Kaos and Aliens

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Hmm well.

I thought it deserved a second season. It was clever and adept, though it suffered from a drop in pace mid-season. All understandable within the context of the story, but still, finger tapping on arm of chair time, get on with it. I am kind of hoping that Amazon may pick it up. Sometimes I didn't quite like Kaos though I don't know why - actually, if I think about it, maybe I do. The message that comes across for Dionysus is that his human side is perhaps better than his godly side. It's a bit like Belinda's speech in Fleabag 2 that humans are all we've got. But my experience, wonderful though it has often been, has taught me that if humanity is all you've got, you are in a very vulnerable position; it is a grave mistake to assume goodness as intrinsic to the species. After all, it's humanity that fights the wars, humanity that shapes gods like Jeff Goldblum's hilariously horrible Zeus. Sometimes humanity is extraordinary but my advice to any alien traveller would be to take great care in dealing with Homo Sapiens especially in groups.

So much for my personal lack of buy-in to this series, and it's only an underlying disquiet. The pace issue yup, and there's a major moment that our narrator Prometheus should not explain to us; we should see its discovery. That's just bad TV, Tell not Show. Some moments are baldly telegraphed, some moments are under revealed then overexplained. I do not love Kaos. But I do like it and am not convinced that these things signalled its end. Some sources say that the viewership figures were middling throughout the first month, but others point to completion figures and diminishing returns. I can't help wondering if Netflix is about reeling in viewers who then forget to cancel their subscriptions.

Meanwhile I have decided that this is my favourite news of the week: https://www.themirror.com/news/weird-news/huge-alien-announcement-imminent-professor-741499

It triggers all the dreams of alien encounters I had as a kid. Fabulous!