I dunno, I think far-advanced humans makes a lot more sense than advanced aliens who found humans interesting. Advanced humans at least have a vested interest in protecting humanity, aliens stumbling upon us, seeing we need help, and then feeling motivated to help us "because we're interesting" takes quite a few more leaps.
I mean, when Cole says it's advanced humans he's speaking mega advanced, like near the heat-death of the universe levels of advanced. To the point they're not "humans" anymore in any sense or meaning of the word beyond citing a likely ancestral point for these advanced creatures which, really, could be seen as advanced aliens who saw humans interesting.
I mean, we'd be talking mega, super, hyper-advanced. Not just advanced as in "us compared to the first single-celled organisms on the planet" but more "us compared to the first single-celled organisms in the universe."
Eons and eons, trillions of years more advanced. Advanced enough to have become Fourth/Fifth Dimension Beings and to have no concept of operating in three dimensions (necessitating the entire set of events in the movie.)
I mean, when Cole says it's advanced humans he's speaking mega advanced, like near the heat-death of the universe levels of advanced. To the point they're not "humans" anymore in any sense or meaning of the word beyond citing a likely ancestral point for these advanced creatures which, really, could be seen as advanced aliens who saw humans interesting.
I mean, we'd be talking mega, super, hyper-advanced. Not just advanced as in "us compared to the first single-celled organisms on the planet" but more "us compared to the first single-celled organisms in the universe."
Eons and eons, trillions of years more advanced. Advanced enough to have become Fourth/Fifth Dimension Beings and to have no concept of operating in three dimensions (necessitating the entire set of events in the movie.)