Another Life (2019-2021)

I don't understand why this series gets such a bad rating. I thought it was original and not one of many. I was a fan of the achaiens or however you spell it, not really. But all in all I thought it was well developed. Nico played very well as the leading actress and the rest also did well. With the AI added, I thought it worked well. It certainly wasn't the best science fiction I've seen, but I wasn't bored for a moment.

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Just watched the last episode and my goodness this is all incredibly bad and unbelievable. Who would send such a group of horny suckers into space for the most important mission ever undertaken by mankind? These are truly the most unprofessional astronauts you will ever see in your life. Not to mention the lousy world construction.

For example, you can hear between nose and lips that Korea has apparently united and that large parts of the world have been submerged or something like that. So in every episode you hear something of the era in which Another Life should take place. The problem is that you never hear exactly what year we are in.

Then there is the technology. In one of the first images you see a kind of holographic TV, but behind it is a coffee machine from the year zero. What also annoyed me was the soma-system. "Hey, I have an idea: Let's go into space with untested technology that we have no idea what effect it could have on the human brain! BRILLIANT!"

My advice? As a science fiction fan, stay far away from this. The only 'saving' factor may be Katee Sackhoff. She manages to convince somewhat in this steaming turd. In addition, the events on Earth are also nice, but also show that the part in space is rather jerky. After two episodes, you hope the whole ship just flies into a black hole.

0.5* for Katee Sackhoff + 0.5* for the scenes on Earth + 0.5* for the laughing muscles that I sometimes couldn't control, so: 1.5*

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I do recognize what [user=102]solidKevin[/user] and [user=2977]stevebravo[/user] write. It's a bad soap opera from Star Trek. This somewhat socially frustrated crew doesn't really show any intelligence or any insight of professionalism that might show they need to save the Earth's inhabitants (and there's only one chance!).

If I had to put together this crew, I would never have chosen this composition. A hopeless mission. But yes, of course diversity has to be pushed down the throat (and I really tried to see through it and not pay attention to it) so that's what the actors are guided by. Also a kind of profiling of themselves as actors: 'We are strong LGBTI people, women, Transgenders and African Americans'! And it is precisely this frustrated attempt at equal profiling that only weakens these characterizations. Unfortunately ! I also realized how clever Star Trek this from the 60s in a casual way brought diversity to the viewers.

It's a shame about the entire SF story and the series therefore completely fails for me.

Katee Sackhoff still acts reasonably well, but her facial expression doesn't appeal to me (she can't help it and neither can I) so I didn't get a 'bond' with the lead actress.

So I dropped out after episode 4. There was a threat of a kind of threesome that I don't have much with in SF. By the way, I think it would be great to do it weightless, only you end up together quite quickly at a wall or something. Add to that the visual images of the weightless floating sweat and other human wetness and I... Well, no, never mind.

Ah. On to Casa del Papa. That's a bit more realistic

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