Battlefield Earth (novel)/Fridge

Horror

• Fridge Horror: Think about it: You're sitting around, minding your own business and all of a sudden unidentified alien spacecraft come shrieking down from the sky and in less time than it takes you to make a sandwich all resistance is utterly crushed and you're either dead or enslaved, never to see your friends or family ever again. In a competent film, this would be among the scariest of nightmare scenarios!

Logic

• • The utterly bizarre idea that the Psychlos hold of the "man-animals" being used as slave labor is laughable to them, when there are remnants of human civilization absolutely everywhere that people obviously built. Furthermore, if the Psychlos think humans are completely useless (as most of them do), then why keep them alive when they obviously have no qualms about killing them?
    • And why, if they were considered too stupid to be able to mine gold, were they shown in one scene working at a forge, which requires considerably more skill and training than mining?
  • If the Psychlos were able to wipe out humanity's entire military without a problem, why in the hell would they not be able to take out a force of god damned cavemen that is less than one millionth of the combined military forces of Earth, when the offensive and defensive capabilities of the Psychlos have continued to advance over the thousand year interim? That's not even getting into the fact that the Harrier Jets, their fuel, their missiles, and their onboard computer systems still magically work after sitting around for over a millennium.
    • An invasion force is, by its nature, more powerful than a force that is occupying a pacifed area. That's the only possible logical explanation as to how the man-animals pulled that off. As for the equpiment they used, there's just no excuse.
  • If they wanted gold, why the hell did they come to Earth, where it's so rare? It's like going to Mercury because you want to find water.
    • And if you wanted gold, and came to Earth even though it's so rare here, and had the planet for a thousand years, how in the name of Satan did you manage to never find Fort Knox? WE SAW THAT YOU HAVE GOLD DETECTORS, THAT WAS IN THE MOVIE.
      • Especially since the Psychlos were smart enough in the book to loot Fort Knox at the outset while somehow missing an armored car in downtown Denver, the source of the gold Johnnie uses in the book (which is better than the movie in a lot of ways, but still Made Of Suck). The Psychlos (understandably--they are aliens) mistake it for a tank, but strangely enough do not destroy this 'tank' during their initial attack.