Wallfacer
- Episode aired Mar 21, 2024
- TV-MA
- 57m
A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.
- Anwar Suleiman
- (as Stephen Rahman-Hughes)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Mission Director is played by Bobak Ferdowsi. He is a flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.. He became an internet sensation with his Mohawk hairstyle with stars shaved on the sides.
- GoofsThe tether snapping would not cause the probe's course to change in the manner shown. It might start a rotation that would prevent alignment with the next bomb however.
- Quotes
Charles: Are you injured?
Saul Durand: I'm okay
Charles: I'm sorry
Saul Durand: You shot me with a sniper rifle! You're sorry?
Charles: Sorry, I didn't aim for your head. Then my mission would be complete and you would be free of yours.
Saul Durand: I'm already free of mine. I told the Secretary General I rejected the Wallfacer position. Your superiors wasted an assassin.
Charles: You're a funny man.
Saul Durand: I'm just telling you the truth.
Charles: You think you're clever. It's not your fault. I thought I was clever too, before I learned the truth.
Saul Durand: Which truth?
Charles: You call them "My superiors," but they're your superiors too
Saul Durand: If they're so fucking superior, why do they care if I live or die?
Charles: I don't know.
Saul Durand: You tried to murder a man that you've never met, on the directive of aliens that you've never met? Why! What the fuck is wrong with you?
Charles: I've gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord.
Auggie's storyline is bewildering, and humanity's future continues to remain bleak. However, it is abundantly clear that the hope stemming from humanity's "non-zero" chance of survival has resulted in impressive technological accomplishments in only a short timespan, meriting the fears the Santi have for humanity, despite the massive technological gap between the two intelligent species.
While I did not mind many questions being left unanswered (this is after all science fiction), I do wished the writers relied a little less on "our lord works in mysterious ways" for the inconsistencies of the scope of the Santi's abilities.
Overall, while I would not consider this to be the best sci-fi series I've seen, it still is miles ahead of the countless other mediocre Netflix shows that are still in production, and I hope we get to see a second season.
- greenmangreat
- Mar 23, 2024
Details
- Runtime57 minutes
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