spoilers ahead I felt like the character conflict arcs were contrived and ultimately the idea of learning a language makes you a pre-cog fell flat for me. In science fiction, the big idea goes ‘woo!’ or the characters go ‘woo!’ but in the case of Arrival, nothing really went ‘woo!’
But maybe I’m wrong - what was I missing about Arrival?
As a former linguistics student, the woo was scifi about linguistics. Yeah, probably not for everybody. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Off topic, but this here really hit home for me (not a linguist student but someone plenty interested).
this is amazing
That was one of my favorite episodes of TNG.
Sapir Worf : the feature film
When the walls fell!