News Avenue 5

[Mojochi]

Holy shit, that got dark.

I mean, I expected this moment would come (I almost even looked forward to it), the moment when mob rule would take over and people would do something incredibly stupid. However, I hadn't expect it would be people willingly jettison themselves through the airlock, believing Avenue 5 was a simulation, a reality TV show. The first time around I can almost accept, because in that moment of hysteria, I can see people genuinely believing it. But to have people do it two more times after seeing what happens to them and fooling themselves that it was really good VFX (fucking!) is truly insane.

You know, the more I think about it. It was dark, & I certainly didn't expect it to land so hard, but when you consider how we started, with the one qualified, active astronaut getting impaled in deep space, & then geysering blood when they quick thawed him, plus three people dying from wounds sustained in the accident... It's not too off brand to have it come to this lol

The one thing I keep coming back to is " Why didn't anybody remind the dipshits about the accident?" Surely they'd all remember careening around the ship until nearly dead. Doesn't seem like the kind of gag a realty show, VFX prank would have... For legal reasons.

Something tells me that being reminded of that loss of gravity might send the message home to even these morons that yes... You're in space, fuckhead

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I think this only gets weirder for the moment, & they leave this in a very off place at the end, because clearly this show, for a comedy, has balls the size of planetoids. It's just about the best commentary about willful ignorance I have ever seen. In the age of flat Earthers, I have no problem picturing people taking a short walk into the dead of space because they live in their own infobubble

Indeed, especially when you consider the way certain people are ignorantly reacting to the coronavirus in the United States. It's sad, it's pathetic, it's disgusting...and utterly believable.

If this premise is ongoing, then it's sure to be a shit show until they sort out the best way to make it home. It seems like their only chance will be Billy & her crew, and maybe Spike, & now Rav to keep the ship functioning, & as many people alive as possible, assuming they stop deliberately doing themselves in. I do seem to recall, that pretty much all the scenerios being foreseen as an outcome have only a percentage of the lives aboard making it back. It'll be "Captain" Clark, & Karen who will be the only thing keeping the social balance in check.

I think Ryan will also have some hand in righting the ship, so to speak. He might be only an actor but he has shown a genuine ability to deescalate certain situations (albeit not the madness in the airlock) and he certainly has far better people skills than Billie and Karen...just as long as Judd isn't butting in and making things infinitely worse by merely speaking.

To be fair, it ain't that impressive to see through Judd's bullshit. Pretty much every character on the show can. In his case, it's the narcissism that led the way out the airlock

Well, yes. I didn't mean his intelligence was proven by seeing through Judd's shit, but just in the way he handled Judd and how he communicated in general. But good point about the narcissism.

You know, the more I think about it. It was dark, & I certainly didn't expect it to land so hard, but when you consider how we started, with the one qualified, active astronaut getting impaled in deep space, & then geysering blood when they quick thawed him, plus three people dying from wounds sustained in the accident... It's not too off brand to have it come to this lol

Not off brand, certainly. Like I said in my parenthetical, I looked forward to this inevitable moment of chaos, I just didn't imagine it would get that dark so quickly. It became very macabre. I'm not saying I didn't like it, just that a took me a little off guard by the suddenness of it.

The one thing I keep coming back to is " Why didn't anybody remind the dipshits about the accident?" Surely they'd all remember careening around the ship until nearly dead. Doesn't seem like the kind of gag a realty show, VFX prank would have... For legal reasons.

Something tells me that being reminded of that loss of gravity might send the message home to even these morons that yes... You're in space, fuckhead

Logic has no place in moments of hysteria like that. As embodied by the VFX lady. She was so far up in her own personal reasoning, that she couldn't see basic logic outside of her own thinking.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Suzy Nakamura was on Colbert on Wednesday night and I'm pretty sure the clip they showed is a deleted scene from the last episode (at least, I don't see how it could possibly fit in the finale considering what happened). Unless it was in the episode and I somehow blacked out.

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[Mojochi]

Suzy Nakamura was on Colbert on Wednesday night and I'm pretty sure the clip they showed is a deleted scene from the last episode (at least, I don't see how it could possibly fit in the finale considering what happened). Unless it was in the episode and I somehow blacked out.

Nope. It definitely wasn't in the episode, & it does seem like something that would've fit in the jettisoning stuff portion of last week's. So yeah, I guess it got deleted. Would love to see more of those

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ah, good, I'm glad I was right there.

Anyways, great interview, too. I had no idea she and Colbert were at Second City together. I loved watching them reminisce.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

...and it turns out I was wrong. The scene actually happened in the season finale.

Wow, what a mad cliffhanger. Karen, with all of her self-assured bluster, managed to blow out all of the excess cargo from the wrong end, thus pushing Avenue 5 even further off course. If you thought things were insane now, buckle up!

While it's great to have Raffi in the main mix of everything, it's a shame that it's at the cost of losing Iris. I'm sure she'll still be part of the show, much like Raffi was before, but I miss her snappy retorts with, well, everyone.

 

[Mojochi]

OMG. This show just does not disappoint... Well, look at the bright side, at least they cleared the shit ring lol

 

[Guy Gardener]

My wife hates Avenue 5.

 

[Mudd]

Meh, I gave it a chance.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

OMG. This show just does not disappoint... Well, look at the bright side, at least they cleared the shit ring lol

Did they actually do that? I must've missed that bit. One small bit silver lining.

Meh, I gave it a chance.

And gave it up weeks ago, so why are you here now?

 

[Guy Gardener]

They said that the thrust from dumping cargo would shuck the ring. They Dumped the cargo wrong, but they may still have got rid of the ring.

 

[Mojochi]

Did they actually do that? I must've missed that bit. One small bit silver lining.

The exiting shot of the ship (& screaming cast) showed a faint mist of turd, on the far side of the departing shuttle lol (Upper right corner of the shot)

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ahhh, okay. I missed that. I'll have to go back and review that scene.

 

[Mojochi]

Doesn't this ship have any corrective thrusters at all?

 

[Forbin]

And come to think of it, nudging the ship sideways a little wouldn't change it's course unless it was under forward thrust.

 

[Mojochi]

And come to think of it, nudging the ship sideways a little wouldn't change it's course unless it was under forward thrust.

I think it's under forward inertia (Has been the whole time) It's definitely moving forward in the last shot. I can't recall if it has forward propulsion of any kind, but they always talk about trajectory, which is a term I'd think implies it's on inertia alone, which is why the gravity accident in episode 1 threw them off, & so did this improper jettisoning.

It would be even funnier if it has no forward propulsion at all, but they still decided to put in the dummy steering apparatus, for the captain to look more captainy Lol

It's basically a rudderless barge