Its 2021 Hollywood/Amazon we are talking about. They are throwing in POC into the new LOTR series to fill their woke quota. So yeah, reading to much into it me thinks.

@OddRob said:

Its 2021 Hollywood/Amazon we are talking about. They are throwing in POC into the new LOTR series to fill their woke quota. So yeah, reading to much into it me thinks.

Possibly. But, personally, it is a smidge uncomfortable to hear the term used so negatively in the popular space.

@DRDMovieMusings said:

Various peoples and groups across continents and cultures have "observed sabbath" for thousands of years.

A movie that sees a global effort united in eradicating "aliens" is pretty par for the course, but adding in that they are sabbath observers seems a rather odd tidbit for what, by all accounts, should be just another innocuous summer blockbuster action flick, no?

Perhaps I'm reading too much into it, and that tidbit was simply to differentiate this pastiche of time-travel and alien war movies.

But, maybe not...??

Your thoughts.

Who keeps Shabat? The Aliens?

Sort of but not really. In the movie the White-Spikes (aliens) will attack consistently for a few days then stop for a day or so. It was coined "sabbath" as in "day of rest" but its not every seven days or on any of the traditional days of rest from the major world religions.

Way too much read into it.

@Joe79 said:

Sort of but not really. In the movie the White-Spikes (aliens) will attack consistently for a few days then stop for a day or so. It was coined "sabbath" as in "day of rest" but its not every seven days or on any of the traditional days of rest from the major world religions.

Way too much read into it.

The humans of the future call it Sabbath, because the aliens stopped fighting every six days, and then disappeared for a day. Perhaps to recharge? It is not known if that happens on the seventh day of Earth calender week, or if the aliens use their own timekeeping.

Lieutenant Hart: "Every six days, the Whitespikes disappear. They crawl back into their nests. We call it the Sabbath. Their day of rest. And that’s when we insert troops."

"Your tour of duty will be seven days. That’s 168 hours. At the end of your tour, if the Jump-band attached to your arm determines that you are still clinically alive…"