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Old 17-11-2016, 10:15
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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
I can remember it giving me nightmares for some reason. It's all available on YouTube now - and, yes, it looks very dated.
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Old 17-11-2016, 10:58
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I can remember it giving me nightmares for some reason. It's all available on YouTube now - and, yes, it looks very dated.
I think it was when the Martians appeared and they were wispy ethereal beings like ghosts !
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Old 17-11-2016, 11:43
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I think it was when the Martians appeared and they were wispy ethereal beings like ghosts !
Yes, that must have been it. I was only about 10 when I saw it and had just started getting interested in space exploration. It scared the crap out of me at the time.
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Old 20-11-2016, 12:05
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Just watched episode 1. Bit weird, doesn't really seem to know what it's trying to be - sci-fi TV series, "Mission to Mars documentary" or SpaceX ad-reel. Not really done any of those very well, apparently. And there's something about the "filmic" nature of the image quality that looks weird to me.
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Old 20-11-2016, 12:19
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I recorded it last Sunday and still haven't watched it, seeing as I won't be able to watch the other episodes I don't think I will.
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Old 21-11-2016, 08:00
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I struggle to understand what 2033 doctor says due to her strong accent.
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Old 21-11-2016, 12:04
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I'm puzzled where they've ended up? Wasn't there a mention of a Russian base as well as a US base in episode one?
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Old 21-11-2016, 14:45
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Just watched episode 1. Bit weird, doesn't really seem to know what it's trying to be - sci-fi TV series, "Mission to Mars documentary" or SpaceX ad-reel. Not really done any of those very well, apparently. And there's something about the "filmic" nature of the image quality that looks weird to me.
At least there is less SpaceX is Episode 2.

National Geographic were never going to produce a big budget drama with an all star cast but I'm still enjoying it for what it is.
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Old 21-11-2016, 17:45
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I wish that I could remember the name of a TV show we watched about Martians at junior school in the early 1980s.
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Old 21-11-2016, 18:48
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Watched ep1 and thought it was good. That one was in UHD but no sign of ep 2 in UHD yet.
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Old 21-11-2016, 20:35
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Just watched episode 1. Bit weird, doesn't really seem to know what it's trying to be - sci-fi TV series, "Mission to Mars documentary" or SpaceX ad-reel. Not really done any of those very well, apparently. And there's something about the "filmic" nature of the image quality that looks weird to me.
I was looking forward to it but:

1. I don't like the switching between the drama and factual bits (should be first third factual then go to all drama);
2. Rather than be an accurate dramatic interpretation of an actual Mars mission, it's trying to be a poor clone of The Martian where everything goes wrong and needs to be fixed.

Verdict: good concept but poorly executed.

I prefer this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annota...&v=YH3c1QZzRK4 (long play version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u886CmxlY4)
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Old 22-11-2016, 13:11
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I watched the first episode and thought it was OKish. A bit too much of an ad for SpaceX for my liking.

I started to watch episode 2 but I got 20 minutes in and found it mind numbingly boring. in 20 minutes there was about 2 minutes set on Mars, and that was in the rover with the crew mooning over the doofus captain.

I turned it off then. The Martian this ain't.
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Old 22-11-2016, 16:23
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The drama team needed sacking. What a poor tale that was! Can't believe Nat Geo thought that this was acceptable.
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Old 22-11-2016, 21:10
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I watched the first episode and thought it was OKish. A bit too much of an ad for SpaceX for my liking.

I started to watch episode 2 but I got 20 minutes in and found it mind numbingly boring. in 20 minutes there was about 2 minutes set on Mars, and that was in the rover with the crew mooning over the doofus captain.

