Flack's Daily Smack

I enjoyed it, too. In my opinion, they did a pretty good job of updating the story to the present day (or very near future).

 

Michael

Why should aliens care what we do with the planet? If they like dolphins and don't want them to become extinct, why don't they simply borrow some dolphins and raise them themselves? In the original movie, there was a mechanism offered by which mankind's weapons could disrupt other planets; even Plan Nine from Outer Space offered up something similar as a logical premise (the particulars in the latter were absurd, involving particles of sunlight composed of many atoms, but the overall premise was reasonable). The aliens care about the earth, uh, why exactly?

The way it was explained in the movie was that Earth is only one of five known planets in the universe that is capable of sustaining multiple life forms. I believe Klaatu's exact words were, "the Earth is too important to let you people destroy it." Saving the Earth had little to do with liking dolphins and everything to do with preserving one of the five out of a bazillion planets capable of sustaining life.