- It's certainly possible theoretically that Africa wasn't the only landmass to rise and avoid the tsunamis. The Caribbean is on its own tectonic plate, which theoretically could have risen. Also Washington State (not to be confused with D.C.) in the USA and British Columbia in Canada are also on a small tectonic plate together, and this plate could have risen as well. Could it be that Seattle and Vancouver survived?
- The closing shot of the post-catastrophe globe seemed to show some land, not just clouds, where Europe had been. Possibly some if its mountain ranges came up out of the water once the super-tsunami had passed.
What? Every WMG page needs at least one connecting it to Eva!
- Except Second Impact was in 2000, not 2012.
Assuming that many of the people in Africa have survived there will now be a variety of despotic dictators, gangs and generally unpleasant people waiting for the survivors when they get there. The Arks are very likely unarmed, and there probably aren't many trained soldiers on board, so a sufficiently well armed force could easily overwhelm the people on the Ark for use as slave labor, weapons research (remember some of the world's premier scientists are on board). Any way you look at it the survivors are hosed.
- It could be that the arcs carry weapons though. It wouldn't solve the problems, but help a bit. Africa has probably been hit before the tsunami's as well.
- Just because they didn't show crates of seeds being hauled onto the Arks doesn't mean they were stupid enough to forget to stockpile those, too.
- The tv series appears to have been canceled so we'll never find out ;(
- That's because there were ten arks under construction, they just didn't have time to finish that many. Presumably each was designed to communicate with the other nine.
- Then, there is the issue of the timeline of the destruction of the world. Apparently the Maya's predicted it. And then suddenly, it turns out that the schedule is tighter than they anticipated. So, the Maya's didn't predict it after all or something?- Suddenly, there are mutant subatomic particles being emitted by the sun. Something the entire film does not even try to explain.
- The consoles indicate that there were supposed to be ten arcs, not four(9 arcs are on console, with only 2 glowing, indicating that the own arc is not portrayed). There wasn't even room to build an extra arc in the facility, even though the timetable had only moved up a few days at most.- Arc 3 was fatally damaged by a section of roof falling on top of it. Even though arc 4 was able to survive two impact with rock, and even have a large rock fall on its weakest section, while arc 1 and 2 scraped against one another for a very long time. Arc 4 even had large amounts of water on it.
There can of course be only explanation: An outside force was causing this event, possibly Ancient Astronauts who told the Maya's they were gonna blow up the world in the first place. Worldcrackers are expensive though, and when they discovered humanity were able to predict the end and escape it, they infiltrated the government, stopping the survival from being handled efficiently, and the media, so the government couldn't spend all the funds they needed for ten arcs without being noticed. But then the government started drawing from outside sources to get the money, although considerably less to build four arcs. So the aliens had to accelerate their schedule by using a second worldcracker, although that was simply overkill, exerting so much force on the planet that they accidently pushed Africa upwards. Of course, all the infiltrating aliens had high positions. High enough to get on the arc maybe?
- One issue. The Arks aren't built with luxury in mind at all. A singles room can fit up to four people because they aren't expecting there to be anywhere else for a long time. People are going to reproduce even if they tried to control the population, and if they filled the Arks to full capacity from the get-go overcrowding would become a huge issue. That's not alien-induced incompetence, that's thinking ahead.
Just to expand on what another troper theorized somewhere higher on this page. Even though the G8 nations appeared to be leading the Ark plan, it's possible that the smaller nations had some other contingency plans in the works. While America, China, Russia, etc. were rushing their citizens to the Himalayas to board the main Arks, is it possible other nations had prepped their own smaller-scale Arks/submarines/airships?
At the end of the movie, South Africa appears to be facing a sudden influx of maybe a million survivors from the Arks. Naturally, this will probably create some tension.
First of all, while Africa was stated to have avoided the tsunamis thanks to the continent rising, South Africa and the rest of the continent were already a basket case before the apocalypse. So they will have trouble adjusting to the sudden arrival of that many newcomers.
Secondly, the leaders of the G8 Nations, such as the Russian President and the German Angela Merkel Expy, are present (with Carl Anheuser apparently becoming by default the new President for the American survivors simply because he's the highest-ranking American official to still be alive at this point). However, South Africa already has its own government.
So the question is, will the Ark survivors submit to the South African President as their new leader, or will they stick with the G8 leaders? Will the survivors' landing zone in the Drakensburg Mountains become a sort of separate entity, or will South Africa attempt to annex them?
She certainly seemed to disagree with Anheuser's views. Plus there's the fact that she appears to be personally popular, much moreso than the pugnacious Anheuser, who the other characters believe to be morally suspect.
It certainly appeared that she, the scientist guy, and others present weren't comfortable with him being the leader of the survivors from the USA.
It should also be noted that the only reason why Anheuser even became President at all is because the U.S. President decided to die in D.C, and because the Vice President and Speaker of the House never made it to Air Force One in time to escape. Anheuser declared himself President simply by virtue of being the highest-ranking American official to still be alive.
And again, the other characters viewed him as being a rather shady operative, morally speaking. The original President's daughter appears to be charismatic enough to mount a challenge to him (assuming that the American survivors are even willing to elect a new President now).
Well, they stated that they funded the project by giving the first tickets to the world's richest people. Presumably, that included celebrities (in addition to the oil barons/software tycoons/the British Royal Family/etc).
So yeah, in all likelihood, Cher, Madonna, George Clooney, Miley Cyrus, and Lady Gaga are among the survivors. It's kinda weird to picture them aboard the Arks and in the new colony in S. Africa, but in all likelihood, they were probably present in the movie's universe.
- Having your picture on a lot of T-shirts doesn't make you one of the world's richest people; they were courting billionaires with hard cash, not big-name media figures who couldn't even afford to pay coach. We see
Arnoldthe governor of California still giving a press conference just as the fit hits the shan, suggesting that it took a lot more than fame, or even fame plus political influence, to be told what was going on.
Well, as we know, the world didn't end in 2012 (or at least didn't suffer any apocalyptic worldwide scale catastrophe), so when the calendar hit 2013, why shouldn't anyone said that humanity cancelled the apocalypse.