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** That isn't an invisible spaceship, it's [[A Wizard Did It|alien hoodoo magic]].
== The aliens we see are the remnants of the splicers from [[
The allergy to water is one of many possible results of the long-term genetic damage they did to themselves with the constant splicing, as is their appearance. It also explains how they got on this planet in such large numbers without someone noticing and gives them a proper motive for wanting to capture a bunch of people: ADAM.
* Problems with this: Rapture itself is a leaky under''water'' facility, which would've been likely to kill anyone unfortunate enough to have an allergy to water - though admittedly, that would make a strong incentive to leave. And [[
** We will pay for laughing him off. He was our best hope to prevent us from being alien snack food.
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== The Invasion ==
== The aliens were just showing off. Invasion was not their goal. ==
Any race capable of interstellar travel in spacecraft that can turn invisible ought to be smart enough to have proper weapons and strategies for invading Earth. Their strategy was woefully inadequate, and their weapons were nonexistent; therefore, invasion ''wasn't'' their goal.
Things the aliens may have been doing other than invading:
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== The aliens were just idiots screwing around. ==
Aliens Bob and George were travelling the galaxy, when Bob spied a peculiar planet.
{{quote|'''Bob''': "Hey George, let's go down there and run around naked so we can scare the natives who've never encountered life from other planets."
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== The aliens were damaged by chemicals in the water, not the water itself. ==
There's plenty of crap in tap water other than good ol' H20.
* Death by Flouride isn't much better.
* Death by Chlorine is good, though.
** Or herbicide! (Our protagonist lives out in the country.)
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* However the news did mention the aliens not appearing around large masses of water, so it's not just holy water.
== [[God Is Evil]] ==
It's extremely difficult to think otherwise here. If we're to believe the final five minutes of the film, we accept that God killed Graham Hess' wife (traumatizing an Indian veterinarian in the process), gave his son asthma, made his daughter neurotic about her drinking water, and, last but not least, ''sent aliens to abduct half the population of the Earth''...so Graham's brother could take advantage of a weakness already established earlier in the film and, more importantly, so He could save Hess' son from the asthma he ''gave him in the first place''. Which, in the end, convinces Graham to become a priest again.
** From a Christian theological view point. {{spoiler|God does not cause any sort of evil, though He can work any bad situation to good. God doesn't break a leg to fix a paper cut}}. From a Maltheist theological viewpoint - yes, God really is that much of a dick.
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== Other ==
== The kids' mother was part alien ==
Hence Bo's aethereal looks, "premature" smiling, precognition (which we know she inherited from her mom: "Swing away...", etc.), and dislike of water. She's at least half human, so it doesn't harm her; she just feels like it isn't clean.
This also might explain why Morgan is asthmatic and generally sickly throughout the film, but after one shot of alien nasal-spray and a quick nap clears right up (possibly leading to the most energetic reading of "Dad?" in the entire movie).
The entire invasion might be a retrieval operation for hybrids. After all, the radio reports did say they were dragging off ''people''. The spacemen might have mistaken the humans' attempts at saving their loved ones for those of kidnappers grasping at their hostages, and acted accordingly.
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