# PLEASE tell me this rumor isn't true! (Village spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-this-rumor-isnt-true-village-spoilers/249524 "2004-06-09T20:37:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-this-rumor-isnt-true-village-spoilers/249524/21 "2004-06-12T03:07:15Z")
Kinda reminds me of my idea for a sequel to _Brigadoon_. Just take the point of view of the denizens of that mysterious, unbearably quaint little Scottish village. Thanks to The Miracle, the next day after the events of the play (and movie), they wake up and it’s about 2050 outside. What kind of world now surrounds the little town? Perhaps Scotland has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and the villagers have to fight off mutant survivors. If they make it through that day, the next day is 2150. And then 2250. And then… a changed world every morning, and each day it’s further beyond their comprehension, until they lose their minds and begin cursing the hateful, laughing God that rendered their “miracle” and plunged them into a living Hell. Of course, you’d need some really snappy new song-and-dance numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Sinful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Sinful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinful)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-this-rumor-isnt-true-village-spoilers/249524/22 "2004-06-13T20:17:44Z")
> [@Menocchio](#): > > Right. I like the interpretation that they’re demons, myself. Makes the water thing work (especially the fact that they were first driven off in the Holy Lands). Also works in regard to their kidnapping (dragging souls off to hell), and makes “divine intervention” more plausible. I dunno. Demons in spaceships? It just doesn’t seem to fit. The movie more or less stipulates that they are aliens, and backs it up in many different ways. The creatures reflect all of the behavior that the movie mentions regarding aliens, including the part about them leaving and not coming back for a very long time (which suggests that they are going somewhere very far away). The most plausible thing about that theory is that they don’t use any real technology while they’re on the ground, but that’s problematic in and of itself. Shotguns work well against demons, we all learned that one in DOOM… 😃 Now back to the OP, I heard somewhere that that the elders kept them there to stop from entering the real world which was full of monsters. This is what they told them, and the twist was that they were actually telling the truth, and the stories were real. The director said this wasn’t what the ending was, but he said they were filming a new ending because people at test screenings didn’t like the ending. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-this-rumor-isnt-true-village-spoilers/249524/23 "2004-06-14T13:14:32Z")
> [@](#): > > I dunno. Demons in spaceships? It just doesn’t seem to fit. What spaceships? That’s another assumption. Never mind; that belongs in another thread, and we’ve probably had plenty about _Signs_. I hope they’ve managed to keep a tight wrap on the actual script for _The Village_. But why would anybody try to leak the script of a film in production? I don’t understand that. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-this-rumor-isnt-true-village-spoilers/249524/24 "2004-06-15T01:34:52Z")
Off topic, but may be of interest: There is a young adult novel called “Running Out of Time” with a plot similar to the one proposed in the original post. By Margaret Haddix, the plot goes something like this: “When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it’s up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.” The story had many plotholes, but potential. Well, I see the similarity, anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-tell-me-this-rumor-isnt-true-village-spoilers/249524.md?page=1)