|
Everyone knows aliens now grow absurdly fast. Like 1hr from infancy to full adult bio mass be damned.
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 18:05
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 18:58 |
|
|
JazzFlight posted:This last episode actually made me feel happy, which is weird because the show's tone is so grim and serious. They've settled on who the "good" characters are now and I like that they're being kind to each other. Other shows just ride the morally-gray "both sides" crap all the way through and you end up rooting for no one. when (post e5) Father drops Mother into the pit and Mother says "Father?" just before he catches her with that one twitching finger  i really love how Mother's character has developed, Amanda Collin's performance is Toni Collette tier IMO. i thought she was an obvious villain from ep1 and now find myself rooting for her and hoping she stays a character for the rest of the series. she straddles the uncanny valley line between hyperadvanced goo android and actual human amazingly well. the way she says "Campion" (I guess w a lil autotune), how she interacts with other androids and technology, some of the head tics she's shown, how she wrinkles her brow when she's talking to Tempest, the strange vocal cadences, the slightly unhinged appearance pulled back immediately into an unnerving calm when she shows anger with the children, its just a consistently excellent portrayal for a very complex role in every scene. can't wait for s2 ex post facho fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Sep 26, 2020 |
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 18:10
|
|
|
Everyone needs to take a loving shower already tho.
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 18:14
|
|
|
Dr. Fishopolis posted:that was all literally presented in the first episode and has been the glaringly obvious theme the whole time? if you're not into that stuff how did you get 9 episodes in? I mean, the first episodes had the Mithriac religion as a central theme but like, it was just a religion and nothing more. Maybe it's my personal world view (I'm a non-believer) but I was fine with the Mithriac religion as a Thing in the show because to me it's just background lore that they used to justify killing each other. The first episodes were establishing the atheist vs Mithriac conflict and humanity's flight from Earth. IE: humans killing each other. It wasn't until these last episodes that we find out that no the Mithriac religion is like, a real thing, with some kind of magic space god, and now there is a magic space jesus baby. This story is now just another rehash of a miracle baby/virgin birth/savior of the world/prophecy story and that's just unoriginal and boring. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Sep 26, 2020 |
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 20:04
|
|
|
Dr. Fishopolis posted:i'm thinking we're gonna see powered up necrospragnar and i'm tuned the gently caress in. loving poetry.
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 20:27
|
|
|
Imagine if instead of making Prometheus/Covenant the movie they made it episodic and not suck(as much).
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 20:38
|
|
|
we gotta mithraic true believer, get'im Mother
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 20:55
|
|
|
Sol will be my armor atheist scum.
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 21:52
|
|
|
I hope mother racks up some more kills tbh father too
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 22:36
|
|
|
I thought it was funny that Sue yelled out Jesus Christ at one point. I kind of figured this was some alternate timeline where Christianity never took off, but I guess it did.
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 22:40
|
|
|
Bird in a Blender posted:I thought it was funny that Sue yelled out Jesus Christ at one point. I kind of figured this was some alternate timeline where Christianity never took off, but I guess it did. But that is a little odd... I mean who, other than that show watchers, would ya things like “by the horns of mithras” or “by the light of Apollo” in moments of genuine surprise? Still like the show but Dread Lord Cthulhu that is kinda lazy.
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 22:56
|
|
|
A main character in Battlestar Galactica screams "Jesus!" at some point in the first season and the director in his podcast had to say, "No, stop theory-crafting based on that. Sometimes actors improv their lines and I'm not going to reshoot the scene because otherwise that take was loving excellent."
|
|
#
?
