Tomorrow War

by on July 20, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie about a war in the future where the future has lost and are hoping the past can help them. In the final scene of the movie, we see what appears to be the last holdout of humanity in the Bahamas. The last vestiges of their future tech are there, mostly hover drones that do a good job securing the perimeter. The flags of every surviving nation on Earth are there. And the main char talks to future soldiers there. We the audience learn that even they no longer hold out hope of survival. The world is lost, the young have certainly already been sent back, and those stuck in the future will die. There is nothing anyone can do about it. It is a sobering moment that underscores just how bad the future has been hammered. But there is actually one hope. Which is why the main char is there.

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Arizona Audit

by on July 19, 2021 at 12:01 am
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We’ve got some interesting preliminary results coming in on the Arizona Audit. The current standing is a 10,000 vote margin in favor of Biden. The audit has discovered that 168,000 ballots turned in are not printed on legal ballot paper. In addition, there are 4,000 votes by people who registered to vote AFTER the October 15 deadline. 11,000 votes by people who were not on the rolls on election day, but WERE on the rolls a month later. And there are 18,000 votes by people who were on the rolls on election day, but were removed soon thereafter. Finally, we have 74,000 mail-in ballots with no evidence that they were sent. Fact-check articles dispute this last number, but I distrust their language tag, so we’re going to have to look at those closely. Whatever the final report, these numbers are worrisome for people who demand free and fair elections.

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Tomorrow War

by on July 18, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie about a war in the future seen from the perspective of one guy sent forward from our time, ahead of schedule, on an emergency mission. The first scene we see is a fallen city, where the main char has to pull out some valuable intelligence. The second and third scenes are forward operating bases, where the future is obviously using old tech. It could have been reserve stuff they pulled out of mothballs, but as a world builder I would assume it is stuff sent forward from the past. Helicopters. Humvees. Stuff that can fit inside a soccer stadium. And stuff that is light enough to be sucked up into the wormhole. Assuming there is a weight limit there. We don’t see any future tech in these two scenes, which once again is a world building moment. The future simply doesn’t have enough tech left to spend it in forward operating bases, no matter their importance.

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Tomorrow War

by on July 17, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie about a war in the future where nearly no future tech is seen. Something many people wonder about. Where is the future tech? As a world builder, I think the explanation is simple. We originally heard from a world with 500k people and 11 months left before extinction. Their armies and such are destroyed. The movie than advances 12 months and tells us the horrific casualties inflicted on those sent into the future. And an emergency sends the main character’s wave of reinforcements there ahead of schedule into a fallen Miami Beach. Not falling. Fallen. The defenses have been destroyed, the defenders killed, and the people evacuated. We do not see an active defense of Miami Beach, with whatever the future still has to fight with. The scene is a fallen and evacuated city where nothing but aliens still live.

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Tomorrow War

by on July 16, 2021 at 12:01 am
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Tomorrow War is a movie people deride for many reasons. Some good. Others not. But there does appear to be more world building in the movie than made it to the screen. Probably because of the market the studio wanted. One thing people say about the movie is “Why don’t the world powers just nuke the aliens, or bombard them from the air?” Or other things. My first assumption as a writer is that they DID do that in 2048. The nations of the future mobilized their militaries. They threw everything they had at the aliens. And when they were overrun by the ultimate zergling rush, they nuked the aliens as a last resort. I’m sure they nailed a lot of the aliens, but not enough. The future we hear from in 2051 has 500k humans left. Every organized army has been shattered, and all we see when the wormhole opens are the last few desperate survivors, hoping a miracle can save them.

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