The new Max series Scavengers Reign tackles one of the oldest story motifs of science fiction and offers an exciting twist.
The Big Picture Scavengers Reign is the new flagship animated show on Max, and it's one of the more creatively groundbreaking shows of the year. It's pure science fiction, and starts with a familiar premise: Five crew members of a deep space cargo hauler have crash-landed on the uncharted planet of Vesta Minor. But that's where the familiarity ends.
'Scavengers Reign' Introduces Us to a New World of Creatures – on Their Own Planet You could say that we go through cycles of comfort and frustration with the limits of our own imagination. When A Quiet Place came out, it really did very little to advance the basic idea of what an alien is, beyond adding the wrinkle of making them very sensitive to sound. They were retreads of the xenomorphs from Alien, and that was fine. More recent alien movies have pushed the envelope more.
The cast of characters is small, with only five surviving the wreckage of their ship, the Demeter, and is scattered, having landed on Vesta Minor in separate escape pods. There are Ursula and Sam , Azi and her robotic assistant Levi, , and Kamen , who is alone and traumatized. Each of these groups has landed in a slightly different climate and must learn to understand their environment in order to survive.
The interesting thing is that the story does not accomplish this immersion by allowing us to go on a voyage of discovery with our stranded human characters. One of the most unexpected choices the show makes is to begin the story several months after the wreck of the Demeter. Our humans have been learning how to exist on this planet for quite a while, and have made a lot of discoveries already.
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