[RoughDobermann]

Interesting to see all the deleted footage, although the "end of the world, you must all love each other (or we'll drown your sorry a$$es)" mush was a tad much...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yeah it was... And it was so obvious. They could have at least been clever enough to make it more subtle...

[Ichneumon]

Interesting to see all the deleted footage, although the "end of the world, you must all love each other (or we'll drown your sorry a$$es)" mush was a tad much...

It's been a few years since I've seen the director's cut, but that's not how I remember interpreting it at the time. My take was that they *were* in the process of drowning us all because they saw us as a dangerous, warmongering species, but then called it off after seeing the lengths to which Bud had gone to save them from the bomb, and the love between him and his wife, and the self-sacrifice he had made for the "aliens" or whatever they were. It made them realize that for all of mankind's dangerous flaws, there's a lot of greatness in us too, and we were worth saving.