Cast: Katee Sackhoff, Selma Blair, Justin Chatwin, Tyler Hoechlin, Samuel Anderson, Elizabeth Ludlow, Blu Hunt, A.J. Rivera, Jake Abel, Alex Ozerov, Alexander Eling, JayR Tinaco, Lina Renna
Overview: After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
I started to watch it but it is just...boring. None of the characters have any charisma and the story just seems to draw out. The effects are good in some spots and bad in others. An Alien life form lands on earth and its like only a select few saw it and get to study it. There are no groups or countries protesting for access and society seems to just moves on despite what would be the biggest event in Human History.
I don't understand how Sackhoff keeps getting work. She's the worst part of everything she's in. Longmire would have been a near perfect show if not for her. (Tight jeans aside)
Barely made it through the first episode. Not a single character or choice made sense. It is essentially a show about sending some 20somethings into space to "save the earth", but the earth became a better place when they left. So /shrug
haha this is hilariously bad. Like it wraps around being so bad its actually pretty funny. THERE IS A FUCKING ASIAN LADY BOY AS PART OF THE CREW! You know, in case the aliens ever wonder what a chick with a dick is like in bed i guess
The science is so funny its crazy. "There's a cloud of dark matter, we have to go around it since we can't see whats inside". THATS NOT HOW DARK MATTER WORKS!!! It is not visible, hence... dark... It only bends gravity, you would see just fine through a "cloud" of dark matter. Probably tons and tons of dark matter is around you right now in fact. How the fuck are they communicating across light years instantly?
Its just insane. Its like a 12 year old boy pitched an idea for a show and was given $50m to make a season. The visuals are pretty good, although again sometimes it breaks down crazy bad. The engine room of a FTL SPACESHIP consists of copper pipes, SOOOO many VALVES (!!! WTF !!!) and electric fields. This is like a spaceship from 1930.
I'm gonna perservere to see the end but man this is a show where you can pretty much fast forward thru 90% of it, and every character is heart breakingly terrible.
I watched the first episode of this - it's pretty ehhh, but it works as something to have in background when gaming I guess.
It might be me not paying attention, but the setup seems to make no sense ? The ship is presumably military, given the general can just change the crew around at whim, but that has to be the least disciplined/plausible military crew I've ever seen and that includes the guys in Spaceballs. Plus a gigantic alien artifact and they have *two* people studying it ? What does the main scientist guy even do ? Is he a physicist ? A psychologist ? An astrologer ? Just some guy that was hanging around the base when the call came in ?
Also, what happened to Sackhoff ? She looks really weird for some reason i can't quite put my finger on. Angular maybe ? Not sure, but it's distracting.
I don't understand how Sackhoff keeps getting work. She's the worst part of everything she's in. Longmire would have been a near perfect show if not for her. (Tight jeans aside)
I watched the first episode in a state of shock. What the everliving fuck is this?
What idiot would give seemingly the only ship Earth has to these idiots. How many people do they keep in suspended animation just in case they need to recast?
Did they kidnap Tyler Hoechlins family to get him to do the pilot? Where the heck has Justin Chatwin been the past 10 years?
If I was an alien species and encountered these people I'd immediately file plans for a hyperspace bypass to be rerouted through the Solar System just to justify blowing Earth up.
Finished this last night and all the negatives brought up by everyone in this thread are spot on and not exaggerated at all. So much of this show makes zero sense and this goes well beyond nitpicking small things.
An alien spacecraft / "artifact" lands in a giant open field and the entire world knows yet it's not surrounded or really protected by the military other than some futuristic street cones that occasionally make an appearance around the thing. No armed guards, no military, no giant fences, and the only thing shown is an actual tent that <3> "scientists" use to "study" the thing. Oh, and they report directly to a female general high up in command who walks around unguarded 3 feet from the alien artifact and gives them emotional support.
