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Hello Mike!

** On Friday 05.02.21 - 16:49, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

 >> Anyone else sail through this one?  Does it get more
 >> interesting?

 MP> It took me a few episodes to get hooked.  I have just
 MP> finished watching Season 4 this week.

It finally seemed to pick up at E8. E8 E9 and E10 where faster  
paced; that made it interesting. I had read the short synopses  
and wondered when the bio hazard stuff would come in.

Now I need to find out why the people on Eros station were  
purposely infected - except perhaps to act as sources for more  
of the bio stuff.

I'm still confused as to the role the UN is playing in all of  
this, and I'm finding that chapter of the story to be tedious.

 MP> IMHO, that series is better than the Star Wars saga, and I
 MP> love the original Star Wars movies.

Wow, that says a lot.  I really liked the SW saga (except for  
the film with the loopy kangaroo-like character with the floppy  
ears)

 MP> One thing you have to realize is that, aside from ship
 MP> interiors, space is pretty dark and, if we ever do colonize
 MP> it, it will probably be a lot more boring than previous
 MP> space movies/shows have depicted it as being.

Good point about the dark.  As for colonization, I really doubt  
it. Humans are simply not a good match for sustained life out  
there: low gravity issues leading to reduced bone mass and  
density, radiation from all directions, etc.  It would seem that  
once you are exposed to long periods in space, then return to  
Earth is not feasible.

I liked some of the attempts to deal with the logistics of how  
to justify walking upright in zero g. The magnetic clip solution  
on the boots is interesting.

The use of conventional weapons, as opposed to lasers, is  
interesting too.  I would think that is primarily in part to it  
being easier in post-production to add a tiny flash at the end  
of a gun and discharge explosives in controlled areas of a set  
than it is to draw in laser lines and add colour.

 MP> In S4, without giving away spoilers, they do more time
 MP> showing other planets (at least two) and less time on the
 MP> industrialized asteroids.

At this point, I just want to know how the bio weapon came to be  
and why that one fellow on Eros station was gathering samples  
from the Julie Mao character.  I also want to know WHY the  
Canterbury had to be destroyed.

At the end of E9, the blue bio stuff seemed to suggest that it  
had some kind of intelligence.  And the long "arm" that came out  
of nowhere to crapple the lone character and whisk him off  
somewhere is another mystery.

There also seems to be some kind of inconsistency with the bio  
thing. It is depicted as being an independent life-form thriving  
from a central location, yet somebody like the Julie Mao  
character is consumed by it and isolated.

 MP> My understanding is that S5 may show more areas of Earth
 MP> beyond downtown NYC.  As that one is not on DVD yet, I will
 MP> be waiting a while to see it. If S4 was any indication, it
 MP> probably won't come out on DVD until about the time S6 is
 MP> about to be dropped.

I'm going to give S2 a shot.  But (thankfully) it's not the kind  
of series that would have me hooked to binge-watch.
--
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