I love the show and i loved this episode, but it didn't have any reasons or meanings for what they were doing in it, all actions from the characters cant make any sense!
20 Reviews
Its good but it doesn't make any sense
aboalhyjaa27 September 2020
Loving the mix of tecno sci-fi and wild frontier
vwvoyager27 January 2021
Because season two has started I began watching season one
kw-192-48755527 February 2022
Ridley Scott's creation and updated version of not only a dystopian future but also a reminder of the fallacies of present day human society, is worth watching especially when combined with cool cinematography (literally) and mesmerizing original series soundtrack. Throw in Travis Fimmel from Vikings for good measure and this series is pretty darn good. As for this episode, the story takes a precarious turn and I can't wait to see which direction it goes and how it is ultimately resolved.
The House of Heaven's Ruins
theminorityreporter1 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
A self-defeating fool defaces himself with arbitrary precision, insisting that he knows who he is. All he finds underneath is bone. He then dangles Paul by his tail, equating punishment with love and saying he needs to teach him to be a survivor. Campion meanwhile digs a hole with disappointment; trying to escape before it becomes an even dozen, and Hunter diagnoses an unfeeling mechanism in 'Father', finding nothing but hollowness and primitive code.
Mother enters the guts of Heaven's ruins where some dummies hang around, and hooks herself up to one for a transfusion. The dummy comes around and notices his blood levels are dropping. He says "What are you doing? I'm a doctor, not a blood bag", but he's not the real McCoy. He confirms his qualifications: he's part mechanic, part gardener, part veterinarian, part physician. And he's a bug hobbyist. He gets an A+ for producing a diagnosis and (radical) treatment plan using almost no information to guide his decision.
As Mary-Sue and Paul plan a getaway adventure, she recalls being tortured and they'll have to keep their escape a secret from 'Dad' because they don't want any more surprises.
Per the advisement of her faceless doctor, Mother cuts her abdomen open with a knife. This does not relieve her discomfort. He charmingly advises her to dig her fingers inside her bloody wound and they chat about how it might be difficult for him to care for the colonists (but luckily, they won't be requiring his medical attention). She notes the presence of a mass or foreign body and then follows his next directive, removing her eyeball from its socket and stuffing it into the gaping hole in her abdomen. His diagnosis protocols say it's the former and he inevitably agrees, advising next that she reach into her guts with her hand to unscrew and remove the unit using a counter-clockwise motion. She's unable to remove it and she gives him an abundance of data indicating that it may be organic. He arrives at an incidentally pertinent question from the incorrect assumption that it's not organic, asking if she's been in contact with any foreign entities. She says no and he particularly pleasantly prescribes the final treatment plan to deliberately do harm by feeding the foreign body so that it will become massive.
Campion's supply of shrooms is next replenished by a somewhat more contentious friend.
'His Eminence' has become devout virtually overnight and he prays a little too fervently at the gravestones in the semi-house of 'Heaven' with Paul at his side. He defines the terms of belief and arranges that Paul will have to ditch his skeptic friend in order to stay 'pure'.
Mary-Sue takes it as a compliment when 'His Eminence' notes that she never cracked under torture (on their first 'date'), problematically. They have a touching connection and there's a flashback to when they crashed the boarding party at the ark. A voice over the loudspeaker advises that only designated passengers will be granted entry, and so we can just feel bad for them because if they don't commit then they may get left behind. Touchingly, it's all about them and they're all that matters. They run for the checkpoint after an explosion from a suicide bomber of their own kind.
The devout sit around playing games and swearing at each other and Paul disobeys 'His Eminence', bringing Campion another care package. He's cornered up against the silo by 'Dad' who's come to the reasonable conclusion that Paul and 'Mom' might leave him. 'Mom' intervenes, attempting to handle the man by brute force and he (unsurprisingly) hauls her off and locks her in a silo. She very impressively screams through the door at him and so he very impressively screams back and so she screams again. She's very impressively useless to Paul and she sinks down to the floor in her jail cell. He's very impressively useless to Paul and he marshals the devout to prayer for the soul of his wayward wife.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she sometimes suffers from impulses not dictated by programming. Surrounded by a hanging garden of dismembered dummies, she feeds the foreign body fuel-blood as her limp doctor notes that her kind was always full of surprises. When she runs out of dummies she escalates and kills a creature, stringing it up as a blood donor, and with his final breath her doctor indirectly acknowledges half rightly the hypothesis that the "growth" might have carbon-based components. Well, he might have saved the world, but he's just not a very good doctor - I mean mechanic - I mean veterinarian.
