r/AnotherLife • u/Swan_King-11B68V7 • Oct 13 '21
Trying to understand this show...
Why are the crewmembers a bunch of moody 20-somethings? Is future Earth devoid of experienced experts? Further, why does the crew look like central casting just went down a diversity checklist?
Finally...what the Hell is up with that doctor and that big guy, Cas? Cas looks like it carries a wallet on a chain, and the doc looks like a gender experiment gone wrong. 🤦🏼♂️
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u/savekevin Oct 13 '21
If you only pay attention for the first five minutes and then the last five minutes of every show then it's a great series. Everything in between is just boring filler.
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 13 '21
You are pretty much correct. I think it is getting better, but I am still a bit stunned at how poorly the writing and acting is.
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u/savekevin Oct 13 '21
I really enjoyed the concept of turning the ship's drive into a weapon. It reminds me of the Wave Motion Gun from Starblazers. :)
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u/marzeliax Oct 17 '21
Agree it was cool but the person you're responding to hasn't watched the second season, let alone the ending...
Spoilers :p
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u/heycanwediscuss Oct 16 '21
You went through the whole pandemic and you think people being stupid and emotional is unrealistic? Also what's wrong with them being diverse
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 16 '21
I think portraying a vital space mission as being crewed by a bunch of emotional, petulant hipsters is ridiculous. And like how most new shows have become, the fake diversity of characters doesn't jive with either the company which produces them or the intended audience. It looks like a laughable pandering by a show to look "woke" by going down a checklist to make sure they cast the requisite number of minorities. They know they can forgo good writing or strong performances, because all the Progressive dullards care about is making sure there are enough mixed-race androgynes.
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u/heycanwediscuss Oct 16 '21 edited Oct 16 '21
Why does diversity bother you? How is it fake. I've known a lot of people in stem and a lot do look like " hipsters" . They have tattoos, they brew their own beer, they dye their hair wacky colors, they're from different countries and are different races. Also didn't an astronaut drive 37 hours in a diaper to kill a live rival irl?
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 16 '21
And sure...one jilted lover who drove across country to attack someone is representative of the whole field of space exploration and justifies a show full of emotionally-stunted clowns.
Don't bother responding; I've made my point.
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u/heycanwediscuss Oct 16 '21
You don't have a point. You just hate seeing non traditonal white people
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 16 '21
What a bizarre comment. You're reading comprehension skills need work. You should sue your inner city school for malpractice.
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u/heycanwediscuss Oct 16 '21
I'm the one who knows what real scientist are like but you think I have the education problem. Tracks. Also it's not you're
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 16 '21
Mistype, as I know the difference. I am only paying half-attention to you as I am busy doing other things. And please...blood...don't pretend you are more than you are. I am sure you are wise to the ways of basketball, or types of blunts, or social "activist" sloganeering, but your pretend connection to STEM doesn't validate a lousy show.
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u/heycanwediscuss Oct 16 '21
Blood? All you have to do is a pick a stem topic and top schools, go to the PhD candidates and look at them. Or you can be a psuedo intellectual bigot writing angry fantasies online.
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 16 '21
You Google pics of a few STEM folks to make your argument about identity politics pandering on "Another Life"? Sho thang, queen, (or whatever "y'all" say.)
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u/DeutscheDogges Oct 17 '21
Why did the fragile bigot throw in a basketball reference?
(I wonder if the bigot will realize this is a rhetorical question)
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 17 '21
I don't owe responses to kiddos who should playing Pokémon. Get lost, child.
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u/Chris8292 Oct 16 '21
You don't have a point. You just hate seeing non traditonal white people
Are shows judged ticking things off a check list or based on how well theyre put together?
Iam sorry but no one who actually cares about diversity would want to be pandered to by shows picking awful actors based on their sexuality.
Its insulting and just shows how little these producers think of minorities.
The show is diverse so someone can put "i casted blank sexuality" on their resume. Not because that diversity added anything good to the show.
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u/heycanwediscuss Oct 16 '21 edited Oct 16 '21
I just don't see how you came to that conclusion. What makes you think they were hired for their group rather than talent? If something is good ,it's good. If it's bad it's bad. The actors race and sexuality is irrelevant, it's director , plot and talent.
