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> and the script was bad because it made the characters do idiotic, incompetent things that should only be seen in a B-grade horror movie I took it as a meta-c
by otabdeveloper4 2y ago
> and the script was bad because it made the characters do idiotic, incompetent things that should only be seen in a B-grade horror movie
I took it as a meta-commentary on how humanity degrades with time. ("Idiocracy"-style.) Remember these clowns were supposed to be the cream of Earth's human crop.
- shiroiushi 2y agoWere they? I remember some people defending the plot, saying quite the opposite, that these clowns were actually a bunch of barely-competent losers who had little to lose by signing a contract to go on this voyage, because the cream of Earth's human crop would never have gone on this mission (the mission's nature was secret and no one had any idea why they were going to that planet, nor that Peter Wayland himself was aboard). This explanation still strains credibility in my opinion (even barely-competent contractors should be smarter than this, like the biologist who takes off his helmet when he sees an alien lifeform), but at least it's something. If humanity was really degrading with time, they wouldn't be able to build such fantastic FTL spaceships, robotic surgery pods, etc.