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New SyFy series, apparently based on a novel series of the same name.
Summary:
"Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized Solar System, police detective Miller, born in the asteroid belt, is given the assignment to find a missing young woman, Julie Mao. Joining his task is James Holden, formerly first officer of an ice freighter who is involved in an incident caused by the tense relationship between Earth, Mars and the Belt. Soon the two find out that the missing woman is connected to a vast conspiracy."
Can't tell much of the plot from the first one but someone has put a *lot* of time and effort into this. Looks expensive.
Proper space opera stuff, lots of believable details in the people/culture/tech/spaceflight.
Haven't read the books this is based on but if has the same feel as something like a Peter F. Hamilton book. And they haven't skipped on the production values, there's no shortcuts & it basically looks like I imagined this sort of space opera stuff to look when reading it.
Anyway it's worth a look to appreciate the work that's gone into it. Early days on the story so we'll have to see how that goes but there are five books in the series so far and they seem well reviewed.
Summary:
"Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized Solar System, police detective Miller, born in the asteroid belt, is given the assignment to find a missing young woman, Julie Mao. Joining his task is James Holden, formerly first officer of an ice freighter who is involved in an incident caused by the tense relationship between Earth, Mars and the Belt. Soon the two find out that the missing woman is connected to a vast conspiracy."
Can't tell much of the plot from the first one but someone has put a *lot* of time and effort into this. Looks expensive.
Proper space opera stuff, lots of believable details in the people/culture/tech/spaceflight.
Haven't read the books this is based on but if has the same feel as something like a Peter F. Hamilton book. And they haven't skipped on the production values, there's no shortcuts & it basically looks like I imagined this sort of space opera stuff to look when reading it.
Anyway it's worth a look to appreciate the work that's gone into it. Early days on the story so we'll have to see how that goes but there are five books in the series so far and they seem well reviewed.
AshVX220 said:
When does this air in the UK?
14th December, or so they say ... should be on the syfy channel (its airing on SyFy stateside, makes sense for it to be on that channel here too?)It was temporarily available on their facebook page, but that was available to all, now the page is region locked for US consumption only.
Thankfully I nabbed it before they restricted access.
Watched the first episode of this last night and thought it was one of the best adult sci-fi shows since Battlestar Galactica's first couple of seasons.
Dark and menacing with some clever new ideas thrown in ie: the depiction of both a 'belter' and his torture using just Earth's gravity
Big budget. Great production.
Dark and menacing with some clever new ideas thrown in ie: the depiction of both a 'belter' and his torture using just Earth's gravity
Big budget. Great production.
clonmult said:
14th December, or so they say ... should be on the syfy channel (its airing on SyFy stateside, makes sense for it to be on that channel here too?)
It was temporarily available on their facebook page, but that was available to all, now the page is region locked for US consumption only.
Thankfully I nabbed it before they restricted access.
Checked the Virgin box last night and couldn't see it on the 14th Dec on SyFy. It was temporarily available on their facebook page, but that was available to all, now the page is region locked for US consumption only.
Thankfully I nabbed it before they restricted access.
Just watched episode 4 and wow, this is good stuff, that episode alone could be considered an "end of season" episode with all the action.
Overall I'm very impressed with this show so far, its got a big budget with SFX on par with movies, the classic sci-fi tropes of tensions between Earth/Moon/Mars, water and air being commodities, Chinese language and cultures widely seen around the Solar System (what is the Belter's accent? Its like a cross between South African and Oriental) and it does remind me a bit with its gritty realism of the new Battle Star Galactica.
If you're a fan of classic space sci-fi, and you haven't already seen this, I recommend you watch it somehow.
Overall I'm very impressed with this show so far, its got a big budget with SFX on par with movies, the classic sci-fi tropes of tensions between Earth/Moon/Mars, water and air being commodities, Chinese language and cultures widely seen around the Solar System (what is the Belter's accent? Its like a cross between South African and Oriental) and it does remind me a bit with its gritty realism of the new Battle Star Galactica.
If you're a fan of classic space sci-fi, and you haven't already seen this, I recommend you watch it somehow.
chris watton said:
Has this been on the Sci-Fi channel? Just noticed this thread, so did a search an SKY but nothing comes up!
AFAIK a UK air date hasn't even been announced! I had to find alternative ways of watching it. You'd think companies would realise that if you don't show programmes on UK TV as quickly as possible people will simply find a means to watch it anyway? And Sci-Fi fans tend to be clued up on how to do so. Their target audience. He'll even though GoT is shown the very next night on Sky I know of dozens of people that will still torrent it to watch the next morning rather than waiting!MissChief said:
chris watton said:
Has this been on the Sci-Fi channel? Just noticed this thread, so did a search an SKY but nothing comes up!
AFAIK a UK air date hasn't even been announced! I had to find alternative ways of watching it. You'd think companies would realise that if you don't show programmes on UK TV as quickly as possible people will simply find a means to watch it anyway? And Sci-Fi fans tend to be clued up on how to do so. Their target audience. He'll even though GoT is shown the very next night on Sky I know of dozens of people that will still torrent it to watch the next morning rather than waiting!This is an inebriated review, but for those of us who have reached the end I would say the key word is "Rushed". This is classic Sci-Fi stuff, I've enjoyed this show and it inspired me to get the book(s), and all I can say so far is I'm about a third of the way through the first book and its about episode seven.
I won't post spoilers etc here yet for discussions sake, but I do feel that the last three episodes felt a bit rushed for my liking, I reckon that this series would have benefited from say one or two more episodes to flesh out the storylines and background.
I'll come back in the day and elaborate more...
I won't post spoilers etc here yet for discussions sake, but I do feel that the last three episodes felt a bit rushed for my liking, I reckon that this series would have benefited from say one or two more episodes to flesh out the storylines and background.
I'll come back in the day and elaborate more...
I agree with that, too much background info has to be guessed at, leading to significant confusion of the story.
could have done with another episode before the first to lay out the landscape and into the characters.
also, the last episode does not 'finish' such that we now have no idea and have to wait for the next season, which is a year away?
could have done with another episode before the first to lay out the landscape and into the characters.
also, the last episode does not 'finish' such that we now have no idea and have to wait for the next season, which is a year away?
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