Mallory Rubin

is local news and then broadcast news the way that this would instantly reach everybody in 2026.

But...

We get these interesting glimpses of all the footage.

Some of it is, like, you've got some fun, like, kind of Easter egg connections.

Oh, you hated this.

It's just, I find it really perplexing why we have, like, basically one, one and a half-ish alien designs.

There are a lot of different ships.

Spielberg loves the greys.

He loves, he loves, they're different sizes.

And it's, but it's like, is it because they're kids and adults or are they actually different?

Like, did they just get taller?

Yeah.

But, like, you know, they've all got their big heads and their big eyes and their gray skin and their long fingers, their spindly fingers.

And, you know, E.T.

looks different, but, like, I would say general shape-adjacent.

Close Encounters aliens are incredibly similar to how the aliens in here look.

Tall and short.

Yeah, exactly.

And War of the Worlds is the tripod design, obviously very different, but the craftsmen inside, you know, they have the very different like head plumes, but I'd say the design outside of that is not like so radically different.

I'm kind of like, where's like the equivalent of Rocky?