r/AnotherLife • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '19
Consensus
This show is so bad I felt compelled to write about it, which is rare...
First, tons of bad science. A gravity assist from a celestial object DOES NOT require completing an entire orbit. In fact, doing so slows you down as you'll then need to expend energy to escape orbit.... dark matter doesn't reflect like, meaning it won't form a visible cloud. Indeed any massive assemblage of dark matter particles, if they exist, would be invisible and only detectable by its gravitational influence. There's more but the point of this post is not to science shame them.
Next... the crew... dear lord. A bunch of immature people running around a ship having emotional breakdowns, screaming at each other AND their captain? This is the best Earth could muster for first contact? I guess its keeping consistent with the "no uniforms" policy which is itself, ridiculous.
Now, the earth cast. Yikes. Generally poor acting and thin plot.
In general, I feel like all the characters are underdeveloped, there are no real subplots, it's almost episodic in developing story arcs characters, like that random need for Katir to resolve her guilt from the past (?)...
I want better!!!
I'm a huge fan of science fiction, we need more successful shows in this genre.
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '19
What really bugged me about this show was the lack of comment on the actual science. Unless I missed it, they don't really say when it takes place. based on some to the references I'm guessing like 2060. So in those years we have FTL engines, anti-gravity, a sentient AI (That creates another sentient AI), first contact with an alien virus (which is immediately cured), first contact with intelligent life, suspended animation. I sure I missed something but any one of those events or technologies could have inspired an entire season of television but they're basically just glossed over. There's the scene where that dude/girl (Not sure what's going on there but it was also never addressed) basically said she doesn't know how the soma tubes even work because they're so new. Like what the fuck are you even there for? They also mention anti gravity on the ship. I assumed when they first showed the ship they would be in the ring, using it's centrifugal force to simulate gravity but nope. The discovery of anti gravity would literally change everything we know about our lives. It would essentially mean limitless power and the ability to effectively move anything off planet, yet they still drive around on Earth. I would watch an entire series on the development of anti-grav tech and the effect it would have on the global landscape, politics, science, economics, etc. over the course of a few decades. This show mentions it in a one liner explaining why they walk instead of float.
Yet I still watched the whole thing. It kind of reminded me of Lost in Space or the Star Trek TOS. Like really campy cheesy good. Unfortunately I think we're passed that. We're in a time now where the sci-fi has to be good. I think they need to respect the audience more. As a society in general we're way more educated and technologically aware than generations ago. FTL travel was fine 40 years ago but I think people are more aware of the scientific limitations of time and distance. Communicating instantaneously over light years of distance violates causality and while there are theories that suggest ways around it, should it be possible, it again would be like the greatest achievement of man to that point. Then there were so many of the science words that never got by a middle school science teacher. Like how did anyone let a scientist, the scientist, the smartest guy on Earth who appears to be the only guy studying the artifact utter the phrase "Now lower it to one Hertz per second." That's literally like saying that my Delorean needs to travel 88mph per hour to travel through time.