Who woke up the astronauts in Oblivion?
Near the end of Oblivion when Jack is having flashbacks to being an astronaut. He remembers piloting the spacecraft towards the alien ship. My understanding was that Jack and Victoria were both asleep in the pods, and that mission control awoke them when intercepting the unknown artifact (the alien ship).
While on route to intercept the artifact Jack is in constant contact with mission control. The woman in the video screen is the same as the woman seen earlier in the film. So it seems that Jack was following orders made by the alien, and not actually mission control.
My question is who woke up Jack and Victoria? Were they awoken by the alien and tricked into thinking they were communicating with mission control. Or, was the woman on the screen a real person back in mission control and not the alien?
Best Answer
They were woken by Sally from mission control she was the woman on the screen and is a real person back in mission control.
The woman that we see earlier in the film is a copy of the real Sally from mission control. The TET mimics the interaction between Sally and Jack/Victoria.
The only thing I can use to prove this is the quality of video feed. When the TET is using Sally the video quality is poor and it also jumps a bit, while during the scenes from inside the Odyssey it was much better. If the TET didn't edit and reuse an old video you would expect it to be better quality given its advanced technology.
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The question in the title appears to have been unanswered in the accepted answer.
My question is who woke up Jack and Victoria? Were they awoken by the alien and tricked into thinking they were communicating with mission control. Or, was the woman on the screen a real person back in mission control and not the alien?
They were woken either automatically by the ship itself or by NASA remotely. It's also possible that one member of the crew was always awake on a shift basis. Currently, a journey to Saturn can take anywhere between three and seven years hence the need for the "delta sleep" pods.
Jack Harper is woken up on schedule. We know this as he is aware that the Superbowl would have been held the previous night and NASA's Sally threatens to spoil the game for him by telling him who won. Considering that the Tet was the primary mission, why the other members of the crew were not woken up defeats me. The nature of the conversation makes it unlikely that the Tet was already impersonating Sally.
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