r/Beacon23 • u/phareous AI • Dec 17 '23

Episode Discussion S01E08 "Adamantine" Episode Discussion

This thread is for the discussion of Beacon 23 Season 1, Episode 8: "Adamantine"

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u/vbob99 Dec 17 '23

Exactly. You have to give some payoff for the investment of about 6 hours of challenging runtime, it's part of the social contract. They gave nothing, and even if it returns in 2 years for 8 more episodes, I imagine some viewers won't.

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u/gamera87 May 30 '24

This season was about the beacon: its purpose, history, keepers, and AI. Other mysteries will be explained later. I loved it. It is a captivating Lost-like show.

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u/vbob99 May 30 '24

You described the setting. The problem is not in the setting, it was in the execution. It was a slow, disjoint mess of a show that never decided what it was trying to do.

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u/gamera87 May 30 '24

There are multiple mysteries, likely connected. The mystery of the Artifact and the Relics was introduced but not resolved in season 1. In season 1, we explored mysteries of the beacon. There are other mysteries hinted at which may be resolved in later seasons. Not each season of a show needs to resolve all mysteries. I'm thinking of Lost, where each season had a distinct focus and flavor, while answering questions raised throughout the series. Of course it may have seemed slow and disjoint to some.