An alternate Earth is discovered somehow, and for unknown reasons the mission to explore it comes back to a ruined Earth.

The writing is just terrible; I don’t know what the fuck they were thinking with the plot or the world-building.

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1:30 — February 2049
5:30 — Blood transfusion (but science fiction)
- The vomiting suggests something akin to chemotherapy.
6:30 — See also the drake equation and The Drake Equation is bullshit.
25:30 — Wouldn’t the girl have a personnel record or something?
31:15 — Oh, is that supposed to be a young George Clooney?
38:15 — I don’t know what movie this is.
41:15 — So the dying satellite could be used as a relay..
42:00 — I don’t understand.. why are they off course?
50:30 — So what’s the deal with her pregnancy? It’s the tail end of a two year mission, which means she got pregnant during..
59:45 — Why would there be wolves up that far?
1:01:00 — He shoots her; roll credits.
1:04:15 — Oh! Now I realise the second bowl of cereal might have been poured by Iris.
1:16:30 — Why do we care about this? I don’t know what’s going on and it’s not particularly interesting..
1:18:30 — Sweet Caroline – (1969 song), by Neil Diamond
1:23:00 — Get her inside?
1:23:30 — Maybe there should have been monitoring on O₂ changes over time to learn if there are any problems?
1:26:00 — This entire bit is where this movie falls down. Right from the spacewalk to here. Everything comes across poorly.
1:38:00 — Maybe donate some sperm before you suicide?
1:47:30 — Oh fuck, this is just winding down.. there might have been a hopeful ending somehow, but they didn’t bother.

The fuck. The ending is just awful.

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