Gotta love how an alien takes over a dead body with a hole through it and somehow that body gets up and walks. Never mind there’s no way that would work without blood, respiration, etc. This show just repeatedly jumps its shark with every episode.
I thought that stuff was fine, this isn’t supposed to be hard sci-fi. It was more character behaviour and inconsistencies between episodes that I had a problem with.
For example:
The cyborg guy recruits a kid to steal back an alien for him and barely gives this kid any information to work off, but when the kid inevitably fails because he had no idea what he was supposed to be doing the cyborg is angry/surprised. What did he expect? Is he stupid?
In one of the earliest episodes they show Wendy manipulating electronics and the island’s system and everyone is aware she can do this, yet later in the series it’s like they forgot she had this ability and they put her in a cell she can just immediately unlock and walk out of. Then they send a cyborg who is linked to the system to stop her and she just instantly shuts him down…again, are these people stupid?
Nibs has some sort of PTSD so they wipe her memories to fix it, yet make no attempt to control the behaviour of anyone around her so she instantly gets told by her friends that her memories have been wiped and starts freaking out, thereby completely defeating the purpose of the memory wipe.
Arthur decides he wants to free all of the hybrids, so he disables their tracking right in front of a security camera and then turns and gives it a very suspicious look just to make sure they figure it out quicker and have a better chance of catching the hybrids. Then he walks into the alien lab with seemingly zero concern for biohazards or his own safety (classic Alien writing fail) and allows himself to be very obviously manipulated by a child. I know he’s a technician and not a biologist, but it’s just unbelievable to me that someone can be this stupid, particularly when he’s supposed to be one of the people who understands the hybrids the best.
They have alien flies that they know feed on electronics and minerals, so they lock them in a container seemingly made out of the very components they’re shown to eat. For some reason, the flies never eat their way out of the container and only escape when someone opens the door for them.
Nibs get an electric shock at the end of Episode 7 and based on Wendy’s reaction and the way the scene is shot, it’s like it killed her. Yet in Episode 8 she is totally fine, seemingly zero damage or side effects. Very lazy way to make the end of Episode 7 seem more important than it actually was.
I think some of the stupidity around the hybrids is quite obviously referencing the attempts to create AGI in our world. Most AI companies are run by complete morons who are rushing as fast as possible to ensure market dominance, seemingly with zero concerns for safety or the negative side effects that could accompany such a creation. So I kinda get why Boy Kavalier is braindead stupid, but it’s still pretty annoying to watch.
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Gotta love how an alien takes over a dead body with a hole through it and somehow that body gets up and walks. Never mind there’s no way that would work without blood, respiration, etc. This show just repeatedly jumps its shark with every episode.
I thought that stuff was fine, this isn’t supposed to be hard sci-fi. It was more character behaviour and inconsistencies between episodes that I had a problem with.
For example:
The cyborg guy recruits a kid to steal back an alien for him and barely gives this kid any information to work off, but when the kid inevitably fails because he had no idea what he was supposed to be doing the cyborg is angry/surprised. What did he expect? Is he stupid?
In one of the earliest episodes they show Wendy manipulating electronics and the island’s system and everyone is aware she can do this, yet later in the series it’s like they forgot she had this ability and they put her in a cell she can just immediately unlock and walk out of. Then they send a cyborg who is linked to the system to stop her and she just instantly shuts him down…again, are these people stupid?
Nibs has some sort of PTSD so they wipe her memories to fix it, yet make no attempt to control the behaviour of anyone around her so she instantly gets told by her friends that her memories have been wiped and starts freaking out, thereby completely defeating the purpose of the memory wipe.
Arthur decides he wants to free all of the hybrids, so he disables their tracking right in front of a security camera and then turns and gives it a very suspicious look just to make sure they figure it out quicker and have a better chance of catching the hybrids. Then he walks into the alien lab with seemingly zero concern for biohazards or his own safety (classic Alien writing fail) and allows himself to be very obviously manipulated by a child. I know he’s a technician and not a biologist, but it’s just unbelievable to me that someone can be this stupid, particularly when he’s supposed to be one of the people who understands the hybrids the best.
They have alien flies that they know feed on electronics and minerals, so they lock them in a container seemingly made out of the very components they’re shown to eat. For some reason, the flies never eat their way out of the container and only escape when someone opens the door for them.
Nibs get an electric shock at the end of Episode 7 and based on Wendy’s reaction and the way the scene is shot, it’s like it killed her. Yet in Episode 8 she is totally fine, seemingly zero damage or side effects. Very lazy way to make the end of Episode 7 seem more important than it actually was.
I think some of the stupidity around the hybrids is quite obviously referencing the attempts to create AGI in our world. Most AI companies are run by complete morons who are rushing as fast as possible to ensure market dominance, seemingly with zero concerns for safety or the negative side effects that could accompany such a creation. So I kinda get why Boy Kavalier is braindead stupid, but it’s still pretty annoying to watch.