Campion claws his way out of jail and sets the semi-church on fire, hiding for a bitter moment to behold his hellish blaze and then scurrying away into the woods. 'Father' follows in pursuit, axe in hand. In the woods, Campion pointlessly slings a rock at 'Father' The Colossal Machine That Requires Special Technique To Decommission And Never Goes Down For Long, but then he feels bad and apologizes as he approaches 'Father' hoping he's Father. When Campion comes near, 'Father' is compelled by a programming cue to raise the axe to its apex and swing it at Campion with a massive lunge. Campion turns and runs, so 'Father' then throws the axe at him with equally deadly force. Campion barely makes it away alive.
During the chaos of the fire, Paul breaks 'Mom' out of jail. She discovers the getaway vehicle's been sabotaged and so she leads Paul, Holly and Vita into the woods on foot. She doesn't know where she's going.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she has an impulse to acquire nourishment from non-viable food sources that she can kill herself, including Tempest. After shrieking Tempest away, she returns to the Wreckage Sim for answers and is advised by an unidentifiable entity that she's been gifted a child and that the other children were just practice for her glorious true mission as the new mother of humanity. She wakes up to a cold present.
Mother enters the guts of Heaven's ruins where some dummies hang around, and hooks herself up to one for a transfusion. The dummy comes around and notices his blood levels are dropping. He says "What are you doing? I'm a doctor, not a blood bag", but he's not the real McCoy. He confirms his qualifications: he's part mechanic, part gardener, part veterinarian, part physician. And he's a bug hobbyist. He gets an A+ for producing a diagnosis and (radical) treatment plan using almost no information to guide his decision.
As Mary-Sue and Paul plan a getaway adventure, she recalls being tortured and they'll have to keep their escape a secret from 'Dad' because they don't want any more surprises.
Per the advisement of her faceless doctor, Mother cuts her abdomen open with a knife. This does not relieve her discomfort. He charmingly advises her to dig her fingers inside her bloody wound and they chat about how it might be difficult for him to care for the colonists (but luckily, they won't be requiring his medical attention). She notes the presence of a mass or foreign body and then follows his next directive, removing her eyeball from its socket and stuffing it into the gaping hole in her abdomen. His diagnosis protocols say it's the former and he inevitably agrees, advising next that she reach into her guts with her hand to unscrew and remove the unit using a counter-clockwise motion. She's unable to remove it and she gives him an abundance of data indicating that it may be organic. He arrives at an incidentally pertinent question from the incorrect assumption that it's not organic, asking if she's been in contact with any foreign entities. She says no and he particularly pleasantly prescribes the final treatment plan to deliberately do harm by feeding the foreign body so that it will become massive.
Campion's supply of shrooms is next replenished by a somewhat more contentious friend.
'His Eminence' has become devout virtually overnight and he prays a little too fervently at the gravestones in the semi-house of 'Heaven' with Paul at his side. He defines the terms of belief and arranges that Paul will have to ditch his skeptic friend in order to stay 'pure'.
Mary-Sue takes it as a compliment when 'His Eminence' notes that she never cracked under torture (on their first 'date'), problematically. They have a touching connection and there's a flashback to when they crashed the boarding party at the ark. A voice over the loudspeaker advises that only designated passengers will be granted entry, and so we can just feel bad for them because if they don't commit then they may get left behind. Touchingly, it's all about them and they're all that matters. They run for the checkpoint after an explosion from a suicide bomber of their own kind.
The devout sit around playing games and swearing at each other and Paul disobeys 'His Eminence', bringing Campion another care package. He's cornered up against the silo by 'Dad' who's come to the reasonable conclusion that Paul and 'Mom' might leave him. 'Mom' intervenes, attempting to handle the man by brute force and he (unsurprisingly) hauls her off and locks her in a silo. She very impressively screams through the door at him and so he very impressively screams back and so she screams again. She's very impressively useless to Paul and she sinks down to the floor in her jail cell. He's very impressively useless to Paul and he marshals the devout to prayer for the soul of his wayward wife.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she sometimes suffers from impulses not dictated by programming. Surrounded by a hanging garden of dismembered dummies, she feeds the foreign body fuel-blood as her limp doctor notes that her kind was always full of surprises. When she runs out of dummies she escalates and kills a creature, stringing it up as a blood donor, and with his final breath her doctor indirectly acknowledges half rightly the hypothesis that the "growth" might have carbon-based components. Well, he might have saved the world, but he's just not a very good doctor - I mean mechanic - I mean veterinarian.
