I believe it was an ancient AI trapped on a planet, sending signals into space in hopes someone would come and set it free.
Raised by Wolves Is Original Sci-Fi at Its Most Polarizing (2020)
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#42I liked it a ton. Its nice to see hollywood take a chance on new IP. Not exactly the same comparison but The Silo series by Apple also comes to mind.
The Silo is a book adaptation, not a new IP.
It's "new" IP in the sense there has been no previous tv show or movie and that is not attached to a large existing franchise. It's not marvel or Star Wars.
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#43I beg HBO Max to show me any sci fi it has and it has never shown me this once and I’ve never even heard of the show. Guess HN had to save the day this time. I don’t see it available to stream anywhere? I’m opposed to pirating on moral grounds, what are my options now? https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbywolves/comments/18510kf/whe...
Look it up on justwatch.
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#44I beg HBO Max to show me any sci fi it has and it has never shown me this once and I’ve never even heard of the show. Guess HN had to save the day this time. I don’t see it available to stream anywhere? I’m opposed to pirating on moral grounds, what are my options now? https://www.reddit.com/r/raisedbywolves/comments/18510kf/whe...
Look it up on justwatch.
I did, it’s just blank. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
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#45The first season was excellent, and then in the 2nd season they did ruin lots of the story lines with just lame choices, and then the ending went completely downhill for me. It pissed me off, just like GoT. There was this other series called Murderbot which had some similarities in the setting of the story. It was not that great compared to the 1st season of Raised by Wolves, but it was consistent throughout the whol…
TBH, The Expanse also suffers from a major drop in quality after season 3. It is so hard for series to maintain quality over time I now prefer miniseries as the quality is more uniform from the start to the end in my experience.
The expanse drop was entirely due to budget cuts from amazon, who were going to cancel it but didn't because Jeff Bezos liked the show. They did get a budget cut and had to make some decisions about how to execute the story with more limited resources. They still did a pretty good job imho, but would love to have seen what they could have done with full budget.
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#46I liked it. It was strangely hypnotic viewing. Travis Himmel looked like he was stoned in it (his acting style?) and the plain weirdness of it reminded me of old Heavy Metal comics of the seventies. The nearest I have had to that was reading the Prophet series. Themes of religion and general human weirdness https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/prophet
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#47What I wanted from "Raised by Wolves" was out there, big concept Sci-Fi
What I would have settled for was a decent Space opera.
What I got was a Shaggy God Story, a wild hallucinated fever dream, a wooly, baggy technicolour Biblical riff, that promised a lot but made little actual sense. I slogged through season 1, and then gave it up.
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#48No love for “Lost in Space” (2018–2021)?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
TBH, The Expanse also suffers from a major drop in quality after season 3. It is so hard for series to maintain quality over time I now prefer miniseries as the quality is more uniform from the start to the end in my experience.
The expanse drop was entirely due to budget cuts from amazon, who were going to cancel it but didn't because Jeff Bezos liked the show. They did get a budget cut and had to make some decisions about how to execute the story with more limited resources. They still did a pretty good job imho, but would love to have seen what they could have done with full budget.
If this is true, why couldn't Bezos bankroll the show to maintain its quality?
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#50This is the best show I’ve seen since Game of Thrones. It’s so unique and mind expanding.
The problem with the modern data driven approach to TV production is that it optimizes for the shows that are just good enough to get people to keep their subscriptions, and the truly visionary stuff gets cancelled.
The best shows always take a while to build up popularity because they’re so new that people aren’t willing to give them a chance at first. Breaking Bad and Mad Men didn’t become popular until season 2 or 3. TV execs have no vision anymore, it’s all run by hill climbing algorithms that look for the nearest maximum now.
The golden age of TV is behind us now. It’s just yet another example of enshittification.