Continually amazed at how a handful of talented people, with limited budgets, can turn out better content than multi million Hollywood productions

When you get sucked into a drama and do not even realize the music is giving each scene its emotional value the composition is perfect. Loved it.

First time since Forbidden Planet of 1956 (yes, I watched a first run back then) that we had a Robbie AI. Thanks for jogging my memory. 👍🏻

Imagine all the explorers throughout our history, landing on foreign shores, hoping to find wealth, land, freedom, hope. How many of them ended up on inhospitable shores, dying alone and hopeless far from home. Until one lucky soul finds a safe harbor, a paradise, or even just a place that is hospitable enough to support them. It takes a special kind of soul to risk it all in the slim hope of finding something better. Those brave, foolhardy, outright crazy pioneers changed our future, gave us new lands and opportunities (some squandered) and helped enable our species to survive and thrive, sometimes far from home. This film shows the next step in our journey, not just exploring a world, but MANY worlds, further from home than any before them. Outstanding work Blake Simon and team, a short but beautiful example of the human spirit.

Short but impactful - like a Twilight Zone episode

This was great! I was right there with the guy emotionally when he got the news of the comms delay.

Thanks for the awesome sauce short film! GOD bless us all AMEN!

A very compelling story, very human, and well crafted in all respects. I wish I could give it, and all who worked on it, more than one thumbs up.

Applaud you for how you maintained the suspense of their space exploration from the beginning to the very end, and how you brought back the opening scene to see for ourselves what happens when the astronaut decides to take his helmut off. Thanks for sharing your work, well done!

I was thoroughly engrossed from beginning to end and really connected with the characters. Very well done

Terrific plot, well written, well acted and well directed - a tribute to you all!

Congrats for a very worthy to watch, well made film. Entirely high quality production, I forgot I was watching a youtube short. Thank you for sharing this story with us!

I hope you enjoyed making this as much as I did watching it. Stellar work! Dare I say

Good sci fi. And, no capes or punching folks in the face! Bravo!

WOW! A film with a beginning, a middle and an end! All within the span of 19 minutes! Characters that you care about in under five minutes! HEY HOLLYWOOD! See how it's done! Good film! Congratulations!

Wow... absolutely loved this film... ❤ 👏

Excellent in all ways, plus the accomplishment of the hoped-for result that all the characters willingly sacrificed to achieve! Thanks!

When he got shocked, I swear, I could feel it too! Lol love the homages in the film.

Nice Job. If it had been a movie I would have been drawn in from the very beginning with high expectations for a great movie.

Oh very nicely done. I forgot it was short and was ready for a whole description of his struggles ala The Martian. 🥰📡

Bravo,despite being made on,what I imagine was,a shoestring budget,you managed to pull it off,It was engaging throughout,and that bittersweet ending,boy did I feel that.

I felt the agony and the ecstasy, nice production.

Well done! This was so compelling. Love the JFK intro!!

well done, very enjoyable and uplifting DG

Just watched this again and really enjoyed it. The actress doing the video email is incredible. Where the hell is Netflix or Hulu with some cash!!?? Best kept secret out there.

I'll be screening this in one of my lectures sometime in the future, fate willing that I live that long. Was sold at exactly 3:18. A good line tells me everything I need to know about a story, visual or otherwise. And as a sci-fi storyteller myself, I salute every single member of this creative team. May we continue to share such beautiful works with the universe.

Great job all involved. Can't wait for Blake's newest project

Congratulations to all who had a hand in this film. The script is mesmerizing and the emotion it causes is real. The actors did a great job topped off by the composer's wonderful music that you do not realize is taking your emotions to the full spectrum. I for one would love to see the full movie made. This is quality art and for me would stand out from what is out there today. I have signed up for Netflix a few times and eventually give up as there is so much crap being made. I spend 40 minutes trying to find something to watch and start only to leave after a few minutes. Your movie dragged me in in the first minute. Again congratulations to all who made this short film possible.

Excellent! Very well made and very inspiring. Could easily become a major film I would think. Never tire of sci-fi like this! Thank you for sharing!

Bravo to all involved in this production! 👏👏👏

It looked like he was repairing a plotter at first and not "Robbie". Lol! My favorite part is how "refreshing" his incoming email transmission could jeopardize the entire mission.

A glimpse to our future when humanity is capable of reaching planets in other star systems. Maintained the suspense all throughout the film

Almost nothing can draw my interest but that was immersive, I really cared what happened, and I watched to the end. Well done!

Very nice, you held my attention and left me wanting more. Why can we not have movies like this? Aliens and explosions are so blasé and trite. I hope you guys can get things off the ground and get a full length feature out. Thanks and best wishes

...I will watch this again. Thankz for the short.🤩😎👽👾🤖🧡💛💚

This was spectacular! The acting, directing. filming, editing, writing (you get the point). Very good. I would have been just as captivated for two hours, as I was for 19 minutes. Thank you for sharing.

Super piece of cinema. I found myself holding my breath. Wonderful acting and visuals, too.

Very believable and great script. Well done Blake. Thanks to all who helped produce this short film.

this movie reminded me of David Bowies "Major Tom" song. this would be creepy - in a different way, to be out there all alone, away from everyone, waiting, waiting. good movie - which can happen any time a space craft goes up

Awesome!!! Wow!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

This was a beautiful story; hope, loss, tragedy, and so very human. If this were a pilot, I'd be onboard for the show. Excellent short production! More?

