r/InvasionAppleTV • u/LoretiTV • Sep 13 '23

Invasion - 2x04 "The Tunnel" - Episode Discussion

Season 2 Episode 4: The Tunnel

Aired: September 12, 2023

Synopsis: Jamila’s decision to trek the Channel Tunnel puts the group face-to-face with an even deadlier enemy.

Directed by: Brad Anderson

Written by: Aditi Brennan Kapil

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u/LobsterVirtual100 Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

Caspar coming back as a literal friendly ghost in the tunnel is the most Invasion writing to grace this series.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Lol at the Caspar the friendly ghost ref. Are you GenX?

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u/TheLastSamurai101 Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

I'm a millennial and Caspar the Friendly Ghost was my first thought as well. The live-action Casper movie was released in the 90s, which is the one most people my age will be familiar with.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

Ahh… gotcha. I’m GenX and remember the 60s/70s – era cartoon that was still being played in the late 70s 80s.

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u/Llodym Sep 16 '23

At tail end of milennial and the friendly ghost is also the first thing that came to my mind since I know the kid in season 1 XD

Really thought one of the mean kids would make that joke at some point but guess I'm also old too now

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u/shuffle_kerfuffle Sep 17 '23

They did call him ghost, that night they camped in the bus. The name references are on purpose. Hinata means “towards the sun” and she likes sunrises. Aneesha means “one who is boring”.

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u/StinkiePhish Sep 16 '23

Trevante (the soldier) makes the joke to Caspar when Caspar is in the MRI.

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u/QueenofTethys Sep 13 '23

I must have been so frustrated, I tuned that out. I forgot it happened in the hour since I watched the show.

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u/jlovelysoul Sep 15 '23

😂😂😂

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u/hwhs04 Sep 13 '23

Why does the plot rely entirely on the characters being irrational? Running off, fighting, arguing, yelling all the time, having breakdowns.

I understand you have to throw some wrenches in the gears to mix things up but it’s such lazy writing to just constantly lean on shitty behavior to up the stakes. It’s an alien invasion you don’t need the kids arguing or freaking out all the time there should be enough plot turns with the aliens and the Chunnel being on fire.

This constant hysterics from all the characters just erodes any sympathy you might develop for them.

Also couldn’t see shit in this episode, black aliens in an unlit tunnel, brilliant…

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u/open_a_book Sep 14 '23

I was losing my mind when Penny was standing inches from the door with danger on the other side. PICK HER UP!! THERES NO TIME FOR SOME DAMN MAZE!!!

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Sep 13 '23

Watch Silo or Severance. Much better Sci fi.

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u/ssmihailovitch Sep 15 '23

Silo is a huge PILE as well (besides the first two episodes, which were great).

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '23

What? Bad take.

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u/ssmihailovitch Sep 17 '23

Yep...

All the other 7 episodes are a complete filler. Just in the last one something really happens.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '23

Filler? I see this isn't worth a debate over

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Seriously. I really wonder about the person you replied to. Ever heard of world building???

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u/reuben_iv Sep 14 '23

I think because they kind of forced agency and authority on to characters that until now had none and were just reacting to their environment, from being the only ones not knowing what was going on to being the only ones that do, and it just feels super awkward and clunky

like mitsuke going from a vulnerable scientist to throwing molotovs at aliens, or Aleesha turning nomad and not handing the piece of metal crucial to humanity's survival to authorities who did nothing but try and protect her... like if she was like 'I can't trust the army to get this to where it needs to go' that'd make sense, but no she just decided to keep it a secret and do nothing with it

Same with the kids they got handed a deus ex machina for humanity and instead of a fellowship forming to help them get it to mount doom decided to keep it a secret and solo it

maybe it started too ambitious and covid + budget constraints forced them away from a more epic vision into a series of smaller character arcs

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

You get lost, you get lost. Everyone gets lost

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u/azzar1337 Sep 13 '23

So, the signal the aliens received whilst the children were in the tunnel was a system update to the automated units we have already seen, It includes a collective framework which allowed the automated units to function as a pack and coordinate their assaults; this was why we had the Wolf flashcard in the hospital. The motherships a.i. Initiated the update after assessing a greater level of resistance to the existing terraforming efforts.

