Another Life Netflix-whats dis?

[Losfer Words]

So I watched Another Life a couple days ago on Netflix and I'm still confused, amazed and perplexed. Its a standard cheesy scifi. They somehow managed to include every scifi cliche in the season. However the entire show rests upon a suicide mission, the most important mission in mankind, to make first contact and the crew is full of 20 somethings with twitter brains and sweet sweet gender fluidity. I got no problem with how the youth want to shape their reality, I'm old now...but I could not take any of the characters seriously and I found myself laughing out loud in almost every episode.

I am confused because sometimes the show hits really nice sweet spots for scifi, then immidiantely does something blindly stupid. Example; in the first episode parts of the highly trained handpicked crew are woken from deep sleep on the ship, in space, to start the mission and within 10 minutes there is a mutiny.

I am amazed at the resilience of the show to be able to bounce between stupidity and sweetness without acknowledging either.

I am perplexed at how the show made it to its final form without someone raising their hand and saying "what the hell is going on here?"

Its got a 6% critic rating on rotten tomatoes. Might be the most entertaining spectacle I've seen in years.

 

[syct23]

Any sex scene's or nudes..?

 

[surrealworlds]

I watched it, if you think of it as bouncing between scifi cliche writing and leftist identity politics it makes a bit more sense. Still hilariously bad but more sensible.

For example, the mutiny is to show that the female can establish dominance and the toxic white male is evil and needs to be killed(spoiler alert?).

That goes throughout the whole damn thing. A lot of cringey moments but the scifi parts were not too bad i guess.

 

[Losfer Words]

I watched it, if you think of it as bouncing between scifi cliche writing and leftist identity politics it makes a bit more sense. Still hilariously bad but more sensible.

For example, the mutiny is to show that the female can establish dominance and the toxic white male is evil and needs to be killed(spoiler alert?).

That goes throughout the whole damn thing. A lot of cringey moments but the scifi parts were not too bad i guess.

The mutiny still makes me chuckle

 

[surrealworlds]

The mutiny still makes me chuckle

Yeah that was definitely one of the worst moments in the show. When they took off the helmets on that planet was one for me. What astronaut or person with ANY intelligence would do that?

 

[milliniar]

Well it was reviewed badly...

 

[Losfer Words]

Yeah that was definitely one of the worst moments in the show. When they took off the helmets on that planet was one for me. What astronaut or person with ANY intelligence would do that?

Yeah when that happened I looked over at my wife and she gave me one of these
<puh-lease75>

 

[surrealworlds]

Yeah when that happened I looked over at my wife and she gave me one of these
<puh-lease75>

Now that i think about were the only straight white males, the mutiny guy and the one that was called useless any every other scene?

 

[Losfer Words]

Now that i think about were the only straight white males, the mutiny guy and the one that was called useless any every other scene?

The astrobiologist seemed like a straight shooter. TBH they could all be black brown white gay bi or whatever as long as their characters resembled an elite trained super astronaut, but all of them seemed thoroughly untrained and unprepared to be in space at all.

 

[surrealworlds]

The astrobiologist seemed like a straight shooter. TBH they could all be black brown white gay bi or whatever as long as their characters resembled an elite trained super astronaut, but all of them seemed thoroughly untrained and unprepared to be in space at all.

Normally i would agree but when they throw the identity politics in your face so hard its distracting. But yeah, none of those characters screamed competent space explorer.