Full Version: Defying Gravity
QUOTE (DarthMarley @ Jul 22 2009, 09:06 PM) 
The series looks interesting so I'll give the premire a go, but it's hard to tell how good a series is going to be from some promos, look a Virtuality from the promos it looked like a great series, turned out to be shit.
RDM isn't involved with this series in any way, shape or form is he?
No, RDM is not involved.
But the Grey'a Anatomy in space comparison disturbs me! It looks more like a "sex in space" show without the LEXX humor!
KR
But the Grey'a Anatomy in space comparison disturbs me! It looks more like a "sex in space" show without the LEXX humor!
KR
PREMIERE
THE SPACE PROGRAM SETS ITS SIGHTS ON A NEW FRONTIER WHEN EIGHT ASTRONAUTS SET THEIR COURSE FOR A SIX-YEAR DISCOVERY MISSION INTO SPACE, ON ABC'S "DEFYING GRAVITY"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts, embarking on a six-year journey to explore Venus and other planets in the solar system, find their lives and destinies intertwined and carefully directed, not only by Mission Control officials on Earth, but also by an unseen force which is much closer and far more powerful.
"Pilot" was directed by David Straiton and written by James Parriott.
In the second hour, "Natural Selection" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), some rocky and intriguing developments confront the crew as they learn to adjust to life on board the Antares, as they find that some past choices, combined with an unknown element in the ship's mysterious Storage Pod 4, lead to a complex web of dreams, desires and illusions that result in a life-threatening crisis.
"Natural Selection" was directed by Peter Howitt and written by James Parriott.
"Defying Gravity" stars Ron Livingston as Maddux Donner, Laura Harris as Zoe Barnes, Malik Yoba as Ted Shaw, Christina Cox as Jen Crane, Florentine Lahme as Nadia Schilling, Paula Garces as Paula Morales, Eyal Podell as Evram Mintz, Dylan Taylor as Steve Wassenfelder, Andrew Airlie as Mike Goss, Karen LeBlanc as Eve Shaw, Zahf Paroo as Ajay Sharma and Maxim Roy as Claire Dereux.
"Defying Gravity" is with Spanish subtitles via secondary closed captioning. A TV parental guideline will be posted closer to airdate.
THE SPACE PROGRAM SETS ITS SIGHTS ON A NEW FRONTIER WHEN EIGHT ASTRONAUTS SET THEIR COURSE FOR A SIX-YEAR DISCOVERY MISSION INTO SPACE, ON ABC'S "DEFYING GRAVITY"
The Antares crew launches into space, on "Defying Gravity," SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. In the first hour, "Pilot" (9:00-10:00 p.m.), a team of eight astronauts, embarking on a six-year journey to explore Venus and other planets in the solar system, find their lives and destinies intertwined and carefully directed, not only by Mission Control officials on Earth, but also by an unseen force which is much closer and far more powerful.
"Pilot" was directed by David Straiton and written by James Parriott.
In the second hour, "Natural Selection" (10:00-11:00 p.m.), some rocky and intriguing developments confront the crew as they learn to adjust to life on board the Antares, as they find that some past choices, combined with an unknown element in the ship's mysterious Storage Pod 4, lead to a complex web of dreams, desires and illusions that result in a life-threatening crisis.
"Natural Selection" was directed by Peter Howitt and written by James Parriott.
"Defying Gravity" stars Ron Livingston as Maddux Donner, Laura Harris as Zoe Barnes, Malik Yoba as Ted Shaw, Christina Cox as Jen Crane, Florentine Lahme as Nadia Schilling, Paula Garces as Paula Morales, Eyal Podell as Evram Mintz, Dylan Taylor as Steve Wassenfelder, Andrew Airlie as Mike Goss, Karen LeBlanc as Eve Shaw, Zahf Paroo as Ajay Sharma and Maxim Roy as Claire Dereux.
"Defying Gravity" is with Spanish subtitles via secondary closed captioning. A TV parental guideline will be posted closer to airdate.