Sep 26, 2020 23:06
|
|
|
Posting to say this is a good show and I have no speculation as to what is going on.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 02:38
|
|
|
Boris Galerkin posted:It wasn't until these last episodes that we find out that no the Mithriac religion is like, a real thing, with some kind of magic space god, and now there is a magic space jesus baby. This story is now just another rehash of a miracle baby/virgin birth/savior of the world/prophecy story and that's just unoriginal and boring. thats the alien ghost thing manipulating everyone. which is a different type of unoriginal
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 04:41
|
|
|
If bloodborne taught anything is that eating eyes are incredbly bad, so... mutated Space Ragnar incoming Also, the hexagon alien looked like a space jockey head Boris Galerkin posted:It wasn't until these last episodes that we find out that no the Mithriac religion is like, a real thing, with some kind of magic space god, and now there is a magic space jesus baby. This story is now just another rehash of a miracle baby/virgin birth/savior of the world/prophecy story and that's just unoriginal and boring. It’s a Machine/AI god, it’s magic as in “sufficiently advanced tech” that was passed down to earthlings and interpreted as divine, not some miracle stuff 
Miss Mowcher fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Sep 27, 2020 |
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 05:12
|
|
|
Open Source Idiom posted:That said, I think it's pretty clear what's happening at this point. this guy got it i think. im turning around on the show tbh
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 05:54
|
|
|
It's going to be the Dark PhotonsTM that went from Mother's Tears to baby Campion. Since they've never bothered to explain what component of Mother is the Dark PhotonsTM , we can assume all her bodily fluids have them and thus that's where Ultra-Rapist, and special protagonist Campion come from.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 06:49
|
|
|
scary ghost dog posted:this guy got it i think. im turning around on the show tbh I hate how he came up with this theory, and I did not read it and I came to the same conclusion with one minor change: [spoiler]The entity in the desert rock is an alien colonization effort just like the Ark and the androids. Some alien race probably killed itself and sent its own grey-go colonization effort to Kepler. It failed due to a lack of local resources or damage. The man-animals we see are the initial failed results. After a while it does the same thing the aliens in the porno Species did and sent a message to Earth/anyone who could listen. The message gave the reader a boost in space tech/androids and info about Kepler. It just had to sit and wait for another colonization effort, one with more resources to arrive and then its just using those for its own end goal.[\spoiler]
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 07:20
|
|
|
Wait, Tempests baby is gone?
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 07:20
|
|
|
^^^ I don't think so, she just tried to kill it when she drank a bunch of stuff that made her sick back in the plastic colony dome thing. I just came in to say that the alien head in the d20 thingy gave me some eraserhead vibes. Also I'm enjoying this show a lot more once I just decided to roll with poo poo being crazy and weird and stopped trying to figure out what the heck is going on.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 10:59
|
|
|
That d20 thing was straight up the goddamn Eraserhead baby. I’m just waiting for this to start playing during the season finale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzp_qv3-FkA
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 11:01
|
|
|
bee posted:d20 thingy Gonz posted:That d20 thing It's a d12 you fools
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 13:20
|
|
|
Anonymous Zebra posted:It's going to be the Dark PhotonsTM that went from Mother's Tears to baby Campion. Since they've never bothered to explain what component of Mother is the Dark PhotonsTM , we can assume all her bodily fluids have them and thus that's where Ultra-Rapist, and special protagonist Campion come from. Dark photons are actually a real hypothetical particle in physics. But we don't know yet if it can make you invincible and fly around in T pose. The science isn't settled on that part
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 15:57
|
|
|
GABA ghoul posted:Dark photons are actually a real hypothetical particle in physics. But we don't know yet if it can make you invincible and fly around in T pose. The science isn't settled on that part
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 17:05
|
|
|
Ah yes. Aliens who wear robes and live out in the wild have sub atomic particle tech. This is one of the things that bug me when Hollywood shows advanced aliens in primitive garb with no signs of high civilization. Look at all that was necessary for humans to build the large hadron collider which is still primitive in comparison.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 17:11
|
|
|
ZZZorcerer posted:It’s a Machine/AI god, it’s magic as in “sufficiently advanced tech” that was passed down to earthlings and interpreted as divine, not some miracle stuff I'm not doing a good job at conveying my thoughts, but if I can try one more time: if it was only that humans interpreted advanced space tech as divine messages and using that to justify killing each other and destroying the Earth and building these screaming terror weapons without understanding what was actually going on, that would be acceptable to me. Instead, now we have found out that there is a god/AI/tech that has been directly pulling on the strings of human puppets to steer them into doing whatever it is that that god/AI/tech always wanted to happen all along. I dunno, it just takes away agency from literally every single character in the show. "This was all planned" type of bullshit.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 17:14
|
|
|
