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Does anyone else think "The Secret War" would make a badass video game

This was fun, but Greta wasn't evil, ships keep crashing into her home and she tries to protect and comfort those who end up there as best she can, there's no feeding going on here, she just can't do anything more for them than she does.

The episode Good Hunting had enough story to make itself a whole show. Such a badass revival.

Zima Blue was never a biological person, he started as a pool cleaning machine, eventually becoming self-aware and a famous artist, and then decided to go back to being a pool machine for his final piece of art.

In Beyond eh Aquila Rift the alien isn't actually evil. In the short story it's based off, the alien is trapped there and when new ships arrive, she puts them into a virtual reality showing them a better life so that they die peacefully rather than in the horror of being lost alone in space. She's more of a nurse helping people to the other side since there's no escape form the station. That's why she says, "I care for all the souls that end up here", because she's taken it upon herself to look after all the people that end up dying there. The two other members of the crew actually died from their stasis tanks, if you look at the details on the tanks, they're both painted with custom designs. In the original story, the paint ages and peels off, choking the air filters they use to breathe in the tanks, suffocating them in their sleep, Thom doesn't have his painted which is why he survives for much longer. The alien tell;s Thom about how there are these warp gate's across the galaxy in clusters, and that she was sent to the station hundreds of years ago as well and that Thom and his crew are (if i remember right) the first humans she has encountered.

You failed at explaining the ending of Aquila. :( The spider is not evil. Actually you didn't explain anything.

Watching good hunting was so satisfying for me, when she was able to turn into a fox again I got so happy

The episode "The Secret War" absolutely could, and should, become an entire series in and of itself.

Your interpretation of Beyond the Aquila Rift is actually wrong. The creature does not “trap” these ships and feed off of these people. The hyperspace drives that they pass through are ancient technology of which no one knows the origin(kinda like mass effect), and randomly they will “glitch out” causing the ships that pass through it to end up in these aliens territory. This alien is actually hyper-benevolent and cares deeply for the creatures that get stuck there, and with no way to send them back to where they came from, she alters their consciousness to give them the illusion of something bearable to them to keep them happy for the rest of their lives. However, the mind control rarely works, and the humans usually eventually find out, but she keeps trying non-the-less. The reason I know this, is because it’s based off of a short story.

I think some of these episodes can be turned into movies. I can call these conceptual short films, if you may.

"Good Hunting" really left me in tears

The secret war was easily the best episode, it had a lot of emotion to it in the short time frame of the story. It showed true human valor and bravery and the will to hold back an evil that the protagonists know they can't stop, but just to hold it back long enough for people who can stop the creatures.

The fact that every episode makes me want to see an entire show commited to it shows how good those stories are

For the Aquila Rift episode I was actually confused if they'd had suddenly chose to hire real life actors...turns out it was just REALLY REALLY GOOD CGI. i'm beyond impressed by those graphics.

Lucky 13: I think you missed the point that the ship had a sort of AI and cared for cutter as much as she cared for it. This is shown to be the case when she sets the auto destruct sequence and rather than going off at 0 it wait to do maximum damage, also when it jammed the seatbelt cord in order to save her life letting go seconds after a fatal blast.

What truly amazes me is how every single person likes different episodes differently. There is an episode for everyone!

u missed the entire point of lucky 13. The ship had a personality. It waited until all the enemy fighters got on and near the ship to blow so the pilot could be safe.

I'd like to clear a few things on the amazing story of "Beyond the Aquila Rift". You can learn a ton of background information from the short story it was based of: 1) Humanity uses apertures that utilize a type of jump gate technology that was left behind by an unknown, ancient and highly advanced civilization. At some point eons ago the jump network collapsed, but a few immeasurably far apertures still work. Thus, the occasional glitch or system error can send a ship across the galaxy with no way back. 2) "Greta" the alien is not evil or predatory but actually benevolent. "She" along with her people were the first to get stranded there, and because of luck their ship was well fitted enough to turn a close by rock into a habitable place. To fight misery (and have a reason to keep living) they decided to take care of the lost souls that ended up there too. They use the supplies of the stranded ships to survive and make the life of the other castaways easier. Greta is essentially a hive queen and has a multitude of little drone-helpers (their appearance is hinted in the episode when we see real Thom exiting the surge tank from a top view). 3) Even though Greta feeds the castaways a data dream, respecting their freedom she always ease them slowly into the truth. She refuses waking the castaways though, even if they ask it. She states that she has done this "a million times", and when people find out the truth they go insane. Thom insists of course (but non-violently) and Greta wakes him. There is no screaming on Thom's part in the story because he only sees a tiny flash, a glimpse, implying that going back to the dream was either Thom's own choice or Greta's mercy. 4) The reason Thom is almost skeletal in appearance is because he is malnourished. Not to mention that he is barely able to breathe the local atmosphere. He describes the pain as if his veins are filled with powdered glass. 5) If you notice Suzy's surge tank, she has decorated it with stars. She paid a huge amount of money on them, because she hated the sterile corporate look. Her rebellious act is forbidden because it messes with the filters of the surge tank. A minor risk for small journeys, but fatal for such an unprecedented jump sealing her fate the moment she went to sleep. 6) In the episode the main color of the scenes change to imply mood and "reality". Its cold and blue in the dream, and feverish red and rusty in reality. Funny thing is that it aligns with the original story were the station actually orbits a brown dwarf. I might be missing one or ten things, but this it guys and gals. Edit: 500 likes?! Thank you! May you all have love, happiness and robots in your lives! ;)

Am I the only one who LOVES The Witness

I loved Secret War’s action section. The music in the background of these men sacrificing themselves is absolutely amazing and that sequence alone makes it one of my favorite episodes