Mike_G

Somethng that's been bugging me about CE3K for 25 years

WHERE did that tall alien go?

I searched on the net, on deja, and everywhere else I could think of and found nothing.

So this thing comes out of the spaceship, obviously very tall. So what happens? Someone in the editing room inserts a shot of that guy with the white hair looking DOWN at it, then there's a shot of it raising its arms, a shot of Neary, and the thing vanishes.

I've come to conclusions about editing goofs or mistakes in narratives before, but this is REALLY bothering me. I showed it to my 11 year old nephew for the first time the other day (he loved it) and the first question he asked me was THAT. So now it's starting to bug me again. Ideas?

Mike

Rex Bachmann

"CE3K"?????

Walter Kittel

Lou Sytsma

I always assumed that once the smaller aliens surrounded Neary the tall alien just went back into the ship.

Every man is my superior, in that I may learn from him.

Brett_B

If I am not mistaking, the alien is part of the Jedi Council in The Phantom Menace. So, that is where he disappeared to.

Gary->dee

LOL! Good one, Brett.

I just assumed he went back up the ramp into the ship, but of course they never showed this.

Now if you want to know what literally happened to the tall alien, he went back to Bob Baker's Marionette Theater here in Los Angeles. Baker, who is a veteran marionette performer constructed and performed the tall alien seen at the end of CE3K. Years ago my school took a field trip to Bob Baker's in downtown L.A. and while touring his place they showed us the actual alien used in CE3K stored in a large clear tube.