Wallfacer

I've been a little late to this show, so I'm very surprised that Netflix hasn't renewed the show yet. I honestly wouldn't even know what it would look like, though, as it seems like there's a lot of time that has to pass before we even get the glimpse of an alien, so will they make it an anthology or will they simply go the route of the books. Seeing how they got a lot of crap for not doing that last time, that's probably the safe option, and I would definitely be open to watching it, because this finale definitely left me wanting more.

As far as finales go, it's not that this episode actually served as a great finale to the show. I felt like there were a lot of missed opportunities, and it also felt like there was supposed to be another episode before this, given that a lot of the characters that we've grown to know over the course of the show didn't even appear. Eiza González has one scene in this episode and the circumstances of that scene doesn't really make a lot of sense. There were also certain elements that didn't feel resolved by the end, and with no news of a possible sequel being announced, it feels weird that they'd just leave a lot of things dangling like they did here. But overall, it was a pretty good episode. It finally brings Saul into the mix and gives him an episode that is largely focused on him, finally bringing it full circle with giving the entire group equal time to shine and giving them a unique part to play in this weird puzzle. There are also some great scenes of tension throughout the episode, especially the scenes that are involving the Staircase Project, with it eventually going in a very unique and surprising direction that I can't wait for them to explore later on. This show has been quite a ride and it's nice to see Benioff and Weiss back at it with material that they can really sink their teeth into and adapt, and hopefully they'll continue with the next two novels.

"Wallfacer" may not be a great finale; it leaves a lot of things hanging and feels like it's working off of a non-existing previous episode. However, it does a lot of things right and ultimately leaves the show off on a satisfying note, although I'd like for there to be some clarity about the show's future.

Considering it's no guarantee whether Netflix will renew this series for a second season, I was kinda hoping for a better finale than this.

Auggie's storyline is bewildering, and humanity's future continues to remain bleak. However, it is abundantly clear that the hope stemming from humanity's "non-zero" chance of survival has resulted in impressive technological accomplishments in only a short timespan, meriting the fears the Santi have for humanity, despite the massive technological gap between the two intelligent species.

While I did not mind many questions being left unanswered (this is after all science fiction), I do wished the writers relied a little less on "our lord works in mysterious ways" for the inconsistencies of the scope of the Santi's abilities.

Overall, while I would not consider this to be the best sci-fi series I've seen, it still is miles ahead of the countless other mediocre Netflix shows that are still in production, and I hope we get to see a second season.

The unfortunate last episode of a series that started with a bang and ended with a whimper. From mega cool video games, dehydrated bodies going back to life with a jump in the pool, and morally ambiguous Chinese scientists to a bunch of lovelorn ethnically correct failures.

The San-Ti are omnipotent and yet they send a pathetic white male sniper to kill Saul. Clearly, the guy was going to fail, because the show established that all white males are disposable, inept, or just plain bad. So why not send infallible Tatiana? She's a girl, she can do anything better. Or use the female Sophone, she is a supergirl and can kill people in various sophisticated ways. But no... they try with a stupid car accident and a sniper, kind of primitive and bound to fail.

The "Let's save Saul" plot took almost the whole episode, compounded by the trite clichè of the "reluctant hero". They give Saul a job he doesn't want and refuses, even if everybody knows he will end up doing it. Mega waste of time.

Will's brain is lost in space (or is it?) causing deep sorrow to Jin, who after having ignored him for all her life was now hoping for a resurrection.

Given that the target audience for this is young males (most SF fans are males, anyway) there is also a useless scene with nano-girl boss Auggie standing on her moral high ground and pouting about giving clean water to the poor in South America. Thumbs up Auggie!

I enjoyed only the final scene, with Clarence my favorite character, but I still wonder why the San-Ti didn't plan a better operation to wipe out everybody from planet Earth. Not that I would help them, but watching a show like this makes me feel hopeless about the future of the human race.

Wow, I haven't seen a show go off the rails and land so badly since, well since game of thrones I guess. I wonder if anyone involved in this show was linked to that. They seem to manage to have condensed the disappointment and feeling of betrayl down from an 8 year arc into a single 8 episode season, so I guess that's some sort of progress.

I'm tempted to read the books now and see if the original material is as directionless as this series ended up being. I had a quick look at the plot synopsis and it looks like the failure for this can be laid directly on the show runners shoulders. They have changed quite a lot of what actually happens in the story.

Such a promising start, and we really do need a smart and thought provoking series to engage us, but this was both mind numbing and thought provoking at the same time, and the ratio between the 2 veered strongly toward the mind numbing as each episode passed and then pretty much gave up on the thought provoking when it got obsessed with nano fibers, and it was all downhill from there.

WTF was going on with the brain in a box attached to some tent ropes which came unfastened as the ship passed only the 3rd acceleration point of hundreds. What was the point of all that??? What was he going to do when he got there?

Show makes you think about the impact of relationships, outcomes, consequences, and decisions. I thoroughly enjoyed the show considering the inter-galactic, political implications while still managing to make it connect on a human level. I wish they further explored the financial impact on the world these scenarios would bring. The score and the music choices are fitting and wonderful. The sorry progression evolves aggressively leaving the viewer wondering which path and which motive each faction has to achieve what they consider, "success". Plenty of questions still left unanswered. Overall, I can't wait to watch more and I will now be reading the books. Awesome.