gershom-maes
Joined Jan 2013
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Scientists all over the globe are mysteriously killing themselves. A vast sonar dish is used to send a message into space... and a reply comes back. A night when the stars, all of them at once, start blinking.
Ok, ignore all that. A scientist is pouting. Oh another scientist is pouting. A guy is depressed. A girl is pouting. A guy is terminally sick; his friends are sad. Some people are sitting on the beach. Everyone is smoking cigarettes. That guy is still sick. Oh, the girls are stressed out and anxious and mostly angry. And they're popping anti-anxiety meds. Everyone is depressed. The women are very, very angry and upset, all the time. People are pouting. They're whispering, because they're depressed. This is what the show is about.
Of particular disappointment is the writing of "some of the smartest people on the planet". There is not one conversation had by these people which seems like the kind of conversation super smart people would have. "Aliens will destroy us", says an adult. "Let's just smoke some Js" is the literal reply of someone we are supposed to believe is extremely smart. These allegedly smart people flash fancy diagrams they've allegedly created. But they don't utter a single sentence indicative of intelligence. They don't like to talk about anything interesting. They have a lot of mental health issues. Is it highly intelligent to allow yourself to persist in a low state? Maybe I'm just not smart enough to understand these geniuses.
One more thing, a glaring writing room miscommunication: the message should have been "you are pests", not "you are bugs".
Ok, ignore all that. A scientist is pouting. Oh another scientist is pouting. A guy is depressed. A girl is pouting. A guy is terminally sick; his friends are sad. Some people are sitting on the beach. Everyone is smoking cigarettes. That guy is still sick. Oh, the girls are stressed out and anxious and mostly angry. And they're popping anti-anxiety meds. Everyone is depressed. The women are very, very angry and upset, all the time. People are pouting. They're whispering, because they're depressed. This is what the show is about.
Of particular disappointment is the writing of "some of the smartest people on the planet". There is not one conversation had by these people which seems like the kind of conversation super smart people would have. "Aliens will destroy us", says an adult. "Let's just smoke some Js" is the literal reply of someone we are supposed to believe is extremely smart. These allegedly smart people flash fancy diagrams they've allegedly created. But they don't utter a single sentence indicative of intelligence. They don't like to talk about anything interesting. They have a lot of mental health issues. Is it highly intelligent to allow yourself to persist in a low state? Maybe I'm just not smart enough to understand these geniuses.
One more thing, a glaring writing room miscommunication: the message should have been "you are pests", not "you are bugs".
