That episode kept me guessing the entire time, because I did want a more cliche ending (kept waiting for Paul to wake up dead). I like the direction it went, Hartnett was tortured and had to watch unspeakable things and lost all that he cared about, that he would become infatuated with the first warm-blooded woman he got close to was not unrealistic at all, if anything he could have been more obsessed. When Paul was mad he threw all that he had in the guy’s face, destroyed Hartnett even more. I did not expect the ending but the surprise made it better. The story felt like old pulp sci fi.
The only thing I struggled with in that one was how uninvolved NASA or whatever was with their astronauts and the replicas, like there’s no way they’d be left alone to do whatever the way they were.
The NASA side is what bothered me. I really enjoyed the rest of the episode.
When David’s family was killed… why wasn’t there any real response from NASA? Bring him home, change personnel? Anything? You have this ship being maintained for 6(?) years by only 2 people, and one has had a massively horrible event impact his life and he’s just supposed to keep trucking away for years. The only human interaction is seeing his partner once a week or if an emergency happens?
I don’t even remember if there was an attempt to justify it, but considering the lack of response, the rest of the episode feels like a natural playout of events.
This leads me to question if they have the technology to beam their consciousness back home, and they have fitness equipment, could they not also have entertainment beamed to their spacecraft? I get not having human contact is tough, but… They could be bingeing Joan is Awful on streamberry
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That episode kept me guessing the entire time, because I did want a more cliche ending (kept waiting for Paul to wake up dead). I like the direction it went, Hartnett was tortured and had to watch unspeakable things and lost all that he cared about, that he would become infatuated with the first warm-blooded woman he got close to was not unrealistic at all, if anything he could have been more obsessed. When Paul was mad he threw all that he had in the guy’s face, destroyed Hartnett even more. I did not expect the ending but the surprise made it better. The story felt like old pulp sci fi.
The only thing I struggled with in that one was how uninvolved NASA or whatever was with their astronauts and the replicas, like there’s no way they’d be left alone to do whatever the way they were.
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The NASA side is what bothered me. I really enjoyed the rest of the episode.
When David’s family was killed… why wasn’t there any real response from NASA? Bring him home, change personnel? Anything? You have this ship being maintained for 6(?) years by only 2 people, and one has had a massively horrible event impact his life and he’s just supposed to keep trucking away for years. The only human interaction is seeing his partner once a week or if an emergency happens?
I don’t even remember if there was an attempt to justify it, but considering the lack of response, the rest of the episode feels like a natural playout of events.
This leads me to question if they have the technology to beam their consciousness back home, and they have fitness equipment, could they not also have entertainment beamed to their spacecraft? I get not having human contact is tough, but… They could be bingeing Joan is Awful on streamberry