Earth/US is so alarmed over the event that they send their best spacecraft to evaluate the aliens and the alien home planet to determine if they're hostile, yet instead of military and professional scientific personal (outside of a couple exceptions like Sackhoff), the people sent are all in their 20's complete with teenage attitude and raging hormones. One girl, whose supposedly in charge of communications, literally does nothing but bitch at every crewmate and non-stop complains every chance she gets while another, the head engineer, does nothing but flirt and strike poses with her 4 foot frame. This is supposed to be the most important mission by humanity yet it's crewed by imbeciles. There's an actual mutiny in the first episode because the second in commands feelings are hurt that the old vet was chosen over him to command the mission, there's an actual "soapy water fight" where three cremates splash each other and play with water surrounded by computers embedded in the walls, and you have people constantly doing insanely dumb shit like taking samples of alien dirt and life and bringing them onboard in the middle of crisis situations. Not surprisingly nearly every problem and crisis the crew runs into are self inflicted from start to finish and they rarely learn from their mistakes, but they do routinely joke about them...
I know Netflix has been getting a lot of shit lately and the vast majority of "Netflix Originals" are trash, but Another Life takes Netflix to a new embarrassing low.
In case anyone's wondering how it ends:
It turns out the Aliens are hostile (SURPRISE) and they're probably all Artificial Intelligence. They send "artifacts" to planets with intelligent life and the artifacts are basically alien distribution centers that implant the alien AI into hosts, brainwashing them and controlling them to do whatever under the guise of being friendly and the promise of making their dreams come true. Sackhoff learns this on another alien planet while talking to the last surviving alien bat creature on the planet and the aliens own AI, which looks like an ancient TV, who tells her the hostile aliens have been doing this for hundreds and hundreds of years and over 300+ civilizations and planets have already fallen, or something. They got Earths location because it was broadcast via radio waves during early development. Later, Sackhoffs blows up the alien artifact on the alien planet with the permission from the last surviving alien bat thing, but the hostile aliens send a fleet of Artifacts back to the planet as retaliation and blow it up to Sackhoffs horror. Sackhoffs ships AI also creates its own AI in Sackhoffs image to run emotional simulations to better communicate with Sackhoff whom it loves (yes, really), and it ends with the AI evolving beyond the ships AIs control and exploring the ship for the first time.
I seriously doubt there will ever be a second season and the title "Another Life" most likely alludes to AI and the evolution of AI, which is probably what they wanted to reveal and explore in later seasons.
I really wanna sit down with the people behind this rancid afterbirth. There must be a rather large crew / production company that works on this show and the law of averages would virtually guarantee that they could not all be morons. Did no one try and stop this trainwreck?
I really wanna sit down with the people behind this rancid afterbirth. There must be a rather large crew / production company that works on this show and the law of averages would virtually guarantee that they could not all be morons. Did no one try and stop this trainwreck?
I was listening to a podcast the other day, I think it was Pete Holmes, and he was talking about how he worked on this sitcom and it was just fucking garbage. Like, the worst jokes, the worst premise, nothing really redeeming. But on the flipside, everyone involved was like a fucking genius, top of their game, and have gone on to work on some of the best tv shows of the past decade, maybe ever. It's really weird that there's something about the process here that can bring top talent to a thing and produce garbage. It's tempting to try and blame the business side of things, but the typical word you hear about from Netflix and other streaming companies is that they are very hands off with creators, so it is doubtful that's the answer.
Finished this last night and all the negatives brought up by everyone in this thread are spot on and not exaggerated at all. So much of this show makes zero sense and this goes well beyond nitpicking small things.
An alien spacecraft / "artifact" lands in a giant open field and the entire world knows yet it's not surrounded or really protected by the military other than some futuristic street cones that occasionally make an appearance around the thing. No armed guards, no military, no giant fences, and the only thing shown is an actual tent that <3> "scientists" use to "study" the thing. Oh, and they report directly to a female general high up in command who walks around unguarded 3 feet from the alien artifact and gives them emotional support.
