Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’...
by mturmon on Sunday April 26, 2020 @03:46PM
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Yes, the moment you mention was among the most affecting of the first season. The scene is constructed diabolically to ratchet up the mob mentality — where people are just acting in the moment, purely emotionally.
I read the season as an allegory for where we are now politically. The captain is a figurehead, the passengers are readily manipulated, the far-off owners don’t care, yet everyone aboard is hurtling through space in a very complex machine that they don’t really understand.
Hugh Laurie is doing a great job in the show. Another draw is the creator, Armando Iannucci, who did Veep.
Re:Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’...
by skinnymuch on Sunday April 26, 2020 @06:42PM
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Doesn’t that all still make it dark and/or dry humor? Everyone has different levels of what they consider acceptable.
The thing is, it's really dark. I have a pretty dark streak in my sense of humor, but were are a lot of moments when I thought to myself, "Did these guys forget that this show bills itself as a comedy?"
SPOILER ALERT
I think the most horrible scene was when some of the passengers get the idea that they aren't really trapped in space, that it's all a simulation and they're really on Earth after all. And so they decide they want to leave. Through the airlock...
And Captain Laurie and the engineer who won't shut up about being underappreciated by the morons around her (Why would you care about their opinions? They're morons) are in between them and the airlock.
Now maybe this means I'm a bad person, but my first gut reaction was, "Hey, let them go outside. It's evolution in action. A problem that solves itself, yeah?"
But then my real self kicks in and points out that, unless I try my very hardest to prevent these fucking morons from sucking vacuum, letting them spacewalk sans spacesuit is tantamount to murder. And I'm not a murderer.
Even though they are useless fucking morons who seemingly only exist to cause problems, standing by and letting them kill themselves is wrong. You'll hate yourself if you do.
That's the downside of self-awareness and intelligence. If you are the only person on the spaceship who knows the score guess where the buck stops?