Judgment Day

I was all set to comment on how this series peaked at episode three, then I finished watching Judgment Day, and all I have to say is, wow!

This was an incredible, chilling, rollercoaster ride, I wonder if this is going to be the high point, it almost deserves to take that accolade.

Superb, I know it's science fiction, but what a chilling thought, the electricity went off in our region yesterday, only for ten minutes, and there was quite literally panic in the streets, very few can function without tech.

The highlight, that scene on the ship, I have never quite see anything like it, terrifying, but visually spectacular.

You are Bugs...I think I wasn't that on a shirt, I'd wear it.

Even the music was crammed ho for this one, wonderfully dramatic, the visuals also, sublime.

10/10.

So here we are. The scientists have a way of destroying things with Auggie's invention. It is used to wipe out a mother ship, filled with all manner of persons, including children. The point of this is that these people are a connection to the alien species that is going to invade the planet. But when push comes to shove, the leadership has no clue as to what they are dealing with. The aliens have built and rebuilt, as the woman on the destroyed landscape points out. They need the earth and in order to get it must neutralize it by getting rid of its science. The now unleash that power which is to frighten the earth's population into inactions. The enemy now becomes those who will go after their own people. Very interesting. I'm really surprised at the naysayers who have expressed disdain for a show that is pushing boundaries.

Oh, ... this is going in the wrong direction very quickly, wasting the good aspects (Benedict Wong and some great thought provoking concepts) with just plain silly carry on. I don't need to go on about the ludicrous dicing a ship to get a hard drive plot point. I mean, what are we supposed to do with that? Is this a comedy now?

Everyone of us is now thinking season 8 of Game of Thrones with dread and quickly loosing any level of trust in the writers, if we had any to start with.

Annoying Augie with her pouty catwalk looks may well have played out her plot point with her 'cutty string' so hopefully we've seen the back of her and her attempts to bring back smoking. Nano fibres..... what a oblique way to make her relevant to the story. Yes in ep 5 you're going to prove your worth by finishing off your science project so we can slice up children on a boat, yay!

The aliens, don't seem that smart for a race of creatures who can make a proton computer and send technology 4 light years away. How did the helmets get made and the hard drive etc? I guess that's the drawback of having a little knowledge and a little understanding possibly gained from watching youtube videos. It starts to fall apart with any level of scrutiny.

I think that's what is the most disappointing aspect of this show, it's almost a strong idea but ruined by halfbaked plot failures.

The aliens are worried that in 400 years humans will have surpassed their their technology? So what, the aliens are planning to stop progressing on their 400 year journey? Not going to read any books while you travel?, come up with some new ideas?, pack a couple of test tubes and a bunsen burner? It was an interesting thought till you thought about it.

I don't think 'own goal' of detailing your plot holes is good enough as when Wong notes they can do instantaneous communication but can't travel faster than sub lightspeed with a shoulder shrug, although I'll give you a point for saying "That's impossible,.... impossible, for us".

This show is frustratingly thought provoking and mind-numbing at the same time.

I'm worried the next episode will h ave something in it that will stop me wanting to finish the season, it's pretty close to it now, no, to be fair it has past that point, and I'm running on walking dead fumes, I know I should have stopped watching that show half way through, but it's hard to turn away from a train wreck.

Oh and Liam Cunningham's hard as MI5-6 tough guy act is wearing pastiche thin.

The suspense as the "antagonist" explained the predicament humanity is now up against is simply goosebumps inducing. I think every human who is familiar with the Fermi paradox and the idea that humanity for all intents and purposes could exist in a petri dish, felt seriously uneasy during that sequence. That something, real, is manipulating reality to their own benefit, and that quite literally, we would be unable to stop it.

It's kind of scary, I would put that sequence in the same genre of Horror, because it was just that terrifying as it is something that could very well be real, and the most scary things in the world, are what's real.

This is ironic given the amount of scientific inaccuracies the series has thus portrayed, but this series isn't a science lecture, it's a fictional piece of media. So despite the 2 dimensional characters and other issues, this episode deserves a 10/10 for that sequence alone.

The movie has clarified some of the confusing elements of the book. The use of video and scientific names such as Newton and Copernicus and Lord was made clear in the film. The stunning first 14 minutes gave us two main issues of the book in such a way that only after did one realize what had happened. Truly a highly intelligent rendering of the book and in this case the movie is better understood and appreciated than reading the books, some 1500 plus pages. The books present blocks of the 400 year history in a somewhat "chopped" fashion. The film has a sequential continuity that is easier to comprehend. Spectacular imagery and visuals. Banned in China, but later encouraged.