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Moonhaven (2022)

Penny wise and pound foolish

[2/10 · 11 February 2024]

Cheap script, impressive visually like a good adventure game, moderate directing. As usual no regard to science and sacrificed everything to support thrills. Change the scenery, becomes western. Change it again, becomes fantasy. Generic everything, like the producer had a faint idea of the plot and hired a couple of guys reading YA sci-fi to write the rest. Why see this junk and not play a good game? Ok, it's cheaper to watch, but you can't have any effect on the plot. Disappointing, really. So much investment of time and money gone to waste.

Move along, nothing to see here. Or let it play in the background, no sound, to glance at the scenery.

Foundation (2021– )

The Foundation spliced into Revelation Space

[3/10 · 20 October 2021]

The Foundation TV show is quite unusual in that not only it has a lot of new things compared to the book series, but the new things are very unusual and totally foreign to the Foundation concept.

But, as an expert sci-fi reader, I can see between the script lines. The foreign concepts are a triple plot, an eye bomb, slower than light travel, space elevators, a triumvirate at the top and cloning. Now, where did I first read all that stuff? Yes, it's Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds!

Mr. Goyer spliced The Foundation into Revelation Space! This is called a chimera, which according to Greek mythology, was a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature, composed of different animal parts. That's a fitting description for the show. It's not that it has has awesome visuals and terrible directing, it's that the script is a chimera. And Mr. Goyer tries to promote this mess as a truly awesome, innovative concept. Innovative yes, awesome no. It's just ugly.

Raised by Wolves (2020–2022)

What an un-original POS!

[3/10 · 10 September 2020]

I was expecting something original, well-thought and scientifically plausible. Well, it ain't that. It is a total Piece Of S..., with an un-original plot right out of the middle ages (no this is not sci-fi, this is mainstream TV) and huge plot holes like the worm holes in Kepler colony. Nice actors, nice scenery, nice direction but what for? Even the original Galactica was much better than this. Save your time, watch something else.

War of the Worlds (2019– )

Bunches of people hanging around

[5/10 · 30 November 2019]

Scenery is ok, actors are ok, direction is ok, the plot is moronic. Aliens have invaded, and lots of people just feel at a loss and hung around instead of banding and moving to safety. Good for a never ending series, too bad for my temper.

Origin (2018)

Why spend money on a good scriptwriter?

[6/10 · 18 December 2018]

Because then you would have a much, much better show. But no, just select someone with no scientific background to write a scifi script (this tells something about the scientific background of the people in charge of YouTube series: nonexistent. In ancient Greek it would be called "Hybris", and they deserve everything they would get). And then watch a multimillion dollar production look like Abbott and Costello in space. Good for teens, lots of scary moments. Just don't watch it if you are over 25.

Missions (2017– )

Another scifi series favoring cheap thrills over scientific accuracy

[6/10 · 4 July 2017]

A French millionaire funds a Mars mission competing with a Tony Stark - Elon Musk type American millionaire funding another one. The US ship is much more realistic. No imagination there, they copied Elon Musk's ship design and mixed it with that of the Falcon 9 rocket, and it turned much more scientifically accurate than the French design. The French design, by the way, is a lot like the Eagles spaceships of Space 1999. Probably that's where they got their inspiration for the thriller plot twists. The script is plagued with the usual errors when the writer or the director has no idea of orbital mechanics, flight operations or engineering. Malfunctions and accidents occur randomly, and the crew heroically overcomes them disregarding safety regulations or scientific principles for that mater. There is not even a backup crew, a standard practice in all space programs. The landers are, very much unwise, hooked up sideways to the spaceship, in order to make sets and filming easier - no need for vertical sets. The crew seats in the spaceship are fighter airplane ejection seats. Crew has lots of things stored in nets or taped to walls, which would make good missiles while aerobraking. The spacesuits are straight out of Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey. No reference to lightweight mechanical counter-pressure suits being developed for Mars as we speak. Probably due to plain ignorance and cost savings. Good production though, nice sets and not a total waste. A small step forward for the European scifi film making, while US makes large jumps ahead with series like the Mars miniseries by the Discovery Channel and the Expanse. A pity.