Production is top-notch on this one. Some good actors too.
The concept is very promising: a Korean governmental lunar permanent research facility found something very important, potentially profitable but hard to manage and very lethal.
Things go awry and they bury everything for 5 years. Then a salvage crew is put together to retrieve samples of that something.
There are corporate spies infiltrated in the crew (very profitable, remember?) and some people in the crew have deep personal reasons to have joined.
Enter Netflix's monkeys with typewriters.
The Earth has, for some unexplained reason, LOST ALMOST ALL WATER. There are no more rivers, lakes and OCEANS.
Notwithstanding that, people keep on living, with governments supplying water rations. No wars, no riots. Just a merry cattle-like populace.
Seriously, the major writer selection criteria at Netflix must be the candidates' IQ. The lower, the better.....
So, the salvage crew goes up in a fancy shuttle. Which, naturally, metts with a critical failure that forces the team to separate from the side rockets before a stable moon orbit can be reached.
Then the shuttle's own rockets won't start (Korean space engineers must love this show...). Luckily, the trusters do, just so that they can level the shuttle for a crash landing.
Where do they end up?
At a huge crater rim, half in, half out the border.
Netflix should be ashamed.....
Well, they have to get out of the shuttle. Some are hanging on seatbelts to avoid falling to the tip of the shuttle (now severely tilted towards the fall).
The captain tries to lift a woman hanging. He has to truly exert himself.
Moon's gravity is about 16% of the Earth's. In other words, the woman would be weighing some 15 kg.
Hardly something that would need a boy to exert himself, let alone an astronaut.
Then they get out, just in time for the shuttle to fall. And gravity now seems ok....they walk in little jumpy steps.
The station is some 8 km away. On Earth, an average adult covers 6 km/h on foot. Given the gravity on the Moon, this should be at least doubled, so it would take them some 40 min - but it takes a couple of hours, during which they allow a seriously injured man to walk, instead of simply carrying the guy (low gravity.....).
Naturally, the air in their cannisters ends just as they get to the station. Very innovative take, Netflix!
The stations is a huge place. A lot larger than they knew.
They get in, turn on the power.....AND ARTIFICIAL GRAVITY!!!!
It's mind-boggling!
They have developed artificial gravity for a ground station (so, no rotating rings to use centripetal force as gravity), but they still use combustible fuels on the rockets.....
Ah, well.....ok, they have artificial gravity.
Let's not be picky and enjoy the show. After all, what other horrid new blunder can the monkeys write in the story?
Wait for it.....
They find the substance they went looking for. It interacts with living tissue PRODUCING HUGE AMOUNTS OF WATER inside affected individuals without reducing their original mass and quickly killing them, leaving drowning signs on the body. Water from thin air, then....
Oh...dead bodies are unnafeccted by it.
Astounding......
The same substance, applied to plants, promote their accelerated growth instead of killing them.
Makes absolute sense....
Well, among the hundreds dead in the station (no, it wasn't evacuated....) they find an improbable survivor (FIVE YEARS alone in the station....) in the person of a girl of about 12 years of age.
She doesn't seem to be negatively affected by the substance, has hugely increased speed and strength (not to mention claw-like nails) and is hellbent in preventing the crew from retrieving any samples.
By the way: there's no food left in the station. The girl must have lived on happy memories....or on the strangely non decayed bodies of the original station crew....
Seriously.....how do they come up with this level of crap????
The girl turns out to be the 79th in an unknown number of clones. All preceding clones died as the substance turned them into water fountains.
Things evolve, spies are eliminated, crew members get killed, thousands of tons of water get released in the station, some of it gets out and instantly freezes (at least they didn't make the water flow outside....).
The station's structure is severely compromised and the team must get out.
Now we are down to 2 women medical doctors, the cloned girl and the captain. The girl has been lovingly tamed and poses no threat.
The man must die, so the women don't need to share the glory. As he was a nice guy throughout the series, he gets an honourable death, staving off death for the women and girl for a while.
But there are uncountable liters of water spurting non-stop from somewhere.
This water wants out - and no puny bulkhead will stop it!
So, it comes to pass that the water breaks through the last bulkhead just as the women and girl are getting their feet on lunar sands....and throws them far before freezing.
The pressure was enough to blow the bulkhead away, but not enough to crush the captain (paper bulkheads, no doubt....). He is mortally wounded, but alive outside the station.
As his suit fails, we see the girl approaching him. She is NO LONGER in her suit. She's exposed to the Moon's surface temperature, but she doesn't freeze at all! Even her eyes work normally!
Really, they should have made her pick everybody up and fly back to Earth. At least we could have ended it laughing.
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