re: Overanalyzing Independence Day - Russell Kay

quote:

---

quote:
I never understood how all the ships were taken down once the force fields were removed. These were giant ships with squadrons protecting them. The force fields were only part of the problem.


Just saw the movie on tv and always wondered what the deal was with this.

The general guy tells his people to tell everyone how to get those sumbithces down and they all morse code it to other countries. I thought the main thing was infecting the mothership and making her send out the virus to all the smaller ships so their shields would be disabled for a few minutes. By the time the message gets out, the shields should be back up and they are back to square one. Unless, the nuke being set off in the mothership made all that monkey business useless.

---

I kinda wondered about that myself. Best I can figure is either the force fields were emanating from the mother ship to the others or that as you say the virus was transmitted from the mother ship to the others thus taking out their force fields.

And when they nuked the mother ship it obviously threw some kind of monkey wrench into any of the ships getting their shields back up.

From that point I think the air forces all over the worlds had to fight their way in and take out the ships at the same point that Russell did. You'd think at least a few of them would have failed but I guess not.

Also, I guess some bigger countries might have been able to hit a ship with enough power (ICBM's, cruise missels, etc.?) to do enough damage to bring it down without getting to the ultra vulnerable point.