In the post-epidemic era when Nolan was unable to create a box office miracle, the old man Ridley Scott put down his figure and threw a misty alien story directly to the users of the entire network. The alien colonial epic of atheist fugitives, the history of civilizational clashes between artificial humans and the descendants of conservative religions, is there anything more enjoyable than this?
The Sci-Fi version of "Game of Thrones" that science fiction fans have been looking forward to seems to be in sight. You only have an HBO max account or a few progress bars. Many viewers were amazed by the compact first episode. Alien stars, births, bizarre deaths, the history of religious slaughter, and finally the runaway of the mother turned into Necromancer. Starlight, fog, ruins, and finally the plasma screen is full, it seems that there is no other choice but to give five stars on both knees.
He is Ridley Scott after all, who directed ABCDE, who defined an era. Elder Lei put down his figure to shoot a web drama. Isn't it a dimensionality reduction blow to those who play with figures, ring and ring?
There is no such good thing.
The first episode of Raised by Wolves on IMDB received a high score of 8.7, and the 10th episode of The Beginning with the heat just released, the score has dropped to 7.2, infinitely approaching a mediocre work.
In this pot, the ability of the following tools and directors is mediocre, so it is natural to memorize part of it. But Martin Scorsese's "Atlantic Empire" and David Fincher's "House of Cards" are also stocked children, and the first seasons of the two series are all commentaries of the gods.
Raised by Wolves , its disgusting Chinese translation of "Alien Star Catastrophe" has been complained by countless people. Even after one season, no "catastrophe" occurred. In contrast, the explicit reference to the "mother-wolf and baby-baby" in the construction of the city of Rome, that is, the two pairs of misaligned relationships in the corresponding film-Campion raised up by AI, and protected by the atheists Caleb and Mary who pretended to be their parents Paul. The same misaligned relationship also includes the embryo implanted in the mother's Lamia, and the child who Tempest was pregnant with being raped by the church officials while dormant.
It can be seen that almost all the relationships between "pregnancy" and "raising" in the film are misplaced and distorted. Its reasonable translation seems to be "Alien Species" (called "Alien Species" Hein Rhein fans will fight me desperately).
Wolves and humans, AI and embryos, non-blood related parents and sons, and finally involuntary conception. This kind of twisting plot made me suddenly open a brain hole-
For Mr. Lei, does Raised by Wolves also exist as a "different species" in the career of a video worker?
The business experience of the poor crew
In the text, the first season and other sci-fi works are massively intertextualized and various language is not clear, leaving a huge room for fans to interpret. This kind of "unclear judgment" has largely maintained the reputation, otherwise, with the quality of s1, the scores of each platform may be even worse.
There are a lot of strange sci-fi sub-genres in the plot of the first season. The history of the earth is a war film, the virtual space and AI bridge segment have a cyberpunk taste, and the alien part is a skin change of the traditional family ethics film. Even Tully's ghost adds a thriller element to it. Behind this "stack of Arhats" are "new settings" that have been added in mass.
The identity of the mother onion is revealed layer by layer: the caregiver, the war machine, the war machine of the modified camp, and the embryo container; such a complicated destiny happened to the same god, and the content was enough to last a whole season. On the planet that has lived for 12 years, it will be exactly in the year when the Mithraist spacecraft arrives that the food for the children was contaminated by radiation, and then the alien-like creatures suddenly attacked, and the exploration of the tropics was suddenly mentioned. On the schedule, ghosts began to infest everyone. Then you can fly all over the sky with your feet. In the 12 years without any natural enemies, what has your mother been up to? The child can sleep and grow up, and of course it doesn’t take so much energy after dying some. Would you please fly outside for two days and take a look at it?
All problems are concentrated, crises are stacked on top of each other, and the nesting of unknowns is unknown. Between the lines in the turbulence of the plot, there are actually four words full of calculations, "screenwriting techniques."
A large number of new settings and constant POV point-of-view conversion keep the audience's attention always in a state of tension that integrates a large amount of information. There is only the fifth episode in my impression. The mother's emotional drama with the transformer in the virtual space uses a relatively large length, and the rest of the episodes are all a large number of sliced parallel editing. This kind of "information overload" makes ordinary viewers fascinated by the roller coaster of the plot, and the purpose is very simple-
In terms of image language, it is simplified to the greatest extent. To be more ugly is to cut corners and fool things.
