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schneefinkI'm procrastinating on cleaning up, so I'm trying to get my notes on "Wolf 359" into something that maybe resembles order.
When I first started this podcast I stopped in the middle of episode 3, because it's no fun listening to people who can't stand each other and make each other's lives unnecessarily difficult by behaving unprofessionally on a fricking space station, I mean, wtf. The sheer number of recs I saw while looking for similar podcasts convinced me to give it another try, however. The second half of season one was okay, and then the season finale was fantastic and it got pretty great from there.
The show is currently in season 4. The plot is great, very tense, with the heroes almost constantly in danger of varying degrees. While there are funny and touching moments, there's not a lot of fluff. The "characters can't stand each other" problem gets a lot better, people grow closer under pressure, and by season 4 I really love several of the characters. (Others I enjoy hating.) I'm very curious where it's going, and how they're going to get out of this.
Do try not to get spoiled, there are some great twists. So if you haven't listened to it yet, stop here.
Season 1:
Wait, rescuing the scientist from the sentient plant who took over his brain happens off-screen? Wth. At least discovering the secret laboratory with giant spiders gets its own episode. (Spiders! Now the brain wants a Children of Time crossover, why brain.)
Also, Eiffel was receiving these transmissions for ages and never bothered to confirm where they were from...
Hilbert was evil all along!
"Now we have the override, ho ho ho" :D
Hilbert killed Hera :(
Season 2:
Ugh I hate cheerful villains. Reminds me of Umbridge and Wadsworth.
Episode 20 is fricking hilarious, plus, hey, the plant monster is still here :D
I really love the Lovelace - Minkowski conflict. They are very similar.
Btw, didn't Lovelace mention an alien mothership in her memos? I distinctly remember an alien mothership. Does does nobody want to mention that again? It seems kind of important. - oh, that was a joke. That makes a lot more sense.
ep 26: Hilbert saying he agrees with Lovelace that a man's life stands above all, wow. That he can even say that.
Season 3:
New bad guys taking over the station, uh-oh... and they all seem damn competent.
(One of my pet peeves: if two very smart people play chess together, it doesn't go to check mate. At most it goes to "mate in 4" or so, depending on exactly how good they are it'll be a draw or just develop into an endgame until one of them gives up. And they don't brag about check, check is just an intermediate step.)
They killed the plant monster :(
Omg they are all terrible liars.
Wait, Kepler is lecturing Hilbert about scientific ethics? Who is employed by the organization who ordered Hilbert to kill off the entire crew? WTF.
Mini 6: Minkowski signed without talking with her husband?? Well, Cutter ist an excellent manipulator, but still.
Hera was almost decommissioned because she attempted to go rogue and become independent? Certainly a rag-tag crew they assembled on the Hephaestus. Cutter threatened her with lobotomy, ouch.
This is almost getting to a point where there are too many questions and not enough answers for my taste.
(This is not how I expected Cutter recruiting Kepler to go.)
The copy on the other side of the space station, isn't that a classical horror story? Heh. (Also reminds me of Midnight.)
Minkowski's husband thinks she's dead, oh no... (probably better for him though?)
"Nobody do anything too stupid," good motto.
Oh my god I hate Kepler, Jacobi, and Maxwell so much. They pretend to be friendly but they really are monsters. The end justifies the means, barely any regret. Actually they're quite similar to Hilbert in a way... Hilbert is just on the other side. But he too would feel bad about it, but kill you anyway to reach his goal.
Poor Hera. The second time she was mind-controlled by a big bad during a season finale. This time however she's fighting back :D
Kepler shot Lovelace (!!!!!) and Jacobi blows up Hilbert so Minkowski shoots Maxwell and Jacobi goes "how could you," WOW. Kepler being forced to surrender is SO SWEET. PLEASE tell me they are going to just shoot Jacobi and Kepler.
Okay so the original captain Lovelace really died?
Do not uncuff Kepler, are you stupid.
Season 4:
Special episode: Are we back to people who only dislike each other *sigh* It does improve, and the different tests were very nice h/c, at least.
Ep 48: The poor crew of the Tiamat :( and the duplicates who tried to commit suicide and couldn't. Kepler does have a point about the aliens and Earth, though it's not like they couldn't get to it at any time: they had a shuttle and the coordinates.
ep 49: they actually resolved a time loop by talking about their feelings? Talk about cliché ^^ (or by shooting the flight computer. details.)
Wow, Eiffel actively trying to be less of a dick, wonders never cease. I don't dislike him, but Minkowski is my favorite, closely followed by Lovelace, followed by Hera, then Eiffel, big gap, then the bad guys. Wow does this show have easy to hate bad guys.
All caught up now :)
In offline happenings, tomorrow my parents, LB and I are going to a dinosaur park.
Mom: "Unfortunately we found out that the dinosaur park where we went when you two were kids has closed, but we could do something else…"
LB: "There are two other dinosaur parks."
