Wayne Barlowe's Expedition: A BRUTALLY HONEST Review
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The portrayal of humans as reckless, ravenous and callous that is shown in Man after Man and Expedition is also present in James Cameron's Avatar.
True and given the fact that it was directed by James Cameron that doesn't surprise me at all.
Avatar, aka FernGully in space. And FernGully did it better!
The most shocking thing about expedition is that the evil, anti-environmentalist, enjoyers of setting elephants on fire, industrialist humans would just hand all power over to these random aliens. It seems more like to me the aliens threatened complete destruction or something lmao.
They didn't hand over power willingly, they initially tried to fight back and it went really badly. Handing over the reins of power to the Yma afterwards was one of the consequences of that. It's only mentioned in passing at the beginning of the book, so it's easy to overlook.
@@Aozame I’ve read the book many… MANY times, can’t believe I didn’t catch that. Maybe it’s because I skim through the first pages to get to the good stuff (the aliens lmao)
I absolutely loved that documentary as a kid
I agree with the preference for an artistic approach to speculative evolution. Though the scientific accuracy and understanding how features of an organism work is interesting, I feel like the "accuracy" attempts at speculative evolution end up creating results that don't feel natural, but instead like derivations of a theme
I LOVED this ramble-y video style, absolutely adored listening to this while revising
Cool, thank you! Hope the revising is going well
Might you be doing a spec evo review of HBO Max show: “Scavengers Reign” anytime in the future? Its a large bit fantasy, BUT the art and the biology is really intriguing
I've actually never heard of that one but I'll look into it, thanks for the recommendation
I like to judge pieces of media on their single moment that stays with me and keeps me thinking about it long after experiencing it for the first time… All Tomorrows’ moment for me is when the dinosaur was found on an alien planet. The existential dread that more than 60 million years ago, an intelligent species was capable of going “that’s neat” and warping its anatomy to work on another world is horrifying!
In Expedition (I read it for the first and only time last year, pardon if I misremember-), I think that moment is the idea that a world can be so dominated by life that a single entity can be discerned from an image from sPaCe (as in the emperor sea strider) is just a fascinating idea.
Have you ever heard of humanity lost by callum diggle? The best way i can describe it is it’s a bit like all tomorrows meets star wars on steroids. It’s on amazon and is one of my favorite graphic novels of all time, and one of my all time favorite works of spec evo alongside after man, the future is wild, and darwin iv
I've heard of it and have briefly discussed it with Mr. Diggle on IG. But I'm not a fan of covering ongoing series and would rather talk about things that are done. Maybe one day when the series has concluded I will cover it.
Okay, and maybe after christian cline releases his aliens of the milky way book you could do a video on his three books
I found my copy of Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials at my local Half-Price Books. It's also available through Amazon, though the paperback isn't exactly cheap.
That's what I feared.
there was a book club edition of the guide to extraterrestrials, it shouldn't be too hard to find. i got it and his guide to fantasy for around $50 US a few years ago. They aren't original ideas for the most part, they depict creatures from classic genre novels.
I used to love it as a kid though the animation with the two drones and the alien planet.
Yaaaay, a new Qu upload!!
Hype about this. Expedition is one of those things that I feel is important for what it is/was at the time, but it's a bit too "speculative". I still like the imagination of it, though.
As much as I really do love these speculative biology works, my problem has always been that they just seem like the adult version of kids drawing the weirdest monsters they can think of and saying, 'Look! Isn’t this one cool and scary?' Sometimes it seems the authors are just making things weird for the sake of being weird. I can't help but feel examples in terrestrial life that we find banal such as quadrupeds, or forward facing eyes, or feathers, or cranial brain pans, etc. may well be that; Just banal. That we see them everywhere because they're the most optimal structures for the job. I mean, an animal that leaps between mountain crags lowering its grip surface area from four feet to three feet because four just seems too commonplace? Maybe it's commonplace for a reason.
I think I'd much prefer a speculative biology tome in which the creatures are not as grotesque or bizarre, but instead tells the whole picture of how said creatures come about. 'Expedition' has some good examples of this regarding the Crystallines, and some of the more closely related species divergence, but a lot of it really also doesn't hang together very well. Why would aerial creatures evolve lifting sacs filled with either dangerously combustible gas, or exceedingly rare gas? Why would creatures' bodies evolve around their method of locomotion, and not the other way around? How could multiple predator species exist in relatively small environments with limited prey species without causing constant Malthusian Crises? Why would creatures who do not live underground nor are not nocturnal still rely on sonar when visual sight is so much more superior? How is it the case that such enormous land based creatures can exist? We know here on Earth there's a pretty hard limit on the size of land based life, so how on a relatively comparable planet is this barrier overcome?