Earth/US is so alarmed over the event that they send their best spacecraft to evaluate the aliens and the alien home planet to determine if they're hostile, yet instead of military and professional scientific personal (outside of a couple exceptions like Sackhoff), the people sent are all in their 20's complete with teenage attitude and raging hormones. One girl, whose supposedly in charge of communications, literally does nothing but bitch at every crewmate and non-stop complains every chance she gets while another, the head engineer, does nothing but flirt and strike poses with her 4 foot frame. This is supposed to be the most important mission by humanity yet it's crewed by imbeciles. There's an actual mutiny in the first episode because the second in commands feelings are hurt that the old vet was chosen over him to command the mission, there's an actual "soapy water fight" where three cremates splash each other and play with water surrounded by computers embedded in the walls, and you have people constantly doing insanely dumb shit like taking samples of alien dirt and life and bringing them onboard in the middle of crisis situations. Not surprisingly nearly every problem and crisis the crew runs into are self inflicted from start to finish and they rarely learn from their mistakes, but they do routinely joke about them...
I know Netflix has been getting a lot of shit lately and the vast majority of "Netflix Originals" are trash, but Another Life takes Netflix to a new embarrassing low.
In case anyone's wondering how it ends:
It turns out the Aliens are hostile (SURPRISE) and they're probably all Artificial Intelligence. They send "artifacts" to planets with intelligent life and the artifacts are basically alien distribution centers that implant the alien AI into hosts, brainwashing them and controlling them to do whatever under the guise of being friendly and the promise of making their dreams come true. Sackhoff learns this on another alien planet while talking to the last surviving alien bat creature on the planet and the aliens own AI, which looks like an ancient TV, who tells her the hostile aliens have been doing this for hundreds and hundreds of years and over 300+ civilizations and planets have already fallen, or something. They got Earths location because it was broadcast via radio waves during early development. Later, Sackhoffs blows up the alien artifact on the alien planet with the permission from the last surviving alien bat thing, but the hostile aliens send a fleet of Artifacts back to the planet as retaliation and blow it up to Sackhoffs horror. Sackhoffs ships AI also creates its own AI in Sackhoffs image to run emotional simulations to better communicate with Sackhoff whom it loves (yes, really), and it ends with the AI evolving beyond the ships AIs control and exploring the ship for the first time.
I seriously doubt there will ever be a second season and the title "Another Life" most likely alludes to AI and the evolution of AI, which is probably what they wanted to reveal and explore in later seasons.
This show reminded me a lot of Stargate Universe, i'm not sure which is better though. SGU s2 improved a lot but season 1 was really... really... really bad. This is also really... really... really bad, but in a totally different way.
It has a bit of that zany Farscape vibe to it as well, and also reminded me a bit of Falling Skies in a number of ways.
End of the day I'm glad I watched it, but I really just started fast forwarding anytime (1) they were on Earth (2) two people were talking to each other. Nothing interesting happens in either scenario.
It really filled that missing gap of shows like Lexx, V, Farscape, SG1, etc where its not really good scifi, the science is absolute garbage, but it can still be kinda fun to watch. The characters definitely need a massive improvement, but they have apparently hundreds of extra crew members to wake up on a moments notice so hopefully season 2 can dial back the "angsty teenager instagrammer in space" factor a little bit. I liked where the show left off, although I'm not really sure how any of it makes much sense but whatever.
If you decide to watch, liberally fast forward. You can honestly just watch episode 1, 2, and 10 and get 90% of the content without the filler garbage. I really do like some of the space/alien ideas in here, its been done before virtually the exact same way but it was still fun.
best moment is in episode 5 or 6
when that stupid mexican cunt melts in front of us. I think we're supposed to be sad but goddamn that was great
The characters : they sent people in their 20s because we are more physically fit and mentally willing to take risks older people aren't.
Me: they sent people in their 20s because everyone of you is expendable. That's why they crew a ship with like 80 more red shirts in cold storage. Crew you ship with experts or just grab a multipack from Sam's Club?