I turned it off then. The Martian this ain't.
I FF'd through a lot of ep. 2 - maybe 20 minutes of it. I can see why they wanted to end the episode where they did, but frankly there just wasn't enough "story" to sustain it. And all the flashbacks just seem like padding.
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Old 22-11-2016, 21:49
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This sounds interesting:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/scienc...mans-Mars-days
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Old 06-12-2016, 17:15
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I FF'd through a lot of ep. 2 - maybe 20 minutes of it. I can see why they wanted to end the episode where they did, but frankly there just wasn't enough "story" to sustain it. And all the flashbacks just seem like padding.
I'm up to episode 3 now and it's still disaster after disaster with precious little real science or engineering about how to live and survive on Mars. It's like a poor man's The Martian but without plot, good dialogue, charisma and the rest...
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Old 06-12-2016, 20:12
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I had high expectations for Mars, but after The Martian it was always going to be a hard act to follow. That said, I've been really disappointed. Mixing documentary with drama doesn't work. The characters have little depth and I don't really care what happens to them. Mission Control seems to be a couple of dozen people lounging around inside a geodesic dome. I'll stick with the series until the end, but overall it could have been so much better.
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Old 06-12-2016, 20:18
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I gave up last week afer about 10 minutes, my main issue with it was I was finding it hard to understand what the foreign characters were saying, the only one I did understand was the leader of the team and they bumped him off in episode two, if it was a real mission I'd be very surprised if there were no British people on the crew.
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Old 08-12-2016, 22:13
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Let's face it - in the real world they'd all be white men.
I hope in 20 years we'll have progressed beyond that.

For the first three episodes it's been one third current day talking heads, one third the actors telling us how important it all is, and one third drama. I wouldn't mind the current day stuff, but as I'm a fan of SpaceX et al none of it was new to me.

The drama elements were very weak. It seems like the crew wanted to fail. They don't communicate, which is both stupid and unrealistic. If the leader had admitted how injured he was, they might have found a plan that let him survive. They had a rover with the capacity for all of them, but not the weight. They drove it so hard it broke, so the journey ended up taking longer than it would had they gone slower. They never considered leaving one or two people back at the lander. As I recall they had 3 days air left, which would have lasted longer with fewer people. And who travels for 6 months with 6 months and 3 days worth of air? And that geologist standing in the lava tube not telling anyone what she was seeing. All so ridiculously stupid and unrealistic. I wanted to like it, but it's a chore to watch.
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Old 08-12-2016, 22:20
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Well I did say the drama team should be sacked. Silly for a serious science broadcaster to let itself be associated with such rubbish.
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Old 11-12-2016, 19:59
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Well I did say the drama team should be sacked. Silly for a serious science broadcaster to let itself be associated with such rubbish.
I hope in 20 years we'll have progressed beyond that.

For the first three episodes it's been one third current day talking heads, one third the actors telling us how important it all is, and one third drama. I wouldn't mind the current day stuff, but as I'm a fan of SpaceX et al none of it was new to me.

The drama elements were very weak. It seems like the crew wanted to fail. They don't communicate, which is both stupid and unrealistic. If the leader had admitted how injured he was, they might have found a plan that let him survive. They had a rover with the capacity for all of them, but not the weight. They drove it so hard it broke, so the journey ended up taking longer than it would had they gone slower. They never considered leaving one or two people back at the lander. As I recall they had 3 days air left, which would have lasted longer with fewer people. And who travels for 6 months with 6 months and 3 days worth of air? And that geologist standing in the lava tube not telling anyone what she was seeing. All so ridiculously stupid and unrealistic. I wanted to like it, but it's a chore to watch.
Tbh, in terms of entertainment value, I actually think that The Last Days on Mars (2013) is better than Mars Novo Mundo: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1709143/
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Old 11-12-2016, 21:09
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Tbh, in terms of entertainment value, I actually think that The Last Days on Mars (2013) is better than Mars Novo Mundo: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1709143/
Yes that was quite fun!
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Old 11-12-2016, 23:50
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Yes that was quite fun!
Indeed it was, Mandark. Incidentally, that film was also shot in Jordan's Wadi Rum just like The Martian: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wa...w=1020&bih=541 (I think it's a better Mars stand-in than the Moroccan desert scenery used in Mars Novo Mundo)

While I remember, I also recommend Europa Report which I really liked.
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Old 12-12-2016, 07:35
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I watched 3 and 4 this morning. In 3 they seemed to go from only having a few hours of air left to finding the cave and building the colony within a few minutes. I also think it would have been better to concentrate more on the drama instead or constantly going back and forth to 2016 and 2033. It's obviously trying to be like the Martian and not really succeeding.
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Old 20-12-2016, 15:25
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I am absolutely loving this.

I am really enjoying the mixture of fact and fiction, documentary and drama.

The end of Ep 5 was breathtaking. You could see it coming early on, but that made it even more tense for me.
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