Season 1, Episode 3
Date of release: December 24, 2021 (Netflix)
Written by: Park Eun-kyo
Directed by: Choi Hang-yong
”It didn't seem human to me, sir.”
“But it took the sample. If that creature was aware of the sample's value, then it is most likely human.”
If a creature knows an object's value, it means that the creature has intelligence. It doesn't mean that the creature is human. Just look at what is happening on real-life Earth right now... Humans clearly don't have intelligence, because they don't know what the value of Democracy is.
The show is almost halfway through, and the characters don't even know if they are dealing with an extraterrestrial or just a very murder-hungry human survivor of the incident. Three episodes in, and the show was keeping its narrative on a tight leash. It knew how to keep secrets from the viewers, and how to stall the storytelling so that nothing of absolute importance happens immediately. Heck, Dr. Song was looking for the data center this entire time and couldn't find it. Probably because it has answers to many of the characters' questions, but revealing those answers before the fifth episode would be too early for some reason, so Dr. Song kept searching for the damn place.
But the addition of the intruder added some additional horror elements to the show that I liked. Especially how the hunt for the intruder as resembling the first two ALIEN films, with some of the characters crouching through the vents to hunt the intruder that can only be seen as a blinking, moving light on a handheld tracking device, and with Dr. Song initially acting like Ripley trying to get to Newt when she was holding tight, hoping to get a good look on the intruder. The show should have more of those scenes, but I can already see that, with all the conspiracy thriller elements surrounding the accident and the secrets, it will go in a different direction soon.
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| Crew member Soochan turns into a geyser. |
