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The Adultswim site has them up for a while (maybe a week) after the episode airs. #halloween
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It must be bunnys! #halloween
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*P.S. I think I lost my star. Can anyone help find it?
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Excuse me while I go on a hunt for pictorial gratification.... #halloween
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What I don't understand is why people are so ready to accept new technology (iphone and such) but arn't willing to accept sifi type shows.
Si fi shows are so much more interesting than the same 'ol boing highschool drama show....or another fuggin crime scene/court room show.
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i did enjoy the bbc show voyage to the planets.
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I'm bummed we won't get to see the mysterious Beta, and really bummed that we won't get to see Venus.
Pretty sure they're gonna have pasta with tomato sauce and a bunch of salsa for dinner for a while since the tomatoes went all fractal. I really expected the food and porn guy to comment on that.
I don't think the network ever really cared about this show, since it was never promoted. If it weren't for io9, I wouldn't have known it was on.
I like that they tried to do something different with SF -- a recognizable near-future society, people with contemporary concerns -- but I fear that soap fans were scared off by the spaceship (oh, for the Apollo days, when the unwashed public loved space) and SF fans were scared off by the relationships and the fact that half the cast was female.
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I saw a few commercials for it a few weeks before it came on, so i scanned future cable listings and set it to record on DVR.
I wonder if some regions did not get the advertising as much as others? Although those commercials were on "The Bachelorette" which my girlfriend and I happened to watch this summer. And a show like that might not be on the viewing list of many sci-fi fans! ;)
I like Defying Gravity, and like the character development of the flashbacks and relationships. And I have never understood why some sci-fi fans dont appreciate character development and just want space battles or straight up hard sci-fi and science jargon (but i have always been a big fan of social and political themed sci-fi).
It was also nice to see about 50% of the main characters being female!
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Written sci-fi isn't all pew pew and jargon and manly men, so it's a shame that movies and TV aren't allowed to be.
Glad to hear another man besides my husband is secure enough in his masculinity to have liked it. :)
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Maybe if Mike Judge took it over and made it Office Space (get it?) it would have done better?
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And while I didn't mind the flashbacks, the quirky happy playful music at inappropriate times drove me up the friggin' wall. Oh hey, Paula just got crushed by cargo container... lets flashback to 5 years ago when she was sitting with a drug addict who was crushing on her big time, and queue the quirky music. That was totally appropriate.
And don't even get me started on Paula. Hey honey, I think it's cute and all that you want to continually lapse into your native tongue when filming your documentary for the children of the world, but here's a news flash for teacher: more of the world's population speak Farsi then spanish. Is this a global broadcast, or a segment for telemundo? You can't have it both ways... include all the kids, or stick with english so we can move along.
The truly sad part is, this is another case of the producers and suites thinking they know better then the audience which characters are going to be interesting. Zoe and Donner were both a couple of self absorbed fruitcakes, and every scene of theirs was like nails on a chalkboard. The only scenes in which Donner was tolerable were those that involved Ajay, which brings me to my biggest complaint: why did they sideline the most interesting character? Hindu's always get the shaft in western scifi... whats up with that? The best episode of the series was the one that dealt with the repercussions of his spacewalk, and being shut out of the only family he's known for the last 5 years. Ugh.. ok I'm done. No sense getting worked up over a show that's been canned anyway.
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I kept wondering how a whole crew of juvenile horndogs with substance abuse problems and PTSD could be "the best of the best" and would be sent on a 6 year mission in a $$billion space vehicle?
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I blame that diaper wearing psycho astronaut, for forever tarnishing the mystique that surrounds all those who have touched the heavens.
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Because "Beta" chose them.
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What was?
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Won't miss it. Maybe Office Space Guy can get a better gig; I generally like him, but not in this silliness.
Let's hope this failure doesn't turn ABC away from sci-fi, though. I want V to be good, and from everything I've seen, it will probably deliver.
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Well, most SciFi shows are TERRIBLE at relationship drama. It's all very caricatured. This one at least tried to delve deeper. Let's face it, human relationships can be very complex and, yes, involve sex.
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