Andromeda Strain
May. 27th, 2008 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxWhile I find the whole viral sequencing/binary code bit interesting, I find a few things bad to the point of being laughable.
* Jeez, these people are cold. Barely reacting as co-workers drop like flies.
* The girl from Scrubs is a really, really bad actress and has no chemistry with Benjamin Bratt.
* I'm reminded of Galaxy Quest - Ducts? Why is it always ducts? I mean, seriously, why don't super-secret labs ever have an elevator that works? Seems to me that an elevator to the auto-destruct button is something which should require design redundancy. I'm just sayin'. I don't think it'd pass codes without two means of egress.
* Why is it that the annoying reporter keeps improbably escaping death?
* Sure, throw in talk about wormholes being portals to different areas of the galaxy or different places in time, but could there at least be a nod as to the improbability of anything with actual mass passing through one intact? Even a virus and/or bacteria. Viruses have mass too, y'know.
* When they changed the plot from the original Adromeda Strain, did they decide that they could just sorta forget about the baby and the sterno drinking old man in quarantine?
* The ending... Well, look, I watched the X-Files for years. X-Files did this sort of thing better. 'Mkay?
And, even if it amuses no one but me, I'm using my Rimmer "Quarantine" icon.
* Jeez, these people are cold. Barely reacting as co-workers drop like flies.
* The girl from Scrubs is a really, really bad actress and has no chemistry with Benjamin Bratt.
* I'm reminded of Galaxy Quest - Ducts? Why is it always ducts? I mean, seriously, why don't super-secret labs ever have an elevator that works? Seems to me that an elevator to the auto-destruct button is something which should require design redundancy. I'm just sayin'. I don't think it'd pass codes without two means of egress.
* Why is it that the annoying reporter keeps improbably escaping death?
* Sure, throw in talk about wormholes being portals to different areas of the galaxy or different places in time, but could there at least be a nod as to the improbability of anything with actual mass passing through one intact? Even a virus and/or bacteria. Viruses have mass too, y'know.
* When they changed the plot from the original Adromeda Strain, did they decide that they could just sorta forget about the baby and the sterno drinking old man in quarantine?
* The ending... Well, look, I watched the X-Files for years. X-Files did this sort of thing better. 'Mkay?
And, even if it amuses no one but me, I'm using my Rimmer "Quarantine" icon.