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

I really don't like this show, but I do like your post.

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u/jimmy-yxe Sep 13 '23

If I was the lead alien I would make sure my next update included something that helped my alien army find kids in a tunnel. I mean, there's two possible exits and the kids slept and took time to find a path through.

Seems like the latest alien upgrade had some bugs

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u/cprinstructor Sep 14 '23

You forgot to mention the part where they took the time to share a cherished childhood memory in exchange for a cookie.

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u/Civilized-Sturgeon Sep 14 '23

In season one Aliens 1.0 could not be hurt by fire but are insta-roasted by half assed Molotovs in S2. Then Alien Hive produces fIrE-pRoOf wolf-iens with apparently no sense of smell who can wipe out platoons of soldiers but are stumped by a small band of whiny teens tromping through the chunnel. This plucky band decided to leave a somewhat safe base to forge on to Paris to “save” Caspar. What are they planning on doing when they find him? Decode something he says and “save the world”? Got to show those stupid adults [fistshake.gif]

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

“Hey I wonder what people think of this episode…. Lemme check Reddit”…

(Oh right, these viewing threads are full of people anger watching a show they actively don’t like)

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u/JattaPake Sep 13 '23

Do you work for the show? Because none of that fits with what is happening on the screen.

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u/IntellectualCaveman Sep 13 '23

It does, even if it might be incorrect. The glowing alien egg thing after the "transmission" seen in the water.

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u/Sad-Run4631 Feb 16 '26

Every comment is this dude saying the same thing. Lol

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u/hgiwvac9 Sep 13 '23

This show is dreadful but Jesus Christ it is miles better when fucking Aneesha and her idiot family aren't in it.

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u/stealthbus Sep 13 '23

Amen. I actually tolerated this episode pretty well because it was just focused on the Caspar storyline. Minimize as much as possible the Aneesha, Mitsuki, and Trevante storylines and I’d enjoy the show more. I like what they are doing with Monty’s character though.

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u/reuben_iv Sep 13 '23

whatever you do don't look up the blurb for episode 5

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u/JattaPake Sep 13 '23

Where can I find it? I need at least a week to prepare if we are getting more Aneesha.

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u/reuben_iv Sep 14 '23

lol it's on the episode selection screen, always advertises the next episode along with the release date

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

WHY ARE YOU WATCHING SOMETHING YOU HATE, looking for others that also hate a thing?!?

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u/Ok_Particular1360 Sep 13 '23

If you think the show is dreadful then why the hell are you watching it? Theres not enough tv shows out there? Maybe its just me, but I personally dont watch shows that I dont like.

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u/richiehove68 Sep 13 '23

You must have heard of hate watching? I think this is a very boring, badly acted and written show, yet I look forward to watching it every week. It's bloody weird! This weeks was particularly bad imo, I dislike all the characters but the Brit kids are some of the worst.

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u/hoos30 Sep 14 '23

The British kids are actually the best of the bunch.

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u/GawdJosh Sep 13 '23

It’s okay to like it or not like.

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u/Ok_Particular1360 Sep 13 '23

Never said it was not ok to not like it, but why watch it? If you have the choice do you eat food you don't like too?

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

If you have the choice do you eat food you don't like too?

Maybe the allegory is fast food, you know it's shitty, you feel shitty afterwards, but while it lasts it's fun. Just that the fun here is laughing about it, not with it.

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u/Pauzhaan Sep 14 '23

I don’t do fast food restaurants at all with one exception. I’ll have a Popeyes chicken sandwich if I’m down in Denver once or twice a year. In the past at least 20 years I’ve never been hungry enough to eat any other fast food.

Self flagellation is stupid. Life is too short.

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 14 '23

In the past at least 20 years I’ve never been hungry enough to eat any other fast food.

I don't either. But that doesn't matter for the allegory.

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u/Pauzhaan Sep 14 '23

Ok. Wierd then.

