As many of you may have noticed by now, Netflix began marketing many South Korean shows after the “Squid Game Boom”. Understandably, the OTT platform decided to capitalise on the International popularity of the South Korean thriller drama and it did work… for a while. But then Netflix dropped their most ambitious South Korean project yet, ‘The Silent Sea‘… and it failed to attract critics or Netflix subscribers. The show is visually brilliant but was riddled with plot holes – so many blatant plot holes in fact, that many Netflix subscribers stopped watching the show after a couple of episodes. While there are multiple other reasons why the show failed, these plot holes can be considered as the primary reason for the spectacular failure of the Netflix original show, so here are 4 glaring plot holes in ‘The Silent Sea’ that you simply cannot ignore:
The Incompetence Of The Space Program
One of the biggest plot holes in ‘The Silent Sea’ is the surprising incompetence of this fictional Korean space program. The spacecraft that houses the main crew for the lunar mission is riddled with a ridiculous amount of problems and, surprisingly, no one noticed these errors during the launch status check.
The Change In Co-pilot
This can be seen as a second reasoning to back the above reason of the space program’s incompetence – but changing personnel at the last minute for a space mission deserves a section for itself. Normally, if something like this happens, the launch would be postponed, or the additional member would have been someone the entire crew have worked with prior. This sudden change is quite nonsensical.
Lunar Water
How does Lunar water – the water that acts like a virus, have the same chemical structure of water AKA H2O? How come an astrobiologist of renown like Dr. Song Ji-an, not recognize it?
There is also the fact that lunar water keeps multiplying when it comes in contact with living organic matter. If that were the case, the station should have been filled with water before the crew even arrived because:-
1) There were plants thriving on said water.
2) The girl Luna has been drinking this water for years now.
The Luna Paradox
Luna is a paradoxical character as a whole – the way she is written emotionally and the way she is written physically. Her adaptation to the lunar water makes a little sense, with gills (not the eyes though), but her “vampire bite” saving Dr. Song’s life does not make sense. Actually, if Dr. Song understood that Luna’s bite saved her, then she should have gotten the rest of the crew bitten as well. At least two other crew members would have survived if she had tried it – what was the worst that could have happened at that point?