Interesting that it’s an article about Carl Sagans SciFi side and it doesn’t mention that he’s the one who suggested the aliens in 2001 be just a big monolith without form. Also arguably a better sci-fi film (and more cerebral?) than Contact. I love Contact myself but it was clearly not exceptional. I’d rate it comparably to 2010, 2001’s sequel. For me it’s banalaity arises from its following of the one sci-fi trope…
Rating Martian and Gattaca above Contact? We clearly have very different tastes.
Absolutely. In my interpretation Contact is as unscientific as it gets. In the end it’s another dumb equivocation to the need of religion and faith.
The advanced species went through all this bs just to explicitly make their story as unbelievable as possible? They couldn’t allow any proof to be taken back? What was the point exactly then? They were so advanced but couldn’t see human fallibility?