Wallfacer
- Episode aired Mar 21, 2024
- TV-MA
- 57m
A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.A high-level operation upends Saul's life. With emotions and expectations high, the probe launches into space as humanity enters a daunting new era.
- Anwar Suleiman
- (as Stephen Rahman-Hughes)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Mission Director is played by Bobak Ferdowsi. He is a flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.. He became an internet sensation with his Mohawk hairstyle with stars shaved on the sides.
- GoofsThe tether snapping would not cause the probe's course to change in the manner shown. It might start a rotation that would prevent alignment with the next bomb however.
- Quotes
Charles: Are you injured?
Saul Durand: I'm okay
Charles: I'm sorry
Saul Durand: You shot me with a sniper rifle! You're sorry?
Charles: Sorry, I didn't aim for your head. Then my mission would be complete and you would be free of yours.
Saul Durand: I'm already free of mine. I told the Secretary General I rejected the Wallfacer position. Your superiors wasted an assassin.
Charles: You're a funny man.
Saul Durand: I'm just telling you the truth.
Charles: You think you're clever. It's not your fault. I thought I was clever too, before I learned the truth.
Saul Durand: Which truth?
Charles: You call them "My superiors," but they're your superiors too
Saul Durand: If they're so fucking superior, why do they care if I live or die?
Charles: I don't know.
Saul Durand: You tried to murder a man that you've never met, on the directive of aliens that you've never met? Why! What the fuck is wrong with you?
Charles: I've gone to be a soldier in the Army of the Lord.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but boy was this a disappointing end to the series, I know it is what it is, but this lacked tension, lacked excitement, after so much promise and build up, it just limped over the finish line.
I quite liked the ambiguity of it, it's so complex and layered, that it was never going to be all nicely tied up like some whodunnit, it was always going to be a mystery unanswered, but they didn't answer anything at all, this felt like a middle episode, not a finale.
I'll try and explain my disappointment, compared to much of what I've seen in recent times, it was very good, compared to mid series episodes, it just wasn't in the same league, it felt like they took their eye off the game just for a moment.
Still no news of a second series, I hope there is a second series, because this deserves a quality conclusion, please don't let this excellent series end with this.
Good, but should have been great.
6/10.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Mar 30, 2024
Details
- Runtime57 minutes
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