The Ending Of Beyond the Aquila Rift Explained | Love, Death & Robots Explained

Commander Shepard "Show me what you really look like" Monster appears.. Commander Shepard "We'll bang, ok?" Monster "But you've seen my true form...." Commander Shepard "We''ll. Bang. Ok?"

Usually when an alien is more powerful than us they are 1) indifferent ie classic cosmic horror 2) hostile (we are cattle or competitors for resources) 3) inexplicably treat us as equals, even though they are further removed than dolphins and apes and we put them in prison for our entertainment and test makeup on them. Here it explores a genuinely new concept: what if a space farer ran into the eldritch equivalent of a cat lady? Functionally that’s what “Greta “ is. She cares for him legitimately, but he is not an equal, nor is she going to kill him. He is a lesser species to be managed to cope with her own alien neuroses we can scarce comprehend. Like a pet.

I like how people can't help but describe her as a monster, even knowing she's a sympathetic being

This show has it all. Love, Death AND Robots??

Just Finished Watching Love, Death & Robots and for some reason this episode stood out. I empathized with Tom, The feeling of helplessness and despair he must have Felt and Greta trying to shield him from his doomed reality. She showed him a glimpse and he yelled in utter terror because his mind couldn't take the madness. This episode really stuck with me for days.

I never noticed the glass and shadow effects revealing Greta's true nature. I loved this short story when I read it years ago and was very excited when I found out it was being adapted. This is an excellent episode and one where I would love to have the story expanded upon.

What intrigues me about this episode is how emancipated Thom and his crew were because usually it would take maybe a week for someone to die from thirst but they looked like Tom Hanks from Castaway. I think there's two possibilities; "Greta" was able to keep them sustained in some way or they were unconscious for a long time before "Greta" found them. I'm also of the opinion that she didn't mean any harm to them but couldn't or didn't know how to help them with proper food and sustenance, etc.

This was my favorite one!!!

I want more of this episode. A sequel... A movie....

From the story: "And somewhere distant, somewhere near the heart of the rock, in a matriarchal chamber all of its own, something drummed out messages to its companions and helpers, stiffly articulated, antler-like forelimbs beating against stretched tympana of finely veined skin, something that had been waiting here for eternities, something that wanted nothing more than to care for the souls of the lost."

I really enjoyed how you referenced the source material to illustrate how the adaptation takes a slightly different path.

Favourite episode by far, that entrance of Greta in her true form shocked me good

This whole episode looks like a video game cutscene

What I took away is the fear of infinite life, never dying. That is what it would be like all alone. Sure fun now but think about the torture of being so alone, this creature who cares for souls, how lonely they are and to find this lost soul and to have the ability to “help” them. Crazy good story.

Greta's character and even more her alien form is surrounded by a lot of mystery, even after having seen the episode it is still not clear to me how long she has been in that destroyed station, although I suspect that she has been there for several hundred years due to the dialogue that she kept with Tom in which she said "You don't know how many lost souls I've been through this with", I also don't know how she has stayed alive for so long or what she feeds on, and finally what her real intentions are, because I still don't think that she treated Tom and his crew so well only out of pure and noble altruism.

I was on the fence about this episode at first but man what an ending ! Had me thinking for days

This episode should have been an movie by itself

This episode was one of my favorite ones. Next to "Lucky 13" and "Sonnie's Edge".

Ah well done, this was by far the most insane episode of the whole series. The twists on this one were wild, the story was terrifying for me. Love your explanation and the captures of the small details in animation and editing, this series is truly a work of art.

I like how the ships pull the bigger ship into the dock with strings as to reinforce the spider pulling in its prey really subtly.