Hey, gang! Long time, no post. Sorry about that. I blame the fact that my provider of Strange New Worlds doesn’t have subtitles for season 2, thus killing my ability to understand the episodes – not to mention being a barrier to my awful humour! Unfortunately, this post isn’t going to be very funny, and […]
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AKA: Wang Miao’s No Good Very Bad Day OVERVIEW Media type: TV showStreaming service: YouTube (free with ads)Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, horrorContent warnings: Suicide mentions (I think the record is about five in a minute), cosmic horror SUMMARY We open on… what I assume is… supposed to be a representation of an atom? A very boring
A revolutionary song plays in the background as ticker tape spills from a printer. A person grabs it, examines it. Oh, cool, this revolutionary song hates fascists too! They sit down at a computer, typing… “the deciphering was complete”.
The message we receive is simple, once decoded: “do not answer”. Seems to me like we shouldn’t answer, guys. Our mystery person continues, though, entering what’s clearly a control room. She sits down at a disgustingly, gloriously 70s console, and gets to work, referencing an astronomical almanac to program co-ordinates into a big satellite, pointed directly at the sun. As the seconds tick to noon, her finger hovers over the big red button…
