At the beginning of the series, the standard sci-fi scene: several tenacious white Americans fighting aliens for survival-searching for food, fighting, and fleeing under the close supervision of aliens. As the plot unfolds, there is a feeling: this is a science fiction drama that explores various aspects of human nature in the face of difficulties: responsibility, courage, affection, commitment, timidity, selfishness, evasion, betrayal, self-searching, etc. Wait for all kinds of good and bad humanity to be more concentrated in the face of disaster. The scenes are smoothly connected, and the plot has tension and relaxation. Although it inevitably makes people feel a bit procrastinated and the plot progress is not fast enough, the overall sense of substitution is relatively good. From the perspective of the protagonist Tom, he can feel the danger, take responsibility, experience family affection, and do it calmly. Make the right decision.
Let’s talk about a few protagonists.
Tom: The heroic image in the standard American film and television-before the family was happy, the career was successful, and in the face of disasters, for the sake of family love, he had the courage to take responsibility, give bravely, be born and die, and was pushed forward by fate and had to assume the responsibility of a leader. In the beginning, in order to survive, he bravely took his eldest son Hal out to find food. Because of his outstanding performance, he was appreciated by the commander and entrusted with a heavy responsibility. Commander Weaver's impulse commanded bravely to correct it.
Hal: Tom's eldest son. Young, brave, and dare to give for the sake of family love, is a powerful helper for father.
Weaver: Commander of the Resistance Army. Brave, decisive, and somewhat rigid. Due to drug use and the despair of losing relatives, he once gave up. With the help of Tom and seeing his daughter’s lost glasses, he regained hope and quickly stepped out of the trough, once rash for his own personal gain. Command, and finally assumed the responsibility of being a commander.
Pope: The bad boy in the play. When I was young, there must have been chasers, clever, learned to cook in prison, can make ammunition, once resisted aliens, then gave up, under the arrangement of fate, along with the resistance army in the
whole season plot several reflecting human nature I want to talk about the plot in particular.
The first one: Tom led the team members into Pope's team during the second visit to the arsenal. Pope must have resisted the aliens bravely, once killed the Swift Hunter alone, and then he felt that his strength was too great and he chose to give up resistance. , Choose to live your life in disaster. Out of his own conscience, under the impetus of fate and the protagonist, he joined the resistance army. There is human selfishness, conscience and bravery.
The second one: The commander of the third regiment traded with aliens for the safety of those around him, providing them with children-as aliens' slaves. This is a standard betrayal for personal gain. There is also the old woman near the alien base. The war has lost her. Under the lure of the aliens, she has become their eyeliner. There is the loss of war and the selfishness of human nature.
The third: the transformation of little black Rick: once frail and sickly, living without a sense of existence, after being spineized by aliens, his body became strong and there was no disease, and he seemed to have found himself in his heart and became an alien Longing for it, even after being rescued by his father and his father died in order to protect his son, he still did not turn around. After telling all the aliens and being abandoned, he suddenly changed his mind and cried bitterly at the thought of his father's death. Here is the loss of self and the search for self.
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