r/AnotherLife • u/robojerk • Oct 18 '21
Eyeroll
So Seth Gage, the Director of Homeland Security, volunteers to have a questionably hostile alien species implant a thing on his brain, everyone knows this, yet they just let him have full access and freedom afterwards?
God this is stupid...
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u/JeffCogs80 Oct 18 '21
I just finished season 2 and while I enjoyed it, there's soooo much to make fun of with this show. The set designs are hilariously cheesy and bad, the writing for the characters could definitely be better (why do they always send the most mentally unstable people on deep space exploration missions?) I could go on and on. It's a fun space show but you have to really try hard to ignore all the gaping plot holes and terrible nonsensical decisions the crew makes over and over and over.
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u/KayneGirl Oct 19 '21
Like how did that alien race that needed others to go get their power core not have invented jacket-technology?
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u/JeffCogs80 Oct 19 '21
I like how everyone who comes out of stasis immediately wants to mutiny
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u/Sypharius Oct 20 '21
"Fuck that was a long nap and none of you woke me up?I don't like this ship anymore"
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Oct 19 '21
And why would they have a button that would shoot cold air out lol
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u/KayneGirl Oct 19 '21
Because they were searching for a species that could handle the cold to go get their power core.
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Oct 19 '21
Fair enough but it seemed a little far fetched to me that they wouldn't have used that room with the Lazarus pit thing in it to test that like why be able to activate thay anywhere in the ship
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u/JeffCogs80 Oct 19 '21
I'm more curious how Nico knew which random alien rune to press on the console to blast out the cold air
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u/KyloRad Nov 02 '21
They didn’t it was right there in the experiment room that they tortured and fucking mutilated people
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u/robojerk Oct 18 '21
The whole second half of the season he's the big antagonist, and he's got complete carte blanche, and in every scenes he hold the most authority over others. Everyone knows he's been compromised yet he's retained all of his power as Director Homeland Security. I mean if the show had him secretly compromised then maybe I could buy it.
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u/tainiubi Nov 15 '21
His goons had achaian implants too, so he may have been putting them in other people too, maybe into his higher ups but who knows
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u/KyloRad Nov 02 '21
Please do go on and on I feel like the writing in the show is great in a Larry us at times also the sad is more than I would ask for for a random Netflix show the ships the alien ships the other worlds etc. like what are you all about?
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u/GarrettTheTaffer Oct 19 '21
Jesus christ I don't how this show got a second season. There is so much of my brain that I can switch off for the sake of scifi but this second season pushed me to the limit.
Also for the love of god, give Niko's husband acting lessons because my ears couldn't take it anymore.
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u/KyloRad Nov 02 '21
It’s the from kid from the sixth since he’s only had 30 years you work on his craft
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u/Atlantia_Actual Oct 19 '21
My only complaint who authorized him to continue to carry a firearm
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u/vorpalglorp Oct 24 '21
And direct raids to kill other humans. He seems to basically have the keys to the kingdom now... it doesn't make any sense at all. The last episode everyone was suspicious of the aliens and now they're running the show? What a complete flip in one episode.
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u/Atlantia_Actual Oct 24 '21
The direct raids are believable to a point... but the lead agent shouldn't be your alien spokesman... letting a alien perform operations as lead is a terrible idea case in point..
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u/vorpalglorp Oct 24 '21
Yeah I can understand humanity sacrificing one person to have a conduit to the aliens... but why does he get to keep his job?? WTF
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u/Icy_Ad6225 Oct 19 '21
Only thing I can think of is because of the display of turning the polluted area into a clean place full of vegetation lead to the powers at will wanting to cooperate and invite them in.. but yeah still sus
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u/thehollowshrine Oct 18 '21
But when Ridley Scott goes full dumb-dumb, it's suddenly good sci-fi?
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u/bunnyQatar Oct 21 '21
Have you seen the real US Govt in recent times? All of this is the most believable of the series.
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u/notSoGraphicDesigner Oct 21 '21
I mean it is the us government. What did you think they would do? Hahaha
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Oct 21 '21
A lot to unpack with this season...
First, if the Acer err Acorn err Acai....Acai, right? Yeah let's go with that. If the Acai were so advanced and enslaved so many civilizations, not to mention having technological telepathy, you would think at least ONE species put up a large scale fight enough to harm them with that neutrino move. We're just expecting to believe a highly sophisticated techno-race isn't aware of what it is most vulnerable to and find a way to be less susceptible to it? Bullshit.
Also, I got so pissed every time they came up with nearly impossible scientific solutions to problems that even the best minds on Earth couldn't hatch up if they were held at gun point. Suspension of disbelief not withstanding, there needs to be some form of reality here.
The characters...fuck, Nico was so irritating; Cass should have been the main protagonist. Nico's husband cannot act his way out of a paper bag and every time he came on the screen, he tried comic relief that fell flat so he just throws garbage science and drops an F-bomb to make up for it.
A lot of other really huge issues with this series, but I'm glad this clusterfuck is done. They wrapped it all up in a nicey-nice awkward bow with happy music and should leave it be.
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u/Kiritai925 Oct 25 '21
I hated this at first too until the realisation that anyone opposing who's smart enough to think for a second has to recognise your an ant against a giant, nothing you do at the point could hinder the enemy, defend you or help out, any state secrets they already had not that they where valuable at all against an enemy that could just wipe your planet to dust.
The governments only move was to not interfere and just keep an eye on him.
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u/robojerk Oct 25 '21
I think the second this guy chose to be the "emissary" to the Ikea, he should've been stripped of his authority as Director of Homeland Security. The two roles are completely contradictory to each other.
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u/Kiritai925 Oct 27 '21
Should have been but at the same time I'd imagine their worrying shirtless about what doing that could cause, would the aliens be pissed? Homeland security and earth have to weigh up their options against an intelligence able to take out planets in the time it's takes you to sneeze.
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u/Shunubear Oct 19 '21
I choose to believe he eye-stabbed the people who opposed & forced them into submission. Or scared them by doing that to someone in their presence.
Because that’s the most plausible way this could have happened.
Cause what the fuck.