Spitfire said:
This is gonna make me look like such a nerd..
Aliens
Ripley has been in hypersleep since the events of the first movie, until her shuttle is finally found by the guys from the company, Weyland-Yutani.
Ripley is woken up, and is told that she's been in hyspersleep for the past 60 years.
After recovering, Ripley is interviewed by a board of executives, and tells them what happened, but they dismiss her claims, thinking that she's crazy. Part of the reason for that, we later learn, is that LV-426 (the planet from the first movie) is now home to a colony that's working on terraforming the planet, and in all the time that they've been there, no one has ever encountered the xenomorphs, or the derelict alien ship that Ripley spoke of.
Now, it's suggested that the colony was established on the planet years, if not decades prior, and yet somehow, in all that time, nobody has ever picked up the distress call sent by the derelict ship, that the characters from the first movie managed to pick up without even being on the surface of the fucking planet.
Mass Effect
*takes deep breath*
Saren employs the help of Geth to attack the colony Eden Prime and access the Prothean beacon that the colonists have uncovered which contains the location of a lost mass relay that leads to the planet Ilos where Saren is looking to find the Conduit a sort of mass relay that leads back to the Citadel where the geth will lead a surprise assault that will allow Saren to access the Citadel Master Control and give control of the Citadel to Sovereign who will re-purpose it as a mass relay which will be used by the Reapers waiting in dark space in order to- JESUS CHRIST, HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS?
The point is that Saren goes through a lot in order to finally accomplish his goals.
But did I mention that the Master Control was located in the Council Chambers?
And did I mention that prior to Shepard exposing him, Saren used to be a highly respected veteran Spectre, and he could've just walked into the Council Chambers, and access the Master Control at any point in time, without doing anything else at all?
As a huge fan of the first, and a quasi fan of the second, nerd response!
1: My explanation would be thus: Battery finally died. As you said, we're given the fact that the colony was there for years, [footnote]Edit? What edit? I don't see an edit.[/footnote], but we've also got no idea how long the ship was there. It wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that after so long, any amount of energy used to transmit the signal simply died, and the original contact from the Nostromos was at the very tail end of its lifespan. Again, we're never told this, but it'd make sense.
2: I'd always assumed Saren wanted the beacon to be sure it wouldn't reveal something else he'd need for his plan. Get all of the facts before playing his hand. Yes, it's a major case of the idiot, but sometimes your mind just blanks.
Either that, or he had hoped for some really cool Reaper pictures from the beacon to put on his desktop.
OT: The Elder God's complacency during Mortal Kombat 9. They literally sit on their fingers while Shao Kahn, after losing TWICE in Mortal Kombat to Lui Kang, pretty much flips them and their rules the bird before sending in his armies to burn Earth to the ground.
So apparently, slaughtering everyone on the enemy team in their locker room is okay. Not like that is a foul trick to win a competition through underhanded means.
Also, their weakness. Not only does their direct intervention against Shao Kahn when they finally decide he's gone too far get flat out laughed off by the eight foot tall man made of flesh bricks, but apparently the safeguards they gave to the realms to protect from external realm invasion
Do. Not. Exist.
The gods of creation, who made a fighting tournament to keep realms from simply invading one another and throwing creation into chaos... Failed to provide a tangible barrier to prevent realms from simply invading one another and throwing creation into chaos.
Shao Kahn was right in one regard, you guys are fail deities.
