Originally Posted by
Raza
SPOILERS FOR 3 BODY PROBLEM DO NOT READ!!!!!!
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So, my biggest issues with the show started when they created that nano fiber net to kill all those children on that ship to get the hard drive, or whatever it was. It made absolutely no sense. Why make this complicated net to wreak uncontrolled destruction on the ship, potentially destroying the thing they were trying to retrieve, when they easily could have sent two Zodiac crafts in with SAS/SBS, clandestinely retrieved the drive, and then scuttled the ship in the open ocean (or, you know, not slaughtered dozens and dozens of innocent children) rather than shutting down the Panama Canal to set a trap? Even if you accept that everyone in the cult should be killed, even the kids, if you want to retrieve intel from there, cutting the whole ship into tiny slices seems a rather dumb way of going about it.
From there, the show just fell apart for me. There’s all this worry about the aliens coming in 400 years that they’re devoting these crazy resources to finding a way to fight them—when by the aliens’ own admission, due to our rate of scientific progress, by the time they actually do arrive on Earth, Earth will be far superior technologically, so the aliens wouldn’t actually pose a threat and this whole thing has been a sabotage plot against science. So I don’t get the panic when…I don’t know know, global warming could cause a lot more damage in those 400 years and maybe they should throw a couple trillion at that.
Then there are little things that also don’t make any sense. The sick buy dropping £19.5 million on a paper certificate for a star to give to the girl he pined over all his life…no one can own stars, no one can sell them. Why spend 19.5 million pounds on one?! You can buy a star in the star registry for $45. It’s on sale now, I just checked. But it’s one of those sales that feels like it’s always on sale, because buying a star that no one can own from someone who also doesn’t own it is stupid. He took his brutally murdered friend’s money, his life’s worth, and wasted it, when he could have spent it on avant-garde treatments or, just, I don’t know, giving it to charity and helping people if he so desperately didn’t want it.
Also, this whole idea of cutting someone’s brain out to send it to the aliens so they can reconstitute him and he can be a spy? This has to be the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in any show or movie ever and I just watched Aquaman 2, so that’s saying something. Even if (1) the aliens are awake and not in some sort of stasis (big if; we have no idea what their natural life spans are, but I’m pretty sure it’s not 400 years) and (2) they do intercept and remake him in some way, how can he be a spy? He’ll be a brain in a box on a ship 200 light years away. He can’t exactly send a text. Also, if you can send a payload to them, why not, say, a couple dozen nukes to blow up all the aliens rather than gather intel that can’t be passed on to humans until after the aliens reach Earth?
And again, this is all in an effort to combat a threat that will not be a threat by the time it arrives.
I’ll finish the series, but it went from a potentially interesting show to a hate watch for me.
When I saw how many Lost and Game of Thrones alums were on the creative team, I was a little worried because those shows set up some really interesting mystery boxes (that didn’t pay off well) and then had serious trouble when the source material ran out. Turns out I was right to be.
Just my opinion though, I’m honestly glad you enjoyed it.