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GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Thanks for the reminder - I started watching the first episode but real life got in the way (curse it) and never quite got around to finishing it...and then I forgot.
 

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE

CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE
Half-way through. Agree it's pretty good despite some of the actors lacking in charisma. Has a 'The Martian' feel to it which can only be a good thing. It mixes documentary with drama very well IMO.
 

metatheurgist

metatheurgist
sleutelbos said:
Yeah, because everyone who likes drama is dumb and doesnt understand facts. :rolleyes:
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Never said that. I just don't like the faux documentary style. Do drama or do doco. The let's pretend we're following a guy to Mars like it's real is the thing I hate. And yeah, I think it's done because they don't think they'll get an audience if they just lay out the science and the issues with talking scientists. They have to "engage" the audience now with a "story". I also hate found footage films. :p
 
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Zak Gordon

Zak Gordon
Here is a link to the backstory of the main character (not sure if that aired as part of the series?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuTlZYDbh4

In general i have no real issue mixing a tv 'show' with science, as long as it is done well. Even films mess it up often (not a fan of the 'The Martian' for example) so it is not an easy thing to do. Fingers crossed this will be one of the better ones :)
 

Cosmos

C
MAIN SEQUENCE said:
Half-way through. Agree it's pretty good despite some of the actors lacking in charisma. Has a 'The Martian' feel to it which can only be a good thing. It mixes documentary with drama very well IMO.
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Yeah its a style I've not seen before but as you say works well. :)
 

Manticore

Manticore
metatheurgist said:
I despise that style. "Hey, our audience is too dumb for facts so lets wrap it up in a drama!"
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I agree when it comes to this show; and agree to a point.

I'm extremely disappointed in the way this series (I'm just finished part 4) is too much Hollywood fluff and not enough hard science.

I could deal with the dramatisation if the actors had been scripted and directed to act like trained space explorers instead of folding emotionally like a bad poker hand at the first instance of crew death on what is possibly going to be (and I hope it happens soon) the greatest and most dangerous undertaking in history.

How about that scene where the geologist gets craned down into the lava tube? Five minutes of silence from her, not reporting back to the commander when ordered to, not detailing her observations; that's rubbish.

Secondly, the whole personal politics thing that is coming through with a more established colony. That owes more to Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars trilogy than the author who is given credit for the show.

Personally I'm surprised that Ron Howard and National Geographic's names are actually on this..............

.... the llama is totally unimpressed with the shallow delivery of this docudrama.

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Manticore

Manticore
I persevered with the whole series to the bitter end. Unadulterated rubbish... predictable and over-dramatised garbage.
 
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