Vikings guy was the same in Warcraft.
I loved the world building in this. Trees and plants that made sense based on the environment. Arsenic being a founding chemical as opposed to carbon. There's a lot of hidden chemistry in the imagery, objects. You see the carbon atomic structure built into everything. Humans tied to carbon. Synths something else. The planet arsenic based. The snake being some wild hybrid of the three. I wanted to see more of the alien human dog things, but that CGI was pretty awful when they show them in the light.
Enjoyed the role reversals of Mother, Father, Ragnar (wtf is his name again?). The children are fucking insufferable and I thought adults being cheese dick about religion was bad.
They definitely blow a lot of their load in the first episode. Then it drags pretty heavily throughout, introducing concept after concept, with little bits of plot trickled in. It's also wild how intriguing the rapist was and he doesn't really do anything interesting. Mother is a curious character. Being a modified weapon of mass destruction. Programmed with caregiving, effectively developing emotions. Father similarly, and how realizing who and what they are impacts them differently.
We see the giant snake skeleton fairly early. It's very clearly a garden of eden story. Allegories out the ass. For a while there I was like, how the fuck are they supposed to populate the planet from such a small pool. They're gonna need a lot of raping and incest. But then another giant ship load arrives. Of course. I took the snake as going through the core of the planet. This allows the ship to land without getting sucked dry by the serpent. Speaking of, why couldn't the serpent survive that? It literally absorbs energy. You also see a blue shield surround the ship. As far as traversing the distance, whatever. It's a fuckin space ship.
I can't predict where they're gonna go with season 2, be ausd I had no fucking idea where and what they would do next from the beginning. Will be curiously awaiting it regardless.
