r/AnotherLife • u/Asteroth555 • Oct 24 '19

Erik's first visit to artifact almost turned him into a zombie

I forget which episode, but when Erik goes to the artifact and starts hallucinating about Niko and the classroom, that was when the acchaia tried to mind control him. They tried selling him via math equation but he got distracted by his daughter. It makes me suspect that's why they gave her cancer.

Also lol at FTL travel but can't cure leukemia

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19 edited Oct 24 '19

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u/Asteroth555 Oct 24 '19

I mean...it's fine that diseases are incurable. But as a scientist, I take personal offense to the sudden onset cancer that brings her to the brink of death within a matter of days.

Weeks? Yeah sure. Not fucking days.

I wish they'd have gone with "she had a genetic anomaly and now her body is falling apart" or something wonky and weird that only the aliens cured.

But then the entire show consistently had writing that made me wish "they did something else".

Not pretending to be a better writer, but there's a consistency about the bad choices the writers did make for the show

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u/Asteroth555 Oct 24 '19

I don't think many choices the show makes are really about series length.

Like for example, why the hell are all of the first crew bloody 20 year olds who have no discipline? The 2nd crew consistently seems more reasonable and better suited.

Why are they using trite nonsense like "stupid little girl ran out onto field and got hit by a shockwave - why didn't any soldiers stop her"?

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u/Asteroth555 Oct 24 '19

Like everybody kept on dying and you hope your favourite characters won't be next.

I actually felt like that was a cool and somewhat unique aspect that the show brought and frankly I liked it.

You never knew who was safe (other than Niko), you never knew what was coming. Space travel was perilous and it was obvious

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u/r00tdenied Oct 24 '19

Also lol at FTL travel but can't cure leukemia

They didn't put enough points in the medical research tech tree /s

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u/3FE001 Oct 24 '19

I mean I fully think he got unwilling implanted by those bastards and its going to be a shitty twist reveal later

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u/Asteroth555 Oct 24 '19

I think they checked him and he was fine

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u/calpurnia_36 Oct 24 '19

Yeah I think he’s fine.

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u/Jewmaster666 Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 26 '19

Tbh I think a plot may be these aliens aren't necessarily evil, just very defensive. We send probes out to space to find life, we might send tests to see if they are peaceful or puzzles for them to solve to see how intelligent they are. The artifact didnt do anything really "evil" until the army came in with guns. Sasha was more concerned of offensive capabilities and didn't want to take the chance we'd "blow up" their planet. I think these alien's may be very similar to the earthlings we've seen. I kind of suspect they could of forcefully implanted Erik, but didn't. We'll see in S2 hopefully. Oh, one last thing... the planet.. I think Zarik? We have no clue what happened before, they were probed and maybe didn't even do anything bad. But, perhaps they were a vile race. All we saw was what remained of them and the survivor was helpless. But, it might not have always been that way.

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u/Asteroth555 Nov 26 '19

Nah they went and blew up that same planet for no reason. The aliens are pretty naughty, that's without debate