It’s very good so far , I saw the 1st episode. It’s sci fi. There are 3 episodes out now. It’s about people leaving earth because the planet is no longer livable.
I have heard good things about the first few episodes. I know that two more episodes come on next week, but how many total episodes are there? I typically prefer to wait and watch a whole season of a show at once, especially new ones.
10 episodes total
Bit weird, also a TV series about being raised in Wolverhampton:
I watched the first episode. I’ll try a few more episodes to see if it captures my interest (pilot episodes are typically not the best given all the setup they need to do) but I’m not super thrilled by it.
I kind of like the idea, but the atheist versus theist debate seemed a little heavy-handed and simplistic in the implementation. I definitely got a “this is what a dumb person thinks is a smart debate” vibe from it.
I initially liked the aesthetic but I was starting to tire of it near the end. I’d really like to see a lot more world building scenes (flashbacks to the actual civilization, life aboard the arc, etc.). If the entire show is going to be on the grey, washed out planet it’ll get pretty dull pretty quickly.
And I strongly dislike the almost supernaturally strong androids. I was getting a real Westworld S3 vibe from that, and that is certainly not a compliment. That scream thing was just silly. A 1000 person ship, especially one that holds the last remaining survivors of your entire civilization, apparently just accepts a “crash the ship, killing everyone” command from a single crew member. Not even one with specific coordinates. Just a “crash the ship, kill everyone, pick a way to do it at your convenience” command. I’m no UI expect, but I’d like to think that’d be a user error situation. But no, not even a “Are you sure? Y/N” response.
I can live with that sort of silliness in an intentionally unrealistic satire or something. But I’ve lost my tolerance for blatant idiocy in plots and details in supposedly serious fare. It’s just complete laziness on the writer’s part, and it sends the message “I think you, the audience, are stupid”.
Hmm. I think I may have just talked myself out of giving it much more of a try. Maybe if I’m incredibly bored one evening.
Interesting. I agree with every word here but this is exactly why I like the show. I like that it triggers people.
I don’t know. It has a kind of retro 70s sci fi vibe. Some of the sci-fi tech is a bit sketchy.
Mother’s essentially “super powered” androidness that seems so overpowered compared to any existing tech.
Like it took them 12 years to figure out what was poisoning the children?
Using a busted-ass medical droid to perform facial reconstruction surgery in an old warehouse under battlefield conditions to look like two other people? And they don’t use something more sophisticated than photo ID like, I don’t know, the same retinal scan or biometric tech Mother circumvented to crash the ship
Anyone actually survived that ship crash. I never get that in movies. Here is this one section of the ship/aircraft that was somehow immune to crashing into a mountain at orbital reentry speeds and expoloding in a massive fireball? Or were these just the few dozen people who kept their seatbelts on?
How did you plan to restart civilization with 6 humans in the first place?
Only watched one episode so far, but I’ve really enjoyed it. My theory for mother, based on nothing but the first episode (I haven’t read the thread nor anything online about it):
The atheists were on the verge of destruction, and in a panic put together this expedition in a rush with their last resources. They threw together what they had, without being able to program everything perfectly. So they reprogrammed a decommissioned or maybe damaged war android (Mother) along with some other type of android (Father), and a handful of frozen embryos along with whatever survival gear they had on hand, and put them in a hastily constructed spaceship and sent them out. It never had much chance of success, because everything was put together in such a rush. And the only part of the new programming that’s stuck around in Mother is the “love and protect the children” directive, with the war directives taking control in every other situation.
Now through 3 episodes, and still enjoying it. I think my theory from the previous post bears out so far, except that the war droid was a captured, enemy droid.
I just started watching. Watched the first 2 episodes. Really interesting stuff. I like the whole Mother / Father dynamic and concept of the atheistic parental androids having to deal with religious children. Bringing back Mithras as a major deity is a fun touch as well.
I really digging this show. It’s got just the right amount oif surrealness I like.
After their initial lander crashed, I don’t think Mother/Father had access to the tech required to scan for radioactivity until they got hold of the Mithras lander.
I don’t think that any of the Mithras survivors were on board at the time of the crash - they were a different scouting party already on-planet at the time of the crash.
This is a great show.
I think at least some of them were on the ship. Sir Rapes-A-Lot definitely was. And he survived the crash because…plot.
Still, a very enjoyable show.
Now that the first season has ended, what does everyone think? As much as I’ve generally enjoyed the season, I’m not sure that much of anything about that last episode made any sense.
The only reason I kept watching the show was to see if it would ever make sense. It never did.
I really enjoyed it. I’m not sure the final episode made a ton of sense, but it made enough sense, IMO. There have been humans on the planet before the Mithraic and Atheists arrived, there has been android parasites before (or at least it’s a prophecy), and now that snakelike parasite is loose… on a tropical side of the planet… with 1 male and 1 female. Very Garden of Eden like.
I wonder if the humans on the planet live by the tropical zone and the zone our characters were in are generally left alone because of the radiation that seems to be all around.
Oh, and I guess we found what make those fossils that exist where Mother and Father set up camp.
Yeah, no thanks. The series started off with some promise, but it’s clear by now that they’re mostly just Making Shit Up As They Go Along. Don’t need to waste my time on that.
My wife and I are most of the way through it now and I have a question:
If they were “awake in a virtual world” for 13 years on the journey to this planet, why is it only now they are on the planet that people suspect Marcus/Caleb and his wife are not who they claim to be? Certainly there were suspicions during the 13 year journey?
I’m a fan of that show, too.
From the comments about the sci-fi show, it sounds as though HBO would have been better off showing the Wolverhampton one.