@Adamska You're picking apart all these little details and flaws on something that has such giant and dramatic failings that it's like... what's the inverse of gilding the lily? It's like seeing someone drive a car off a cliff and you're commenting on the brakelights being out and the driver crossing his hands when he steers. Yes, it's probably harder to supply water for sixty years of isolated flight than if you can stop off places and resupply but it's the sort of thing I could head-cannon or rationalise or come up with passable technical explanations for. Especially for the size of the ship.
Look at this thing. The still makes it look a little like it's far in front of that building just to its starboard but at the same time you can see that parts of it are both before and ahead of the building - dodgy CGI depth-perspective I think. Regardless, the thing is absurdly huge.
So frankly, I'm okay with them having silly amounts of water and supplies onboard or spare solenoid panels. It's more the giant logic holes for me. Though far be it from me to criticise if someone wants to go to the extra trouble of dotting the i's and crossing the t's on this suicide note for logic.
I thought I'd end up writing a big old diatribe on the latest episode. But weirdly it actually had some good elements, albeit highly predictable ones. It's the first time the Prodigy CEO has actually come across as somewhat intelligent, although Ms. Yutani looks like a total pushover as a consequence. The genitalia flies (that's deliberate, right?) are suitably gross even if the whole foot in the door scene is silly. At least with the kid character you could
almost see the stupid behaviour being believable.
Want an absolutely insane idea? Kirsch will have a connection to Ash. Either sending Ash on the Nostromo mission to get the eggs or FML, transferring himself into a new body and becoming Ash.
Anyway, I can't be bothered writing much on this episode. The infant Xenomorph actually looked alright, though it's not really a xenomorph and takes away most of the horror. Wendy was actually less annoying this time. But the "inventing FTL" line puts this in a whole new category of stupidity even more so than before. It overshadows everything else and makes even the most valid criticisms of other flaws in the show kind of pointless before its all consuming singular idiocy.
Credit where it's due, I saw this comment beneath a Critical Drinker video and it made me laugh with its perfection:
Now I can't get the image out of my head of Dave Lister, Cat, Kryten and Rimmer as the crew of the Maginot instead. Poster is right - they would do better.
