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Fun but also infuriating at times for me. Without spoiling, when the characters were being presented with evidence as strong as possible that X occurred because

by jahnu 5y ago

Fun but also infuriating at times for me. Without spoiling, when the characters were being presented with evidence as strong as possible that X occurred because of Y and not Z they kept scratching their heads wondering if Z wasn't the cause of X after all. They were at times more stupid than a gang of drunken teenagers in an 80s horror movie, not top class scientists, astronauts and soldiers. What I kept wondering is, what am I missing? Is this a cultural difference? Is the translation difficult? Simplest explanation, it's just not great writing/directing.

thaumasiotes 5y ago
> when the characters were being presented with evidence as strong as possible that X occurred because of Y and not Z they kept scratching their heads wondering if Z wasn't the cause of X after all. They were at times more stupid than a gang of drunken teenagers in an 80s horror movie, not top class scientists, astronauts and soldiers. What I kept wondering is, what am I missing? Is this a cultural difference? This is pretty common in cases where an existing ideology specifies that Z causes X. I assume that's true in all cultures.
- bee_rider 5y ago
  Most of the characters aren't written as hardcore ideologues.
  - thaumasiotes 5y ago
    And you haven't described them that way. If they were hardcore ideologues, they wouldn't be saying "are we sure it isn't Z?". They'd be saying "but it's Z".
wrp 5y ago
>...what am I missing? Nothing. The Silent Sea was brutally criticized in Korea for its writing/directing. I thought the visuals were great, but only that aspect of it.
- bee_rider 5y ago
  The visuals may have been too good. I was expecting some Expanse level space stuff when I saw their ship. Instead, their lander detached from their rocket while in orbit and... began to fall?
  - ragazzina 5y ago
    This criticism is funny because this is exactly what happens in the Expanse book. I have never watched the series but in the book they kept referring to kinetic bombardment as "release bombs and let them just fall to the ground", and other glaring scientific errors.
- jahnu 5y ago
  Aha! Thanks for the info. The visuals were really good and I suspect the actors are not bad either. They just had bad lines.

by jahnu 5y ago

thaumasiotes 5y ago

> when the characters were being presented with evidence as strong as possible that X occurred because of Y and not Z they kept scratching their heads wondering if Z wasn't the cause of X after all. They were at times more stupid than a gang of drunken teenagers in an 80s horror movie, not top class scientists, astronauts and soldiers. What I kept wondering is, what am I missing? Is this a cultural difference? This is pretty common in cases where an existing ideology specifies that Z causes X. I assume that's true in all cultures.

bee_rider 5y ago
Most of the characters aren't written as hardcore ideologues.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago
  And you haven't described them that way. If they were hardcore ideologues, they wouldn't be saying "are we sure it isn't Z?". They'd be saying "but it's Z".

wrp 5y ago

>...what am I missing? Nothing. The Silent Sea was brutally criticized in Korea for its writing/directing. I thought the visuals were great, but only that aspect of it.

bee_rider 5y ago
The visuals may have been too good. I was expecting some Expanse level space stuff when I saw their ship. Instead, their lander detached from their rocket while in orbit and... began to fall?
- ragazzina 5y ago
  This criticism is funny because this is exactly what happens in the Expanse book. I have never watched the series but in the book they kept referring to kinetic bombardment as "release bombs and let them just fall to the ground", and other glaring scientific errors.
jahnu 5y ago
Aha! Thanks for the info. The visuals were really good and I suspect the actors are not bad either. They just had bad lines.