"Another Life" in Netflix

Let me start by saying I’m not a huge Sci Fi fan - especially shows that want to be taken seriously but can’t be bothered to do even basic research. I can suspend a certain amount of disbelief and accept certain future innovations. But there are limits to my acceptance, and I’ve found a show that exceeds those limits.

That, my friends, is Another Life. I’ve only watched it because my husband loves SciFi and he had the remote. I bit back all my snark, since it tends to piss him off, but here, I will spill it.

Bad acting, bad writing, inane story lines, an electronics technician who blames everything on “a short somewhere”, and dialog that is ridiculously over-peppered with *fuck *and *shit *and their variations. (I began to wonder if they are paid for every version of *fuck *they could put in a sentence.) And that’s not even addressing how the ship is supposedly many light-years from earth, but they can video chat with zero time delay.

Has anyone else watched this debacle? Am I missing something or is it as wretched as I think it is?

It’s exactly as wretched as you think it is. The husband stands out dramatically in a sea of terrible acting as the Head Lead Very Bad Worst Actor. The whole thing is a mishmosh of influences and tone and cultural references all jammed together in the very worst way.

And I know this is heresy among sci-fi fans, but I really dislike Katee Sackhoff.

We need to save the world and we have to send out a 6 month space voyage to do so.

Let’s get a bunch of whiny-somethings with the emotional maturity of 7th graders and send them off together. Should work out just right. For fun we could throw in a new commander and make the old commander and all of his whiny crew act as subordinates.

By the way, we also possess the technology to instantly communicate with the ship from any ice cream shoppe. Let’s only use that technology to talk with clueless husbands and children and not use it for Earth command to assess the mental health of the crew. After all, we could watch them constantly but why bother.
We made it through episode 1. I’m going to try ep 2 but my expectations of wanting to watch future episodes past that one are pretty low.

Y’all are taking it way too seriously, this is not supposed to be hard sci-fi, it falls more in the Firefly-STTNG realm of character drama with a scifi backdrop.

That said, I enjoyed the first 3 episodes or so, but after that it seems to be slowly sliding off the rails. If you don’t love the first few episodes, probably best not to continue.

I made it up to the first video conference and bailed. Nice to see my conclusions validated. Started re-watching Season 3 of The Expanse to get it out of my system.

I’ve skipped around in a couple of episodes, and what little I saw seemed really cheesy, and with an FX budget of approximately three fiddy.

Interesting bit on one of the props on the show.
Reminds me of an episode of Andromeda that showed Sarracenia leucophylla as an exotic alien “oxygen generating” plant.

Interestingly enough, a coworker gave me a rambutan a couple of weeks ago. It is a weird fruit, for sure.

Yeah the whole “What is this mysterious thing? Let’s spend the entire series trying to find out but never actually get any answers” thing doesn’t appeal to me.

4.5 on IMDB. Ouch. Voters there tend to be tougher on movies than tv too. Pass.

Okay, just that one screen shot of him feeding it to her…WhyTF is that even a thing on a deep-space mission? “Hey, we’re trillions of miles from Earth, better get in some kinky fruit sexy stuff!” :rolleyes:
Let me guess: at some point one of them puts their bare hand in some Alien Goo, right?

I mentioned skipping around in a couple of episodes–I literally watched maybe 30 random seconds of the series, and coincidentally that moment is one that I landed on. You think it looks bad in a screenshot? In action it looked like something from a low-budget 1970’s porn film.

We’re watching it, but there are a lot of holes. So many, many holes.

I have not seen it, but the overall consensus is that it is bad. I would NOT base scifi tv on this show.

Feel bad for Kara Thrace…uh, I mean Katee Sackhoff. She deserves to be on something awesome again.

I want to like it, but there are some major problems. One - every scene with the young daughter is a Jar Jar Binks scene - they are wasting valuable screen time on these awkward interactions. We get it - the parents love their child, like most people. Move on with some story development.

Two - Ian is absolutely right about Niko - all she cares about is her daughter, and there is no way she should be in charge of this mission.

Three - Who in their right minds sends two captains in the same ship?!? Okay, maybe one asleep as back-up, but two awake at the same time? That’s just asking for trouble. And the insubordination that Niko puts up with - no way, man!

Four - Go to a completely different planet and take your helmet off because it seems like the air would be breathable? Are you shitting me? They deserve to have their spinal columns pull themselves out of their bodies!

And five- How the fuck did angry lady pass the psyche test?

Ya know, as cheesy as Star Trek can be - this reveals one of the things that I really like about it. Gene Roddenberry’s idea of “no conflict among the crew” was too extreme, but once he was no longer involved it became what it should have been: these people are fucking professionals. Sure, they may not agree with each other all the time or even like each other sometimes, but when the captain says Make It So, you shut the fuck up and do your job. And that allowed conflict to arise naturally from the dangers they faced during their adventures, rather than incessant soap-opera nonsense among the characters.

Ha! The number of times Star Trek had common South African plants as “exotic alien flower” made me laugh - set dressers seem to love proteas and strelizias

For it to be sliding off the rails, it would need to be on rails first. Which it isn’t. It never, ever is. Also, all of the posts in this thread are understating the awfulness of this show. When Jellybeans made a puke-flavored one, at least it was interesting - by golly, it tastes a little like puke! Apparently the creators of this show wanted to see if this works for the TV equivalent. It doesn’t.

Why? I think she’s given a hell of a lot of love for being in Battlestar: Galactica, and that geeknerd fanservice appearance in the Big Bang Theory, and I don’t know why she deserves it. Also, BsG sucked after about the halfway point, right about the time Apollo had to act as a lawyer or something like that.

I starting a thread about, “Another Life” a few days ago myself, but decided to just delete it. This series pissed me off in the very first episode. They’re saving the world, so they gathered the most dysfunctional crew imaginable, one that can’t function more than 24 hours after waking from cryosleep without mutiny. The one thing that kept me watching it was that they KILLED the mutineer so quickly. It gave me hope for the rest of the series that was dashed quickly enough.

Even though the crew did the most stupid things for no reason I’d seen since Prometheus, I won’t be quite as harsh as others. It wasn’t great, or even good, but it occupied my time, and I thought the sets & fx weren’t the worst I’d ever seen.