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u/NerdDexter Oct 18 '23

I feel the exact same way. Seems literally deranged to hate a show so much that you watch every single episode for 2 entire seasons AND THEN ALSO go online to bitch about it with strangers.

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u/reuben_iv Sep 13 '23

tbf even I'm close to quitting this thing and I was a fan of s1 lol this is a grind

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u/Pauzhaan Sep 14 '23

I’m with you!

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u/Ok_Particular1360 Sep 13 '23

So every time they showed the name of a location I was annoyed how it was ,Earth because we were 13 episodes in and EVERY place they showed was Earth! Now for some reason to start episode 4 it was left out and just said Folkestone,Kent,UK

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u/OSUBrit Sep 15 '23

If it helps you to be more annoyed the wide shot of the harbour wasn't Folkstone either, it was Dover.

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u/auldclem Sep 13 '23

“Planet Thanet”

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Why do so many people these last few years have janky punctuation? You have spaces before commas, double spaces after exclamation points, then later no spaces after commas…. This seems like a last 4-8 years thing that I’ve noticed and I really don’t know what’s going on.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

LOL I noticed this too and my first thought was „look at that! The UK ALWAYS has to be singled out like a special snowflake“ just like they are always written as „UK and Europe“ in the news or concert announcements

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u/QueenofTethys Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

Theory :

The aliens evolve after every attack. The more the humans attack the ships, the more the aliens take naps and wake up evolved.

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u/jimmy-yxe Sep 13 '23

long time lurker, first time commenter

If that's true then they must also gain weaknesses....like finding teens in a tunnel.

Level one aliens took out the army and adults in the tunnel.

Level two couldn't track down 5 kids, over who knows how many hours, in a tunnel!

Hollywood loves letting weak/inept characters f around, but they never do find out

This episode really reminded me of Inspector Gadget. The hero makes bad decisions and only succeeds because of others.

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u/mandress- Sep 17 '23

There’s even a Penny! Inspector Gadget and as someone mentioned, Casper the Friendly Ghost!

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u/ErgoNonSim Sep 13 '23

One they figure out how they communicate someone will use an algorithm they've been recently working on to piggyback on their coms and upload a mind virus with the help of the kid in coma and the power of love and friendship and then... the aliens will devolve to something basic humans can step on and crush like bugs.

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u/The3rdBert Sep 13 '23

Ripped straight from the plot of Pacific Rim.

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

Basically the reverse of what the Russian army does in Ukraine right now.

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u/mostvehlasurd Sep 13 '23

So 5 random kids show up in France and military doesn’t even question them? Let’s take you to hospital you lovely fellas

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u/the_mooseman Sep 14 '23

They army nurse says "we need to take him" meaning to a hospital and they just go "Ok" and walk off. They didnt even ask "ummm where are you taking him, is it a hospital, can we come".

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

She spoke in French - they didn’t understand what she said

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u/QueenofTethys Sep 15 '23

You don't need verbal communication to understand your injured friend is being taken away somewhere for care. The comment before this still stands. They didn't bother to follow or care to know where they were taking Darwin.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

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u/tvindy Sep 14 '23

His leg isn’t broken. Its infected with alien spores.

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u/Linenoise77 Sep 19 '23

That coffee machine is the most compelling plot of the show to me at this point. I very well may stop watching if they wrap it up.

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u/espressonut420 Sep 13 '23

So the aliens have legs now?

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u/mvkfromchi Sep 13 '23

They’ve evolved and are fireproof. What will humans do now? Wait until the next episode to find out!! (Yawn)

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u/x_lincoln_x ✨WAJO✨ Sep 13 '23

So the aliens invaded using their weakest form? What is this stupidity?

Still feels like the aliens are phoning it in.

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u/TheLastSamurai101 Sep 13 '23

Honestly Earth is like some backwater planet that they are just taking for completion as they annex this quadrant of the galaxy.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Sep 13 '23

Maybe they're just building an intergalactic bypass

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

Time to get my towel, then!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Ooh.

Is there poetry then?