Take a little bit of the plot, count a few scenes in the first season, and you will find that they are really surprisingly few. A large number of plots take place in the virtual space, the village built by the parents (including the fields, the main house, the round room, and the warehouse), the ruins of the Mithraist spacecraft, and at most one polyhedral mysterious building. On the way through the desert, woods, and wasteland, the prop set is saved. What we saw was that there was a fight at point A, a gunfight at point B, and some big plans that would not be executed on the road. The character always has to deal with the most tense contradiction in front of him, and there is never a long-term, large-scale action—because a single visual element cannot support it.
Therefore, in this drama, you can't see the meticulous plan of "Game of Thrones", there are no strange landscapes and survival problems of unfamiliar planets, and there is no grand science fiction proposition, the eternal tension between the tiny human beings and the boundless space and time. Why are there not these? It's simple and save money. Putting aside the religious stalks that the series gave you (believe me, it’s really not deep at all), most of the contradictions in the story are between a few humans and bionics, beating each other and jealous. You suspect that I like him. , I hate him for loving you. Multiplayer online 4K room escape, a supporting role one by one, several main characters repeatedly jumping horizontally in three or four places, looking for props, saving children, killing enemies, and getting out of the game.
Another problem with "information overload" is the dense lines. The actor opens his mouth and talks about everything. The result is that there is almost no action design in a film that should have many action elements, and it is always talking from beginning to end. Mother, you are a bionic, so when you enter the virtual space, you still have to use your artificial vocal cords to sigh, "Ah, this place is familiar to me". Why? As a high-tech crystallization, the level of tuberculosis is about the same as that of our robot vacuum cleaner.
All the plots are brought out by chatting and arguing, accompanied by close-up shots and facial close-ups that make people visually fatigued easily. Except for those empty shots of super-large distant mountains that are not counted at all, half of the shots in this show are shot against the human face. In the first two episodes of Lao Lei, there is still a trace of discipline in science fiction films. Behind it completely fell to the net level.
Of course, find a supplement for the team a little bit. It can be seen that this crew has no money, and Lao Lei used some spectacle scenes to lay a good foundation for the first two episodes. The final result is that the first two episodes should have spent more than half of the funds, and everyone can only live their lives simply because of the ugliness. The special effects of snowy weather only dare to take close-up shots, and the snowflakes floating towards the camera can feel a sense of cheapness of CG material library. The scene is naturally reused if you can reuse it, and you can say a few more words if you can talk about it. In addition to taking more shots of children running into the distance and hitting the lost expressions of their fathers and mothers, every second of the footage is the sound of burning funds.
Finally, the visual novelty is removed and the excess text is replaced. This is the routine of all TV series. Many people's expectations of Lao Lei's "movie sense" have completely failed. Throughout the whole season, the only narratives in the audition language may only be some horror films of the ghost of Tully. The rest, there are only various hands reaching into the body of the bionic, with the little tricks of slimy sound effects.
Of course, too many new setting displays and too few effective plots have also made it impossible for this story to have a phased ending. Even the last episode throws out the most variables and settings-engineer, Nian Det people, flying snakes. Although the audience has a little hope to explain the several plot points in a unified way, but...who knows when the second season will come.
In summary, a 10-episode trailer gives me the feeling that those deep pits on the planet Kepler-22b, digged by Ridley Scott.
Stop it, Bionic
If you are familiar with Ridley Scott's science fiction movies, you will not be unfamiliar with the concept of bionics. In "Blade Runner", the identification of bionics requires complicated problem design and iris test; in the first part of "Alien", until the death of the bionic, the other crew members realized that the company had placed a bionic among them; In "Prometheus" and "Alien: Contract", Fassbender played the role of David, who created his own creator, the human body, as a container to create new people, that is, the earliest alien. At this time, David possesses the ultimate, creator's reason, and is already an existence close to or trying to become a "god."