Mom: "I thought it was about the memories?"
Me: "Mom. It's about the dinosaurs."
It's going to be great.
When I first started this podcast I stopped in the middle of episode 3, because it's no fun listening to people who can't stand each other and make each other's lives unnecessarily difficult by behaving unprofessionally on a fricking space station, I mean, wtf. The sheer number of recs I saw while looking for similar podcasts convinced me to give it another try, however. The second half of season one was okay, and then the season finale was fantastic and it got pretty great from there.
The show is currently in season 4. The plot is great, very tense, with the heroes almost constantly in danger of varying degrees. While there are funny and touching moments, there's not a lot of fluff. The "characters can't stand each other" problem gets a lot better, people grow closer under pressure, and by season 4 I really love several of the characters. (Others I enjoy hating.) I'm very curious where it's going, and how they're going to get out of this.
Do try not to get spoiled, there are some great twists. So if you haven't listened to it yet, stop here.
Season 1:
Wait, rescuing the scientist from the sentient plant who took over his brain happens off-screen? Wth. At least discovering the secret laboratory with giant spiders gets its own episode. (Spiders! Now the brain wants a Children of Time crossover, why brain.)
Also, Eiffel was receiving these transmissions for ages and never bothered to confirm where they were from...
Hilbert was evil all along!
"Now we have the override, ho ho ho" :D
Hilbert killed Hera :(
Season 2:
Ugh I hate cheerful villains. Reminds me of Umbridge and Wadsworth.
Episode 20 is fricking hilarious, plus, hey, the plant monster is still here :D
I really love the Lovelace - Minkowski conflict. They are very similar.
ep 26: Hilbert saying he agrees with Lovelace that a man's life stands above all, wow. That he can even say that.
Season 3:
New bad guys taking over the station, uh-oh... and they all seem damn competent.
(One of my pet peeves: if two very smart people play chess together, it doesn't go to check mate. At most it goes to "mate in 4" or so, depending on exactly how good they are it'll be a draw or just develop into an endgame until one of them gives up. And they don't brag about check, check is just an intermediate step.)
They killed the plant monster :(
Omg they are all terrible liars.
Wait, Kepler is lecturing Hilbert about scientific ethics? Who is employed by the organization who ordered Hilbert to kill off the entire crew? WTF.
Mini 6: Minkowski signed without talking with her husband?? Well, Cutter ist an excellent manipulator, but still.
Hera was almost decommissioned because she attempted to go rogue and become independent? Certainly a rag-tag crew they assembled on the Hephaestus. Cutter threatened her with lobotomy, ouch.
This is almost getting to a point where there are too many questions and not enough answers for my taste.
(This is not how I expected Cutter recruiting Kepler to go.)
The copy on the other side of the space station, isn't that a classical horror story? Heh. (Also reminds me of Midnight.)
Minkowski's husband thinks she's dead, oh no... (probably better for him though?)
"Nobody do anything too stupid," good motto.
Oh my god I hate Kepler, Jacobi, and Maxwell so much. They pretend to be friendly but they really are monsters. The end justifies the means, barely any regret. Actually they're quite similar to Hilbert in a way... Hilbert is just on the other side. But he too would feel bad about it, but kill you anyway to reach his goal.
Poor Hera. The second time she was mind-controlled by a big bad during a season finale. This time however she's fighting back :D
Kepler shot Lovelace (!!!!!) and Jacobi blows up Hilbert so Minkowski shoots Maxwell and Jacobi goes "how could you," WOW. Kepler being forced to surrender is SO SWEET. PLEASE tell me they are going to just shoot Jacobi and Kepler.
Okay so the original captain Lovelace really died?
Do not uncuff Kepler, are you stupid.
Season 4:
Special episode: Are we back to people who only dislike each other *sigh* It does improve, and the different tests were very nice h/c, at least.
Ep 48: The poor crew of the Tiamat :( and the duplicates who tried to commit suicide and couldn't. Kepler does have a point about the aliens and Earth, though it's not like they couldn't get to it at any time: they had a shuttle and the coordinates.
ep 49: they actually resolved a time loop by talking about their feelings? Talk about cliché ^^ (or by shooting the flight computer. details.)
Wow, Eiffel actively trying to be less of a dick, wonders never cease. I don't dislike him, but Minkowski is my favorite, closely followed by Lovelace, followed by Hera, then Eiffel, big gap, then the bad guys. Wow does this show have easy to hate bad guys.
All caught up now :)
In offline happenings, tomorrow my parents, LB and I are going to a dinosaur park.
Mom: "Unfortunately we found out that the dinosaur park where we went when you two were kids has closed, but we could do something else…"
LB: "There are two other dinosaur parks."
Mom: "I thought it was about the memories?"
Me: "Mom. It's about the dinosaurs."
It's going to be great.
