this show is the shit!
despite its bonkers premise (somewhere between orphan black and surrogates) it starts a little slow in that worthy, tight-assed scandinavian way but soon builds to some extremely wtf moments indeed
really worth seeking out in the, uh, venues of your choice. i've come to feel very warmly toward whoever skorp666 is, who apparently provided all the subtitles in the copy that i found
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 April 2015 14:02 (eight years ago) link
this show really snowballs into all-out insanity.. the entire performance and arc of Rick is just.. something to behold.
i want a Hub Battle Land T-shirt immediately.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
this show is SO GOOD!
― just sayin, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:42 (eight years ago) link
half way through (i think?) season 1 and loving it.
more people should be watching it!
For those who don't torrent, this fellow provided both seasons on Vimeo in 15 minute chunks with English subtitles.
An English language remake (just Humans) will be produced by Kudos, the production company behind Ch. 4's Utopia. Actors William Hurt, and Neil Maskell and composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer of Utopia subfame, are attached. I'm hyped because Christo may be the best modern soundtrack composer alive.
I think the Swedish version had such great casting (particularly Lisette Pagler (Mimi), Leif Andrée (Hans), Marie Robertson (Bea), Kåre Hedebrant (Tobias, also in Let the Right One In), and Josephine Alhanko (Flash)) that the English version can only disapoint. At least the visuals and soundtrack will be up to Utopia standards.
― demonstrating its preference by crouching for copulation (Sanpaku), Monday, 11 May 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
thanks for the vimeo link - I've been wanting to season 2! the french canadian DVD of season 1 has english subtitles, but I've yet to find an english-friendly season 2 DVD.
as for english remake - NOOOOOO! (except for the Christo bit)
anyone else watch Force Majeure after seeing Äkta Människor and recognize the dad?
― Paul, Monday, 11 May 2015 04:02 (eight years ago) link
Humans turns out to be great so far, and quite different, despite the obvious common starting points. Anyone else watching?
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Monday, 22 June 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
i watched the trailer and it looked super similar so i havent bothered! might give it a go though
― just sayin, Monday, 22 June 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
yeah i watched it. some excellent acting. a little bit black mirror sop far, and i'm sure there was an episode of the outer limits that was exactly like this. though the man with dementia holding onto his malfunctioning android was better than the main plot tbh - excellently done.
― boat of boats (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 09:26 (eight years ago) link
I'm watching, although it hasn't exactly done anything surprising yet.
― kinder, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 09:52 (eight years ago) link
2nd episode is more exciting than i first imagined, though mostly this is to do with plot, than any great new ideas. i like it though.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
Differences so far:
- Humans gets to the point quicker than Akta Manniskor. It took 4-5 episodes for the original series to set out its stall, arrange its problems and obstacles, which is maybe authentically Swedish, I don't know, but it felt meandering at times. Not here. The conflicts are sharper and clearer.
- Anita is wayyy creepier and potentially dangerous.
- Renegade synth krewe wisely pared down to just two (opening up potential for more discoveries of self-aware synths in the future)
- Murder genuinely shocking and much better dropped in, rather than the first scene of the series
- Self-aware field-hand synth seems an entirely original plot point
- No sign yet whatsoever of fascist style anti-synth league
Basically I loved the Swedish series to bits and every change made so far seems for the better, so I'm quietly super-stoked for this
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 10:47 (eight years ago) link
Everybody seems a bit smarter in this one, as well. I'd practically be throwing things at the TV whenever Lennart didn't just tell his nanny-bot to fuck off, that he was the boss, and William Hurt is very obliging in this respect.
It's funny how they've kept the very distinctive Swedish names for most of the characters, i.e. "Odi"
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:13 (eight years ago) link
Just to keep on.... so many nice touches absent from the Swedish orig: a love interest for the sister! A NON-WHITE PERSON!! A loving relationship (with a disabled woman!) for the cop!
Think they may have telegraphed the cops partner's secret a bit too heavily, though....
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
second episode was decent.
― cod latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 June 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
Been watching this recently myself (dammit this thread was hard to search for). Up to ep 3 so far. I'm liking it! Nicely creepy, esp Anita. I keep waiting for the mother to start ranting about breaking the internet, mind.(PS not really).
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Monday, 29 June 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
Still prefer the pacing/casting of Äkta Människor.
Playing up the mommy guilt of Ingor/Laura is done especially well in the new version, and this Anita has an edge. I like the new versions of Synth Max and Odi as well.