I don't know, the whole thing seems very Lamarckian, which we know to be an incorrect interpretation of evolution via natural selection. Evolution doesn't work as life deliberately slotting itself into its environment; It works through random mutations making life more suitable to its environment.
Whilst I apppreciate the ground up approach of 'Let's start from one creature and move forward from there' it's also a pretty basic misunderstanding of evolution; That life likely had but one beginning and every incident of life can trace back to two very rudimentary creatures.
However these are but small gripes. The saviour of speculative biology is the author can always say that the life they imagine has a fundamentally different chemistry or composition, which a really intriguing proposition, but tell us what that entails. What would it actually mean to have a triple DNA helix, or different base pairs, or cells without mitochondria, or energy storage that isn't phosphene based. I realise I'm probably asking for a lot, and I really don't want to deflate the fun and whimsy from speculative biology fiction, but I mean this purely as constructive criticism.
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All of this stuff could be explained with lower gravity, denser atmosphere, a recent mass extinction with the oceans almost disappearing, huge ass diversity due to two sun's and said dense atmosphere, the planet previously being more plant abundant, extreme rapid evolution due to everything I said so far, sonar and infrared being SO ingrained for so long with not much of a need for it, and other things that could explain everything that wasn't covered because it's also trying to tell a story. Darwin iv is not as implausible as you think. Sure, some things are a little too far-fetched, but those are easy fixes. This planet does not run entirely on the rule of cool or incorrect assumptions of evolution.
I hate that he doesn't have more fans. This man needs governmental funding cuz i need more audio books / reviews
The Yma sound like what could have happened if the Qu had bothered to use actual diplomacy and not be complete jerks. I can at least see a bright side in that the Yma saw humanity as worth helping abd deserving to live, and maybe if they help with the cleanup and then get us past the technological gap where we have a hard time managing clean energy without major sacrifices to standard of living, then things could work out. I see our current situation as a combo people and technology gap. The big thing we need to get going is nuclear fusion but that may be very tough to do.
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One day
Love your channel! That's the best way of learning English!
Awesome!
I watched this on discovery Channel when it first came out. Was pretty well done
I recommend checking out Barlowes Inferno
I remember the show. Didn't know it was based on a book tbh.
Wooooo new Qu upload!
i am gonna make an android game in the future with this planet in it but i wonder if so many solar systems with so many worlds can be done as an android game with essentially infinite galaxies(each time you leave a non story galaxy that galaxy is gone and a new one is made and it's only chance that you get to see the same galaxy with same name and in same spot)the travelling between galaxy thing is ui based and you can choose between 3 different galaxies of class a b c or d class d can have the property of any other galaxies you can choose among any of these galaxies or choose to return back to milky way galaxy(if you are in a galaxy near enough then yes if you are too far away you can go back without spending many hours just travelling from galaxy to galaxy again and again)
Fantastic video as always!! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤️💖❤️💖
i enjoyed it alot
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Is there any difference between “all humans are bad” and “the humans in charge are bad” In terms of effects on the planet? I can see how philosophically someone might take issue with the former statement but in terms of the outcome on the planet in a work of speculative fiction, I don’t see a significant difference
I take your point but I just feel like it's a way for academics and authors to basically flaunt their perceived self-importance and hatred of humanity. But you simply cannot blame 7 billion-odd individuals for the actions of a few thousand, plain and simple.
@@BewareCast I certainly agree with you there, the fault is not the majority’s!
It all opens up some interesting hypotheticals for me. For instance, If the 7 billion (or a significant portion) were made aware of what the few thousand were doing and still didn’t stop them, would they be considered bad then? What if they didn’t know how to topple the bad order and so never really tried in significant numbers? There is some deep wisdom around Intentions and outcome and morality here….
FYI, the critters shown at 04:21 are....holstein dairy cows. Its actually pretty disturbing in its portrayal of very real danger of this scene becoming true. I like how he largely dispelled the super mutant animals and sure wth, fallout supers! Chemical and radiation induced mutations are...ungood. these moomoos were very lucky, they just ended up blind barely able to walk and there true reason of survival...humans keeping them largely for nostalgic reason's and a tad bit of guilt. But it conveys the fact we have mortality wounded Gaia. She cant bounce back the Cambrian mass extinction is nothing compared to us. Were simply stirring the ashs looking for bits of coal to keep us warm. Then hope a species highly advanced xenos arrive..
This WOULD be quite interesting, damn shame you sound like dial tone...
"...you sound like dial tone..."
It's a noted trait of people with a low level of intelligence that they can't listen to anything that isn't loud, overly-expressive and extremely fast-paced. Maybe Tik Tok is more your speed, big guy.
Please don’t put brutally honest on your videos. It takes away from your credibility, because shouldn’t every review be brutally honest? Does your honesty work on a scale from honest to brutal? I don’t like it.
Lol "I don't like it" baby cry much