Outcasts
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 11:12 am
New 8 part BBC Sci Fi, got off to a great start last night.
Basically the earth is dead or dying and a new planet has been found with suitable earthlike conditions, but will people really do any better with a fresh start or will they repeat the mistakes of the old world ?
Episode 1
[spoiler=]Started to build the characters, set the history, show the settlement and hint towards a dark secret the leaders have about there early days on the new world.
Giant evacuation ships have been built and sent to this new world, a 5 year voyage and one way ticket, at least one ship has arrived safely and has been there for 10 years already building the settlement and preparing for the arrival of the rest. At least one ship has been destroyed entering orbit, others were sent, but how many ? They are late so will they arrive or have they been lost ? All contact with Earth has been lost but the last contact dont look good. Now this mirco-society is already falling into the failings of the old world, elitism, people wanting to break away and form their own settlement in secret, we get a glimpse of a dark secret the leader have from the early days when they arrived, and the arrival of someone they think will challenge them.
If you want lasers, shields and beam me up scotty go watch something else, this is sci fi but it's more about people and the apart from the evacuation ships and a memory reading gadget the tech seems current and within realistically possible advances for the next decade.[/spoiler]
Anyone else watching this ?
Basically the earth is dead or dying and a new planet has been found with suitable earthlike conditions, but will people really do any better with a fresh start or will they repeat the mistakes of the old world ?
Episode 1
[spoiler=]Started to build the characters, set the history, show the settlement and hint towards a dark secret the leaders have about there early days on the new world.
Giant evacuation ships have been built and sent to this new world, a 5 year voyage and one way ticket, at least one ship has arrived safely and has been there for 10 years already building the settlement and preparing for the arrival of the rest. At least one ship has been destroyed entering orbit, others were sent, but how many ? They are late so will they arrive or have they been lost ? All contact with Earth has been lost but the last contact dont look good. Now this mirco-society is already falling into the failings of the old world, elitism, people wanting to break away and form their own settlement in secret, we get a glimpse of a dark secret the leader have from the early days when they arrived, and the arrival of someone they think will challenge them.
If you want lasers, shields and beam me up scotty go watch something else, this is sci fi but it's more about people and the apart from the evacuation ships and a memory reading gadget the tech seems current and within realistically possible advances for the next decade.[/spoiler]
Anyone else watching this ?
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*grin*