Season 1, Episode 4
Date of release: December 24, 2021 (Netflix)
Written by: Park Eun-kyo
Directed by: Choi Hang-yong
”If you're hiding information that could jeopardize the safety of myself and my crew, completing the mission is no longer my priority.”
This show has a little bit of LOST in it. Not just the way it stalls time and refuses to give answers to some of the characters' questions, but also the way the camera slowly went down the shaft of plants, reminiscent of the final seconds of the first season finale of LOST. Granted, the Balhae Station is multiple levels deep (Captain Han just climbed down to the valley of the canyon, so it's at least deep enough to justify the existence of an elevator), but maybe the characters just discovered that there is more to the station than the hallways and doors they see and walk past every time. Maybe the station has secret levels that would prove the scientists were not only dealing with lunar water research, but also some other, more shady and illegal, things. Because if you have a huge station like Balhae, then researching other stuff that doesn't have anything to do with lunar water would be a given.
But it's getting a little disappointing how the show treats the mystery of the plot. Captain Han was at the bottom of the station, unconscious due to depleted oxygen – I would love to know how he got back up to the main part of the station. When he fell and his colleagues were worried about him, a shadow seemed to have made its way above the Captain, making me think that some unknown person (maybe the intruder/survivor) would drag him back into the station for safety. But Han just popped up with the others again; he doesn't ask any questions about how he got back up again, and not even his colleagues seem to wonder how he got rescued. So, either there was a scene or two missing on how Han was brought back into the station, or THE SILENT SEA has just proven itself to be a show that doesn't care that much about the mystery part of its mystery box plot.
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