Boris Galerkin posted:I'm not doing a good job at conveying my thoughts, but if I can try one more time: if it was only that humans interpreted advanced space tech as divine messages and using that to justify killing each other and destroying the Earth and building these screaming terror weapons without understanding what was actually going on, that would be acceptable to me. Instead, now we have found out that there is a god/AI/tech that has been directly pulling on the strings of human puppets to steer them into doing whatever it is that that god/AI/tech always wanted to happen all along. I dunno, it just takes away agency from literally every single character in the show. "This was all planned" type of bullshit. The AI is messing with a few characters on planet because it's there, I think their involvement with mankind on earth was sending mysterious tech package + map to the planet (*come here, it's wonderful* sign post). The killing/destroying on Earth is all human, I don't think the aliens cared as long as humans eventually sent some spaceships there. I think the whole religion is all human interpretation, Karl even said that they don't fully understand the 'old scriptures' (that were some tech manuals on dark photons and how to build androids/spaceships (?) and not some bible stuff)
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 17:29
|
|
|
I guess we'll have to see what gets explained next week, which is the season finale right? I saw only one episode listed. Will it be a 2 hour episode or a standard 1 hour episode? It looks like every week released 2 episodes (3 for the first) and the last being just the 1.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 17:35
|
|
|
Don’t start making your head cannon make you mad before it’s explained. The AI making me people crazy hasn’t been proven at all. It’s like getting upset at your spouse cause they cheated on you in your dreams.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 18:20
|
|
|
Shaocaholica posted:Ah yes. Aliens who wear robes and live out in the wild have sub atomic particle tech. This is one of the things that bug me when Hollywood shows advanced aliens in primitive garb with no signs of high civilization. Look at all that was necessary for humans to build the large hadron collider which is still primitive in comparison. Why would you assume this? Humans have all sorts of technology and still go out to the middle of nowhere to do weird poo poo they don't want anyone to know about. Assuming the robed figures actually are even aliens (which seems likely) we don't know a drat thing about them other than that scene and a few things we can make guesses on via world building. We do know that the planet supposedly has a potentially much more habitable region, that all of the characters feel compelled to never try and go to for reasons unknown. I wouldn't rule it out that the so called tropical region may contain their civilization, or the ruins of it and whatever suggestion the unknown force is using on them is compelling everyone to avoid it, so they stay near the hexagon thing. The androids could have aimed for that region in the first place when they landed there but they didn't. And presumedly they have the option to go there with the pod from the Arc, or at the very least, Mother could fly there and check it out. Yet they remain in spitting distance of the monolithic structure. Also the planet is covered in mysterious holes that seem to have something more at the bottom with the heat etc. I'm not saying that these are even actual theories on my part, just that there are all sorts of possibilities and there might be a good reason that the weird structure is out in the middle of nowhere.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 18:54
|
|
|
Shaocaholica posted:Ah yes. Aliens who wear robes and live out in the wild have sub atomic particle tech. This is one of the things that bug me when Hollywood shows advanced aliens in primitive garb with no signs of high civilization. Look at all that was necessary for humans to build the large hadron collider which is still primitive in comparison. If an alien discovered a recording of a robed human in a cave, they would probably conclude that humans were fairly advanced due to the fact that they had the technology to record themselves.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 19:17
|
|
|
figured out why this show swaps between sucking rear end and being super good constantly. its a pretty interesting couple of hours of heady existentialist scifi stretched out to fill multiple seasons of episodic cliffhanger based tv
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 19:19
|
|
|
I like it
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 20:06
|
|
|
veni veni veni posted:Why would you assume this? Humans have all sorts of technology and still go out to the middle of nowhere to do weird poo poo they don't want anyone to know about. Assuming the robed figures actually are even aliens (which seems likely) we don't know a drat thing about them other than that scene and a few things we can make guesses on via world building.
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 20:56
|
|
|
I feel this was pretty obvious regarding the 'Sol Invictus' symbol on the metal plate/tarot card thingy but its obviously an egg with a bunch of sperm swimming towards it, which is spot on for clear reasons given when Mother finds it and the whole theme of the show in general
|
|
#
?
Sep 27, 2020 23:48
|
|
|
So, what are the odds on space Ragnar actually being dead? I recall they made a point in the episode of dark photons not being properly understood. I could see him coming back as some kind of neo-Necromancer with the help of whatever is in the dodecahedron / the weird aliens.
|
|
#
?
Sep 28, 2020 00:27
|
|
|
There's no way he's dead. Also does he have both eyes, or did the other dude take one with him?
|
|
#
?
Sep 28, 2020 00:47
|
|
|
Eating necro eye should not turn you into a necro. Just like eating anything should not turn you into anything but actually be made fun of like in District 9 when that gangster guy was eating the aliens.
|
|
#
?
Sep 28, 2020 02:14
|
|
|
This thread is no longer a "should (not)" zone after the rape-man got superpowers. This thread is now a "could" zone.
|
|
#
?
Sep 28, 2020 09:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 18:58 |
|
|
Are the religious guys praying to the sun in our system, the local star, or the overarching concept of nuclear fusion? I'd imagine that would be a bit hard to reconcile.
|
|
#
?
Sep 28, 2020 12:14
|
|
