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The Orville: Future Unknown (2022)
Isaac proposes marriage to another organism
A robot such as Isaac is not an organism. Therefore he can't marry. An organism is defined as a living being that has the ability to grow, reproduce, and maintain homeostasis, while a robot is a machine that is designed to perform specific tasks, typically under the control of a human or a computer program.
Organisms are made up of cells, which are the basic units of life. These cells carry out all of the functions necessary for the organism to survive, such as metabolism, growth, and reproduction. Robots, on the other hand, are made up of mechanical and electrical components that work together to perform specific tasks. They do not have the ability to grow or reproduce, and they do not maintain homeostasis like living organisms do.
Robots can be designed to mimic certain aspects of living organisms, such as movement or sensing capabilities. However, these capabilities are the result of advanced engineering and programming, rather than the natural processes that occur in living organisms.
Another key difference between robots and organisms is the way in which they respond to their environment. Organisms have the ability to adapt and evolve over time in response to changes in their environment, whereas robots are only capable of performing the tasks for which they were specifically programmed.
Robots can be programmed to learn and adapt to their environment in a limited way, but this is still a far cry from the complex and dynamic processes that occur in living organisms. For example, a robot can be programmed to identify and avoid obstacles, but it cannot evolve to become better at avoiding obstacles.
Robots can be said to be a product of human ingenuity and technology, while organisms are a product of evolution. The former is a product of human design while the latter is a product of natural selection.
In conclusion, while robots can mimic certain aspects of living organisms, they do not possess the fundamental characteristics that define life, such as the ability to grow, reproduce, and maintain homeostasis. They are machines that are designed to perform specific tasks, and they can not be considered as organisms.
Star Trek: Discovery: Coming Home (2022)
Complete garbage
I have no hope of my review being accepted, so I will keep it short so as not to waste my time on this nonsense. In a world where one has to bear serious consequences for taking a pizza without payment from a store it makes no sense that the actions of persons (Book and the General) that threaten the existences of a whole planet are with more lenience.
Knowing (2009)
Extra-tempestrials
In my view this is a fictional movie about evolved humans from the future that are able to travel into the past. The biologist Dr. Michael Paul Masters calls the beings shown in 'Knowing' extra-tempestrials. The extra-tempestrials leave warnings about impending doom to their distant ancestors. The humanoid future humans (angel like) seen at the end are able to telepathically transmit information about catastrophic future events. Foreknowledge of future events (from our point in time) is pretty easy when you are from the future and are looking back in time! Contemporary humans are still working out the theory of time travel. For humanity to survive in the movie and to be able evolve into their future form, selected telepathically gifted children are saved from a destructive solar flare, by transporting them to a new home, an earth-like ecosystem around a different sun. Solar flares of the depicted magnitude are unrealistic, but the movie solar flare can be substituted for a more realistic catastrophic extinction level event, for instance an asteroid impact. It's strange that the spaceship only collects a boy and a girl. If the movie script was more faithful to the biblical template then 144.000 would have been saved. I think there are 12 vessels in the movie each transporting a boy and a girl, analogous to the twelve tribes of Israel. The theme of leaving a stone at the place where a person perishes on this world, adheres to the jewish custom of placing stones on graves of departed ones, to remember them by (or as a symbol of their memory). The sheet of numerological predictions given to John Koestler is simply a plot device to get him to bring his son and Diana's daughter to the designated pickup location. This cunning plan is foiled by Diana not believing John Koestler (Nicholas Cage) and running off by herself and crashing her car, so that the 'angels' intervene personally. They succeed in preserving the germline of John and Diana, that is needed for the evolution of the new race of humans. The physicist Stephen Hawking asks in his posthumous book 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions' whether time travel is possible. The answer is that it is a "very serious question" that our current understanding cannot rule out and which can be approached scientifically. The whole movie is nicely executed with great special effects. So, there you go. :-)
Encounter (2018)
Aliens beware
Another SciFi movie with an alien theme. Its a wee bit slow paced. The main thing I take away from the show is the Xenophobia that is finally expressed by the Alien being shot. If I was an Alien I would certainly rather crash land anywhere, but the USA.
The Discovery (2017)
Cute Idea
Will, who is against his fathers Thomas experiments, says something along the lines of:
"whatever purpose we have in this life it is not about killing."
It is about compromise and working out a solution acceptable to all. We have to learn what we are supposed to learn right here, in this place, not the one after.
In reality there is of course overwhelming evidence for life after death. The character Thomas is the movie version of Raymond Moody.
Having myself experienced an NDE at age 7 I can tell you that the afterlife has nothing to do with being stuck in a Groundhog Day style loop of trying to rectify mistakes of your past.
But it is a cute idea.
Hyperdrive (2006)
BBC has axed third season
Only a few days ago I got hold of a boxed Season 1&2 DVD set of Hyperdrive.
Since then I've been watching this funny, upbeat comedy with it's Star Trek elements, and the best that British comedy can offer (to a German, anyways).
I've been looking forward to see a third, fourth and infinite amount of comedy seasons of Hyperdrive, to brighten up my days.
And now, to my great disappointment, I learn that the BBC want's to discontinue the series. Apparently not enough Britishers are watching it.
I'm very sad to see this great concept go, which, admittedly, has absolutely nothing to do with Red Dwarf. Thank goodness I say, because Hyperdrive is so much better, in its way, although the two comedies can not really be compared.
Hyperdrive has more of an alternate concept of a future, comedic, indeed, funny and irreverent.
Please let Hyperdrive live! shouts this lone German fan, long before the first dubbed versions of the show made it to the German TV screens. The collective groan of yet to be disappointed German future fans may reverberate back in time forever...
Live Hyperdrive, live...!
Hostel: Part II (2007)
Disgusting sadistic piece of trash
If one actually enjoys watching snuff movies, then this movie is for you. See beautiful young woman being abused and mutilated in the most horrific and perverse manner imaginable, and get your kicks by seeing murder depicted most explicit. It is unimaginable that people actually want to pay money to see movies like this. Quentin Tarrantino should be ashamed of lending his name to anti-human rubbish like this.
It can be no excuse that this Hollywood crap production is supposedly entertainment, it is simply sexist garbage, aimed at the basest instincts.. the instincts of inhuman and possibly deviant beings. Since the first "Hostel" movie featured the torture of males, the second features the abuse of females, then the third installment will possibly feature the abuse of children.
What an irresponsible piece of trash.
Return in Red (2007)
You got to be kidding
I had to watch this movie in two sittings after falling asleep after the first 45 minutes.
What kept me going were some positive user comments in the IMDb, however, after watching further minutes of this film being wasted on endless shots of walls and doorknobs I was galvanized to write this comment.
What did come across quite well in this picture was the portrayal of dull working class life in America and the depiction of deadbeat contemporary steel manufacturing, which may not be what the film maker intended primarily.
The filmmaker needs to work more on the element of surprise for startling horror, like in "The Descent" for instance.