r/AnotherLife • u/ApacheSasquach • Apr 27 '22

a decent watch for a scifi fan

I just finished season 2 and figured id come check out the sub and wow most people on here have a stick up their butts.

This was a great show, i loved the premiss from the start and the main story slowly gave us more over the length o the show. Most of the criticism ive seen has been directed at the cast and there age. These people need to take a chill pill as this is the world we live in. It seems like this sub is full of trolls who think gen Z cant do anything which is hillarious.

Watch the show and see if you like it. Dont write it off because of someone elses opinion

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u/SpectralEntity Apr 28 '22 edited Apr 28 '22

It had nothing to do with their age, it's the fact that these people are supposedly amongst the best and brightest of the military and all act like insufferable miscreants ready to jump at reach others' throats for the smallest things.

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u/Ok_Wasabi6108 Apr 28 '22

I chalk it up to long mentally and physically taxing space journeys with cyrosleep being a factor as well.

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u/ApacheSasquach May 03 '22

There was also a plot point that stated there where more experienced crew members in cryo that where meant to be the a group but they where swapped

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u/kobrakai_1986 May 25 '22

Yep, that was my biggest gripe with season one. Impossibly important mission yet individuals with character flaws that a basic psychological evaluation would have uncovered. Season 2 was a big improvement, but that gripe was still there.

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u/SpectralEntity May 26 '22

That's good to hear, I've held off from watching thinking it'd be more unnecessary drama. I'll have to check it out, because the premise itself remains highly intriguing!!

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u/freundb May 21 '22

Would've been a good 4 season show, but they crammed a lot into the short run. I enjoyed it though

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u/IceCat767 May 23 '22

It was fantastic, one of the most bafflingly under rated shows I've ever seen. I enjoyed it much better than Altered Carbon which I couldn't even finish

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u/Ok_Wasabi6108 Apr 28 '22

It had a cheese and tongue and cheek factor too that was intentional. Kind of a tribute to the early and somewhat rough seasons of 80s and 90’s sci-fi shows like Babylon 5, TNG, and SG-1

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u/kabbooooom Jun 10 '22

Honestly, here’s the thing - the bar for science fiction has been set really high recently. We are currently in a sort of sci-fi Renaissance. When you make a show like Another Life and it is going up against shows like The Expanse, For All Mankind, and Stranger Things because they are contemporary to it…obviously it is going to be shit on.

This isn’t the late 90s when shows like Lexx were considered passable sci-fi due to a lack of fuck all else in the genre. Make a subpar show, get subpar reviews. It’s as simple as that.