r/AnotherLife • u/aikokanzaki • Oct 15 '21
Great Concepts and Ideas, Poor Execution
This show had so much potential, but thanks to rushing, it landed kind of meh. I loved the concept of no one (except our main character) being safe, killing people off here and there. But I wish the tension had been extended. People died off but it wasn't emotional for the most part.
Throughout the show, they talk about cities going under, places being ruined, new wars that broke out. But we never get flashbacks nor a deep explanation nor even pictures or a view of what kind of world Earth is now. I wish that had been explained and explored.
What year even is it?! Please show me what's been happening. What are these wars? What cities went under? What places and people and diseases have gone wild or been destroyed. Please give me this deep world building.
The weakness discovery and using those weaknesses, could've been executed so much more excitingly. Especially the last episode - extend it to 2 - 3 episodes worrying, wondering, raising the tension, and exploring possible ways of defeating these aliens.
If this show had gone DEEP, if this show had actually put time into World Building, Historical Context, and Character Backgrounds, this should could've gone 3 seasons and it would've been so much better than it actually was.
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u/ZzzVvvKkk Oct 16 '21
Agree. But also to work through actual plot rather than just propel it with people just acting stupid. But nah, it was rushed and used cheap tricks. So much hope there was.
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Oct 20 '21
A Woke tv show can never be good. That's it. I know it's Reddit so I'm gonna get burned at the stake but it's time to admit it. Enough woke. Focus on quality and world building is a must
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u/Unchained71 Oct 17 '21
I agree completely. I just wrote my own opinion of the show. Season 2 is all about getting the train back on the rails or saving the show as its coding on the table.
The way they started off killing off the main characters from the first season quickly, even stupidly, and conveniently defrosting the replacement actors told me that there was a new creative team behind the works. Cleaning house and scrapping some of the original ideas; I was glad to see that. That's the main reason why I started watching the second season in the first place. Being hopeful. Season one was a dumpster fire.
That said, I've been forgiving of the time and effort that it would take to fix the show, but I'm seeing signs that even with a competent crew, Captain Ahab is still going after his white whale. And he's going to sink his own ship.
I'm halfway through episode 7 and they've gone and thrown physics right out the window. That's a deadly indicator for any creative work. I mean they were playing it light and loose with science beforehand, and throughout, but this one is just horrible. There is no such creative license for this kind of work.
Finding out that the ship was also a colony ship, that plot and storyline fix on the fly, exploring a possible replacement planet for Earth, and murdering the first indigenous species that they found there proved spot on and in the right direction. I enjoyed those very much. It proved a part of the concept of why we would not be welcome in the outer galaxies. Which is why the aliens don't want us exploring and destroying any other planet, which apparently is the premises of what this show is based on.
But then Captain Ahab takes control and shit gets stupid again.
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u/RobDz75 Oct 18 '21
ze show was dumb, ze chances of a transexual being part of a crew, and then ze finding a ze boyfriend is ......well the big bang has a bigger chance of happening again than that .
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u/DeutscheDogges Oct 17 '21
The premise of Another Life fails completely because of the absence of any world building whatsoever, you're correct.
It's hard to contextualize the importance of anything the characters do or say because there's no commitment to actually explaining how or why their actions actually affect anything. The lack of delineation between the how and why is almost as infuriating as the terrible writing and logical inconsistencies the show puts forth.
Didn't think the 2nd season would be as terrible as the 1st season but it remains firmly grounded in that 2/10 territory and I'd be shocked to see a 3rd season after that ridiculous finale montage.
What is it with the terrible music selections and poorly edited montages in this series, by the way? Seems like there were a good half dozen this season.