Netflix greenlights new "Lost in Space"
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Yes, I know. My point is that it is kinda absurd and unnecessary to put the Robinson's in another galaxy. It is absurd because even the best FTL drive would not be good enough to ever bring them back. It is unnecessary because space is big enough that flinging the Robinson family to other side of the Milky Way would have been good enough.
... You know how that sounds, right..?
Yeah, the pilot seemed to show the Resolute being torn apart. There was also the episode where Maurene and John find a huge chunk of the Resolute with the large communication dish crashed on the planet. Yet, in the finale, the Resolute seemed fine. Moreover, if the Resolute had lost its communication dish (a plot point for why the colonists could not communicate by radio with the Resolute) how were they communicated with it in the finale? I guess the Resolute was able to repair itself?
Up to episode six now.
Pretty much of a downer ending.
Edit: additional thoughts...
The whole show feels like a mix between LOST and Battlestar Galactica right now somehow.
Which is not a bad thing, though.
I kinda wish we would get a crossover with BSG just for a meeting between Dr. Smith and Gaius Baltar.
They are like a match made in heaven.
Pretty much of a downer ending.
I have the feeling, the robot‘s attack was more like an act of self defense.
Everytime so far it went into red mode it was just a response to danger.
Also I suspect the black hole‘s gravity well is fucking with the survivor‘s perception of time.
For them time must have significantly slowed down and all the radio transmissions from the Resolute are more like echo‘s and that ship is long since gone.
I had a feeling like that ever since they received the first message, but when Maureen detected Hawking radiation in orbit I was instantly sure.
Everytime so far it went into red mode it was just a response to danger.
Also I suspect the black hole‘s gravity well is fucking with the survivor‘s perception of time.
For them time must have significantly slowed down and all the radio transmissions from the Resolute are more like echo‘s and that ship is long since gone.
I had a feeling like that ever since they received the first message, but when Maureen detected Hawking radiation in orbit I was instantly sure.
Edit: additional thoughts...
The whole show feels like a mix between LOST and Battlestar Galactica right now somehow.
Which is not a bad thing, though.
I kinda wish we would get a crossover with BSG just for a meeting between Dr. Smith and Gaius Baltar.
They are like a match made in heaven.
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I realize that any FTL propulsion requires crazy science that is most likely impossible. But inventing a type of FTL drive is a conceit of most space scifi in order to move the plot forward. But there is a still big difference between a FTL drive that can take you from Earth to Alpha Centauri and an intergalactic FTL drive. Alpha Centauri is 4.3 light years. The nearest galaxy is 2.5 million light years away. It is a bit easier for me to suspend disbelief about traveling 4.3 light years than it is traveling 2.5 million light years. Heck, you can get to Alpha Centauri from Earth without FTL.
Why? Jump drives like in BSG didn‘t really have distance limits and were instant.
Though they were restricted by computing power to get precision coordinates at their target destination.
So even the jump drives in BSG would probably not be able to travel to another galaxy since the computing power to travel 2.5 million light years would likely be exponentially high. If they tried it, they would would probably end up missing their target by so much that they would end up jumping into the middle of the void between galaxies.
But, I guess it's the difference between hard scifi and soft scifi. Sure, if you are doing a show like Star Trek, just sprinkle some technobabble on it and you can do whatever you want. Travel to a parallel universe, travel to another galaxy, no problem. But this Lost in Space seemed to have a lot of hard scifi tones to it, from the design of the Resolute and the Jupiter ship to the Chariot. In other words, it felt more like plausible near future scifi. So for me, it felt a bit jarring when the crew mentioned being stranded in another galaxy.
Yup, that‘s the feeling I get, but I also think we will get a few more explanations down the road.
I think they will take a page out of the Interstellar playbook for the science talk.
I think they will take a page out of the Interstellar playbook for the science talk.
Things are only impossible until they aren't.
This. Just watched the second episode and they clearly know the difference between star system and galaxy.
It took 10 episodes for the show to reach its premise. I enjoyed it for the most part but they could have got there quicker.
Episode 3 is probably my favourite out of all of them as that type of story is what I expected from this show. Once they introduced the other survivors it became less interesting.
Episode 3 is probably my favourite out of all of them as that type of story is what I expected from this show. Once they introduced the other survivors it became less interesting.
Funny, I said the same thing about the robot when I got to episode 6.Up to episode six now.
Pretty much of a downer ending.
I have the feeling, the robot‘s attack was more like an act of self defense.
Everytime so far it went into red mode it was just a response to danger.
Also I suspect the black hole‘s gravity well is fucking with the survivor‘s perception of time.
For them time must have significantly slowed down and all the radio transmissions from the Resolute are more like echo‘s and that ship is long since gone.
I had a feeling like that ever since they received the first message, but when Maureen detected Hawking radiation in orbit I was instantly sure.
Edit: additional thoughts...
The whole show feels like a mix between LOST and Battlestar Galactica right now somehow.
Which is not a bad thing, though.
I kinda wish we would get a crossover with BSG just for a meeting between Dr. Smith and Gaius Baltar.
They are like a match made in heaven.
As was the throttle control and joystick they used for the Jupiter spaceship:
Warthog HOTAS has been really popular as a goto flight control system in movies (Batman vs. Superman, Europa Report etc.) as it's visually catching and you can easily bolt it down on to the rest of the set.
I love the look of that but is it hideously expensive?
The camera will uses costs between $400 and $600 but that's ebay as it's a 2014 model.
My favourite characters are Penny, Robot, and Dr Smith. Parker Posey is amazing and I predict she'll steal the show as it goes on.
Give her the emmy already.
When Penny did the rescue with the chariot that was so cool. She's an amazing character. I did love the "some assembly required" sticker on the window as it's never been used, that made me laugh a lot.
BTW I'm on the aliens side. I don't know how they came to be on Earth but Earth acted like scumbags stealing their drive core. I'd have nuked the planet from orbit.
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Post your quibbles.
FTL doesn't exist right now, and it would also be difficult to imagine from a purely theoretical point of view how it should work.
Often FTL in sci-fi fiction is just a narrative device that allows our heroes to go from point A to point B quickly. Sometimes it's a kind of jump (Star Wars), sometimes it's a type of propulsion that moves the ship faster than c (Star Trek). It has only to obey to the rules decided by the creators of that particular fictional universe. So if they decided that in the LiS universe you can go from a galaxy to another with a single jump, well, you can.
If you need a fictional precedent, the ship in Stargate Universe is able to travel between galaxies.
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