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Spoilers "Constellation" Discussion Thread
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I want to believe there are good shows on this service, but honestly so much disappointment, I just can’t waste more time trying. Happy to give it a try but is there family drama In this one, too?
I saw all three episodes now. I'm loving it so far.
The ISS set looks great, the weightlessness was done really great. The mystery is interesting, I like to think about it and come up with ideas what's happening. I wasn't bored one second.
The ISS set looks great, the weightlessness was done really great. The mystery is interesting, I like to think about it and come up with ideas what's happening. I wasn't bored one second.
I've been watching and liking it a lot so far as well. I think the premise of Jo's experiences in her life not being totally the same after coming back is somewhat intertwined with the quantum physics aspect of the show where something can be in two different states at the same time until looked upon by an observer. There's subtle differences from what she remembers or is experiencing now and the two timelines seem to overlap at various times without a warning or explanation.
Fascinating storyline, great effects/simulations and top actors. Loving it so far.
Love the new show. Can't wait to see what happens in the upcoming episodes.
Show goes around in circles, doesn’t really seem to be getting anywhere meaningful.
The last two episodes were really awesome. Straight 10 out of 10 from me!
Too bad next episode will be the finale already.
Too bad next episode will be the finale already.
enjoyed the season, hopefully gets renewed for future seasons
Yeah that was a really great season.
Seems like they want to do more, and now it's up to Apple to decide if they order more.
screenrant.com
Seems like they want to do more, and now it's up to Apple to decide if they order more.
Constellation Season 2 Future Gets Intriguing Update From Creator & Star: "It's Got An End Point"
"There's a lot of different stuff to explore..."
strong start; meh ending. Just another family soap.
You know what you get when 12 year old kids are involved.....
You know what you get when 12 year old kids are involved.....
I did too and I died of agony. So many family drama, damn! Honestly, it’s a good show if you can compartiment the sci-fi piece and the race to space from the whole soa/family drama but it’s hard because one season it’s 50-50 balanced between both but another one you get several episodes of only family drama. It’s used as a filler, which is weird because there is a lot of content to rely on, on the story itself.
I’m 4 episodes in. No need to correct me, but there seems to be some parallel universe kind of action, going on. Not loving , but enjoying it. 
I believe this is a reply about For All Mankind, which I love, but that’s ok, to each their own.
I barely managed to complete Constellation. It was too many episodes of people lost and confused trying to figure out their circumstances in a parallel reality scenario, where the boundary between them is meager at best. At the end, there is resolution of sorts for one family, but the payoff for sticking though multiple episodes of “Mama!”, “Alice!” is not worth it. Now it‘s possible that season 2 (not yet released) is a continuation of this story, with these characters because things were not resolved for all of them. I’m just not that interested in enduring the continuation of the premise as presented.
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I'd say it was 6-ish hours of good TV needlessly dragged out to 8-ish hours. I'm all for some "slow burn" drama, but "some is good" doesn't always mean that "more is better". The industry doesn't seem to have a middle gear and has flipped between squashing a 600 page novel's-worth of plot into a 2-hour movie straight to trying to spread a short story's worth of plot over three 8-hour seasons.
TOTAL SPOILERS follow - don't read on if you plan to watch the show.
I think the main problem was using anachronic order on top of the story's primary gimmick of flipping between two realities, dreams and maybe-hallucinations, so by the time you've seen (say) the frozen lake scene in flash-forward, then seen the 'real time' re-cap intercut with alternate-reality versions it gets a bit tedious. Then, darned if Alice doesn't run off and get stuck in the same cupboard, the same way again (you'd think that the first time would be an adequate education). OK, its supposed to be mind-bending, but I'm not sure the two (?) timelines even make sense once you unravel them.
I was actually OK with the way it left things at the end - there was quite a bit of resolution aside from the obvious hooks for the second season. Problem is, most of that resolution happened in Episode 6, if not before...
Still, I enjoyed it on balance.
However, I thought "Shining Girls" did a better job of being entertainingly confusing.
TOTAL SPOILERS follow - don't read on if you plan to watch the show.
Turns out that we should have been paying more attention to whether she was yelling "Mama!" or "Mummy!" each time - I'm sure a re-watch would be revealing, but life is too short...
I think the main problem was using anachronic order on top of the story's primary gimmick of flipping between two realities, dreams and maybe-hallucinations, so by the time you've seen (say) the frozen lake scene in flash-forward, then seen the 'real time' re-cap intercut with alternate-reality versions it gets a bit tedious. Then, darned if Alice doesn't run off and get stuck in the same cupboard, the same way again (you'd think that the first time would be an adequate education). OK, its supposed to be mind-bending, but I'm not sure the two (?) timelines even make sense once you unravel them.
I was actually OK with the way it left things at the end - there was quite a bit of resolution aside from the obvious hooks for the second season. Problem is, most of that resolution happened in Episode 6, if not before...
Still, I enjoyed it on balance.
However, I thought "Shining Girls" did a better job of being entertainingly confusing.