Judgment Day

We witness the eerie, terrifying force of Auggie's invention, and we think this futuristic invention is mind blowingly powerful. But then the aliens show us that the technologically superior race is capable of feats so far beyond our understanding, that it creates this fear of the unknown and brings forth sheer existential horror and dread.

This is exactly the kind of science fiction I'd like to see. Humans rarely ever think of themselves as animals because we can overwhelm the other animals with our minds and technological might. Many of us have forgotten the fear of what it was once like out there in the wild, fighting for our survival just like every other animal.

And so in this episode, we can now see possibilities that threaten our very existence; powers that are so far beyond our understanding that we now begin to feel what it's like from the perspective of a bug staring at a boot; knowing we are about to be squashed, and that there is nothing we can do about it.

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.

I have to single out this one episode and write a review for it because to me, this episode is a masterpiece. Without any spoiler, this episode gives us a glimpse of the destruction that us humans can bring about. The ship scene was wonderfully done, haunting, terrifying, yet beautifully filmed. The slow camera work to show the imminent destruction was masterpiece. All of this just to then end with showing us how insignificant we are when compare to the force of what's out there in the world, or in the universe. It shows the contrast between the power of human and our idea of how superiority just to bring it all crashing down with the what the universe can do to us. I absolutely love this episode. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time watching it. Absolute perfection.

I don't know how different it is than book and if the book did a great job in explaining things or how the creators took liberty and changes things.

Still, this ep couldn't be any better. The answer of all questions with a declaration of war is the best conclusion of the book. The visuals are amazing and the storyboarding of this ep is just brilliantly done.

As I said, it is not the best but definitely one of the best ep of the year. The series didn't disappoints especially when compare to recent sci-fi shows.

I like the series so far now and this ep is just unexpectedly better what I haven't expecting.

Genius!

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.