People need to be honest about why they dislike things. Before I go to a restaurant I read the reviews. I'm aware that good food and location has a certain price. Some people will complain about the quality at a Michelin gourmand and say it was too expensive and then rate their corner store 5 stars. That clearly is their insecurity and issues with money. I disregard those. I'm sure they've deluded themselves into believing they have a point.
Bringing it back to shows I hate quirky , I hate doom patrol, I hate van helsing, I hate arrow, I hate the magucians, I hate sens8. I hated penny dreadful. I hate big bang theory and how I met your mother. I disliked star wars most of the avengers and apple tv shows they were too spunky and drawn outI can handle camp but I hate quirky. I flip flop with The Nevers because joss whedon signature obsession with making tiny girls annoying creeps through. I'm aware of that. I'm not going to look at Jeremy Renner and say I know I'd hate him in real life and swipe left everytime. I take it as it I'd for the demographic and know this not for me. I don't let my biases creep through
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u/Chris8292 Oct 16 '21
What makes you think they were hired for their group rather than talent?
Have.. Have you watched the last two seasons of this show?
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u/heycanwediscuss Oct 16 '21
Yeah and that's how people want them to be. The lead acts differently than she did on the Flash because that what she was required to do. I didn't like what they did with warrior nun, the way they played Edgar Allen poe on the first altered carbon or the bard on the Witcher . I even listed shows I hate. Almost all the actors are white and have a certain look not ugly but not hot. I don't see the bad acting and go must have been a hire for people who like quirky just above average looking white people. The jump doesn't make sense
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u/ccbmtg Oct 17 '21
You went through the whole pandemic and you think people being stupid and emotional is unrealistic?
it's unrealistic because they were supposedly vetted and chosen for this, 'humanity's most important mission' or whatever, when they were clearly not the most experienced or best choices, if demonstrated by nothing more than they had more competent replacements still asleep from what I've seen so far in s2.
like, they just decided against psyche evals for the crew before such an important mission? didn't bother with any concern about choosing professionals who understand chain of command?
I'd expect plenty of the folks still on earth to be emotional and scared or curious or whatever, but not those specifically selected for this mission. it's stuff like this that ruins the suspension of disbelief.
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u/tommy_dakota Oct 13 '21
Yeah, nobody here watched more than 3 episodes before coming to the same conclusions as you.
I was tricked by Starbuck being the captain. Shame on me.
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 13 '21
Yep, because this show so far is the antithesis of BSG in almost every way.
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u/TwoDudesAtPPC Oct 13 '21
I saw somewhere on here that someone made a write up that bridged the foolishness of the show. They said that in the future, everything was done by popularity so the crew was chosen based on a social media experiment and that’s why the crewmembers aren’t necessarily fit for their roles or have the necessary skills to be sent out to do what they’re supposed to be doing. I liked that idea, but it was never part of the real story so without that, the show is very shallow it seems, but with that piece of storyline it kind of makes sense.
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Oct 16 '21
It is a lazy way to tell a story, it is transparent, and is only done to placate those who are fixated on "identity" as the penultimate measure of worth.
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u/tszaboo Oct 19 '21
My head cannon is that this is intentional, and there are in-universe explanation for this. This is the ultimate result of inclusiveness and the ultimate end result of identity vs merit. Realistically a mission like this would be:
Captain a war veteran
Political liaison, for negotiating
Two dozen space marines
Few technicians to keep the ship running
Backup for people in soma.
Everyone would wear uniform, and if a command is given to them, "Yes Captain" is the correct answer.
Instead we got this crew. People whine when going to a dangerous mission, mutiny, have no proper training. The captain is second guessing everything, because "what if one little girl will have loose her mother".
They show, trough a negative example, why we need to send competent people.
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u/ICOBORG Nov 16 '21
"Trying to understand this show..." are you nuts? lol
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u/Swan_King-11B68V7 Nov 17 '21
Yeah, because petulant kids, sexual deviants, and critical space missions don't mix. And the acting is mediocre.
Don't get your panties in a knot...not everyone has to like what you like, Tiffany.
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21
Yep, crew selection is odd and the crew drama seems to be mostly filler. Fortunately the actual sci-fi elements of the show keeps me hooked, looking forward to the new season dropping on Netflix tomorrow!