Ridley Scott's bionic man does not follow strict sci-fi settings. They have a very high degree of simulation, and they can simulate various human emotions and behaviors with heaven-defying computing power in most scenes. David in "Prometheus" and "Alien: Contract", as the most perfect bionic product of Wayne Group, has become a perfect human image-endless physical fitness, super strong adaptability to harsh environments, and never Aging, as well as strong judgment and cold execution. The characteristics that are different from ordinary people may be the perfection of this absolute rationality.
However, David seems to have a kind of attachment to Dr. Sean (the heroine of "Prometheus" who was found dead in "Alien: Contract") who was killed by himself. . The boundary of bionic human emotions has always been a place that Lao Lei deliberately blurred. At this time, plausible, this ambiguity has become the biggest tension in many of his creations (especially "Blade Runner"). But this ambiguity and high degree of freedom have to some extent become the source of many plot problems in the "Alien" series. In Raised by Wolves, misunderstanding and abuse reached a disaster level.
In this play, father and mother have a lot of expressions confined to human emotions. The mother became angry with the child several times, and temporarily interpreted it as a simulation of the human raising environment. The sadness of a child's death can also be understood as "a sense of low value caused by a failed mission." These are simple and intuitive emotional activities. But in the virtual space, what's the matter with programmers who fall in love with transforming themselves? For the extremely complex biological behaviors of love and coitus, is it really understandable that the two rows of killing machines with outlets on the abdominal muscles?
The father is even more exaggerated. As a service-oriented robot, not a funny joke player, his father would say "You and other people have been mated, it makes me feel strangely replaced by others." Such lines. The role of the father, his role in the tribe does not have the level of a "husband". For the father's seemingly simple emotions that can be called "jealous", his database should contain a complete set of human marriage and family ethics, as well as extremely complex psychological processes and cultural contexts. Excuse me, is this necessary for a nanny robot? Why did the development of human artificial intelligence have embarked on such a path of no return, creating a group of AIs with too rich inner drama?
In the 8th episode, there was a line when my mother chatted with the medical robot, "My companion and I are sometimes affected by some non-procedural impulses." It became the fig leaf for all AI settings in this drama. However, as for the source of this non-procedural impulse, the episodes are completely ignored.
Of course, we can see that there are also very instrumental bionics appearing-doctors, soldiers, service personnel, they are not so rich. Although they are all unexpectedly able to talk, at least they are still within the scope of common sense. By the way, when all the Mithra sect members were about to freeze to death in the wilderness at night, I clearly saw the artificial people shivering in blankets. The crew did not fully understand Lao Lei's movie: David in "Prometheus" never wears an oxygen mask.
It is never said in the whole setting that the bionics are divided into different categories, for example, the mother is Necromancer and advanced bionics, and the medical robots on the ship are cheap and low-end versions. Then, the relationship between the more human-like, highly-matched bionics, and the humans and the low-matched, instrumentalized bionics, which ethnic group to seek identification with, is actually a direction that is worth exploring. Robin Williams' "Mechanical Butler" is an attempt in this direction.
In this work, at least it seems that the father is a service-oriented, ordinary bionic person in classification. But the richness of the father's inner drama is not worse than that of the mother. After being flashed, the speed of restoring the system is faster than turning on my mobile phone. With such a playful plot, how do you make me empathize with the main characters like father and mother? All weapons can't be killed, and the underlying system can be restored to the file after being swiped. Two emotional characters, close to "Superman", bluntly and deliberately performed the robot's facial expression changes and stylized behavior logic, giving me the sharpest feeling of being artificial.
I saw comments from netizens who gave bad reviews. When are the robots in sci-fi movies still going to be a man and a woman, they are clearly looking for trouble. I very much agree with this view and go further than him. I think that except for some specific uses (which uses I think about, I didn't say anything), intelligent machines that serve humans shouldn't be human beings. My house sweeping robot and voice-activated light have a sci-fi texture than any character wrapped in plastic clothes in this film.
Ridley Scott's bionic setting is one of the cornerstones of his sci-fi architecture. My personal opinion is that I don’t like it, but just accept this strong setting when watching his movies. However, in Raised by Wolves, the infinite widening of the boundaries of the bionics' capabilities has made this drama lose the sci-fi genre and the most basic rationality of the story.
