Just finished watching the last episode of Nightflyers and am totally baffled by what "they" did not find.
What did they find, anyway?
Now I'm no sci-fi techi astrophysicist graduate but I do have an over abundant common sense, analytical mind and the entire story makes no sense. (BTW-don't ever say that Star Trek and Star Wars are just westerns in space, at least the stories have relevance, purpose and a satisfying ending.) Nightflyers was nothing of the sort. The only purpose I could gather from watching the entire series was that the mission parameter was to make contact with an alien race that could possibly provide scientists the knowledge to save a dying earth. Did that happen? I find no where in the story that it did. Maybe you had to read the book.
As far as I can tell Thale never made contact with the Volchryn, and if he did he never received the information that was supposed to be retrieved about how to save Earth.
This story if you can call it that was nothing more than a confabulation of disjointed subplots that had no relevance to the actual definition of the main plot. Anyone who watched it can fill in the blanks. it was a waste of time with no meaningful outcome, other than B'branin being reunited with his family and now living daughter possibly by the influence of the Volchryn.
But why was the main title called Nighflyers? The name of the space craft was called Nightflyer.
Whatever point George R.R. Martin was trying to convey I think he missed the mark especially in the science fiction genre. I think he just stick with pre-medieval fantasy with his novels in "A Song of Ice and Fire."
What did they find, anyway?
Now I'm no sci-fi techi astrophysicist graduate but I do have an over abundant common sense, analytical mind and the entire story makes no sense. (BTW-don't ever say that Star Trek and Star Wars are just westerns in space, at least the stories have relevance, purpose and a satisfying ending.) Nightflyers was nothing of the sort. The only purpose I could gather from watching the entire series was that the mission parameter was to make contact with an alien race that could possibly provide scientists the knowledge to save a dying earth. Did that happen? I find no where in the story that it did. Maybe you had to read the book.
As far as I can tell Thale never made contact with the Volchryn, and if he did he never received the information that was supposed to be retrieved about how to save Earth.
This story if you can call it that was nothing more than a confabulation of disjointed subplots that had no relevance to the actual definition of the main plot. Anyone who watched it can fill in the blanks. it was a waste of time with no meaningful outcome, other than B'branin being reunited with his family and now living daughter possibly by the influence of the Volchryn.
But why was the main title called Nighflyers? The name of the space craft was called Nightflyer.
Whatever point George R.R. Martin was trying to convey I think he missed the mark especially in the science fiction genre. I think he just stick with pre-medieval fantasy with his novels in "A Song of Ice and Fire."
