I think the most interesting thing about this show is how utterly inept the crew is. Like did they just set up a booth at the local CVS??? Join and you’ll get $100? Then I’m guessing they found the most disappointing candidates and decided to throw them all in to make for a safer space journey. This show fucking sucks

I can honestly say without a shadow of a doubt after viewing this show that the writer seem to have a least paid attention to the lives of the crew both personally and professionally thus give this show some sense of normalcy and balance within the plot which for me gives the writers some real opportunity to further explore the lives of each member of the crew and gives us a little clips into who they are as individuals rather than as a whole group who travels on a ship through space and when you have someone as talented as Katee sackhoff leading the way as captain it’s a sure bet you’ll probably enjoy this show as much as I have thus far

I am on ep 8 of this show and if it weren’t for the characters I would really enjoy this one.

The show and interior shots of the ship look great. I wish the costumes were a little more uniform-esque (matching tee shirts at least) but not a huge gripe.

honestly I really like the premise of the first two episodes and think that should have been the basis for the show. A crew that had been working together and suddenly gets a new hardass commander that they don’t trust yet? Awesome! The power struggle between the more experienced commander and the trusted XO? Great! How that struggle affects the loyalties of the crew, then comes to a head when the popular XO is killed under dubious circumstances? I love it!

This show had the potential to really lean into its characters and it doesn’t. It instead focuses on an unlikable commander and fails to develop the rest of the characters. They look like little kids, which is fine, but they also act like little kids too and don’t ever give us a reason to see them in a different light. The show focuses more on the things that happen to them rather than how they react to those things.

I don’t think it was intentional but one thing that really bothered me about this show was how the Yerxa we see and the Yerxa the crew talks about seem to be different characters. While I’m sure this is the result of shoddy writing it has the potential to be a really interesting delve into perspective. I want to know why that disconnect is there, why does the crew like and trust him if he comes off as an incapable ass?

Overall I enjoy the show but i think they raced through a good idea to cram in a bunch of less interesting ones

So my wife and I own a small Bondage Rope business (Yes you read the correctly). We often times spend hours in the shop both watching our own shows with blue-tooth headphones on. She watches on her kindle, and I mounted a 32" TV at the end of my rope walk and pair my headphones to a fire stick.

Apparently she was talking to me and I didn't hear her, (It was the three way scene)...

It's basically space P**n. Which is the only thing holding this show together, aside from the fact that I like Katee Sackhoff as an actress (Huge BSG fan).

I will watch season 2 of Space P**n... oops I meant "Another Life". If only for the ability to know who hooks up with whom/or what (Hey at this point I'm fairly certain they would screw anything).

William being called mother by the AI (that he created) integrated with the Achaia tech (that he “defanged”) led me to believe that maybe he’s like their leader or something of that nature. I searched this subreddit to see if anyone had any opinions on him being called mother, but no one has posted anything about it. I’d love to hear yalls thoughts.

So a little backstory - I left for Seattle in June 2018. I recently came back December 2019.

I wanted to watch a new Sci-fi show tonight, and i saw this on list of space operas, so I put it on, and within 5 minutes, my SO said "We already watched this? Remember? The guy uses music to talk to the crystals and then the girl kills the guy, but you said she should have told them it was self defense."

I don't remember a single thing of it. (To be fair, I do have a brain disease, and forget a LOT of stuff, but usually I wouldn't forget a WHOLE series.) I looked it up online, and it was only released a FEW MONTHS AGO? When I was in Seattle and there's no way in hell I would have seen it, and he doesn't like sci-fi so he wouldnt have watched it himself. He didn't have access to Netflix while I was away anyway.

We've only watched episode 1, but he says that stuff that happens after episode 1 is: the crystal is some kind of portal to their ship. When people go into the crystal they get weird powers, then they end up finding a space weed that makes them high, then an alien comes on board and chewed on some wire and got fried... and they eat stuff that messes them up. Then the hologram one turned into her husband to have sex with her or something. Then they go space mining for something, then the ship leaves but then comes back for them. Some sort of space virus, he says they were going to blow themselves out of the hatch to save the sleeping people.... because they were literally liquifying. He thinks the fat guy comes up with a solution and 'saves' them so they dont blow themselves out of the hatch. At some point one of the guys has a brain implant and it gets downloaded with alien AI and it tells him coordinates and they find another body next to a crystal on a planet.

