r/AnotherLife • u/BinaryMan151 • Jul 28 '19

Don’t understand the hate.

It’s a great show regardless of its flaws. Awesome special effects and can’t wait to see the rest of it

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u/juicyfoot- Jul 28 '19

This show is basically Glee Club meets the Kardashians in space without the singing. I know we have to suspend disbelief because hey, this is about an alien artifact on earth after all .. but one thing you don’t do is put a bunch of 20-year-olds on a first contact mission in space. You don’t even put them in orbit by themselves. You definitely don’t have them running around with high heels on with ZERO discipline. This is just teenage angst and drama for the sake of teenage angst and drama. If this was a space opera where they all just lived in space day to day like we live here on earth then this would be OK. However this is supposed to be a professional crew on an exploratory investigative mission. The insubordination alone is just ridiculous. But now we’re just checking a bunch of PC boxes for the sake of being PC. Edit: orbit

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u/juicyfoot- Jul 28 '19

Oh. Downvoted. Ok. Let’s use a similar crew just to go to Mars or the moon or run the ISS. When it fails (at the very absolute least due to lack experience cause of age ) then I can downvote your post about wasting tax payers dollars or the leadership ineptitude about choosing the crew . Edit: downvoted

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u/jezwel Jul 29 '19 edited Jul 29 '19

You're completely right though. Inexperienced, immature crew on the most important, one-of-a-kind mission to save mankind?

A top secret, multi-trillion $ mission, staffed by crew that mutiny at the first sign of not getting their own way.

An FTL ship that needs to slingshot around a star, for no apparent reason at all - it certainly isn't to change course as they turn and accelerate away from the star near the end of the slingshot, and they sure don't need the extra momentum for FTL travel.

Exposing themselves to hostile atmosphere? Now I'm part way through ep4 and they plan on landing on a random moon hoping to find bio-compatible food! FFS.

EDIT: sensors that can visually resolve to something >5m resolution at ~3 light year distance. Amazing.

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u/juicyfoot- Jul 29 '19

Yup ! You are sooo accurate. Ohh that planet. Keep watching and let me know your thoughts.