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Am I the only one who feels bad for the Uber-Morlock?

posted 6 years ago by DrApoc (16)
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The Uber-Morlock was, perhaps, the only person who treated Wells with courtesy and respect in the film. It would have been far easier to kill Wells and use, or even destroy, the time machine but he chose to save him, talk with him, protect him, feed him, have his machine brought to him and even gave him a friendly see off on his way back to the past.

For thanks, Wells attacks and murders him without provocation.

If your rooting for the Eloi, I kind of understand it, but the Eloi and Morlock's are both from the same human stock and can even breed together as the Uber-Morlock says. Yes, the Morlocks do eat the Eloi but we have had cannibal tribes in our history and 800,000 years from now is something like 1,600 times longer than the whole of recorded human history.

I just kind of feel like Wells was a real ass in how he acted.

[–] rootvegetables (1879) 5 years ago

Alexander was indeed discourteous and disrespectful to his host.

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[–] ThrillerTalk (1119) 5 years ago

Hell no. That Uber Morlock deserved exactly what came to it. That thing was smart enough know right from wrong, and could have used its ability to control those other things to help make that timeline better for everyone, but instead it chose not to. Wells did a good thing for human kind moving forward.

[–] CodyXBrenda (469) a year ago

The villain for once was actually reasonable to the hero. He didn't even threaten to kill Alex! He even answered his question to why he can't change the past and even gave him back his time machine. How does Alex repay the favor? He just outright murders him while traveling millions of years into the future. Look, I understand him murdering him was because the Morlock leader was eating the Eloi but he already explained to him why he was doing it. It wasn't just "for teh evilz", the food change in that desolate future was very low. The damage from the Moon in 2037 caused a lot of damage to Earth's landscape and the entire planet and of course food would become scarce for the next 800,000 years. There was no other way for civilization to progress. All the technology had been lost forever. Mankind has reverted back to the "Stone Age" by 802,701 AD.

Alex should've returned back to 2030 and warned everyone about how the lunar colony demolition crew was going to accidently destroy the moon in 7 years. He could've tried to prevent the downfall and split of mankind. Sure, nobody would believe a Victorian era person, but he had a better chance of changing that than preventing the death of his girlfriend. That event happens over several decades after his tragedy (138 years later, to be exact) and he could've possibly prevented that. I mean yes, its possible that changing the past cannot be done, under any circumstances and that rule wouldn't just apply to preventing the death of his fiance.