Disclaimer: I missed last week’s episodes “More in Heaven and Earth” and “Incursion”. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to watch the episodes yet. So if impression or slight confusion occur in these episodes, I apologize now. Stepping back into the show, the biggest thing that I recognized was how slowly things move in this show.…
Ethan was never programmed to dream, yet minutes into the episode he was awoken to a nightmare. It wasn’t just fear of the dream, but fear from an entirely new experience that clearly wasn’t pleasant. He shouldn’t be dreaming, but the fact that he is poses interesting prospects for the future of his character as…
Molly really is a character of poor circumstance. everything in her life seems to be going poorly and all her hallucinations and bad dreams are not helping them. After her impromptu surgery the night before, they didn’t even have the decency to bring her back to safety. Instead, they dropped her in the middle of…
The family is on the run now with Ethan in the back. They are afraid of being tracked, with good reason, to the point that they disabled Ethan’s tracking. Sometimes you forget that Ethan is not real in moments when he acts just like a normal kid, only to be reminded by an action of…
This week we learned how Molly and John came to be the parents of Ethan. It turns out that Ethan was going to go to another family for beta testing. Which happened to be around the same time that Molly learned that she was potentially going to be one of the scientists sent to live…
Eggs can stand up straight without falling over. Yes, I am taking not of the little things that like to show themselves as evidence that this is the near future. Oh and there are games with lasers and metal ball bearings. I don’t really get it, but it was’t for me to get but to…
At first glance Extant is wonderfully futuristic. Thankfully, it also seems to have character drama down so far. However, ignoring the technology would be foolish as it adds another layer to the story.. It’s clear that Extant is here to focus on the every day the normal life that is fighting to be exceptional. The…
So, I pondered... 