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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 2418484" data-attributes="member: 22622">We obviously disagree on this part.  I really don't think, as a writer, I'd use a cop to show how know one knew what was going on.  Cops, lawyers and judges are traditionally used in fiction as authority figures.  When they have dialogue its usually to convey a message of the truth.  The immediate questions in people mines when they see lightening hit a hole 21 times is, well aren't there sewer pipes, wires, gas lines, water mains and such down there.  Isn't this illogical. Notice he doesnt say anything until the ground starts rumbling.  Before we know anything about aliens, Speilberg needs us to know that it is not something natural.  The logical conclusion would have been it is a water main breaking or a gas line about to errupt. So Spielberg needs us to know that this is not natural, and he uses the cop to do that.  My beef is that the cop is the wrong figurehead to convey that knowledge as he's just a beat cop.</blockquote>