Defying Gravity: Discussion thread for the remaining episodes.

[1001001]

This show kept me interested, but overall... it's a confusing mess.

There was a good show in there somewhere....

I just saw rabbit lady in an episode of Dexter, by the way.

 

[Starbreaker]

She's pretty good as a deranged killer, huh?

 

[Ryan]

The creator basically saying he wasn't going to reveal what those things were at the end makes me glad I didn't get strung along for several seasons only to not know what the hell was going on.

I think he meant he wasn't going to reveal them in the interview in case the show had a shot of coming back.

Donner says he doesn't know the planet in his dream and they never show it as having any recognizable land mass so it's possible when they get the artifacts they're not going to be staying in our solar system. It would also help explain why Beta put a physicist on the Antares.

 

[Treker]

I don't like the way they string it out.

It makes you think they have 3 seasons locked in when they don't.

 

[Apogeal Alpha01]

Wrong thread?

 

[Treker]

I just don't like slowly chewing through a show only to find out it's been axed.

Thought I'd try bump this up to see if anybody has any news.

Dead?

 

[spinnerlys]

I just don't like slowly chewing through a show only to find out it's been axed.

Thought I'd try bump this up to see if anybody has any news.

Dead?

There is currently another thread active.
http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=120758

 

[3D Master]

Defying Gravity was seriously bad, and an insult to intelligence everywhere. Those people didn't act like scientists, they acted like religious fanatics.

The moment they want on how great the object was, and how mysterious and good, while it was busy trying to kill them off, this show died for me.

What Zoe went to do and "the test she had to pass" was depicted as good, when in fact it was irrational and on the objects' part, evil. If the only way to get it, is for everyone to act like irrational morons, and you act rational only for a moment it kills you off, it's something that promotes ignorance and irrationality, anti-science; in short: evil. At that moment I turned the show off, I didn't even waste my time finishing the rest of the episode.

What Jennifer's reaction to an empty alcove should have been is: "You're all hallucinating. Because there is nothing in there."

All: "What?"

Jen: "It's empty. There's nothing there, watch." Walks over and waves hands through alcove. "See, empty, nothing, nada, zilch. Whatever is screwing with your heads, it ain't in here. It seems I'm the only one who is immune."

A proper reaction to those objects and what they are doing, would be to ignore them, lock them away, under several miles of lead, and learn how they work, and how to force them to your will, how to deflect it's capabilities, and then go get them by overpowering them. And just in case they become more actively hostile, have the nukes and the firing solution ready to nuke them into a oblivion.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Defying Gravity was seriously bad, and an insult to intelligence everywhere.

3D Master you are entitled to your opinion.
I have said before

This show does have the potential to bring a wider audience to Science Fiction on network television. I'll take the relationship drama along with it. Thank god for a spaceship-based television series on TV where there are not lasers, rayguns, phasers [I know it sounds sacrilige].

I currently am watching the last 3 episodes on the final DVD disc via Netflix. The CGI visual effects are top notch and the space exterior shots of the Antares in and out of the commercial breaks are so awesome.

This show was totally worth it for me to see what is possible with a character-driven scifi series without 'rayguns' or war factions/battles and major action scene sploshions. It was a dramatized version of a space-based science exploration mission. It went with a certain style that was safe for network TV catering to the over 34 audience I believe to pull in the Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice tv fans.
I really do wonder how this show would have been different if it were on AMC, TNT, or HBO/Showtime with it being 13 episodes and on cable instead of network TV although since Showtime tried and hyzmarca reminds us

TR 2070 ["Total Recall 2070" (1999) (TV series)] is an excellent series, one of the better science fiction series of its time, canceled far too early (you know how fickle Showtime can be about Sci-fi). And it was a cop show. But the cop elements didn't detract from the world or the plot.

We all know that science fiction is a hard sell by itself.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

Just a quick reminder to those just discovering Defying Gravity via the DVD: It was based on a 2004 BBC mockumentary.

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets - Wikipedia

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets - IMDb

Amazon - Voyage to the Planets and Beyond

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3ubMbUHojI[/yt]

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets

It was based on a 2004 BBC mockumentary.

I did just added
Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets to my Netflix DVD que.

I can't wait to see how the mockumentary style works for this fictional story. The trailer you posted intrigued me.

 

[Chris_Johnston]

^ Glad to hear it! There are a bunch of other clips on YouTube, but they've all had their aspect ratios squished from 16:9 to 1.33:1.