On the other hand, I don't appreciate dumbing down Niska into avenging RealDoll, and its seems a terrible mistake melding that character arc with Flash's.
D.S. Pete Drummond is seriously underwritten - Neil Maskell has not been given much to work with. In the original the scorned husband character carried the social impact themes as a warehouse foreman, so one had a stronger sense that everything was falling apart in his life, with the marital issues a final straw.
They could not have cast a less sympathetic horny teen if they tried.
― We'd like to conduct a wobulator test here (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 05:30 (eight years ago) link
I'm really enjoying the C4 version, fwiw; haven't seen the Swedish original, and didn't really know it existed until the other day.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 09:19 (eight years ago) link
Re: pacing I could be wrong but in three episodes I feel like they're already into territory that wasn't covered until S2 of the OG Swedish series.
One of the weaknesses of the Swedish series was how utterly rubbish all of the tech details were, David's "code", the Macguffin of the USB key, the surgery, etc
In this one it's handled very neatly and simply. The sister's a hacker and does what any good hacker does when they can't crack a problem, she pastes Anita's source code into a forum of like-minded people and asks for help. Leo's right hand man (forget his name) has turned himself into a human Google alert and boom, he gets a hit. The OG series took like 4 episodes of very woolly plotting for that to happen.
It's also starting to seem like the hubot salesman simply won't be a character this time around. And the "Real Humans" fascist league is AWOL too.
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 10:35 (eight years ago) link
how many episodes of this will there be? i think the pacing is fine really. it would have been so easy to draw out some otherwise obvious plot points, but I like how it keeps you guessing on things like the origin of the higher-functioning group of synths.
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 10:48 (eight years ago) link
How many people thought that Laura would walk in on her husband 'inspecting' Anita, though. That was very intense and really quite well done.
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 10:49 (eight years ago) link
I'm really enjoying this, it's like Black Mirror writ large (and better). I had no idea about the Swedish series until after it started so just taking it as I find it.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 11:06 (eight years ago) link
That was v lolzy. Especially when dad gets over his embarrassment and crouches down to inspect her cooch in fine detail.
xpost This version makes all the conflicts clearer, which I like. It's only E03 and already the family knows that Anita's different from other synths, and is asking why.
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 11:18 (eight years ago) link
Oh man...
Best episode yet IMO. Genuinely skincrawly moments in there.
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 10:19 (eight years ago) link
this version really Goes There in ways the orig did not
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 12:05 (eight years ago) link
looks like it's getting interesting!
― kinder, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
reminding me loads of Orphan Black though
The only characters that don't ring true are the generic cyberpunk mechanic dude (there's always one, they're always the same) and the OTT angry robot-hating special agent.
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Also, I love how people in the Humans universe seem to be able to tell easily who is a synth and who is a human just by looking at them. There must be some sort of uncanny valley thing in this timeline where people can 'just tell' who's a real person and who's a dolly etc... It must be the way they move - the synths are much more Alexander Techniquey than the humans. Must have taken ages for the synth actors to master those fluid movements, just picking things up or getting in a car etc..
LOL at there being an 'Adult Mode' CD-Rom thing though.
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:07 (eight years ago) link
i thought they can just tell by the glowing green eyes? otherwise they dont realise
― just sayin, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
I've watched the first three and I don't think it's particularly good. It's fairly watchable and fairly well acted (the woman playing Anita/Mia is very good), but so far it seems to be addressing familiar themes in a familiar way. Ex Machina recently did similar things much more strikingly and tautly. I'll stick with it though.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 10:03 (eight years ago) link
it starts hotting up around e4 (although i found e5 a bit tepid and filler-y by comparison)
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 10:13 (eight years ago) link
The only actor I'm not keen on is the Merlin fella, he's all anxiety and affect, no actual internal motivation that I can discern, which given that he's at least part human he should have a little of
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 11:26 (eight years ago) link
^ yeah, he's all nervous energy but it's hard to empathise with him somehow
― cod latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 11:34 (eight years ago) link
You see it in the theatre all the time, young infernos of emotion who can't wait to show you their internal angst but who forget that the actually interesting part is the journey that led to that angst
― transparent play for gifs (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 11:46 (eight years ago) link
this finished last night. any thoughts? overall i felt that this was an excellently-made show made with a lot of care and attention to detail. Outstandingly acted with a well thought-through premise which, as is become almost expected from a lot of TV serials in recent times, suffers from a number of handwavey plot points and a slightly disappointing crunch towards the end. I'll still be watching S2 though.