Thanks Blake and Daniel and all the others who worked on this -- for transporting us to another world for a brief time.

Edge of my seat from beginning to end, and left me wanting more. Thank you!

Great job everyone..thank you....really injoyed...peace

It's the best sci-fiction and strange movie about "Goldilock" in future space exploration. I really like it.

Well done to Blake and Daniel and the team. I enjoyed the story, the music and the plot. Keep those stories and movies coming. I suppose I'm getting old, but a complete story told in 20 minutes gives me far greater enjoyment and satisfaction than these 2 hour movies that they churn out these days. A BIG thank you for this piece of brilliance!! 🙏

Great concept & delivery! Entertaining! 👏🍿

I usually don't watch the sci-fi shorts but this caught my eye and I will say...it was GREAT!!! More please.....

That was awesome thank you! Best of wishes for your future projects - we're all obviously enjoying the quality :)

Great short ! It deserves so many more views ! i really enjoyed the Interstellar vibe, lonely astronauts searching for livable planets. Hoping for more work from you in the future.

More! Excellent. Thank You

Amazing film! Loved the little nod at Forbidden Planet and the beautiful simplicity of a good story.

Really wonderful ... I've read and seen so many SF ... this is so well made, well played, well scripted, Thanks you so much !

The music and the emotional story line were powerful enough to make the inevitable science errors almost insignificant to the experience. Keep up the good work, and keep getting science reviews of the scripts.

You have touched my heart and soul with a most fantastic piece of cinema. Thankyou!

So excellent - I appreciate the ending so much.❤

One of the best grounded sci-fi shorts I have seen. Thank you and best wishes of success in your new projects

This is just great. A lot could unfold from this story. I look forward to seeing more.

i freaking love this kind of cinema! the bessssstttt

Well done, the music is excellent.

This was really well done. Very suspenseful, unfolded well & pleased to see the computer glitch was a fault, not some sentient AI taking over & killing astronauts.

9:05 my only criticism is showing Earth-like forest, yet the planet is 500F. Not only would it seem unlikely that earth-like condition would evolve. I don't even know if you can have biology like that at 500F. The Goldilocks zone around deep ocean thermal vents is under 400F.

Bravo bravo clap clap

Awesome film! Thanks so much for sharing!

I’m impressed by the set! Awesome man!

Excellent, excellent work. 👏

I truly enjoyed your movie. I no longer watch Hollywood movies. Thank you for providing a new way I can watch movies again 🥰

Good video. Better than most. Too many other sci fi shorts are ridiculously computer graphics-heavy, or technology dominant, or stories that are piecemeal, incomplete, even nonsensical. This story is complete, with details that can sweep you into caring about the characters. Let's have more of these creative kind that stimulate imagination. Thanks.

What an amazing Film! Could see this easily being made into a feature length film for sure...

Sooooo very good guys! Bravo! ❤❤❤❤❤

!Excellent!

I really enjoyed this! At the end, I shouted..."NO! That can't be all of it!" Great job everyone!

Wonderfully written and acted. Thank you.

A reminder of how lucky we are to have this Goldilocks world.

BRILLIANT!!!

Beautifully done. Thank you! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Beautifully told story. I like the subtle undertones of different potential future plot directions, but can say you chose the right one. Excellently done.

Christmas Eve. The algorithm gifted me this. Well done. Brilliant.

Absolutely Excellent.

This film crew put in some serious hours in set design and construction... nice job on a low budget!

Very well done! Great acting and great story. Thank you!

Fantastic! Anxiously awaiting what follows......

Good story, nice realisation! Continue please!

Great video! I would definitely like to see more of this.

Amazing. I believed every second of it. So well done, on every level. Bravo to the whole cast & crew & writers/directors/producers!

The music definitely carried the emotion when the traveler learned that his wife(?) would not survive her mission. The music starts out sounding rather peaceful or resigned to fate but then gets discordant, conveying all the emotions he's experiencing. Full film was very well done.

Dramatic and yet hopeful. Well done scifi short!

Another great show in the making. Like all those early 2000s science fiction shows that had 1 or 2 seasons about finding another planet. One was a cool British show about invisible entities killing the humanoids on the planet another was like fossil evidence of prehistoric humans on the planet and so on. Great shows that never got an ending

LOVED this short! The actors were awesome. I hope this story continues

Beautiful. So much delivered in such a small package. Bravo.

Fantastic. So glad this popped into my YT feed!

FTW! Finally a spaceship movie whose doors don't have odd angles and jagged edges with horizontal fingers sticking out. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

What a great short! Story, plot development, photography, acting and music on point....even had a kinda happy ending too :)

Bravo, entirely captivating to watch!

excelent!

Beautiful short, congrats! Love the story, the acting and the cinematography, as well as the production design (great :D)

Extremely well done. I must confess I originally thought "Blake Simon, I thought he was dead and I didn't know he had any interest in SF but okay". Then I realised that somehow in my head I had squashed Blake Edwards and Neil Simon together.🤣

Great film! Your in the goldilocks of good film. Story over effects!

Excellent again lots of Work involved

Great and compelling short, great and believeable characters and fantastic photography. The short and the music are well balanced. I was drawn in the story almost immediately. Great work.