You're back for more great science
fiction here on BuzzChomp and I'm
previewing the new HBO Max series 
Raised by Wolves.
I'm Dan Salem and this show is going to
be a true mind trip.
I'm Mandi and I'm Dan.
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Imagine a world where we've escaped 
earth and have to
try to repopulate humanity
on an unknown habitable planet.
There are androids involved
and therefore this is classic
Ridley Scott. If he didn't
just direct the pilot, you would never
know it. He actually isn't the creator
of Raised by Wolves, but his sci-fi love
seems to be infused throughout this series.
Its totally in the first episode and in the
setup and in the premise.
So like technically he didn't
create it or write it,
but it might as well be his essence. We
have two androids, the mother and the
father, who are given a group of human children
to raise on a remote planet that is habitable.
Because they escaped earth. That's the
basic setup. These androids,
which look and breathe and act like
humans, are raising the human children.
But they are not humans and they're learning
about humanity along the way.
And that's kind of the great thing.
Ridley Scott loves to do this in his
other works and it seems like we're going to get it
in this series, where you have learning
about what it is to be human
while teaching humans about what it is
to be human. And as an android you can
learn about humanity and it's a playback
on ourselves and like what have we done
right, what have we done wrong. Because
they are basically
restarting society with a whole new
group of young impressionable children.
And based on the product of their
environment, these androids will get to
mold them into a new race of humanity that can
live and breathe and succeed on its own.
Except of course it doesn't work out and
so it's a Raised by Wolves type of
situation where you're taking children.
And there's always that fable of leaving
them in the woods to be raised by wolves
and they become like the wolf.
It's not necessarily a good or a bad
thing, but you can't reintegrate into
modern regular humans
when you've been raised by wolves
because you are the wolf. Well the
androids aren't quite humans
and so they're raising these children.
But with their own inherent mechanical, 
mechanical in quotes,
beliefs because we don't really know without seeing the
series yet how human these androids are.
That really is going to have a bearing
on where they'll fall
and rather quickly the larger sect of humanity
comes to the planet to retrieve the
children. Now these androids,
the mother and the father, there's only
two that we know of to start with.
They're supposed to protect these kids, therefore
they aren't going to hand them over
willingly to an unknown group of human
beings just because it's humans and humans.
We don't know if we can trust those other humans.
We do know that the androids are trying
to protect the kids so that's an
altruistic motive. These other humans
feel like they should be the ones.
Humans should be raising human kids,
not these androids. Well we don't know
if they're the best people to raise them.
I mean in principle
the androids could do a better job as
mom and dad for these children than the
humans who are just
desperate to survive and fighting
amongst themselves. So there's a little
bit of a war brewing.
I get the impression that the mother,
father with the group of children
are on a planet that is one of the very
few that anyone can actually live on.
Because earth is gone, so this group
 of humanity that comes to
quote save its kids might really just be coming there
because there's nowhere else for them to
live. Perhaps they're like space pirates
traveling around trying to find a place
where they could actually settle.
And this is a remote island if you will
with children. Oh there are kids, let's
steal them. I don't know, but there's going to be a
bad guy element because
 there's always a good and a bad.
And some shows
have everybody good, everyone bad and
it's a muddled mess. But if they
flip-flop so like
there's always your hero that you're
rooting for and in this case I think
it's our mother, father, the androids are our
heroes. They're the ones protecting
children, protecting humanity's future.
Then there are the villains,
but the villains can be good and can be
bad. HBO and this is an HBO Max series, has kind
of tended that way recently. You see it
with His Dark Materials we're seeing it
with Lovecraft Country.
The villains are both good and bad.
There's no black and white, it's gray,
and I have a feeling we're gonna get
very similar here with the wolves, because
wolves as a species, now this is like a
dichotomy title.
The human children are being raised by
wolves, by the androids.
But wolves are very comforting, nurturing,
very team-oriented, a pack species.
They also are very aggressive,
mean and kill. Perhaps the wolves
are also the other humans coming to this
planet to steal their,
take their kids back. Do we leave the
children to the wolves, the other humans,
or do the mother, father androids protect them.
So you're kind of almost like, who's the
wolves? The androids or the other humans?
We don't know yet. It's very interesting.
Cool cool sci-fi tech here.
A new planet. An android species that we
have to get to know.
Can they reproduce? That might go that
path, we don't know. In classic
classic sci-fi fashion and Ridley Scott fashion,
this is a big epic battle for the
survival of a species.
And really, probably the survival of two
species, because I don't get the
impression there's a lot of androids
and they're definitely not a lot of
humans that we know of.
Is there a giant spaceship somewhere
full of humanity and androids and
they're just trying to repopulate this
particular planet? We don't know.
Seems small ball which is cool because
the stakes are super high then for those
involved. I don't know what the stakes
for the other humans are.
We don't know why they want the children.
Not quite sure how involved the children will be in the
overall story. Are they just going to be
protected or are they going to be key,
main characters? Very interesting to see
where this plays out, what other
creatures live on this planet.
Is it the animals we know? Is it the
dinosaurs? Could be really anything.
It's got to have animals on the
planet, otherwise it wouldn't be a
habitable world. I'm assuming there's water.
So there's a lot of cool things that
we'll get to know as we learn about this
universe, this earth 2 I'm going to call it until
they give us a name. And the androids
 who are just mother and
father at the moment.
I'm Dan Salem. I'm very excited for
Raised by Wolves. It's just dark,
gritty science fiction. We don't get
enough of this and this is something new.
HBO Max for those that want it.
Comment below with your thoughts on this new
series and where you think it's going.
It's great sci-fi! Woo!
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