Wallfacer
- Episode aired Mar 21, 2024
- TV-MA
- 57m
A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.
- Anwar Suleiman
- (as Stephen Rahman-Hughes)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Mission Director is played by Bobak Ferdowsi. He is a flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.. He became an internet sensation with his Mohawk hairstyle with stars shaved on the sides.
- GoofsThe tether snapping would not cause the probe's course to change in the manner shown. It might start a rotation that would prevent alignment with the next bomb however.
- Quotes
Charles: Are you injured?
Saul Durand: I'm okay
Charles: I'm sorry
Saul Durand: You shot me with a sniper rifle! You're sorry?
Charles: Sorry, I didn't aim for your head. Then my mission would be complete and you would be free of yours.
Saul Durand: I'm already free of mine. I told the Secretary General I rejected the Wallfacer position. Your superiors wasted an assassin.
Charles: You're a funny man.
Saul Durand: I'm just telling you the truth.
Charles: You think you're clever. It's not your fault. I thought I was clever too, before I learned the truth.
Saul Durand: Which truth?
Charles: You call them "My superiors," but they're your superiors too
Saul Durand: If they're so fucking superior, why do they care if I live or die?
Charles: I don't know.
Saul Durand: You tried to murder a man that you've never met, on the directive of aliens that you've never met? Why! What the fuck is wrong with you?
Charles: I've gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord.
The first 5 would get a 9/10 from me. There was a properly mysterious foe, intriguing characters, and solid plot progression. It all felt like it was building to something big. Then it all fell apart. Plot holes developed all over the place, and the momentum was killed to spend 3 filler episodes on melodrama. It's almost like they ran out of money, but had to turn in 8 episodes, so they just threw something together with very little coherence and entirely inconsistent with what came before. It almost felt like two different shows
People turned on each other all over the place for weird reasons, all the plot build up was stopped in it's tracks, and we were given very little explanation for why any of it was happening. It felt like it was moving too slow and too fast at the same time. Most of the screen time was spent on boring conversations that didn't really add much, and then it would skip ahead in the story glossing over everything in between
I am sadly getting GOT season 8 vibes where things just happen that are out of character with very little build up to explain any of it. I hope they can bounce back for season 2, but if they are already wheel spinning this early I have concerns.
- chebosky
- Mar 26, 2024
Details
- Runtime57 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix