It’s just ‘Cynthia is in the ship and bad, so let’s trap her and move on’.

Nightflyers is a science fiction horror novella by American writer George R. R. Martin, released as a short novella in 1980 and as an expanded novella in 1981.A short story collection of the same name was released in 1985 that includes the expanded novella.

It's the first thing I noticed about this show, way back at the start of episode 1. Why? The show does a terrible job at explaining how exactly Cynthia is doing all her magic stuff, and what the difference is between Cynthias powers and Thales powers. [18], The series premiered on syfy in December 2018 and was filmed in Ireland. The team's psipsych Agatha Marij-Black drugs Thale with the drug psionine-4 to keep him calm.

If you can easily describe your plot to a child, do not have a character call it ‘Beyond your understanding’. Nightflyers is a science fiction horror novella by American writer George R. R. Martin, released as a short novella in 1980 and as an expanded novella in 1981.A short story collection of the same name was released in 1985 that includes the expanded novella. No fuckin' idea what motivates the Volcryn. The linguists Dannel and Lindran go to investigate but are also killed by the mysterious force, which possesses their bodies. However, a mysterious force opens the airlock, killing the two scholars and causing significant damage to the Nightflyer. There’s clearly something in the ship’s computers doing this.

She's a computer right? Nightflyers does not ask these questions. Why are his colleagues willing to go along with it? - Whats up with the bee lady? I don't remember any scene where the hallucinations couldn't be seen by others.

Mel knew Roy wasn't quite human, doesn't invalidate the time they've spent together or, like, the Turing test. Could be related. I put that down to her paranoia. [12] The film is about a group of scientists who begin a space voyage to find a mysterious alien creature, and in the process are victimized by the ship's malevolent computer. Nothing to do with the Nightflyer or the volcryn at all. I thought he was the scapegoat, but he wasn't actually doing it. It’s beyond your ken. Just finished watching the show, so I'm all hopped up on fan theories. Melantha vows not to leave Royd alone with his dead mother. The script for the pilot was written by Jeff Buhler. Lommie is the key.

How does the rest of the world view you? Or you burn prograde until you have your escape trajectory or your rendezvous set up, etc etc. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the Nightflyers community. His face is messed up and maybe he was the first to upload himself, or Cynthia made him as a means of therapy, choosing to face her demons instead of erasing them. Building that sort of atmosphere requires patience and restraint; instead we get jump scares and wet noodle gore. Hey man, for posting something on Reddit, I'll take that as a win, thanks. Over-used as this device may be, it’s an effective set-up. It’s an interpretation, or a re-imagination, which I think is important. Because the book was written back in the ‘80s, and there’s been various films which Nightflyers has been compared to. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Typically the story then explores the ‘what if’ or ‘why’ of what happens with this technology and the people that live with it: You are a telepath, whose telepathy is artificial and is used by law organizations to read the minds of the newly dead. Couple that with endless shots of the hologram/camera ‘eyes’ throughout the ship in every room, and there is no time for the viewer to build up theories or wonder about the origins of these hallucinations and manifestations. Erin Lindsey writes fantasy, mystery, and fantasy mystery. .c_dVyWK3BXRxSN3ULLJ_t{border-radius:4px 4px 0 0;height:34px;left:0;position:absolute;right:0;top:0}._1OQL3FCA9BfgI57ghHHgV3{-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-pack:start;justify-content:flex-start;margin-top:32px}._1OQL3FCA9BfgI57ghHHgV3 ._33jgwegeMTJ-FJaaHMeOjV{border-radius:9001px;height:32px;width:32px}._1OQL3FCA9BfgI57ghHHgV3 ._1wQQNkVR4qNpQCzA19X4B6{height:16px;margin-left:8px;width:200px}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin:12px 0}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx ._29TSdL_ZMpyzfQ_bfdcBSc{-ms-flex:1;flex:1}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx .JEV9fXVlt_7DgH-zLepBH{height:18px;width:50px}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx ._3YCOmnWpGeRBW_Psd5WMPR{height:12px;margin-top:4px;width:60px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN{height:18px;margin-bottom:4px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN._2E9u5XvlGwlpnzki78vasG{width:230px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN.fDElwzn43eJToKzSCkejE{width:100%}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN._2kNB7LAYYqYdyS85f8pqfi{width:250px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN._1XmngqAPKZO_1lDBwcQrR7{width:120px}._3XbVvl-zJDbcDeEdSgxV4_{border-radius:4px;height:32px;margin-top:16px;width:100%}._2hgXdc8jVQaXYAXvnqEyED{animation:_3XkHjK4wMgxtjzC1TvoXrb 1.5s ease infinite;background:linear-gradient(90deg,var(--newCommunityTheme-field),var(--newCommunityTheme-inactive),var(--newCommunityTheme-field));background-size:200%}._1KWSZXqSM_BLhBzkPyJFGR{background-color:var(--newCommunityTheme-widgetColors-sidebarWidgetBackgroundColor);border-radius:4px;padding:12px;position:relative;width:auto} Asked how Nightflyers compares to Game of Thrones, he explained: "It’s very different. Then you wait until you swing out there, then burn prograde again to bring your periapsis (the point in your orbit when you're at the closest point to the body you're orbiting) up to the same altitude. Both of her shipboard romances—with Lommie, the computer tech, and Roy, the captain—turn out to be ill-fated, but because we spend so little time on either relationship, I didn’t really care. so i dunno if it's explained there. Because if you’re interested in good storytelling, Nightflyers offers a useful illustration of some basic pitfalls to avoid. The show starts off with a bang: A woman hiding from an ax-wielding maniac dictates a panicked message into a recording device. When I first watched that scene, I assumed she was afraid of succumbing to the same madness, or at least that she’d rather die by her own hand than fall to an ax murderer. The issue here was that many of the show’s supposed emotional punches never landed, because I wasn’t invested enough in the characters or the relationship to care. I figure it was a red herring. Disposable characters are a staple of horror and sci-fi, often for good reason. Maybe this happens to all babies in space and that's why there's a protocol? I think she's just a person, but, yeah, that wasn't made very clear. Then she grabs a bone saw and opens her own throat. I'll also add Cynthia has Teke. How can she talk to bees? - Why did Rowan go crazy and then suddenly back to normal? Star Wars isn’t scifi. Possible but I’d expect the whole ship to have it. [9] The film grossed $1,149,470. Maybe I'm too hopeful, seems to be a lot of hate.

Simply because something takes place ‘in space’ doesn’t make it science fiction. The ship has a higher chance of survival than the human body, and it also has much more potential for power (only a part of her was locked up, and she could have kept lommie locked up, freeing herself to control systems - without taking the body). But how does that change a person's approach to living? It’s quite different. Asked how Nightflyers compares to Game of Thrones, he explained: "It’s very different.

Spore baby was probably cynthia being psychotic and messing with the food or something. Now i see that they made that scene first, to make people watch the show, and then they build a completely different plot that could just barely support that scene. It’s fine for the Volcryn themselves to remain unfathomable, but our heroes’ motivations need to be clear. (Maybe they ran out of money and couldn’t afford any more actors?)

There’s no introspection or thought about it. But I’m writing it and it’s flowing so here we go. Kubrick looms especially large, with the red-eyed HAL cameras and the Shining-esque visions of dead little girls.

I could write a whole essay on the biohazard protocols of these so-called scientists. She’s just about to send the message when the ax-wielding maniac jumps her, but Agatha manages to fend him off long enough to send her message out the airlock. Not to mention knowing this is inside the head of a damaged woman-AI, it loses even more potential for fear or uncertainty. ::: In the same way Karl saw new images of his daughter made by the Volkryn. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The decision wasn’t entirely down to Netflix and instead came down to the SyFy network. These are probably important, because as far as I can tell Mel doesn’t have any real job on the ship other than to dress like a Solid Gold Dancer and engaging in “sexing” with her fellow crewmates. Faster-than-light travel exists, and can spread humanity to a hundred stars. =bee lady was from another timeline and/or is an alien and/or the biologist was infected from exposure to the mold he scraped up in the cultlady ship (that crazy scientist totally could have engineered blackmould that rapidly reproduces when in contact with sperm) and/or the aliens are capable of transcending space/time - it can walk through walls and its not actually there but it is at the same time. Science fiction tries to create a realistic and believable (and realistic does not mean ‘accurate to reality’, but realistic in that it is a working, breathing setting that feels as if it could exist) setting that has rules and laws that govern the technology within it. Yeah, I thought the spores originated from the Karl-meat probe. d'Branin discovers that the volcryn are giant space-faring creatures that live in space. It's kinda funny how we were annoyed by almost completely non-overlapping things. It never actually helped them in their research. Why did the Volcryn send Karls body back? What’s missing is a coherent vision and the storytelling discipline to bring it to fruition. The Nightflyer is a haunted spaceship, and this is based on a novella by George R. R. Martin, so I fully expected a bunch of unfortunate red shirts to bite it early and often. Yeah, those were the cannibal girl scouts. Why did the Volcryn send Karls body back?