TZUTC: -0500
MSGID: 826.movies@1:2320/105 248539c2
REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet ed2e2b20
PID: Synchronet 3.18c-Linux master/dcb003099 Dec 31 2020 GCC 7.5.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.12-Linux master/dcb003099 Dec 31 2020 GCC 7.5.0
BBSID: CAPCITY2
CHRS: ASCII 1
> 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.

Without giving away spoilers... I think by S2E1 that should become apparent.

> 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.

Yes, some of it does not become apparent right away.  I am a fan of film
noir and some of the subplots in this series remind me of those movies... a
lot of things take a while to become obvious.

The one thing I can tell you, that you may already know, is that the UN is
the government of Earth.  Some countries may still have some independence,
but (at least through the end of S4), the entirety of Earth (and Luna, the
Moon) is governed by the UN.

>  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)

Me, too, but I like this series better, maybe because it seems more
realistic.  Most of the tech used (except for things related to the
Protomolecule) are extensions of things that exist now that have evolved
over 200 years to what they are on the show.

> 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.

They cover that well.  Once you become an "Outer," being an "Inner" is not
feasible.

> 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.

I believe the Protomolecule stuff gets resolved pretty quickly in S2, i.e.
where it came from and why they are gathering samples.  As for why the Cant
had to be destroyed, I sort of thought they covered that by the end of S1.
That, too, becomes obvious as S2 goes on.

> 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.

Yes.  :)

> 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.

It is inconsistent early on.  That is something that takes a while for even
the characters involved to figure out.

> 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.

It would have me had I been watching it on a platform to binge.  When I
originally watched S1-3, it was on SyFy.

Mike


 * SLMR 2.1a * I forget the dream, but I'm missing a pajama button...
--- SBBSecho 3.12-Linux
 * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)
SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 16/0 19/36 90/1 105/81 106/201 116/18 120/302
SEEN-BY: 120/331 340 123/130 131 140 124/5016 129/305 142/799 926
SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 203/0 124 218/700 221/0 1 226/30 227/114
SEEN-BY: 227/702 229/101 424 426 428 550 664 1016 1017 230/0 150 152
SEEN-BY: 240/1120 5832 249/110 206 317 400 250/1 261/38 100 266/512
SEEN-BY: 267/155 275/100 280/464 5003 282/1031 1056 288/100 291/100
SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/8125 310/31 317/3 320/119 219 319 322/0 757 340/400
SEEN-BY: 341/66 342/200 396/45 423/120 460/58 633/280 640/1321 712/848
SEEN-BY: 770/1 801/161 189 2320/0 105 195 200 304 2452/250 3634/12
SEEN-BY: 5020/1042
PATH: 2320/105 261/38 320/219 203/0 280/464 229/101 426