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| - There was a rebellion against aliens in 10,000 BC, UniSol escapades in 1992, a secret mission through the Stargate in 1994, an alien invasion in 1996 (no doubt a result of the Abydos expedition's actions), a monster attack on New York in 1998, and the start of a new ice age in 2004. It's just... a very unfortunate Earth.)
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| - There was a rebellion against aliens in 10,000 BC, UniSol escapades in 1992, a secret mission through the Stargate in 1994, an alien invasion in 1996 (no doubt a result of the Abydos expedition's actions), a monster attack on New York in 1998, and the start of a new ice age in 2004. It's just... a very unfortunate Earth.)
* Furthermore, it's the Earth of Battlestar Galactica.
* While this would be an appropriately crappy Earth for BSG to end up finding, there's a problem. New York was blown to hell by the aliens in Independence Day. So they rebuilt New York in two years, just in time for not-Godzilla to show up? The guessing isn't wild enough... yet.
* Theories for that:
* Godzilla takes place in the same continuity as the, *ahem* real Godzilla, not the 10,000 BC <-> Day After Tomorrow continuity.
* The movies aren't necessarily all in chronological order. The Chrysler Building wasn't blown up in Independence Day, so Godzilla happened first. A shame, that.
* Or New York was rebuilt very sloppily. Look at the skyscrapers as Zilla runs past them - Special Effect Failure, or cheap reconstruction?
* Excluding Godzilla (since it's a different continuity), here is the tentative timeline for the Emerich-verse:
* 10,000 BC: Slave revolt against an alien overlord, Ra, a "Roswell Grey" in his true form, who escapes to Abydos with human slaves (10,000 BC, Stargate)
* 1992 AD: UniSol endeavors to create the perfect soldier to fight the alien menace (Universal Soldier)
* 1994 AD: The Stargate project invades alien space and puts soldiers on an alien world, pissing off Ra and his buddies (Stargate- seems these people have a tendency to think they're the last of their kind when they're not), leading to:
* 1996 AD: Ra's buddies- more of the Roswell Grey types- show up with a gigantic mothership, a few dozen destroyers, and thousands of fighters. The White House gets blown up, people die, President Awesomeness leads the survivors of the human race to victory, and an alcoholic crop duster saves the world (Independence Day). Remember how those aliens were Greys under their bio-suits? Remember how their fighters resembled scarabs?
* 1990's, early 2000s AD: Though not Emmerich, we may as well fit the events of the Mad Max films here by presuming that Australia never recovered from the Alien Invasion (Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Thunderdome).
* 2004 AD: Weather happens (The Day After Tomorrow). This especially sucks, since the human race had to spend eight years rebuilding.
* In conclusion: Yes, it's a very disaster-prone Earth. Expect the Robot War to happen any day. It is possible that large governments in the Emmerich-Verse are drugging their citizens to erase the memories of so much tragedy. If true, by the late 21st century, the Emmerich-Verse may grow to encompass the timeline of Vonnegut's "Harrisson Bergeron."
* Emmerich's new movie is going to end this parallel universe then?
* 2012? At least the dates line up.
* Think of it as a mercy killing.
* Then again, maybe Roland Emmerich is related to HAL Emmerich, meaning that the MGS storyline could be added in somewhere. A nuclear war caused in the confusion after the defeat of the Patriots could cause The Day After Tomorrow nuclear winter, setting the stage for Battlestar Galactica.
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* Where does The Patriot fit in, then? It's pretty normal...
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