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I find this a bit like saying other movies have done space or time travel, so it's hackneyed.
I've heard the accusation that it's racist before but I don't think it sticks at all because it shows White kids being brats and over-privileged.
I agree, that's what's in the novel. The Overlords are basically midwives for the pregnant human race and the children are the next stage, just as real children actually are. They were there to manage a positive transition.
The series is definitely at least deistic if not theistic, but to address your point directly, I could not worship a God who created a vast barren Universe, empty of life except for humans. That would be a deal-breaker for me. The original novel is influenced by the work of Olaf Stapledon, who was theistic and also believed in a cosmic group mind as the end point of evolution in the Universe, who would commune with the Star Maker.
I have an official diagnosis of ADHD and had no problem enjoying this.
They don't visibly age, then they are euthanised or die of the drugs they're taking once they reach a certain age.
Neither. It's a pile of trash with scarcely any connection to the book. Apparently it's very difficult to adapt. But no, it isn't pro-communist or woke in any way. It's not intelligent enough to take a position either way on those issues. It's so bad I actually watched three episodes in disbelief at how awful it really is, but it isn't even entertainingly awful. Don't waste your time watching it.
According to Jainism, there's a reserve of souls at the "bottom" of the ladder consisting of subatomic sized particles, possibly infinite. They are gradually reincarnated as natural inanimate objects, microbes etc and only become human after millions of cycles.
I don't think it was badly written so much as understated because it would've changed the tone and focus of the movie if it had been shown more graphically. It was confusing though. Perhaps a bad decision, but a conscious one.
There was a load of diversity in it: a working-class man, a woman in academia in the 1930s, a disabled woman and a gay man. Not ethnic diversity but lots in other ways.
The Sticks - the bush, the back of beyond, the furthest you can get from metropolitan and urban chic.
I came on here to post exactly that! But I've only seen two and a bit episodes so far so I don't know if I'm right yet.
I counted six MacGyverisms in the first and four in the second. In fact it seemed to me they were really packing them in in the first one, and I thought they were doing exactly what you suggested.
Because they were considered genetically inferior. They don't constitute a race as such so much as just people who are carriers of genes which render them susceptible to obesity, congenital illnesses and the like. It's quite important that they're not a race. People have got past racism but simply replaced it with another excuse to hate.
When the police arrive at the house where Shazia's family have been murdered. The police put the memory machine down next to the guinea pig. Did you miss the ending?
I think it was a potential send off for the whole series, possibly like the Buffy one where she dies so that viewers can mark that as the end of the series rather than what happens afterwards, in case there's a decline in quality.
I don't think it is a generational thing because I'm fifty and I didn't notice an unrealistic amount of swearing.
They scanned the guinea pig's brain.
No, there's a line that they are now close enough to Earth for the communications delay to be minimal.
("Would've"). The life support system was already shoddy so it doesn't stretch credibility that the heat shield would also be faulty along with probably a lot of other components. Also, I thought they engineered it deliberately and always planned to kill the astronauts to stop the truth from getting out.