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Monday, 3 August 2015 11:24 (eight years ago) link
Like a lot of this kind of drama (c.f. The Returned), it started off interesting but got ruined as it descended into full-on corny thriller mode. In last night's episode, the fact we were dealing with simulated people became completely irrelevant: it was just a group of stock cool-looking people on the run. They might as well have been defusing a bomb or outwitting Nazis as doing whatever they were doing with their root codes.
I used to do some editing for a vanity publisher, and the terrible dead brother sub-plot in Humans reminded me of some of those books. A stupid, stupid script trying clumsily to squeeze emotion out of something that made no sense.
That was nothing compared to when the William Hurt character started talking about Nietzsche a couple of episodes back - I was hiding behind a cushion then.
The dad was perfectly cast, though. I know so many pricks who look and sound exactly like that, and it was thrilling to see them brought to life on screen as a robot raper.
Can't wait for series 2.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 3 August 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link
The mum and dad were excellent. But yeah you're OTM about the thriller-y comicbook cyber-action actually dragging it down. Half way through last night's ep, I was like 'So if they don't want to spawn a population of sentient androids, why are they linking up? Is it just to save the broken synth or...?' I'm still not too sure what was supposed to be happening. Oh well.
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Monday, 3 August 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I thought it was another show (like the Walking Dead, sometimes) where the general setting was interesting and had loads of potential, much of which was then squandered because the actual story they chose to tell in that setting turned out to be a bit boring.
― trishyb, Monday, 3 August 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
I thought it was fairly average up till the end really, with some good acting but very clunky dialogue and pretty by numbers plotting. Overrated by a lot of people. All perfectly watchable though.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 11:03 (eight years ago) link
The whole 'dead brother' storyline was pointless on reflection right? I figured there'd be more to it than what it turned into.
― (no offence to people) (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:36 (eight years ago) link
Oh that was deeply pointless and stupid to the extent of making me a bit angry.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:26 (eight years ago) link
I think the point was to help explain why she would be so willing to help a bunch of people she doesn't know to evade the law.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
Don't think I understand that logic and in any case by the final episode the whole human family were essentially robots: they stood there and did plot-related things for the sake of it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
Would've been much more interesting for Laura to continue to harbour resentment towards Mia for 'seducing' Joe despite knowing it was unreasonable to, than have her suddenly switch to being 100% on the Synths' sides. I feel they gave up on exploring the genuinely knotty moral implications of what was going on far too easily, basically.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
I'd agree with pretty much all that; interesting, watchable, intrigued to see where it goes next, but can't help but feel that it wasn't quite intelligent enough to be really great.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 08:55 (eight years ago) link
Was really hoping there'd be a father-to-son ethical heart-to-heart about the difference between a synthetic human being and a fleshlight.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 08:56 (eight years ago) link
"Your mother's never here and when she is she's got no interest in me sexually anymore, son; would you rather I satiate my primal desires with this tin can full of chopped liver, this expensive sex toy, or your robotic breakfast-maid?"
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 08:57 (eight years ago) link
The guy from Kill List and the synth copper might have been the most interesting characters in it.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 08:58 (eight years ago) link
(I blame my bf!)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
i cauught up with S2 on monday and am really enjoying it.
no idea how close it is staying to the source material, so i cannot make a judgement call.
and CAM was not in season 1 - she is new to season 2 ...
― mark e, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 08:54 (seven years ago) link
5 mins in to S2 and we're at a rave! This is great. Niska taking a DEEP dive into just 'being a normal person'.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
Loving this! Love the escaped factory bot who's learning to distinguish right from wrong. Love "undercover Mia". Got properly choked up when she visited the old folks' home. Love Niska dragging the family back into it. Leo still one of the most underperforming "leaders" ever. I don't know if anything will ever equal the uncanny loose-cannon menace of Rick, or the pathos of OG Odi (and Flash). But I vastly prefer nu-Niska to OG Niska. And this show feels so assured I maybe won't even mind TOO much if we never get full-on Hub Battle Land.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 December 2016 12:27 (seven years ago) link
Monobrow son still all-time gormless champ. And his sister is still great. "Shouldn't you be wanking?"
