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Originally Posted by Run To Me
There were numerous instances of ppl doing incredibly dumb things:
1) let's immediately land on a presumably inhabited world rather than orbit for a minute attempting broadcasts to make clear our peaceful intentions
2) let's all take our fucken HELMETS OFF b/c some dude says the air in a waterfall room is "cleaner than earths" (it's a fucken alien world what if there's a gas or fine particulate your instruments aren't even calibrated to detect)
3) let me coo at this beautiful cobra worm until it jumps down my throats (this was actually kinda satisfying in the classic idiot-deserves-painful-agony horror trope)
4) let me immediately unquestioningly kill myself, blow up the ship that is our only way home b/c frantic lady says that thing in the sky is headed to earth and up to no good, do you agree crew? Yes we unthinkingly agree let's do it!!!
These are just the few that particularly irked me
Still, somehow, it was fun to watch
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to play devil's advocate, this is all the stuff that makes scifi possible
i do agree it really pushed the viewer's plausibility threshold quite a bit though, and characters flat out made dumb fucking decisions just to get on with the narrative