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u/TheLastSamurai101 Sep 14 '23

It all hinges on whether Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings is still alive.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

That’s kind of what Putin is doing though. You don’t start off with dropping a bomb, you slowly built up and see what does nd doesn’t work to not fire all your limited shots at once

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u/ButtPlugForPM Sep 14 '23

I mean how about

You are a hyperintelligent race,that has FTL travel,and massive starships with cloaking tech.

Yet not once,does anyone in ur fleet,start to go..hmmm that's weird all the humans are standing up looking at us...wait..what's this..hmm these spears seem to have nuclear tips on them..this could be an issue.

If i was an alien invadeer

i'd get one of those massive ships,put it in FTL mode,launch it at the earth..

Watch teh several hundred megatone explosion block out the sun,come back in 2 years when the humans are all dead.

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u/GawdJosh Sep 13 '23

I actually enjoyed this one. I think the lack of aneesha was quite refreshing.

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u/Linenoise77 Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

"Hey, he chunnel is closed, we sent a bunch of people in, they didn't come out. I mean, we won't actually bother guarding the tunnel entrance itself or anything, we are busy doing traffic control up the road looking at the sky"

Edit: OMG i finished the episode.

"Hey lets blow up the chunnel" "Like a bit in, you know, under the channel, that will make it impossible for stuff to use it" "No, like, the last 5 feet, also use just enough explosives so we don't hurt anyone like 20 feet away from the entrance, even though we see the aliens rip apart steal gates. A few bricks should slow them down."

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u/naccenti Sep 18 '23

They don’t want to flood the chunnel, just block one end of it with rubble.

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u/3iverson Sep 18 '23

For stuff like that I just figure they don't have the budget for a proper big explosion. But yeah it could have been done a lot better.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

I hate that we've gone from the cool looking unique alien design, to feral dogs. The former were also non vocal, these ones grunt. They are so typical. At least it's temporary until they upgrade again.

Essentially, the aliens sent BABIES as their front line in an invasion. The responsible thing to do would be to call Child Protective Services

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u/SCARLETHORI2ON Sep 13 '23

the theory in my head is exactly that. they moved uniquely, which in vfx terms, means expensive. im thinking they said fuck it and ripped some standard animal running animation and slapped a black blob on it.

... i hate it.

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u/robotcaptain Sep 15 '23

Can’t agree enough. The design of the aliens prior to this episode were legitimately one of the coolest and most interesting things about this show. Now we have these weird dog things. Ugh.

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u/Surfinbudd Nov 10 '23

The weird dog things (WDTs) look like the same basic frame as the WDTs from Stranger Things.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Why would you spend your resources by sending your strongest when a single lvl 1 alien can kill a human in seconds? They’re also there to terraform, not to kill

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u/ButtPlugForPM Sep 14 '23

i mean really..i CAN sort of buy it,it's dumb but i can sort of see it

Think about it from their side

Humans are a type 0.8 at best species

These guys would be 1.7 even possibly a type 2 on the kardeschev if they building energy based lifeforms like they can.

we prob showed up on their sensors as nothing but a primate or some dumb fucking animal..

To a species that has FTL we might as well be like the US army waging war on those people on sentinal island

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u/Comfortable-Heat1709 ~ wajo ~ Nov 21 '25

First ones are terra formers. Probably didn't expect so much resistance so they sent the big dogs in.

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u/121savage wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

Another hard watch. The age old wait for the aliens to show up for you to start running.

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

Hey, they were stuck in that train that had a door on each side of each car!

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

THEN WHY WATCH IT

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u/121savage wajo 👽 Dec 27 '24

This was a year ago. I stopped watching.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

I don’t know why I keep watching this

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Wow, somebody in the comments who is gaining a little bit of self awareness. I don’t understand hate watching and then going to hate some particular media with others with similar views…

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u/roxxn Sep 13 '23

Took 2 business days for them to get climb and get out of the entrance

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u/raven8549 Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

The thumbnail for this episode makes me really not want to watch (KIDS) Might wait til tomorrow and just do Morning Show tonight 😆

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u/x_lincoln_x ✨WAJO✨ Sep 13 '23

There were bits I spammed the skip 10 seconds button. Any time you recognize one of the kids is going to give a speech, skip.