Campion claws his way out of jail and sets the semi-church on fire, hiding for a bitter moment to behold his hellish blaze and then scurrying away into the woods. 'Father' follows in pursuit, axe in hand. In the woods, Campion pointlessly slings a rock at 'Father' The Colossal Machine That Requires Special Technique To Decommission And Never Goes Down For Long, but then he feels bad and apologizes as he approaches 'Father' hoping he's Father. When Campion comes near, 'Father' is compelled by a programming cue to raise the axe to its apex and swing it at Campion with a massive lunge. Campion turns and runs, so 'Father' then throws the axe at him with equally deadly force. Campion barely makes it away alive.
During the chaos of the fire, Paul breaks 'Mom' out of jail. She discovers the getaway vehicle's been sabotaged and so she leads Paul, Holly and Vita into the woods on foot. She doesn't know where she's going.
Mother only knows what she's been programmed to believe, much is beyond her understanding, and she has an impulse to acquire nourishment from non-viable food sources that she can kill herself, including Tempest. After shrieking Tempest away, she returns to the Wreckage Sim for answers and is advised by an unidentifiable entity that she's been gifted a child and that the other children were just practice for her glorious true mission as the new mother of humanity. She wakes up to a cold present.
1x08
formotog22 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I liked this episode a lot, and I don't understand why other people don't seem to like it that much. We've only just discovered that Mother is pregnant, we haven't even had time for an explanation yet like chill. I personally think it's a cool concept and I'm looking forward to seeing how they handle it. As for the rest of the episode, the visuals and music continue to be brilliant. I think the direction Marcus has gone is great, and so long as it doesn't go overboard, which so far it hasn't, it's definitely a logical and interesting intersection between atheism and religion. We also got a bit more insight into what earth was like under mythraicism, and it gave some Handmaid's Tale vibes. I'm more interested in the current story, but the use of flashbacks like that in the show are always engaging. There was some really great tension at the end with the pregnancy reveal and Sue and the kids fleeing, and Marcus has pretty much lost the plot. Looking forward to the rest
High 7
High 7
Taking it into the unknown
nitsua12525 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I feel compelled to write a review at this point because it seems a few 'reviewers' are uncomfortable with an original direction.
The fact that we have now progressed on to something completely unheard of seems not to sit well with people. The whole series has been building up to this incredible twist, we have an android who is programmed for motherhood and is now also pregnant (somehow). We don't yet know if this is part of her programming or a 'Virus', meanwhile, mirroring this, an adopted mother is learning what it means to be a mother as the 'father' and person she loves is descending into madness. At this point we are still unsure if there is an explanation for the voices in his head; there very well could be some mysterious deity at work on this supposedly uninhabited planet which we have now learned has some strange creatures living on it.
The show is taking our preconceived notions about both religion and atheism and turning it on its head episode to episode. Wherever you stand on that there's definitely something interesting to be found in 'Raised By Wolves'. Ignore the bad reviews, I feel like people are getting annoyed that it doesn't fit their preconceived notion of the sci-fi genre.
The fact that we have now progressed on to something completely unheard of seems not to sit well with people. The whole series has been building up to this incredible twist, we have an android who is programmed for motherhood and is now also pregnant (somehow). We don't yet know if this is part of her programming or a 'Virus', meanwhile, mirroring this, an adopted mother is learning what it means to be a mother as the 'father' and person she loves is descending into madness. At this point we are still unsure if there is an explanation for the voices in his head; there very well could be some mysterious deity at work on this supposedly uninhabited planet which we have now learned has some strange creatures living on it.
The show is taking our preconceived notions about both religion and atheism and turning it on its head episode to episode. Wherever you stand on that there's definitely something interesting to be found in 'Raised By Wolves'. Ignore the bad reviews, I feel like people are getting annoyed that it doesn't fit their preconceived notion of the sci-fi genre.
In case you were unaware
plasmaxyz24 September 2020
Great creation, by Ridley Scott
trokanmariel-177609 December 2020
Warning: Spoilers
An idea which has no value, because it is laboured upon creation or inspiration by the work of art, and a product description which mirrors its own analysis (or self-analysis). The path can be continued. Outside the three act structure debate (the debate of either/or - should there or should there not be the three act structure review-structure), there is the thing-ism of the episode itself versus the thing-ism debate from the episode's creation of labour.
Father tries to kill Campion. As a result, the thing-ism value of said episode has had its rug pulled from underneath it. The dimension of labour-creation has become the new thing-ism. Time for no more continuance, but to assess the meaning.
Thing-ism means results speak for themselves.
The three act structure is a presumed method, of resolution. But then that's the futility of commentary; by default, thing-ism means the stuff, ergo, there was never any method for the three act structure to beat thing-ism.