Bionics are only the core point of complaints, and the others are hard to describe. For example, virtual space records everything that is too detailed, which is not in line with common sense (with this technology, the first thing to come should be the plot of "The Matrix"); another example is the Necromancer, which is too incompatible with the aerodynamic flight method, almost endless Energy source, if the mother had this ability, in the twelve years, this planet should have been transformed into a new Boston long ago.
In case of indecision, quantum mechanics, the style jumps to the virtual world, and the pictures are old-fashioned in pursuit of retro. Time has changed, and the ridicule of sci-fi genre creation routines has been like a shower. Today's science fiction audiences are not so foolish at all. Humans in the interstellar era are still using rifles, and broad-spectrum antibiotics can treat radiation sickness. This kind of sci-fi drama is better than the next season.
Of course, there is still the next season...
The previous criticism seems too harsh? Sorry, seeing that my favorite director has fallen to this point, in addition to sadness, I feel more angry. I think it is a great pity that Ridley Scott's images and worldview have been stretched so crudely and uninterestingly. In particular, this drama clearly means that "Alien Prequel 3" continues to be delayed. Mr. Scott, you are 83 years old, please do those things that are truly valuable!
The core contradiction of this work-the binary opposition between religion and atheism, I didn't seem to mention it at all. Yes, it’s not that I’m blind. I have seen countless drama reviews and analysis articles digging into this point wildly. How many ultimate thinking, humanistic care, warnings and predictions for human society, etc., I think-it’s not necessary . The imbalance of the overall sci-fi worldview makes this seemingly grand contradiction setting destined to be empty and dwarfed. Extremely Romanized religions and extremely Spartanized atheist groups are nothing but copies of European history.
This story may be profound or grand, but the narrative is too small and the congenital deficiencies in the concept of science fiction make its first season exhausted. Procrastination, routines, unclear character motives, meaningless behavior. Maybe it is a prelude to a grand colonial epic, maybe the giant snake flying to the sky will bring out the true adventure of the entire planet's tropical circle, then-add more investment. Let's see if the overall reputation has not slipped, can we make S02's hands and feet more open.
The only thing that makes me more gratified in this work is that Ridley Scott’s inherent Cult elements are generally unprecedentedly restricted in television media. Especially for countries with strict grading systems, the number of video drama subscriptions will be severe. But this work seems to have no worries in this regard. At the first level, there are various scenes of death from brain explosions and blood plasma directly, and all kinds of heavy dramas are also available in the back. A dance under my mother's loss of control even reminds me of the stage in the adult science fiction musical "Blood Machines" (2019). Of course, many dismemberment and violent scenes are directed at bionics. Whether this can evade censorship from the setting is unknown. But seeing my mother put her hand into her abdomen, and the unpleasant rubbing sound of the white liquid like yogurt in the earphones, I can still feel some of the legacy of Ridley Scott Cult's aesthetics.
At last
Say a plot that impressed me.
In the fourth episode of Natures Course, my father captured an alien-like creature (let's call it an alien) and locked it in a barn. The mother gave the alien to his father to deal with. The father didn’t know what was wrong in his mind. He had to train a few children’s hunting skills. He opened the barn and held a sharpened wooden stick. He asked Campion and several other children to stab the alien to death. hunting. The children began to refuse, and the father followed suit. Both you come and I go, arguing more than ever.
During this period, the barn door remained open. The alien who climbed the 90° cliff effortlessly squatted in the barn, watching the two sides quarrel, no escape, no attack, not even a single shot. What expresses its existence is that its voice is always screaming in the background, superimposed on the argument between the father and the child.
I have a strange emotion when I read this paragraph. Later, I discovered that it was probably a strange celestial and human induction. Perhaps the planet Kepler 22b resonated with my soul, and I miraculously brought into that alien feeling. I understand its mood very well-
You watch two groups of fools chatting, one group is human, the other is artificial person. All of them are talkative. You can’t get in. You can only sit there and watch them slowly finish speaking with a little sadness. You are not allowed to run. You can only howl and wait for one of the idiots to make up their minds. You’ll be sharpened by a stick. The wooden stick pierced to death.
Of course it is a bit pitiful than me, it doesn't even have an option to fast forward.
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