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The Tet OVERLORDS and the planet temperatures????

posted 8 years ago by epackage
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So the people who built and maintain the TET also built the Hydro Rigs to remove earth's water to use for 'fusion energy', have the ability to create thousands of clones of Jack & Victoria and run hundreds/thousands of drones to protect those rigs......

Yet they only have the ability to talk to the Jack's and the Victoria's from sun up until sunset?!?!? I love this movie, I rated it a 9 based on the visuals and the story, but their inability to keep in touch after dark is just hard to understand....

One other thing that bothers me, Jack is sitting on a mountain eating lunch and talking to Victoria in the beginning of the movie and the whole area shows snow/ice covered peaks, yet somehow in their house above the clouds they have an outdoor pool that we see them swimming in soon after. She's naked and he's in a short sleeved shirt and the pool isn't showing signs of being heated and giving off steam as you would expect with such large temperature changes. I'm keeping my 9 rating but will reconsider after hearing from you fine folks....

"Well, isn't this place a geographical oddity! Two weeks from everywhere!"

[–] balkuttan_ds 8 years ago

!!!!SPOILER ALERT!!!!

For The Communication
The TET's communication was probably based on Line Of Sight as we see in the movie,and possibly during the night it would have talked with other Jack/Jacks...who it would technically be in contact with.Also we can assume Earth's satellites were also destroyed/or not hacked hence ruling out any sort of "bouncing signals through our satellites".

For The Pool:
In the movie there where mountains, cities, a dried up sea with ships, Jack's secret home and a desert all coming under His area/Sector.Hence we can assume a single Clone covered a vast area.So the mountain and their home may not be in the same region.
Also the pool can be warm without giving of any steam as well.
But i will agree that the pool might not be having the best temperature but it would not be something unbearable.

These are what I assumed form the movies...thats all.

[–] epackage 8 years ago

The line of sight idea was why I asked, they are so advanced between the TET, Hydro pumps, drones and cloning you would expect them to be able to build satellite like devices to keep in contact at all times...

"Well, isn't this place a geographical oddity! Two weeks from everywhere!"

[–] balkuttan_ds 8 years ago

Yeah if u put it like that then we can ask questions like of it were so advanced why did it even need clones in the first place...why does an advanced being let jack inside the TET without doing some advanced scanning to detect the fusion reactors...etc..etc...

But we can't.. in the movie communication wasn't highly developed as You have expected.There were many times when Vicka and jack lose communication between themselves...even with the TET...

Or maybe TET chose not to communicate... because it had to deal with the other Jack meanwhile.

The TET is not highly advanced like know it all do it all...it is just advanved enough were Humans can somehow beat them.

[–] DerKommissar_2525 8 years ago

The ground beneath the sky tower is shown in a short scene and there is no snow there.
If the Tet made itself available 24/7 then it would also pretty much have to give "Sally" colleagues to keep the charade believable, making things more complicated.

[–] epackage 8 years ago

The ground beneath the sky tower is shown in a short scene and there is no snow there.

There was snow and ice visible right after Jack repairs the first drone at the stadium, he says "166 back online" and then flies over snow and ice covered mountains to his next destination. He is then seen sitting on a mountain watering the plant he gives to Vicka later, the ground below him is covered in ice and snow.

So the TET overseers are alien beings and the only three human faces they have available to them are Sally, Jack and Vicka is your contention? Interesting, I figured there were other humans they could have used for colleagues considering how important it was to keep the drones safe to protect the hydro rigs...

"Well, isn't this place a geographical oddity! Two weeks from everywhere!"

[–] balkuttan_ds 8 years ago

I don't remember seeing any snow and ice near the stadium...but the scene afterwards show the mountain and snow...yet that doesn't prove any geographical inaccuracies.
It was a far off place away from his base as well as the stadium.

The TET overseers are made by the TET and made to believe that it's thier job to repair drones and await thier trip to Titan.
Also they were clones from the only to humans the TET could lay it's hands on.

To be honest...I think you missed the whole point of the movie...I suggest u watch again...

[–] DerKommissar_2525 8 years ago

The area around the sky tower can be seen right before Julia wants to go back and fetch the flight recorder.

The Tet would just make things more complicated for itself and with little to gain, Jack and Vicka will need their sleep etc anyway. Jack said something about scavs getting bolder implying they (scavs) were not causing so many problems earlier.