confused about ending
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Super 8
andwan0 — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 02:52 AM)
I am confused about ending. What did the alien think about when the boy communicated to him that he could go, and not everyone is bad.
The alien, then re-created his spaceship and flew off.
What was he building in the underground? It's not shown that whatever he was building in the underground, whether it was used for his space ship.
It seems so easy and effortless in the end to just tell the cubes to rebuild themselves into space ship? Why couldn't he do that anyway much earlier? -
fernandobacate — 9 years ago(November 01, 2016 11:06 PM)
It's most likely the ET was building some sort of magnetic machine and using the water tower as a it's magnetic field's center (notice when all metalic objects are attracted to the tower), so he could gather all of those weird little cubes at once and rebuild his ship (I believe it's their function).
About the scene where ET grabs Joe, since he can have telepathetic conversations/read minds, I believe he saw Joe's pain about losing his mother and he still moved on, so that's the point, "bad things happen (you crashed here, stupid humand did horrible things to you), but you can still live.