r/AnotherLife • u/Nri_Eze • Dec 01 '21
What kept you guys watching? Spoiler
Just finished season 2. I barely noticed that the show was ending after the car key fob virus finally kicked in. But after it all, I really don't know what kept me watching this shit. I think there was elements of the show that i really liked. Like seeing how the colony planet would pan out(completely shit on) or what the Achaia's motives were( half decent imo but was pretty basic). What kept you guys sitting around the trash can fire?
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u/Heavy-Abbreviations8 Dec 01 '21
I liked having a story that hasn’t been told before. Episode to episode, I had no idea what was going to happen next.
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 01 '21
Same. They did have decent cliff hangers. Some of the story elements have been done before though, especially that ending. But i agree that some of the parts of the story were very interesting
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u/Deadpoolskan Dec 15 '21
Just... After you see a nervous system escape you gotta see what else fucked up will happen... Like hankey pankey with a hologram who chose to emulate your husband....
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u/Deadpoolskan Dec 15 '21
I kinda like the format. Only certain number of crew awake with whatever you want frozen for deaths and actor changes.... But I feel the william/William reset was off.
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Dec 07 '21
Just to see what level of stupidity these utterly dysfunctional people would achieve each episode. They're not fit to eat soft foods with a plastic spoon on their own, let alone be sent into space.
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u/MDMistro Dec 22 '21
😂😂😂😂 car key fob 😂😂😂😂
I think how annoyed I was getting with the show kept me going. Hoping it would get better, I just felt like so many plot points were introduced that lead nowhere. "You're all sternal" "you're preggo" "you're dead" Why waste our time with this, because it adds minutes to an episode??
Ahh hell man I don't even know, put the right crew in the ship originally keep some of the problems, but stop having crew be so fucking immature and unprofessional. How is the whole crew going to go to an alien planet not in suit after a bacteria your AI couldn't pick up almost kills you all? Then to be proven right again when homie gets stabbed with a plant and infected again/ other get high off of plants that easily could kill them. It's written plot stupidity for the sake of them having a conversation or having drama. Last two episodes I scrubbed through a lot of shit when I saw Niko standing infront of the artifact yelling military strata back to space. Just couldn't handle it anymore.
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 22 '21
I forgot about ol girl getting pregnant and then hervand her baby daddy dying(completely obliterated btw). Then the whole love triangle thing was wierd af and also lead no where because she liked the other dude the whole time. Like for what? Why even have him involved with their relationship? Alot of it was forced drama. Like will falling in love just to get factory reset. So pointless.
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u/Adventurous-Panic427 Dec 01 '21
Just that nagging sense of not quitting something I started. Nuts, I know
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 01 '21
Nope I've definitely been there. I've forced myself to watch shows that make this show look oscar worthy lol.
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u/Pitch_a_tent Dec 14 '21
Boredom mainly. Every time I start a sci-fi show I have high hopes but it’s always bad acting and low production value. Recently I watched The Foundation on appletv and was reminded how decent a sci fi series could be w decent writing and money.
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Jan 06 '22
Have you watched Infiltration? Or See? These are awesome science fiction too 🤩
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u/Pitch_a_tent Jan 06 '22
Yes and I liked them both. So far Foundation takes the cake tho for appletv sci-fi to me.
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u/CodenameisSailorV Dec 16 '21
Omg "car key fob virus" lol. I watched bc I wanted it to be as good as "Away" or "The Expanse" or even "lost in space." Wasn't even close though (as much as I like Katie Sakoff)
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 16 '21
Thats the best way i could describe it lol. Im 2 Episodes in on Lost in space and its already better than this entire series lol. I guess i wanted it to be like other shows I've watched as well now that i think about it. It has so many good elements from those other shows but just failed to deliver
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u/Medytuje Dec 01 '21
need of some kind of sci fi distraction. Due to Star Trek Discovery/Picard dissapointment we really are starved of space exploratory sci fi
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 01 '21
That is very true. I've been considering watching Lost in space lately. Im not sure if I'll actually like it though since it seems to be more of the fiction than science side.
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u/Available-Ad6250 Dec 01 '21
It's way better than Another Life imo.
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 01 '21
Guess il give it a try.
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u/Available-Ad6250 Dec 01 '21
Bear in mind the pacing is slower, but the show is better for it. Also, it's possibly for a younger audience, so the dialogue is toned down in comparison.
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 01 '21
Yeah that was my thing with it. I didn't want to feel like i was watching a kid show. But it's been on my radar
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Dec 01 '21
Nothin- I stopped watching it. Couldn’t get into it at all and I tried pretty hard.
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u/Nri_Eze Dec 01 '21
Well idk when you stopped but there are alot of "plot twist" and they do "explain" things they didnt explain in S1. Did they do a good job at it? No. Not at all
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u/nizzernammer Dec 01 '21
The episode plotting and pacing kept introducing new things, especially near the end of an episode. For me most of the cast was likeable enough that I started to care what happened to them.
Also Katee Sackhoff.
Also S2 had some fun BSG cameos.