For general notice: the Campion idea, of long hair being ruled instead of ruling is an over the board pleasure in relation to the rest of the show's thing-ism debates
Father tries to kill Campion. As a result, the thing-ism value of said episode has had its rug pulled from underneath it. The dimension of labour-creation has become the new thing-ism. Time for no more continuance, but to assess the meaning.
Thing-ism means results speak for themselves.
The three act structure is a presumed method, of resolution. But then that's the futility of commentary; by default, thing-ism means the stuff, ergo, there was never any method for the three act structure to beat thing-ism.
For general notice: the Campion idea, of long hair being ruled instead of ruling is an over the board pleasure in relation to the rest of the show's thing-ism debates
Stumbling from Sci-Fi straight to Fantasy...
allnewsuperfake31 October 2020
Meh - Looks so good, yet feels very sloppy
chaakar25 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Ok, well, I guess they tied up the whimsical -out-of-left-field- sexual relationship between Mother and her Creator, but c'mon now, we went with the whole all-powerful Necromancer thing, and now we have to further suspend disbelief about a (physically) virgin machine carrying a novel lifeform that must be sustained off of any kind of blood Mother can happen to funnel into herself... and oh, all of this just happens to be what she was originally reprogrammed for, only it's impossible for her to have discovered this unless a Mithraic ship crashes, making the simulation (sex) pods available to her.
There is obviously a magical component to the Necromancer tech, as well as this planet (with ghosts and a giant geometric thermal egg) they are on, but IDK... this show looks so good, yet feels very sloppy.
Shows started out great but deteriorated
kiratsuki-l25 September 2020
Makes no sense
jahanZ199725 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Why did they all decide to abandon the settlement and go to mother? Especially the woman, why the hell is she going there? Didn't they just try to kill mother in the last episode? And why is mother 'pregnant'? She's an android? I get that she's been modified and her character arc has been building up to this but it's just weird as hell. How did it get there? Was it always there? I've been enjoying the show so far but this episode was definitely one of the worst.
Mess
ankapatos26 September 2020
-Mother, did I just watch one of the dullest and most disgusting episodes of the series?
-No child, your visual interface is not compatible with the human eye that's why the sci fi simulation failed.
-But could it be that an 8.7 rate of previous episodes is just Mithraic propaganda?
-No son, these are numbers tempered by the atheists, have faith in Sol the Executive Producer of the Universe.
-Executive Producer, bless us, guide us with your light throught the Episodes to come.
-Praise Sol.
. . . . .
-Mother ..
-What now ?
-Was it you inside that navigation machine of Nostromo in Alien 1 ?
-No, but the EP loved the name and it stuck.
-Praise Sol, the Executive Producer.
Decent into farce
gareth-7544225 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
What a pile of codswallop, using the Roman pagan cult Mithraism instead of Christianity was mildly interesting but a pregnant vampire android? this is farcical, the acting is dull, each scene is more deary than the last & the incidental music is dreadful, the entire shows emphasis is "life is awful".
The problem with this show is its just dull & boring but the flashbacks to life on earth are actually interesting, that would have been an interesting show to watch, Mithraism evolving from a secret cult to becoming a dominant religion & not being wiped out by Christianity, a future where the sun god was worshipped, the story before this story is far more interesting, that's the show I would prefer to watch
Disappointing change
praxus-320573 October 2020
I've really been enjoying this show; but found it changed starting with this episode. Not sure what happened, its like things are all over the place and not much makes sense. Maybe the original writer quit mid series.
How original for a Ridley Scott project featuring androids.
W011y4m57 December 2020
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8 out of 19 but only in episode numbers
xmasdaybaby19663 October 2021
Oh dear. Aaron Guzikowski was out of ideas so he has brought in other writers but they were out of ideas too so he had to get a fellow produce to help with this one.
The visuals are great but nothing is happening and the actors look list too. I guess South Africa is a long way home for many of them.
10 episodes of this length is far too much.
Perhaps 8 X 45 minute episodes would have been better the the slow bits could have been removed or spread out.
Can't believe I reviewed an episode without mentioning the lovely Niamh Algar. Damn I just did!
The visuals are great but nothing is happening and the actors look list too. I guess South Africa is a long way home for many of them.
10 episodes of this length is far too much.
Perhaps 8 X 45 minute episodes would have been better the the slow bits could have been removed or spread out.
Can't believe I reviewed an episode without mentioning the lovely Niamh Algar. Damn I just did!
what is happening
Lythas_8527 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
... ragnar is getting crazy.. nothing is going on at the base..
mother is pregnant.. she got it when she was daydreaming... that is crazy
not only is mother all powerful, now she can have babies..
what else?
This is every feminist wet dreams.. she can do it all, she can have it all.
This is every feminist wet dreams.. she can do it all, she can have it all.
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