User Reviews

This is one of the most disturbing episodes of the show, and that's saying a lot. First off, the animation blew me away, it was so fluid! The story is simple, but told perfectly due to the tight pacing. It was never dull, and I was on the edge of my seat from beginning to end. It had so many amazing moments, like the first fight with the crab, the drawing of straws, the "anonymous" voting, and torrin vs his crewmates. But by far the best part of the episode was the ending, it looked incredible. Absolutely stunning episode. 9/10.

Democracy Utilitarianism Selfishness

In the beginning you could figure that Torrin was a man of justice and democracy. Him holding the elections and being just in the path of injustice. Though when he began killing people I thought he was power-hungry and not unlike any other person on that ship. "Every one of you made an X". That made everything make sense, all of his horrid actions were all justified. His utilitarian mindset is an interesting mindset to study and therefore very interesting to se what an utilitarian man could be able to do facing that decision.

Thrilling, intense yet thought provoking.

While inside the story Torrin justified his actions with an intended spoiler(which to anyone would have been obvious prior to the reveal), the question lingers in my mind: Was it really justifiable that Torrin was willing to sacrifice the lives of his crew over an island of strangers, especially given that he's made a deal with the beast to secure his own life? It's similar to the classic train quiz "would you sacrifice one person's life to save more than one's"? What makes one person's life(or in this case more than one's) more valuable than that of another?

Some may say the crew members choosing their own lives over the islanders' sealed their fate of getting brutally murdered. But if the situation was reversed, would the islanders do the same choosing their and their loved ones' lives over strangers? In which case, how would that be different from the brother on the ship protecting his and the life of his brother?

What if his plan to save the islanders fails and it ends up costing everyone's lives including that of those whom he tried to save, except his?

What if the islanders he tried to save turned out to be, according to his moral compass, evil?

There's relativity is good and evil. We could even see things from the beast's point of view: a hungry mother who just wants to feeds her off-springs..

Honestly I was hoping there was more before the credit rolled. I feel that in some ways Torrin is no more or less "guilty" than those got punished for merely wanting survival.

This is more of a review of the story, than the overall (visual and audio) of the episode.

While the episode is exciting to watch, I can't stop thinking what a bad message it delivers. And from reading most user review praising the story, I kind of worry what our society has become.

First, about the vote to decide if the ship should be headed to a populated island (as the monster demanded), or to a deserted island. There should be a third option. Since there is at least one escape boat, there should be another option: Try to kill the monster along with the ship; and escape with the boat(s) -- basically Torrin's plan at the end, but with more survivors.

If the third option is presented during the vote, most likely half of the crews would vote for this. I say this because the other options are just really bad (morally bad or have slim chance of survival).

The second point is, there is a message in the story that: if a person thinks doing thing a certain way is good, then it is okay for him to kill everyone else if all of them oppose him. If it is not dictatorship, I don't know what is.

If all the other crew members have decided to do thing one way, what gives Torrin the power to not listen to them and kill them all? The proper way in a democratic society is that, there should be discussions and compromise from each side. And ultimately people should get to a solution that is not absolutely one-sided. If the whole crew can include the life boat into the discussion, I am sure they can come up with a better solution where the monster would be killed, and with more survivors (possibly all can survive if they can string together floating devices to the life boat).

Visually this animation is pretty great. Just that the story, and other users reaction, is disturbing.

It takes a lot to get me invested in a trope as old as "captain fends off a mutiny," but hot damn; this one did it for me. The writing was fantastically done, and for the life of me I couldn't poke a single hole in the plot or the characters' motivations.

The pacing was perfect. This is a story that could not have been told well in less than 20 minutes, and would not work if stretched out to a feature. In my opinion, this is the the sort of story the short film format exists to serve. Bravo!

I initially rated this a 9, but after considering I truly can't find a single thing to nitpick. If that's not 10/10 material, what is?

This episode is insane. One of the best episodes of the series. Amazing tone, suspenseful scenes. You can really understand where everyone (even the giant crab) is coming from. A highlight of the show. I forgot how much of a great director David Fincher is.

Nothing else to say really. Despair, hard choices and a brilliant Monster that could exist like this inside the Cthulhu mythos. Probably the best Episode all around. Also the animation and voice acting is flawless.

A great story told in a short amount of time. I'm so glad they ended it right when he rowed his boat. It's dark and unforgiving but despite all that there's a glimmer of humanity in the main character who do the right thing to saves hundreds of people that he may not even know. Honestly the best episode of this series so far. It's so bleak but hopeful in a way. I absolutely love this type of story where they never made a point that the main character is a good person but he did the right thing in the end. I love it!

There is a message in the story that: if a person thinks doing things in a certain way is good, then it is okay for him to kill everyone who oppose him.

This kinda killed the point of him "saving" civillians who might just have defeated the creature without any casualties and for people that most definitely wouldnt have sacrificed their lives as the antagonist expected his crew to do when there were better options to begin with. But because of an anonymous vote which some of them never would have acted on if a certain person didnt push them and tell eveyone the crab badly wants to go there and "it's anonymous trust me" wink* wink*. That wouldnt even be on the radar. Did that crab even talk or did he just troll everyone?

Story -10/10 Animation - 10/10.