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In order to better control the people, the rulers generally make up some beautiful dreams/liees for the people and let people give up resistance. Some people will have doubts, the rulers will adjust their dreams/lie, and sometimes take some intimidation until the people completely give up resistance.

This isn't good. The dead eyed creepy humans are more terrifying than the "twist" ending. For a short film, spends more time with a pointless sex scene than it does humanizing any of its characters. Honestly, I think the entire thing was made for the horror shot of the "monster" at the end and an excuse to do some almost but not quite photo realistic nudity. Major spoilers follow. It has nothing to say. The twist that he's in some sort of organic object that has a weird alien that is objectively ugly isn't explored. With so much time spent getting to this point there is no time left to dig into anything interesting. Is this creature (or creatures) trying to help him? Is it a trap? Does it feed off him in some way? The other crew members are dead so why did the creature pretend to wake up his shipmate and why did that fake version of her lash out in a way to make him suspicious? No relationships were even established with the other crew members so why did we even need not one but two? The time spent introducing them could have been spent exploring these questions. Instead the story is all set up and this is a set up that has been done before. The small hints it gives to an explanation could have taken the tropes in an interesting direction but instead we got uncanny valley sex.

I think the best thing about this episode is not being sure if that alien creature is really friendly or not, I mean how can we know if those ships really stop there by coincidence or are they captured in some way?

The short film still hints that the creature killed Tom's friend since he was unable to create an alternative reality for her, which reinforces the fact that maybe that station is really a trap since she claims to be sure she has programmed the right route .

But can that be just another alternative reality, where this time only Tom was able to wake up, can this creature be so emotionally connected and have this sensitivity to those who crash in their "nest"? Or does it just play with its prey before devouring? (as many animal species do).

In any case, it is disturbing to think that we are cared for by a creature as monstrous as that while we remain trapped in a "Matrix".

First off, the CGI is stunning. It is really high quality stuff. Same goes for the acting and music. Definitely a high quality production.

This is delightfully scary and intriguing at the same time. At the end we are absolutely sure that Thom is in a lot of trouble, likely doomed, but not exactly sure what. Is he trapped in some sort of nightmare? Or if it's real, is he trapped at an alien station? By accident or purpose? Is "Greta" a predatory being or trying to ease his suffering, or both perhaps? Is "she" also trapped or setting the trap or something else? We don't really know for sure, but that is ok. I've watched it a few times to try and make sense of it, but have failed to come to a definite conclusion.

It was good, it was definitely good. The animation was obviously just incredibly detailed and very very very beautiful. It's just that the mouths were a bit strange, and sometimes I thought the facial expression didn't match the tone of voice. I wasn't entirely convinced by the voice acting either honestly. Also, how many of these are gonna end with some kind of Groundhog Day twist? It was a pretty cool and very disturbing ending but I wasn't entirely won over by it. It was a cool episode but like a couple of the others I've seen so far, I think it was a missed opportunity

High 7