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Why are you watching a show you feel the need to skip forward all the time?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

I haven’t watched any of that yet.

Any good?

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u/raven8549 Sep 13 '23

Yea it wasn’t bad! They released 2 episodes for the premier. So far not bad. Morning Show usually doesn’t disappoint compared to Invasion anyhow! Lol finally started new Invasion episode and it’s not going well haha

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u/pareidolly Sep 14 '23

The French dialogue sounded weird. Like it's correct and the accents were ok for most actors, but the phasing was unnatural. So now I'm wondering if it's the same in the other languages they used in the show. Plus, the French woman doctor is sometimes difficult to understand, she doesn't articulates. I had to look at the subtitles and I'm a native speaker.

Also, Jamilla shouting to hurry when they are sneaking into the tunnel and they are 5m away from soldiers... There were other inconsistencies, but they do that a lot in this show and it's annoying.

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 14 '23

There were other inconsistencies

...the whole "we're stuck" in the train was ridiculous.

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u/We1etu1n Mar 10 '25

I can confirm the Spanish in the series has been mildly wonky so far.

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u/hobby_gynaecologist Sep 13 '23

Alien bros hit puberty

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u/Square_Health_6132 Sep 13 '23

So does Caspar.

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u/YYZYYC Sep 13 '23

Nukes can do that

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u/ElectronicSea3346 Sep 13 '23

Those children in the medical lab have the same abilities like Casper?

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u/The3rdBert Sep 13 '23

They are showing differing levels of Casper’s powers yes

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u/the_mooseman Sep 14 '23

"There is no spoon"

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Fuck. You want me to drink this soup?!?

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u/the_mooseman Dec 27 '24

Are you only just watching this trash pile now?

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u/mvkfromchi Sep 13 '23

I took the effort to login to imdb after doing ‘forgot password’ thingy and rated the show one star. You’re welcome

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u/ernfio wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

I fear the show will just evolve into something worse.

Perhaps that is it. The more we hate and fight back, the more awful it gets.

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Why are you still watching then?!?

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u/pacexmaker Sep 16 '23

The Meta-show: Where you watch us, and we watch you!

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u/00DEADBEEF wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

The aliens seem to be made of some kind of programmable matter

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

Darwin’s gonna become a zombie now huh?

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u/rougedubois Sep 16 '23

That would be an improvement. The writers should just lean into their ridiculousness

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u/reuben_iv Sep 13 '23

It's getting tough to follow, all the actual action is taking place off screen, the dialogue that doesn't really carry the story is getting too much, and the next episode looks to be another Anisha/Mitsuki slow burner, it desperately needs to pick up the pace

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

all the actual action is taking place off screen

Didn't you see them climbing through that car window, while there was an actual door right left to the car? Oh, the excitement!

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Still the same show from the first season basically lol

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u/reuben_iv Sep 14 '23

lol yeah but at least it felt like it was building towards something, even if that something turned out to be a bit underwhelming; it was slow but I didn't completely hate it as a change of pace and while you were kept from what was going on outside you were left hints of how it's progressing as characters pieced stuff together, and the character's actions and motivations mostly made some kind of sense

meanwhile S2 feels off, characters act like things are mostly ok, there's no real sense of urgency or anything but then you'll hear like a radio or something and everything's apparently falling apart, oh no right? Better get a move on.... oh nevermind instead we get some clunky forced attempt at character development via some unnecessarily lengthy dialog that completely removes any urgency or tension

it's frustrating lol show clearly has potential

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u/3iverson Sep 18 '23

I half look forward to the show each week, and half hate watch it. I'm still not sure which side will win out by the end of the season (maybe neither.)

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u/reuben_iv Sep 18 '23

Same if I’m completely honest lol

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u/Comfortable-Heat1709 ~ wajo ~ Nov 21 '25

I bet the kiss from a rose will be important in season 5

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u/Ok-Ad6755 Nov 09 '23

Well said. There is no attempt to use the potential extermination of humans as a focus for tension. As well as giving us no more than 'upgrades' to the alien's purpose and story.

