I feel like they're going to be all haha jk we were in a sim all along get ready for season three y'all

finally watched thursdays ep. the pacing on this show is so fucking jarring.

also i think the whole 'the snake has momma snake food in its belly' thing was actually a reference to mother's milk or whatever being the snake food i guess? which means they literally made us wait like 3 eps just build an accurate timeline?

also this might be the cheapest looking production ive ever seen on hbo. im particularly sick and tired of them filming scenes with flames in the day time and then just washing everything out with a filter to make it look like night but forgetting to fix the color of the flames in post.

Might watch it tonight. Haven't been into it. Watching reruns of Rick and Morty tbh

ive gone from scared that this show might get cancelled to scared this show might get renewed.

Dude killer Vrille is awesome

i think she might honestly be the star of the show at this point.

im really struggling with how this show just stacks together these absolutely insane non-sequitur moments and then plucks a tiny little plot device from each without ever coming close to exploring them.

like lets look at this on paper:

marcus finds a ruin. he triggers a mechanism that drops a chair from the ceiling on a chain. the chair appears fabricated largely from metal and has a U hitch with a bolt through it suspending it to the chain. which.. is very human/earthy technology. no one seems to find this weird. he gets into the chair and descends into a pit with the bones of a serpent somehow suspended at the bottom, but they arent actually resting on anything, and happen to be placed perfectly so he can walk across them to a cave in the wall of the pit.

the bones disintegrate after he crosses them and fall further down.

he explores the cave and finds a wall of bones, which he claws through, and wakes a creature sleeping there after pilfering a pokemon card from it.

he kills the creature, then has to jump to the chair as its been triggered to lift back to the surface.


ok you know what this fucking show is?

its a shitty video game. seriously.

"You find a corpse behind the bone wall. It is humanoid, desiccated, and wearing tatters of clothing. [S]earch the corpse. [L]eave room. [B]urn corpse."

no explanation of how it ended up there. you search it, you get the pokemon card, you kill it or otherwise escape, and the game continues.

every single thing in this show seems to follow that RPG game logic. nothing is ever really examined. everything is a turn based device. its all side quests.

and honestly this is something we have seen creep into everything ridley scott has done in increasing amounts and no one loves it. its like he said one day 'wow so much unresolved mystery and no one does this in their movies, i must be a fucking genius' instead of realizing that the reason its not done is because its shitty and unsatisfying for the audience.

theres no sense of wonder here, just exasperation.

also i have no fucking idea why shes torturing that dude, he literally never made a single decision on his own and clearly doesnt know a fucking thing. but thats something else people are starting to key in on which may be a tricky plot device or may be just abjectly shitty writing; the androids are starting to act funky. they are starting to lie. thats kinda new.

anyway id be kinda happy if we finally saw some sort of confrontation between fathers space bitch and mother this week. its unclear to me how sweeping the 95% of the cultists off the chess board makes any sense in terms of developing the plot but we sure as hell need something to replace it.

ok back to doomscrolling ww3.

Scott's odd fascination with the theme of humanoid-like aliens inhabiting planets and manifesting mankind is rearing its ugly head once again. It's like he has this idea he wants to express and he just can't get the words right. Or maybe it's just dumb and he doesn't get it. IDK

ok like an abused wife i came crawling back to tonights ep and honestly this show is fucking lawless. its a literal non-stop fever dream.

oh no.

SPOILER

- tree of life
- forbidden fruit
- snake



im going to give credit where its due tho to an absolute banger plot reveal where whats her face holds the seed and it just straight up takes over her body and forces her to dig a fucking pit and uses her to grow into a full on fucking tree there, which apparently shes not a sentient part of because my friends thats some real A+++ horror right there ngl.

oh also mithraic -> aramaic

I don't even know what to say. Grandmother better have a good yarn to spin to tie this whole mess together.

2 eps left this season. did we literally just blow past father having weird mold growing out of his ear? did they just totally scrap that? did they find some other catastrophic scenario where his body is just too fucked up, forcing mother to mind-swap him into grandmother?

god its all so tedious. like honestly you really summed it up; they have a lot of work to do to get this to somehow make fucking sense. also you know what would make this shit go down a bit smoother, would be taking 20 fucking seconds to give us some sense of scale in terms of time. has anyone at any point carbon dated _anything_? like wouldnt it be page 1 information to let us know if the relics / pokemon cards pre-dated the birth of man on earth? because clearly theres this huge panspermia based narrative at bar re keplar is the other side of the bell curve for evolution of humanity and somehow it spread to earth or something? like was there some other point to the 'oh my god these creatures are devolving' reveal?

oh god i hate it so much i hate sitting here watching the writers trip over their own dicks over and over its literally the same emotion as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evthRoKoE1o

oh my fucking god i just remembered when i last felt like this.







it was watching Lost.

i swear to god this show.

truth be told im kinda curious to see what the new synth brings to the stage, i do like her riff.