Guys the BOT THERAPIST! She's bringing the parents together by providing them a common target to mock!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 December 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
it is such a great show. I'm glad you agree, TH.I noticed in the last episode the son started putting on a slight rudeboy London drawl while talking to his new Synthy girlfriend. not sure how intentional that was but it was definitely lol
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 9 December 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
"You want me to be more human?"
"No, that's not what we-"
"Casually cruel to those closest to me, and crying my eyes out over pictures of people I've never met?"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 December 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Carrie Anne Moss always looks like she's just emerged from the world's most expensive spa
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 December 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
I'm on ep 4 and all the storylines are getting steadily more awesome. Some serious synth pathos going on.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 December 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
tracer u need* to watch ROBA and contribute to my ROBA thread:"they run like animals from the sauna to the sea": ROBA is the hit finnish police procedural
*(this is the modern annoying meaning of "you need to" which means YOU don't actually need to at all but *i* want you to)
― mark s, Sunday, 11 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
more to the point threadwise i maybe need to watch äkta människor
― mark s, Sunday, 11 December 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
both!
just got to ep 5 of humans and shit just got quite real for everyone
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
in this C4 version i love the vibe, the acting, and the steady ramping up of the intensity. the escaped "radicalized" prole-bot is particularly great. they're going a million places that the OG series never did - kids trying to be synthy and the different ways that can look, and the reasons for that, and the reactions that can cause. the kindly dad ever-so-subtly becoming just a wee bit "synthist" as a result of the vagaries of his life. leo elster's curious impotence becoming a fulcrum of the plot - "i'll be your strength" says prole-bot - rather than an inconvenient gap in writing or acting chops (which may have actually at one point been the case - if so, props to the show-runners for nimbly finding a way around it)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
oh and and and!! FLASH!! (fans of the OG series will be stoked to see a synth with that name make an appearance! coming so late in the second season suggests there is a lot more rope to unfurl)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 11 December 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
The "Previously...." for ep 6 is all-time. ARE U STRAPPED IN TRACER YES YES I AM
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 December 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
The latest episode is FARKIN' AMAZING!
Tracer I need you to catch up with me on this. Tell me when you've seen the latest one.
This episode had a very sad moment that I could see coming but was nevertheless very upsetting.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Monday, 12 December 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
OMG I love this show.
"What is your confession my son?""Well, I recently gained self-awareness..."
- I could watch the mum and talk to each other ALL DAY. They're both so good but particularly the IT Crowd woman, I never imagined that she was so legit
Is it wrong to want Leo to eat dirt somehow?
I'm still early in Ep 6!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 December 2016 23:55 (seven years ago) link
"Mum and DAD" obv
Leo is such a dick. I don't think I've ever liked him or felt sympathy for him. You've only got one more ep and you're all caught up.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:21 (seven years ago) link
I'm loving how every 'Human' is currently undergoing their own unique identity crisis. There isn't just one logical route they will go down. Odi losing the will to live; Hester's psychopathic urge to destroy humanity; the robot hippie commune; the one who just wants to become a mortal human etc.. It's really really really really good.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
haha, i held back from blurting this out ... but it is.
― mark e, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Still not caught up yet but I loved when, after the big reveal of what zackly Quallia's up to, Carrie-Ann Day Spa is all sputtering outrage and I'm like hang on a second Carrie isn't this more or less PRECISELY what you're up to as well???? fuck outta here with that noise
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
haha yeah I thought the same thing. it's like 'you've gone this far down the rabbit hole. what exactly is the moral issue here?'
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
daaaaaaaaaaaamn
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
so am i missing out if i start with the eng.lang remake?
