just the way their race works? Was alien #1 his twin? Were they actually connected the same way the babies and alien #2 are? Alex's wife was also expecting twins, so it doesn't seem too far fetched to think that maybe, just maybe, they exist as two separate entities sharing one consciousness; they are connected, bounded, by a very strong telepathic link.
Alex's wife (who was deeply disturbed by that part and didn't make much sense) says the infamous phrase, "he's hiding inside me", because she may not be privy to the information the Nasa agent gives Jillian later, but she knows something it's wrong and is starting to realize just to a what extent. It could mean two things: either, she suspects her husband has been dead all along and see the twins as the seed of the very thing that killed him (as in the princess's tale Jillian narrates), or alien #1 consciouness lives on in his sons. Jillian repeats it later because she finally understands what her friend tried to said before comitting suicide.
I didn't particulary care for the film (I give it a 6), but it has some good ideas here and there, and the acting was obviously good.
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