I find it a little odd to complain that the women on the show are defined by parenthood when every aspect of the entire show is about parenthood.

Same here but turns out I'm very tired of Scott's preachy BS and unbelievably stupid character building. Much like the biologist in Promethius who did something no biologist would ever do, here we have an all powerful Android who can grow a litter of humans in vitro and with a scream disrupt the entire biology of…

It’s not human instinct to believe that there is an invisible ultimate authority, and that if you entreat the ultimate authority it might help you out. Humans have an innate strong urge to recognize and understand patterns. A human might start to believe that bees are tiny gods because the flowers always bloom when…

To each their own, but this is literally all I see when they are on the screen.

Yeah, in a world with killer androids and interstellar travel, I honestly did find the whole new religion thing by 2146 the least plausible. Unless actual Sol descended from the heavens and like cured a plague or something, I don’t see that happening. It’d be like if, I don’t know, we were all Transcendentalists now.

Damn, I wanted to like this because I love hard sci-fi. I don’t even mind Ridley’s religious and anti-abortion agendas, but it is just not doing it for me. Every time I see the Mithraic running around in those costumes I think I am watching Monty Python’s Holy Grail. And if the Mithraic have been battling android for…

> I want to learn more about why having two gendered parents was so important to the atheists who reject religion but embrace…heteronormative android parenting?

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

To teach the children how to rear their offspring in the standard mother-father-child relationship. Breeding, after all, requires a…

Let's not forget that Ridley Scott lost his shot at filming "Dune" because he wanted to add incest between Paul and Jessica.

How does the surviving kid come up with praying?  Who is the kid praying to?  Why does the kid think that praying will help the outcome?  Those notions are implanted into heads.  Mother is pretty adamant that there is no deity.  We don’t get to see Father very much.  Was he programmed to subtly introduce those ideas? …

Its the whole atheism = enlightenment idea that is just plain wrong. Tons of atheists are homophobic misogynistic asshole and there are plenty of religious people are not.

I’m fine with them no wearing helmets. I don’t understand why the androids don’t have any kind of medical moves they can make. No medicines? “The child is coughing. This One projects 50/50 chance of survival. This One will continue the Lesson.” That’s the kind of parents they were programmed to be?

I watched it and I think the kids may have just died from getting sick, like kids do. I assume the android must not have packed antibiotics and Tylenol.

The Ridley Scott - Android Timeline:

My best friend had a newborn when Handmaid’s Tale (TV show) first came out. I kept telling her to watch it because we both love dystopia and Margaret Atwood. She finally snapped at me that she was having enough issues stressing about her new baby and post-pregnancy recovery that she didn’t need to watch a show where…

I’m always interested in new sci fi/fantasy shows, but sadly this one sounds very child endangerment-heavy, and I don’t think I’d be able to handle it.  Parenthood does strange things to brain chemistry.  

Those skintight bodysuits give me severe anxiety. If this is the future, I’m glad I’ll be dead before it gets here, because I am NOT wearing that.

They must be following Space Marine rules:

[Interior: NASA]

The issue is that the show draws attention to this specific issue when those four kids die of disease, presumably contracted from something on the planet that they’re not immune to.

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