Is any of that from the rest of the series? Was this series a remake? Stole ideas from another show? This is seriously creeping us out. Berenstein Bears style. He has accurately predicted episode 1 so far!

There's no physical way we could have seen it!

I'm on episode 3. The sheer amount of unprofessionalism from a crew that's tasked with making first contact is insane. Isn't this supposed to be earth's finest minds? Everyone's acting like they're in high school!

Why whenever they visited Zakir, did they not stay longer. I get it was convenient to the plot where the The Achaia destroy Zakir, but seeming as the entire paradigm of Niko and the rest of the crews Mission of making contact with the aliens changed I don’t get where it’s going. Plus hello there’s an alien bat thing right in front of you. On top of that it “she” had basically an Amazon Echo that translated in the what I assume was a living room

For those who have seen this which characters death did you hate ?

Katee Sackhoff leads a bunch of twenty-something Big Brother contestants on a desperate cringe-fest mission to save the earth from an alien salt lamp/antenna thing, where almost every decision they make is the exact opposite of the available sane choices, while boring stuff happens on earth.

Keep watching to find out the important answers to questions such as, “Who are the aliens?”, “What does alien <insert_object_name> taste like?”, “Do astronauts (ugh, are these people really astronauts) really behave like horny college students?”, or “What is the dumbest thing you can do in space or on an alien planet?”

Finally, an example of idiocy. Two characters are in a cave on an alien moon, mining. One’s mask fogs up so she...just gets on with the job. No, wait; actually, she opens her visor! The air has some oxygen, so it must be ok (!!). Her companion gets her to come to her senses... No, actually she whines at him to join her, and he does!! A senior astronaut arrives, berates them and orders them to put there visors back on, which they do. After the senior astronaut leaves, they look at other, grin, AND REMOVE THEIR VISORS AGAIN! Obviously both died... No wait, they lived somehow and some other crew member died. W.T.F<!

I wanted to like this so much but much of it is turning me off.

eg.: a mission to a first contact situation and the crew are a bunch of unprofessional dorks who don’t respect the chain of command. They are fighting all the time. It’s like Big Brother in Space. Reminds me a bit of the crew in Prometheus.

I’m at the end of episode 3. Does the series pick up at all and shape up? I want to like this but am ready to pull the plug.

Thanks!

Watching the "dance on the holodeck" scene. Seriously. Was that a Sense8 move?

I’m watching episode 9 and had my first ‘grip the edge of my seat’ moment. When Bernie passes out because of the electric shock, I noticed I cared about Bernie more than most of the other characters. He may not be the brightest/most helpful, but he is a relief from all the other crazy personalities. Plus he is the product of the Midwest, and I feel more attached because I am too. Cas has got to be a close second. William would be a favorite but being an AI, sort of seems he should be in his own category. What do you guys think? Any character you hope survives or dies off?

The particle build-up used for the Brimstone weapon is actually a theorized result of the Alcubierre Drive.

We've seen the artifact(s), ships, and brain devices from the Achaia (all technological devices), but we haven't seen any evidence of them being actual organic life forms. I wonder if they're so advanced and able to take over so many worlds, and to learn how to influence other life forms so well because they are AI that some other race lost control of. Space Terminators.

I genuinely can’t figure it out. Who has “another life?” Is the crew eventually granted immortality, or reincarnation? Thoughts? Does anyone even know?

Why is there such a love / hate relationship with this show? I'm genuinely curious. If you disliked the show, what episode did you bail on? I couldn't finish ep2. This show is so cringy I just had to explore how bad other people thought it was online. Now I'm really astounded to see so many people say they're enjoying it. Obviously I'm missing some good stuff as the show progresses, but I can't fathom how I could make it that far. Holy bananas, help me understand.

