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<blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 2833930" data-attributes="member: 3854">Although I really like the demons concept very much -- actually makes a lot of sense to me, I'm surprised everyone is complaining about the &quot;stupid alien&quot; thing instead of about the &quot;bad God&quot; thing.I'm not talking about God in &quot;Real Life&quot; or in &quot;Real Life religion&quot;, just how He is portrayed in the movie. Just like saying &quot;Mel&quot; here is referring to the character Mel Gibson plays in the movie, not Mel Gibson in Real Life.Mel's wife dies in a horrible accident so that she can give him prophetic advice. Mel's son is born with asthma, to suffer all his life (a possibly fatal situation, itself) so that he can survive the &quot;alien's&quot; poison gas. Mel's daughter gets a weird aversion to drinking water, and a compulsive habit of leaving glasses of water all around so that they have a weapon against the alien in their house. Mel's brother is a great bat swinger, but looses a chance at a grand life in the Major's so that he is at home to handle the alien that invades their house.Now, if all this stuff was God's work, to keep Mel's family alive from the &quot;alien invasion&quot;. . . why didn't God just keep the alien from invading Mel's house? One act (don't let the alien invade) vs. four acts -- kill Mel's wife, afflict Mel's son, afflict Mel's daughter, restrict Mel's brother. And Mel could still have his wife.I mean, the whole &quot;loss of faith&quot; was instigated by (apparently) God's act -- Mel's wife killed.I would also say, why didn't Mel's brother just beat the alien to death with the baseball bat, without using the water? But the answer to this seems to go back to the idea that maybe they were demons instead of aliens.All in all, it seems like God screwed Mel and his family royally, with the revelation at the end that, &quot;It was for the better good of his family.&quot; If I were Mel, I think I'd be more pissed at God than ever -- &quot;Why didn't you just let a truck run over this alien today, than have a car hit my wife last year?&quot;Quasqueton</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quasqueton, post: 2833930, member: 3854"] Although I really like the demons concept very much -- actually makes a lot of sense to me, I'm surprised everyone is complaining about the "stupid alien" thing instead of about the "bad God" thing. I'm not talking about God in "Real Life" or in "Real Life religion", just how He is portrayed in the movie. Just like saying "Mel" here is referring to the character Mel Gibson plays in the movie, not Mel Gibson in Real Life. Mel's wife dies in a horrible accident so that she can give him prophetic advice. Mel's son is born with asthma, to suffer all his life (a possibly fatal situation, itself) so that he can survive the "alien's" poison gas. Mel's daughter gets a weird aversion to drinking water, and a compulsive habit of leaving glasses of water all around so that they have a weapon against the alien in their house. Mel's brother is a great bat swinger, but looses a chance at a grand life in the Major's so that he is at home to handle the alien that invades their house. Now, if all this stuff was God's work, to keep Mel's family alive from the "alien invasion". . . why didn't God just keep the alien from invading Mel's house? One act (don't let the alien invade) vs. four acts -- kill Mel's wife, afflict Mel's son, afflict Mel's daughter, restrict Mel's brother. And Mel could still have his wife. I mean, the whole "loss of faith" was instigated by (apparently) God's act -- Mel's wife killed. I would also say, why didn't Mel's brother just beat the alien to death with the baseball bat, without using the water? But the answer to this seems to go back to the idea that maybe they were demons instead of aliens. All in all, it seems like God screwed Mel and his family royally, with the revelation at the end that, "It was for the better good of his family." If I were Mel, I think I'd be more pissed at God than ever -- "Why didn't you just let a truck run over this alien today, than have a car hit my wife last year?" Quasqueton [/QUOTE]

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