Defying gravity

[Soir]

Not seen any adverts about this, just spotted pilot on tonight

Anyone heard of it? Any good?

[EdJ]

Terrible reviews but I've set the Sky + just in case...

[T89 Callan]

The trailers made it look truly terrible.

[FourWheelDrift]

Seems to be a soap opera in space. So lot's of "issues" and things.

[Northern Munkee]

I'll give episode one a whirl, the SFX looked a tad cheesey and it all looked a bit Astronauts in Love, but it's got Ron Livingston in it and he was the best character in Band of Brothers, and was very watchable.

[FourWheelDrift]

I hope one of them goes postal or they get attacked by aliens. I can't see anything else rescuing the terminal boredom so far.

Seeing Joey from Bread has been the best bit so far.

[Guffy]

Given it 30 mins so far, not inclined to give it another from what i've seen so far. Bit of IMDB research suggests it's slow and silly too.

[Oily Nails]

I'm giving it a go.
After all the Hype over FLASHFORWARD which has turned into a pile of poo, maybe this has a chance as the under-rated underdog.

Edited by Oily Nails on Wednesday 21st October 21:32

[FourWheelDrift]

It's the worst type of arse gravy.

[Simpo Two]

I love the concept of man striving to get to Mars, man vs the elements etc, but I feared this would be 'Eastenders in Space' and it seems I was right.

Lots of bickering, pretty girl astronauts and too much interpersonal stuff. But I suspect the future of mankind will not be on Mars or any other planet, but in 'TV drama'. #

Back to basics: www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=69...

[grumbledoak]

Patchy so far, though I loved Ganesha 'sitting' on the ship at the end.

www.tvguide.co.uk give it an 8, mind, and I find them pretty reliable. So, we'll try episode 2 (on now).

[Northern Munkee]

There was a more BBC sciencey version of this called either Grand Tour or Odyssey which was much better this is rather all overly melodramatic mumbo jumbo. There are hints of Sunshine about it, in really bad way.

I do hope its not going to Ron Livingston voice over episode after episode, I'm afraid I'm reminded that the voiceover is usually employed to help the viewer makes sense of a bad narrative. Famously the Ridley Scott unhappiness of Blade Runner being taken away from him for Harrison Ford to voice it over, noir style.

[Simpo Two]

Prize kooky bint Zoe has already been out of the airlock three times - astronaut selection isn't what it used to be in the days of Alan Sheppard

[Oily Nails]

Dunno....not too bad. TBH I think I might enjoy this more than Flashforward. We'll see

[T89 Callan]

The one and only good thinh about this was that the unbelievably gorgeous Paula Garces was in it.

Other than that? Complete gash.

[Eric Mc]

The fact that Radio Times slagged it off says it all (after all, it is being shown in BBC 2).

The reviewer in Radio Times called it Sci-Fi for girls.

[Scraggles]

been watching it off the net, not bad but can understand why it is not likely to last until the end

too many flips back to the past where they are doing training or in some bar and not enough of the space stuff

[Frankeh]

Yeah, nanosuits.
That's what keeps our hair down... Wait wha?

Kinda silly, and I didn't realise that the leaving those 2 astronauts behind was significant due to the lack of decent acting.
He just said sorry with no emotion then lifted off. I was thinking "So they'll just catch the next rocket?" and then it dawned on me. That guy just essentially killed 2 people and showed zero emotion until 2 years later a reporter asked him about it.
I think this guy is a psychopath, which makes the show a bit more interesting.

[Leithen]

Reminded me a bit of the Mars TV show that had Rock Hudson doing nothing to lift it many moons ago...

[chippy17]

I quite enjoyed it! Not great but watchable