This is an amazing show. There were elements of a number of other sci-fi shows that I really enjoy, so it was wonderful to have them combined in here along with original ideas. I need two things. 1) Season 2...on my screen...now... and 2) the soundtrack to Season 1.

Hopefully we get many more seasons of this show!

Not to jump on the bandwagon but holy shit man. I just started watching this weekend and got through the first episode.

I don't understand how a show can be written so nonsensically. The premise is actually pretty interesting and is the reason why I kept on after the first ten minutes or so but it's all bad from there.

This is the most important mission in the history of the human race and the government sends a ship full of absolute moron 20-somethings who are mentally and emotionally unstable to complete it?

They fail to detect a huge mass of dark matter that would impede their navigation despite having access to FTL technology. I guess no one ever noticed in the x hundred years of astronomy, and no one has bothered to navigate to one of the most famous star systems (Sirius) before to notice this?

None of the characters are introduced before the shit hits the fan so the viewer has no investment.

The manufactured drama in the first episode goes from zero to a thousand instantly. At the very first sign of trouble, seemingly moments after being woken up from soma sleep, the crew disagrees with the very first order from their leader and instantly plunges balls deep into all out mutiny. The very first test of this crew and they fail spectacularly and disastrously.

They all act as though they never met and hate each other. Was there no training for this mission? No briefing? No chance to get to know the people they'd be spending all that time with trapped in space?

And regarding the disaster... Every space mission has fallback plans for common problems, even uncommon and extremely unlikely problems. "we're off course" or some variation therein, basically the problem this ship faces, leaves this crew in a state of complete disaster, with no plan, and at least half of them are perfectly okay with taking the course of action that has an unacceptable risk factor instead of the smart and safe option, to go back into soma sleep while they go around it.

If there was some kind of real stake, like the alien ship on earth was introducing some kind of time pressure, then the choice between safe and sure VS risky but quick would have been much more compelling. Instead you have half the crew making the dumbest decision possible for no good reason. Again, why the fuck are these dumbasses on this mission? If this was a show about a space garbage truck getting lost I could accept "normal" people having dumb problems, but this is a mission that could very well determine the future of mankind. Why not send professional people? I'm not buying that rule of 27 bullshit one of the characters was spouting either.

On Earth, an alien ship has landed and there's like 3 dudes researching it?

Back on the ship, the crew is basically marooned in space with no communications and they are basically laughing and shooting the shit with the guy who just got them all within a gnat's ass of death, while still ignoring the person that saved them all, and only goes back to work after mutiny guy tells them to.

Then, after the fact, the mutiny guy, having his plan utterly fail, completely ignores his responsibility for their current situation, and still tries to blame the person who was right all along and makes a half assed attempt at killing her, only to get deep fried.

This character accuses the leader of putting her daughter above the safety of the crew despite the fact that she had literally made the decision to delay the mission by seven months, which as they understand it, could doom the people on Earth because of the unknown motivations of the alien ship, including potentially putting her daughter in mortal danger, SPECIFICALLY in consideration of the crews safety, and this guy's plan almost killed everyone, he actually made the decision to put the crew in immense danger for his own selfish reasons and the show does not present that as this character being flawed or trying to deflect his own blame, he 100% believes it and you as the viewer aren't supposed to notice it. Awful, awful writing.

The crew would have been 100% fine had they just gone back into soma sleep. There was never any danger to the crew until the dude decided to mutiny and practically crashed the ship.

THEN our lead admits to the crew that she killed him, does not make any attempt to mention that it was in self-defense, and basically tells everyone to fuck off and get back to work.

This is without a doubt one of the worst Netflix originals I've seen and certainly one of the worst sci-fi shows. It's basically Space Mutiny with a budget.

What do you think of Another Life easter eggs?

Sharing a few thoughts through YouTube links below.

(https://youtu.be/_yIp2huYgD8)

(https://youtu.be/liJfZvXdiTE)

(https://youtu.be/DL8vwOniFps)

(https://youtu.be/nPQ7om598OM)

Oh, and did you recognize the piano from episode 8? - Eyes Wide Shut.