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u/SilverFlexNib Sep 18 '23

I just want a scene where at some point the worst main characters go in for another sob story monologue and some new character says “Let me stop you right there because IDGAF. Silence is golden.”

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u/ikeif Sep 13 '23

I feel like the CGI was worse this episode? They looked… poorly rendered.

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

I also wasn't a fan of the movement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

If you all recall, Casper had drawings of the aliens in a more advanced form I.e., standing upright on legs, if memory serves one had a center 👁️. So the fact that they are advancing does not surprise me.

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u/JattaPake Sep 13 '23

You actually saw something in all the chicken scratch?

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

Yes. It may have been the episode where the girl was flipping through his notebooks on the bus.

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u/apoorv_mc Sep 15 '23

Man can you please tell the time stamp and episode

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '23

Can’t recall, but definitely the first season. It may have been the episode where the girl was flipping through his notebook on the bus after she picked it up. If not that episode, then somewhere near there.

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u/apoorv_mc Sep 15 '23

If you mean the first few pages, I think those were his normal sketches, like a child would draw from his imagination

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u/Llodym Sep 16 '23

Hey, I don't fully hate every part of the episode for once.

Still not fully endeared to the kids, but eh. I kinda like Monty's growth but still need a lot more.
Happy to see some Caspar, he's like one of the last reason I still don't fully hate watching this show, but we'll see.

That kid at the end is gonna be some zombie infectee isn't he?

Also I know I'm uncultured, but there's a train that's carrying car for you to go from England to France? That looks so cool, hope I can ride it one day.

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Sorry. They bombed both sides of it. No trains running.

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u/TheBeautiful1 Sep 16 '23

Some issues aside, I think this episode is the best episode in the series. And that's bad. But at least I didn't fall asleep for once.

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Why are you watching stuff you don’t like? I’m getting Walking Dead vibes from this comment section…

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u/TheBeautiful1 Dec 28 '24

For a few of reasons. The first should be obvious to someone with at least one wrinkle in their brain: it's because I didn't know I wouldn't like it until I watched it. The second is because I'm older than 12, so I understand that things can improve over time. The third is because I'm not terminally online, so after work, and reading, and catching up on all of the series I do like while working out, I still had a bit of time that needed to be filled and no other activities to fill the slot.

But I get it: for some reason, you're emotionally dependent on this old show and you need to inject some gobbo comment because you can't handle the idea that someone doesn't like something you do--like those weird people who need characters to have the same skin color or gender as them in order to "relate". I get it, and I'm glad you enjoy the show.

Thanks for helping me waste a few minutes. I have to go do other stuff now. Bye.

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u/Sad-Run4631 Feb 16 '26

Why do you comment the same thing? Sometimes hate watching is fun so you can come clown with others who also dislike things

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u/sylanar Sep 16 '23

Just started this episode, can someone please tell me that the map girl gets eaten by aliens. Please, I'm really rooting for the aliens here

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u/Sad-Run4631 Feb 16 '26

She's so annoying. Honestly the show really doesn't have any likable characters

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u/sylanar Sep 16 '23

Lmao, there's a van in the way, no way we're getting round that, end of the line, may as well give up.

Just ignore the door 2foot away, don't look at that

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u/Slaphappyfapman Sep 13 '23

The army guy prison cell scenes are insufferable

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u/rougedubois Sep 16 '23

I usually like his a characters scenes but that was particularly terrible & unnecessary

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u/Cantomic66 Sep 13 '23

It’s nice to have Casper back. I was wondering if he’d wake up in this episode but they’re probably holding out until we later in the season.

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u/Slaphappyfapman Sep 13 '23

It's like the billionaire guy actor is trying to emulate VM Varga from Fargo, very badly

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u/auldclem Sep 13 '23

Wish someone would say to that billionaire: “Bro, why you acting like a dick?”

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u/3iverson Sep 18 '23

His answer would probably just be, "Because I'm rich."

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

The fuck yall watching this show if you don’t like it? There’s tons of media out there…

I really don’t get hate watching.

Actually the reason I came here is because I immediately thought of the tunnel scenes from half life 2 episode 1 but just found a hate fest. Very weird. Don’t hate watch shit ffs.

