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   Hello Mike!   
      
   ** On Friday 05.02.21 - 16:49, Mike Powell wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:   
      
    >> Anyone else sail through this one?  Does it get more   
    >> interesting?   
      
    MP> It took me a few episodes to get hooked.  I have just   
    MP> finished watching Season 4 this week.   
      
   It finally seemed to pick up at E8. E8 E9 and E10 where faster     
   paced; that made it interesting. I had read the short synopses     
   and wondered when the bio hazard stuff would come in.   
      
   Now I need to find out why the people on Eros station were     
   purposely infected - except perhaps to act as sources for more     
   of the bio stuff.   
      
   I'm still confused as to the role the UN is playing in all of     
   this, and I'm finding that chapter of the story to be tedious.   
      
    MP> IMHO, that series is better than the Star Wars saga, and I   
    MP> love the original Star Wars movies.   
      
   Wow, that says a lot.  I really liked the SW saga (except for     
   the film with the loopy kangaroo-like character with the floppy     
   ears)   
      
    MP> One thing you have to realize is that, aside from ship   
    MP> interiors, space is pretty dark and, if we ever do colonize   
    MP> it, it will probably be a lot more boring than previous   
    MP> space movies/shows have depicted it as being.   
      
   Good point about the dark.  As for colonization, I really doubt     
   it. Humans are simply not a good match for sustained life out     
   there: low gravity issues leading to reduced bone mass and     
   density, radiation from all directions, etc.  It would seem that     
   once you are exposed to long periods in space, then return to     
   Earth is not feasible.   
      
   I liked some of the attempts to deal with the logistics of how     
   to justify walking upright in zero g. The magnetic clip solution     
   on the boots is interesting.   
      
   The use of conventional weapons, as opposed to lasers, is     
   interesting too.  I would think that is primarily in part to it     
   being easier in post-production to add a tiny flash at the end     
   of a gun and discharge explosives in controlled areas of a set     
   than it is to draw in laser lines and add colour.   
      
    MP> In S4, without giving away spoilers, they do more time   
    MP> showing other planets (at least two) and less time on the   
    MP> industrialized asteroids.   
      
   At this point, I just want to know how the bio weapon came to be     
   and why that one fellow on Eros station was gathering samples     
   from the Julie Mao character.  I also want to know WHY the     
   Canterbury had to be destroyed.   
      
   At the end of E9, the blue bio stuff seemed to suggest that it     
   had some kind of intelligence.  And the long "arm" that came out     
   of nowhere to crapple the lone character and whisk him off     
   somewhere is another mystery.   
      
   There also seems to be some kind of inconsistency with the bio     
   thing. It is depicted as being an independent life-form thriving     
   from a central location, yet somebody like the Julie Mao     
   character is consumed by it and isolated.   
      
    MP> My understanding is that S5 may show more areas of Earth   
    MP> beyond downtown NYC.  As that one is not on DVD yet, I will   
    MP> be waiting a while to see it. If S4 was any indication, it   
    MP> probably won't come out on DVD until about the time S6 is   
    MP> about to be dropped.   
      
   I'm going to give S2 a shot.  But (thankfully) it's not the kind     
   of series that would have me hooked to binge-watch.   
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