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Old 13-11-2016, 18:01
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This looks interesting although not sure why it's on 3 different channels Atlantic, nat geo and fox. It seems they really want people to see this.
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Old 13-11-2016, 18:36
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This looks interesting although not sure why it's on 3 different channels Atlantic, nat geo and fox. It seems they really want people to see this.
I noticed it was on Atlantic but not Fox too, I wonder if they'll just be showing the first episode then only show it on Nat Geo from next week to entice people to buy the extra sky pack?

I've got it set to record anyway.
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Old 13-11-2016, 19:02
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I noticed it was on Atlantic but not Fox too, I wonder if they'll just be showing the first episode then only show it on Nat Geo from next week to entice people to buy the extra sky pack?

I've got it set to record anyway.
I think that's probably what they're doing. Gonna download the ep to watch tomorrow. It seems to be getting good ratings so looking forward to watching it.
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Old 13-11-2016, 19:07
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Do you think 'Mars - Novo Mundo' on Nat Geo at 11pm is just a repeat of the 9pm episode ?
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Old 13-11-2016, 19:07
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They did this a couple of years back with another show was called cosmos a space odyssey
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:02
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Do you think 'Mars - Novo Mundo' on Nat Geo at 11pm is just a repeat of the 9pm episode ?
Yes it is a repeat.
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Old 13-11-2016, 21:41
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I gave it 30 minutes but it didn't grab me........

I've turned it off now
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Old 13-11-2016, 22:42
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Yeah the dramatic impact of the mission was weakened with the constant flash backs and real life space scientist//engineer intrusions. I'll stick with it though.
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Old 13-11-2016, 22:47
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Until Jim Lovell made an appearance near the end, I wasn't sure if the 'talking heads' were 'real' or actors - and was veering more towards the latter.
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Old 14-11-2016, 00:52
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Until Jim Lovell made an appearance near the end, I wasn't sure if the 'talking heads' were 'real' or actors - and was veering more towards the latter.
I wondered at first but recognised a few as I have interest in planetary science. Elon Musk should have been the biggest giveaway. And NatGeo's resident astronomer Neil deGrasse Tyson was there as well although he's much better known in the States.
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Old 14-11-2016, 01:29
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This looks interesting although not sure why it's on 3 different channels Atlantic, nat geo and fox. It seems they really want people to see this.
Rupert now owns a majority stake in National Geographic media, everything except the magazine I think.
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Old 14-11-2016, 01:32
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Yeah the dramatic impact of the mission was weakened with the constant flash backs and real life space scientist//engineer intrusions. I'll stick with it though.
Yeh, I am skipping it because of the docudrama format, it is neither fish nor fowl. Scientists speaking throughout the drama ruins the plot, should be done at the end only.
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Old 14-11-2016, 07:50
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Gave up with this...the format didn't work for me, it didn't grip me and no tension.
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Old 14-11-2016, 08:58
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I don't mind the talking head science stuff.........apart from te fac that Nat Geo have been showing hours and hours of Mars documentaries for the last week so we've had it up to the eyeballs

Even so I could have watched another one if it was new

It was the 'drama' that I thought was so lame..........it was so formulaic. If you've ever seen a science fiction film you could see that this was science fiction by numbers

assemble a team of different races, genders etc........the only hope of mankind, Earth looks on anxiously

remarkably with 17 seconds to countdown the captain offers them the choice of walking away...........that was a killer blow to credibility

then we have the 'oh, no it's all going wrong'

then we have the race against time in floating motion to stick a wotsit in the thingymajig........


that's where I gave up.......
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Old 14-11-2016, 13:49
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An hour of live footage of the Mars Rover asleep would have been more exciting and believable than this.

They should have let Fox make the drama AS a drama with good script and cast and Nat Geo the documentary discussing each episode straight after assessing the real science.

This way was hopeless - making the drama lame and trivialising the science by making viewers confused over what was 'real' and what was not.

Someone in pre production should have figured out this was not working as it was one of the worst misjudgements of a potentially good idea I have ever seen.

For older viewers the Mars mission reminded me of the old ITV show 'Alternative 3' (an April Fools joke show that was presented Orson Welles War of the World style as if real and did fool some people despite being obviously acted).

Any serious drama that reminds you of that spoof is in big trouble. Though over the years I have still been asked many times in lectures if Alternative 3 was real. So who knows.
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Old 14-11-2016, 19:08
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Old 15-11-2016, 08:32
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I recorded episode one last night and watched it this morning, unlike most people on here I thought it was very good especially the fact that they interspersed fiction with fact plus the fact that Elon Musk allowed Spacex failures to be shown was very open and honest.
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Old 15-11-2016, 11:28
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I guess it's better to be bored witless in UHD than HD!
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Old 15-11-2016, 11:38
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I guess it's better to be bored witless in UHD than HD!
Yeah. It makes the experience of boredom so much more vivid and real!

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Old 15-11-2016, 18:20
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I don't mind the talking head science stuff.........apart from te fac that Nat Geo have been showing hours and hours of Mars documentaries for the last week so we've had it up to the eyeballs

Even so I could have watched another one if it was new

It was the 'drama' that I thought was so lame..........it was so formulaic. If you've ever seen a science fiction film you could see that this was science fiction by numbers

assemble a team of different races, genders etc........the only hope of mankind, Earth looks on anxiously

remarkably with 17 seconds to countdown the captain offers them the choice of walking away...........that was a killer blow to credibility

then we have the 'oh, no it's all going wrong'

then we have the race against time in floating motion to stick a wotsit in the thingymajig........


that's where I gave up.......
Let's face it - in the real world they'd all be white men.
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Old 16-11-2016, 00:46
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Spot on swingaleg. This was rather disappointing, guess I was hoping for something closer to Defying Gravity.

The acting was pretty second rate (the commander pretending to battle x number of G's to get back to the cabin after swapping the faulty board, please...)
The shots on board Deadulus and the couple of external once from space looked very low budget
1/3 of the show appeared to be an advert for SpaceX and Elon Musk. I was surprised Tesla didn't get a mention at any point
As mentioned by swingaleg the drama itself was too predictable
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Old 16-11-2016, 18:03
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Spot on swingaleg. This was rather disappointing, guess I was hoping for something closer to Defying Gravity.

The acting was pretty second rate (the commander pretending to battle x number of G's to get back to the cabin after swapping the faulty board, please...)
The shots on board Deadulus and the couple of external once from space looked very low budget
1/3 of the show appeared to be an advert for SpaceX and Elon Musk. I was surprised Tesla didn't get a mention at any point
As mentioned by swingaleg the drama itself was too predictable
We'll probably see flashbacks of the crew driving around in Teslas next week!
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Old 16-11-2016, 22:04
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Old 17-11-2016, 09:32
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Well, I really enjoyed it. Being on National Geo it was never going to be a pure drama and I thought the documentary aspect worked well - even though it was partially an advert for SpaceX

For a proper Mars drama, I hope that the adaption of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy which has been in development in various forms for years will finally make it to our screens.
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Old 17-11-2016, 10:05
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For a proper Mars drama, I hope that the adaption of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy which has been in development in various forms for years will finally make it to our screens.
I remember one Mars TV series.......'The Martian Chronicles' back in the early 80s

Based on a Ray Bradbury short story

I remember it as being pretty good though it might look dated now
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