6/2/2023 0 Comments Nightflyers martinWe know of Martin’s ability to not merely use genre but to bend it towards radical novelty. (Does David Ajala’s mysterious and reclusive corporate head onboard the ship need to be as mysterious and reclusive as he is before the point is made? Must the computer have had a big red eye just like “2001’s” iconic HAL?) But space, in its infinite capacity, can give us more. “Nightflyers” is propulsive enough, ginning up fear and terror even as it relies on hoariness. (In this, he’s not dissimilar from Sean Penn’s character in this year’s Hulu series “The First” - a space adventurist fleeing trauma at home - among many other astronauts of fiction.) That he ended up having boarded a ship controlled by a computer determined to not merely thwart his mission but to evoke his worst memories is the consequence to his adventurism. The show follows lines of reasoning that shimmer with obviousness: Macken’s Karl D’Branin fought, hard, for the idea that his mission to space might yield first contact with intelligent life that could help earthlings, all while fleeing his life at home.
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