Finished watching it the other day and if you’re into scifi, or maybe more science-fantasy, it’s well worth watching! Refreshing to see some new scifi, particularly with a focus on extraterrestrial ecosystems.
Saw by searching that there’s nothing about another season for now, which is a shame, but I think season 1 stands up well even as it is.
The end of season 1 is clearly laying a foundation for a new and weird season 2, I don’t think it would be contrived at all. I’m very eager to see more.
I didn’t think so, it feels more like it’s implying continuations of the themes already explored. I don’t think actually fleshing out those continuations does much to enrich them more than laying the foundations and letting the imagination of the audience speculate on the possibilities. In fact I personally feel like trying to extend the ending to any canonical direction almost misses the central themes of the show.
I can’t imagine a satisfying story that picks up immediately after the end of season 1. I could maybe imagine a halfway decent story that picks up a long, long time after, but even then I doubt it would be as satisfying as the open-ended implications of the ending we got. It’s like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, or the Noodle Incident in Calvin & Hobbes: no finite answer could be as powerful as the open question.
I think that’s very fair. Given their performance in season 1, I think it’s a question raised that they could potentially answer in a way I find satisfying.
If they planned a second season from the start, and if they get the time and resources to do it right, I’d love to see it.
But the thing about first seasons/albums/films/etc. is that the official production time isn’t really the production time. The real production time includes the entire life of the artist(s) up to the official beginning of production, accumulating ideas and refining them over years and years. If they don’t plan a second installment, they pump all their ideas into the first one. If they get commissioned for the second, now they have a compressed timeframe in which to try to repeat a lifetime spent crafting their magnum opus.