Judgment Day

I don't know how different it is than book and if the book did a great job in explaining things or how the creators took liberty and changes things.

Still, this ep couldn't be any better. The answer of all questions with a declaration of war is the best conclusion of the book. The visuals are amazing and the storyboarding of this ep is just brilliantly done.

As I said, it is not the best but definitely one of the best ep of the year. The series didn't disappoints especially when compare to recent sci-fi shows.

I like the series so far now and this ep is just unexpectedly better what I haven't expecting.

Genius!

I have to single out this one episode and write a review for it because to me, this episode is a masterpiece. Without any spoiler, this episode gives us a glimpse of the destruction that us humans can bring about. The ship scene was wonderfully done, haunting, terrifying, yet beautifully filmed. The slow camera work to show the imminent destruction was masterpiece. All of this just to then end with showing us how insignificant we are when compare to the force of what's out there in the world, or in the universe. It shows the contrast between the power of human and our idea of how superiority just to bring it all crashing down with the what the universe can do to us. I absolutely love this episode. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time watching it. Absolute perfection.

The suspense as the "antagonist" explained the predicament humanity is now up against is simply goosebumps inducing. I think every human who is familiar with the Fermi paradox and the idea that humanity for all intents and purposes could exist in a petri dish, felt seriously uneasy during that sequence. That something, real, is manipulating reality to their own benefit, and that quite literally, we would be unable to stop it.

It's kind of scary, I would put that sequence in the same genre of Horror, because it was just that terrifying as it is something that could very well be real, and the most scary things in the world, are what's real.

This is ironic given the amount of scientific inaccuracies the series has thus portrayed, but this series isn't a science lecture, it's a fictional piece of media. So despite the 2 dimensional characters and other issues, this episode deserves a 10/10 for that sequence alone.

We witness the eerie, terrifying force of Auggie's invention, and we think this futuristic invention is mind blowingly powerful. But then the aliens show us that the technologically superior race is capable of feats so far beyond our understanding, that it creates this fear of the unknown and brings forth sheer existential horror and dread.

This is exactly the kind of science fiction I'd like to see. Humans rarely ever think of themselves as animals because we can overwhelm the other animals with our minds and technological might. Many of us have forgotten the fear of what it was once like out there in the wild, fighting for our survival just like every other animal.

And so in this episode, we can now see possibilities that threaten our very existence; powers that are so far beyond our understanding that we now begin to feel what it's like from the perspective of a bug staring at a boot; knowing we are about to be squashed, and that there is nothing we can do about it.

So here we are. The scientists have a way of destroying things with Auggie's invention. It is used to wipe out a mother ship, filled with all manner of persons, including children. The point of this is that these people are a connection to the alien species that is going to invade the planet. But when push comes to shove, the leadership has no clue as to what they are dealing with. The aliens have built and rebuilt, as the woman on the destroyed landscape points out. They need the earth and in order to get it must neutralize it by getting rid of its science. The now unleash that power which is to frighten the earth's population into inactions. The enemy now becomes those who will go after their own people. Very interesting. I'm really surprised at the naysayers who have expressed disdain for a show that is pushing boundaries.