Gut Feeling on Netflix's 'Another Life'

 This is a science fiction series....opening up the second season in the past week or two.  

I sat through season one and just kept thinking....surely they will hire new writers and improve the script.  

Chief problems?

Most everyone on this space vessel....is a 'loser'....to the 3rd degree.  The characters....even the 'Captain' were written that way.  If they were on a truck going to Nashville and the tire went flat....they'd all stand there for an hour....talking about the implications of the tire, and suggest six different ways of resolving the flat tire problem.

The aliens?  You keep thinking....they might actually be 4-star bad guys, but then something will come up to suggest they are just neutral bad guys.  I'm to the point where I think the aliens are just some AI computer and punch-drunk on some Bill Gates code-writing.  

Exciting?  There's maybe a 60-second piece in each segment where you kinda feel excitement, and then?  It just drains into a pile of crap.

The AI-guy?  Zero character....zero charm.....zero likeability.  You could do better with the idiot robot on the 1960s 'Lost in Space'.

They spent a ton of money on graphics, and it shows like a five-star series....that's the weird part of the series.

Sexual issues?  Various little elements pop up and there's a ton of gender problems going on, or just plain regular sexual tension.  They all seem to need entry into some Daytona Beach swinger's bar but just keep talking about how it was weeks or months ago.

I'm up to episode two of the new season, and just shaking my head.  So much potential and it's run by juvenile management and no real theme.

Pentagon and the Covid-War?

 Two odd things are going on with the US Navy and the Covid vaccination business.

First, the Seals are using religious conviction to decline the vaccinations.  Odds of this working?  They've probably already gotten the Yellow Fever and Cholera shots.....so the religious angle is questionable.

But in the midst of this.....the Navy said that if you do this (as a Seal)....they can demote you....seize some of your pay....remove you from your Seal duty....then make you pay your money back.  

Naturally, this intensifies the court action (roughly 34 Seals have a case brewing)..

Second, the Navy says all money used to produce a Seal (going up into several million) will have to be repaid.  

The problem here....once they reach the Supreme Court....the Navy will be asked if the lowest cook on the Covid-kick-out list is required to pay his training money back. 'No' is the likely answer.  The radar-guy?  The firemen?  The nuke-power technician?

The court will establish that if you died on day one of official duty as a Seal.....no one takes a penny out of your paycheck to pay for past training.  

In simple terms....this whole mess will linger around for 2 to 3 years.  Counter-suit?  More than likely and I'm guessing each guy affected will ask for lawyer cost, and at least half-a-million in damages.  

Massive public relations damage done in the midst of this business?  Yeah....even if they wised up in 2022 (don't expect it).....it'd still linger as a frustration item for five years minimum.