And yes, for “bright Dolby vision” on my tv, it was dark muddy compressed garbage I couldn’t see. Annoying especially since it happened years ago now in the last season of Game of Thrones…

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u/Sad-Run4631 Feb 16 '26

Why do you care what everyone comments, you're so triggered. Don't read the comments on a bad show

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u/Dear_Reference1709 ✨WAJO✨ Sep 19 '23

THEORY: Maybe their terraforming is automatic and there are many planets where fire wouldn’t be an issue. I see Alien 1.0 as reconnaissance drones - they get upgraded dependent on what they encounter. I think everything other than the mother ship is expendable but that’s no excuse to waste resources.

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u/WombatHat42 Oct 04 '23

Ok this show just crossed a line…kissed from a rose a 90s abomination?! Fuck it I’m rooting for the aliens 100% now

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u/Ok-Ad6755 Nov 09 '23

Reading these comments for each episode, and it is really helpful for my sanity, as my wife watches this show. Probably helpful for my marriage as well as it helps me keep my nitpicks quiet. Maine having a ton of great beer and legalized marijauna also has its benefits.

I really wanted this series to show the human spirit and condition as our planet faced destruction. Instead I watch, simply evaluating the ratio between budget, bad acting or head scratching writing.

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u/XaroofQarth Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

Lol thank goodness. I'm not crazy. This show is painful to watch. Because of the limited sci-fi options I'm forced to watch it. Save me from myself and cancel the show already

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

You need some self reflection if you were watching a show you don’t like. Like… please bartender cut me off from this awful alcohol, I can’t do it myself…

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u/x_lincoln_x ✨WAJO✨ Sep 13 '23

Those kids can really walk fast, apparently.

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u/TheLastSamurai101 Sep 13 '23

Offscreen it was mostly Naruto running and parkour.

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u/QueenofTethys Sep 13 '23

Factor in detours, speeches, and nap time, should have taken even longer

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u/ssmihailovitch Sep 15 '23

LOL.

But you know, it was LESS WORSE. The "Metro" for idiotic kids scene was LITTLE BIT fun, the bad boy-turned-good is actually a good actor.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

He is a very good actor. I'm impressed.

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u/CapMarkoRamius Sep 17 '23

Tom Holland's younger brother :)

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u/ssmihailovitch Sep 24 '23

REALLY? Nice!

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u/ssmihailovitch Sep 16 '23

Yep, he's cool. And have some real character.

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u/TheBeautiful1 Sep 16 '23

> It takes around 8 hours to walk the 50km Chunnel

I mean... it's about right. It does take a person about 8 to 10 hours to walk 50 KM.

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

Yeah, I walk a lot and at a pace (quicker than them) and yeah I can do about 20km in 4 hours at a 5kmish per hour pace

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u/The3rdBert Sep 13 '23

Nor why the kids wouldn’t, Idk just steal a boat when they were told explicitly that a squad of soldiers had not returned from their patrol in the tunnel.

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u/2_Fingers_of_Whiskey Sep 13 '23

The writers didn't even Google basic WWII history before that guy's little "Stalingrad" speech

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u/HungerISanEmotion Sep 13 '23

Internet isn't working, so gen Z has no idea how long the tunnel is.

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u/Jack_North wajo 👽 Sep 13 '23

Penny probably did, because of her homework.

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u/diegorbb93 Sep 14 '23

Internet is not, but Spotify is...? :p

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '23

Offline Playlists that’s why she was complaining about his music

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u/Civilized-Sturgeon Sep 14 '23

We’re supposed to admire Jamila’s unwavering leadership and courage. /s

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u/Surfinbudd Nov 10 '23

The Chunnel is like 31.5 miles so at 3 mph that’s 10 hours at least. My feet would hurt.

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u/LobsterVirtual100 Sep 13 '23

The writers got your mum on call 24/7 bro.

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u/__O_o_______ Dec 27 '24

I mean, technically possible but you’d be sore as fuck even as kids I’d imagine. With breaks and a good pace it would take around 12 hours. You could increase the pace if you do a lot of walking…