Discussion
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.
First 2 episodes are good.
The sheer amount of detail in this is still stunning, can't think of anything else on TV or film where someone has put in quite so much effort.
And that's quite apart from the story being not too bad.
One thing I did like was the way they did a subtle reminder that there isn't an 'up' in space by having a ship fly past with all the markings upside down. Just because. And they do like their physics.
The sheer amount of detail in this is still stunning, can't think of anything else on TV or film where someone has put in quite so much effort.
And that's quite apart from the story being not too bad.
One thing I did like was the way they did a subtle reminder that there isn't an 'up' in space by having a ship fly past with all the markings upside down. Just because. And they do like their physics.
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