When God seemed to appear to the Alphans, I rolled my eyes. Here we go, I thought. But to my surprise, this episode offered me a lot to think about. As I say often enough, that’s what good science fiction should do.
Strangely this episode takes place 55 days before the last one: it’s day 1095. I can’t help but wonder why they bothered constricting themselves like this, because it takes a lot of jeopardy away for the characters. If, for instance, Maya is there on day 1150, chances are she survives through day 1095. Call me strange… Anyway, their sensors pick up some alarming readings before a Jesus-looking dude shows up and claims… “I am your creator!” His powers seem to lend credence to this too. But he makes a comment that was very thought provoking. He refers to those “highly imaginative works of fiction that you call religion.” And at that moment I thought: this is something special.
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