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Easily the worst episode in the entire show. My partner stopped it half way through and said, this makes no sense. They would send replicas out into space, not humans.
I agree. Charlie fucked up, this is just bad writing.
I think its the easiest plot hole but then you can see David standing outside the theatre clearly saying that survival of of human body and life is really central to the mission.
and then having replicas only in space would have its consequences as well, the storyline portrays the use of this technology in its early days and obviously that’s why the concept looks rudimentary and personally I think that was spot on!
You’re right, they covered it. But I saw that as lazy writing.
Cheers Henry
I agree, lots of especially lazy writing in this one. The people in this story know so much about human physiology that they can manufacture a perfect replica of a human body and transfer a person’s consciousness into it, but they have no idea what the long term effects of space travel might be. Right.
Even leaving that aside, and leaving aside the failure to build backup replicas, why were the two astronauts left to sort out their situation between themselves alone? Why was NASA not involved at all?
Surely they would have wanted the astronauts to share the single remaining replica and would have provided psychological counseling to the astronaut whose family had been killed. Yet the only mention of involving NASA at all was an offhand comment toward the end of the story about lodging a complaint about bogus error messages.
Even if you accept the absurd premise of the story, it doesn’t play out consistently. Charlie Booker just wanted to have one astronaut kill the other one’s family, so he forced it to happen whether it made any sense or not.
The acting in great. The violence and gore is mostly off screen and we just see the reaction to it. The ending - will they just continue to work together because the only way they get back home is if they work together? I imagine this is a PR nightmare for the people in charge of the mission 😄.
All Cliff had to do was to not taunt the man.
Halfway through the episode my friends and I were taking bets on whether it would be murder or rape.
That ending made no sense? Why would he do that?
My interpretation is David coped with his grief and loneliness by living Cliff’s life. Now that he’s cut off, he’s alone again. Even though there is still Cliff, other than the fact that they had a fallout, David said Cliff doesn’t know what it’s like to be him. The only way for David to not feel alone again is get Cliff to experience losing everything as he did, and to suffer as he does, so he has a companion who he can relate to and understand his pain to spend the next four years with, and they either live through the rest of the mission together or die together. Misery loves company.
Cliff’s kid died thinking his father was murdering him. It is not the same, I’d doom tbe mission before I’d take that chair.
Not saying it’s rational. That’s my interpretation from what David said. He was driven mad with grief and isolation. He doesn’t even care if Cliff would doom the mission. They either suffer together or die together. He wanted to have something no matter how twisted it is.
Maybe because he believed that she said those things about him. Or maybe because he wanted him to know what it is like to lose everything.
