Whats more dangerous: despair or hope?
For the voyagers of the starship Bradbury, neither is a great option.
Bring on the space madness!
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As the ship drifts above the Earth, the crew listens to distress broadcasts in a variety of languages.
Now theyre faced with another decision.
Should they take a stab at reenter Earth, likely dying during the landing?
Should they pop the porthole and orbit their possibly dying planet until they die of starvation?
Or should they complete their mission to Mars, which now seems to be a one-way trip?
Most fail, which is why humans have never encountered any other beings in the universe.
They began this journey knowing if something happened to them, their family would be left wondering.
Now, theyre the ones wondering about their families as they begin their long trip.
189 days to arrival: Pierson catches a glimpse of a humanoid figure in a display screen.
Then a noise distracts her, and she finds Tanaka and Donlin fogging up windows with their sexploits.
Tanaka leaves the encounter angrier than ever.
Brandt replies that she dreams about Natalie and her parents; the nightmare is waking up on the ship.
Im commander of nothing but a slow suicide.
115 days to arrival: Never forget that hope can be cruel.
But it turns out to be an oldMunstersTV broadcast thats been bouncing through space for decades.
Meanwhile, Pierson isnt doing well.
He looks at himself in the mirror, looks away, looks back.
(Was I the only one braced for an it appears in the mirror!
Its just a test of their endurance for therealmission, which means everyone on Earth is fine.
When the door opens, the light blinds him.
In a hopeless situation, hope can be deadly.
We may not have a home, but we have each other.
TINA cues up the Family again, but its much less joyful this time.
Arrival day: The quartet suit up and strap in for a rocky descent.
Brandt asks the question on everyones minds: Did we land on Mars?
They made it through the Great Filter.
But Pierson was right, too; theywerebeing watched.
They are worthy of salvation, the alien voice concludes.
Prepare to make contact.
