It took me a long time to recover from the shock after watching a few movies related to Alien. In fact, I have seen some interstellar movies one after another, but the "Alien" series is undoubtedly a particularly attractive group of movies, not to mention Ridley Scott's Alien prequels have pushed this series of stories. To a new level, "Prometheus" is my favorite of the 6 movies. So when I opened "Alien Cataclysm", I was looking forward to witnessing Lao Lei's imagination and philosophy once again. I can't say I'm very disappointed after reading it, but after all, it still deviates from my original expectations. Of course, the first season deserves a 4-star praise, but I feel very worried about whether the follow-up content can continue to score high. This concern comes from the filming of directors other than Lao Lei, the preview of the second season, and many problems that have gradually emerged in the first season.
Let’s talk about the advantages first. It is said that the first two episodes are only directed by Lao Lei. The tone he set for the whole story is still very shocking: a strange planet that seems to have strayed into the Prometheus studio, the planet With huge holes on the surface, androids nurture human children. Some of the content related to the secrets of the planet in the later episodes are also eye-catching enough: the pentagon, the two natives of the planet, the big snake and the eel snake, the mystery of the planet's core and the tropical magnetic field, and the problem of the mother's body. .
But from the beginning to the end, my mind has been full of doubts, which may be due to cultural differences or the logic of the script, which has become more and more affecting my viewing experience. For example, when I saw the introduction to the TV series, I thought it was a little exaggerated. What kind of family problems can androids face when raising children on alien planets? As a result, they really entangled around family issues from beginning to end. In fact, discussing the family relationship between humans and androids is a rather novel perspective, but every time the protagonists have to do some somersaults on parent-child communication. Looking a little tired.
For another example, why do bionic people rush to settle on a strange planet and have 6 children? This question has always arisen from the bottom of my heart and can’t be ignored. Maybe from the perspective of the Chinese people, when I encounter a new place, I always think about whether I can farm, whether there is water, and whether there are raw materials necessary for people’s survival and life, etc. Wait for the problem, and arrange the various supplies to facilitate further recuperation and thinking about reproduction. From the play, I can barely find an explanation, that is, the mother and father were set as the hope of cultivating non-believing humans as soon as possible for this group, so the question came back again, why did not pay attention to exploration before cultivating such an important hope To choose a suitable living environment around? From the play, it seems that they settled in a dry desert-like open space, with no water source around, and a small number of shrub-like plants growing in a ring shape, and herbs and trees are rare. (I even feel that there is a bug here. Where did the water come from after they have lived for so many years? What are the children's clothes and fabrics made of? The wood used to build the house and the fire has seen the forest, so the question is, why don't you enter the forest? Is it nesting in a desert with nothing?)
Secondly, faith is undoubtedly a very important discussion point in the play. It can be said that family conflicts, internal conflicts of Mithraism, etc. are all around this. But as a non-believer, these disputes over faith are too many to be pedantic. Just like the man who turned from atheism to a faithful believer of Mithraism. He was tempted by the voice in his ear to believe that he was the orphan who was favored by God, so he was confident that he could make a career. However, after he believed in God, all he had to toss from beginning to end was to destroy his possible believers and relatives and friends, so that he ended up in the end of being betrayed by the relatives and leaving no one to follow. A man who upholds personal heroism. He has ambitions to conquer the country but wastes a small number of people. When he encounters problems, he asks God. He does not want to collect items and reserve precious resources, nor does he think about geological exploration and future strength. What is the use of asking God in a suitable area for development? The existing miracles do not show the possibility of giving believers superpowers. Even if you gain superpowers, what's the point of being king in an uninhabited area? Even without superpowers, an intelligent human can still "rule the king" if he operates properly in a world without people. On the contrary, the bishop of Mithraism knew that religion was a tool of power. He didn't see much devout faith in him, but he had his own thoughts. Men will also use the tool of faith extremely proficiently when wrestling with the bishop, but after eliminating their opponents, they have a lot of wisdom reduction operations.
When I was typing, the more I recalled the plot, the more bizarre I felt. Maybe I subconsciously placed the expectation of farming infrastructure in a religious drama. In a word, if you want to read science fiction stories, the West is really good at it, but if you want to play politics and infrastructure, you have to be China. Of course, although I have all kinds of complaints about "Alien Cataclysm", I still like a lot of space for discussion and careful speculation in it. I have also watched some enthusiastic audiences' analysis of the plot. Here are a few records that I am more interested in. The point is not necessarily correct, wait for the later verification:
1. The original intelligent creatures on alien planets may be Neanderthals, some degenerate into animal dementia, and some have hidden wisdom and memory; the origin of human beings on earth may be related to the original Neanderthals, The subsequent Mithraism is also related to this, and the mother's core technology, Mithraism, has not been mastered.
2. The core of the planet has its own wisdom. The form of life may be plasma. The strong magnetic field disorder in the tropics may be the cage created by the aborigines who started the war to limit the core of the planet. Several polyhedra may also have Similar effect; in addition, the rapid growth of the eel snake after passing through the core of the planet also shows that there is a strong energy at the core of the planet, and the large holes with two traces on the surface of the planet also prove that the giant snake and the aborigines have explored the core of the planet; The peculiarities may also be related to the energy at the core of the planet.
3. Although the eel snake bites its mother when sucking milk, it does not harm the father and mother until the stage of crossing the planet. It is not necessarily a villain or a cruel nature. It may have a certain intelligence, and even inherited its mother's influence on human consciousness and sonic attacks (after all, it can fly like its mother); it should have something to do with the skeleton of the giant snake in arid regions.
4. The voice in the ear, the person who made the mother pregnant, the intelligent life on the alien planet, etc. All these existences point to at least two forces on the alien planet. One side believes that the mother of the giant snake eel snake is a threat (want to kill the mother to stop the eel Snake is born), one party wants the mother to feed the eel snake (it is suspected that tali wants to kill Campion, the voice in the ear prevents the man from killing the mother and let the mother get pregnant)
On the one hand I am looking forward to the story development in the later stages of Cataclysm, but on the other hand, I suspect that the next few seasons may be far from the development I expected, after all, there are no snakes in the second season preview?
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