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:07 (seven years ago) link
Naw. They're different. Same starting point but they go in pretty different directions. It's fun to compare them but not essential.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:12 (seven years ago) link
in a lot of respects these shows - and westworld - are zombie shows and are "about" the same things that zombie shows are i.e. the revenge of the repressed. but these bot shows make the politics even more explicit. look around: every working class job is now gone. delivering the post, stacking boxes in a warehouse, cleaning kitchens. it's like a genocide! the swedish version confronts this head-on quite early w/anti-bot terrorists and whatnot. this one's still sort of sidling around it. what happened to the people who used to do those jobs? was there a massive depopulation event at some point? is everyone now benefitting from UBI? is it like the dockyards? yes there was once a thing called working class culture, like there was a culture of the docks, but people just do different things now? the nature of that work changed? welp, okay. except there is a reckoning coming. it's just been delayed. the bots are fighting for themselves but also for all those they replaced.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
(is how i break it down, to an extent)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:27 (seven years ago) link
i'm almost certain they're going to have to start addressing this soon. the show, especially in this season, seems to be more interested in the internal lives of just a few characters rather than humanity on a macro level. i'd love it if it just ran and ran until it's full-on Skynet-style warfare.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 22:36 (seven years ago) link
how have i never heard of this film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR542tQhXJo
CHERRY 2000
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
omg amazing
― kinder, Friday, 24 March 2017 14:19 (seven years ago) link
UK series 3 is good so far. on episode 4 now
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 2 July 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
ITS: Niska drops metal objects on the ground and opens locked doors by hitting them with the flat of her hand; everyone snogs each other; Max is Jeremy Corbyn; gratuitous shots of my hometown depicted as an idyllically fascist slice of middle-England; Astrid keeps getting locked in boxes, like all the time
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
just started catching up. episode 1 is CRACKING. it feels like they're returning to some of the themes from the swedish version now - the "real humans" movement in particular, but there's now a very overt parallel w/refugees. and of course the nascent anti-human army, which we never got to see in full flower in the swedish series.
i'm v v hopeful that laura hawkins' new amber-eyes model goes full "rick"...
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 July 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
warning - last episode is a bit 'okay this is too much now'
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
but on the whole the show really delivers
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
Just about to start in on last ep. This season has been good but they are really focused on telling the small/personal stories - the Hawkins' story, Mia's story, Max/Anatole, Sam/Karen - and the SF elements have largely been pushed into the refugee/migrant metaphor which is.. like.. not that interesting? It's so on the nose that frankly it does a disservice to the metaphor and to the synths themselves. In the end, they're NOT humans. This season strives mightily to push the synths into a different category - they can die! etc - but FFS anybody who had to make the Sophie's choice that Mia got pushed into would have done the same. Synths may be "conscious" but they they're replicable. Their minds can be copied. Their bodies can be remade. That's the whole point. God knows why Mattie isn't doing bootable backups every night. And following on from that, Anatole's existential angst over figuring out how to reproduce is like.. weird? You don't need to reproduce. You just need to be manufactured.
Finally, I guess Basswood was supposed to be this big shocking reveal but why on earth wasn't this contingency plan put into place straight away after Day Zero? Weren't the green eyes responsible for tens of thousands of human deaths? I have to say I kind of agree with the jerks on the commission - if green eyes are so unreliable and appear to be massing in secretive bunkers to kill us, let's, like, fucking deal with it? Instead of continuing to supply power to their hideouts (??)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
Odi reveal was pretty mega though
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
all of this is OTM although I found the whole Odi quest totally ridiculous and beyond farfetched. The last couple of episodes of this kind of tarnished an otherwise enjoyable series
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 23 July 2018 10:27 (five years ago) link
Haha yes even Niska herself was like "if you wanted me to come here maybe you could have been a little less cryptic"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 10:35 (five years ago) link
goes without saying that Odi being connected to the whole of the internet would be like 90% inspirational memes and porn videos non?
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 23 July 2018 11:22 (five years ago) link
I liked this more than the second series, though agreed that the end was a bit off the rails. The thing that took me most out of any of it was Mattie leaving her laptop unlocked and unattended for even a moment though
― Iain Mew (if), Monday, 23 July 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Thanks for the reminder to continue this. Left off on season 2, great show
― Ross, Monday, 23 July 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
I love the dad so much
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 13:28 (five years ago) link
fact fans: a huge amount of this series is filmed in my hometown of Hitchin. The shop where the dad works is actually a very nice delicatessen shop off the town square. Hitchin's also been featured on Doctor Foster and a huge amount of other shows lately because of the influx of media types moving to the area from London and poshing the fuck out of it
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 23 July 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
when i was watching the pregnancy advisor i was thinking "artificial intelligence has some way to go"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
also leo elster in all his wisdom forgot to include the standard 3A fuse in his synth power adaptors smh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 20:33 (five years ago) link
wait so the synths can just.... "go" to Norway?? where they "have rights"? why didn't they do that in the first place??so tired of max's tight little sad fake smile. could use some of the OG Rick's paramilitia attitude with these fuckers tbh. it IS a war and I'm not sure the humans deserve to win it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
also, fuck off niska
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 July 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
what is her thing about dropping shit on the floor?
― Gâteau Superstar (dog latin), Monday, 23 July 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link