A negative review from Sepinwall:
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.s...ew_sepinwa.html
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.s...ew_sepinwa.html
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Stop me if you've heard this one before -- and if you've been watching ABC for the last few years, you have -- but ABC's "Defying Gravity" is about a group of young professionals being trained in a dangerous specialty with a high wash-out rate, where the main character has an infirm parent and frames each episode with metaphor-laden narration, and where the male lead (an authority figure) and the female lead (one of his students) have a drunken one-night stand the day they meet. Yes, "Defying Gravity" is more or less "Grey's Anatomy" in space (or, as my friend Dan Fienberg has dubbed it, "Grey's Astronomy"), with a splash of "Lost" and a cast of familiar faces from recent ABC dramas. But the game of Spot the Similarities (which also extends to "Virtuality," the unsold pilot that Fox aired earlier this summer) is by far the most interesting thing about it.
I saw the first 2 episodes, not bad, I did watch it all the way through so that's something. They had a nice save with the artifical gravity answer, well it made me laugh.
I'll keep watching the series and hopefully it will get better.
I'll keep watching the series and hopefully it will get better.
Didn't like it: too gritty and not enough sci-fi. Pretty bored with it, but who knows.
They may still insert a MUF (Mysterious Unknown Force, first referenced in Space: 1999) into it.
KR
They may still insert a MUF (Mysterious Unknown Force, first referenced in Space: 1999) into it.
KR
QUOTE (koenigrules @ Aug 5 2009, 03:24 PM)
Didn't like it: too gritty and not enough sci-fi. Pretty bored with it, but who knows.
They may still insert a MUF (Mysterious Unknown Force, first referenced in Space: 1999) into it.
KR
They may still insert a MUF (Mysterious Unknown Force, first referenced in Space: 1999) into it.
KR
Well I'm thinking that they already have with whatever is in Cargo Pod 4 and what's waiting for them on Venus, it's kinda like if Lost was set in space, so it will be Lost In Space (I'm sorry I couldn't resist).
I don't think it's that gritty, I'll give it a couple more episodes then see.
QUOTE (koenigrules @ Aug 5 2009, 07:24 AM)
Didn't like it: too gritty and not enough sci-fi. Pretty bored with it, but who knows.
They may still insert a MUF (Mysterious Unknown Force, first referenced in Space: 1999) into it.
KR
They may still insert a MUF (Mysterious Unknown Force, first referenced in Space: 1999) into it.
KR
I thought there all ready was some mysterious unknown force in it. There were a couple of references to it in the episode I watched.
It's too much soap opera and not enough realism for me.
I didn't like the whole "shared dream" thing and then it comes true, I didn't get why she would zoom out to the end of the tether instead of drift slowly close by nor why it was attached to her back instead of her front so she could pull herself in nor why the tether was so insanely long compared to the ones the astronauts use on the Space Shuttle. Why wouldn't they have the little jet pack things that they all ready have for NASA? It didn't make sense that the brand new suit would have such a large leak in it all ready as if all that stuff wouldn't have been tested and retested before a 6 year mission was launched. Stuff like that can drive me insane.
Why split up husband and wife team and the other male female team at the last minute? It was almost like the "thing" was conducting a social experiment with the humans to see what they are made of, what their limitations are, toying with them etc.
It was weird and not so much in a good way and I love LOST so it's not like I don't like that kind of thing.
QUOTE (Rowan @ Aug 5 2009, 11:59 PM)
I thought there all ready was some mysterious unknown force in it. There were a couple of references to it in the episode I watched.
It's too much soap opera and not enough realism for me.
I didn't like the whole "shared dream" thing and then it comes true, I didn't get why she would zoom out to the end of the tether instead of drift slowly close by nor why it was attached to her back instead of her front so she could pull herself in nor why the tether was so insanely long compared to the ones the astronauts use on the Space Shuttle. Why wouldn't they have the little jet pack things that they all ready have for NASA? It didn't make sense that the brand new suit would have such a large leak in it all ready as if all that stuff wouldn't have been tested and retested before a 6 year mission was launched. Stuff like that can drive me insane.
Why split up husband and wife team and the other male female team at the last minute? It was almost like the "thing" was conducting a social experiment with the humans to see what they are made of, what their limitations are, toying with them etc.
It was weird and not so much in a good way and I love LOST so it's not like I don't like that kind of thing.
It's too much soap opera and not enough realism for me.
I didn't like the whole "shared dream" thing and then it comes true, I didn't get why she would zoom out to the end of the tether instead of drift slowly close by nor why it was attached to her back instead of her front so she could pull herself in nor why the tether was so insanely long compared to the ones the astronauts use on the Space Shuttle. Why wouldn't they have the little jet pack things that they all ready have for NASA? It didn't make sense that the brand new suit would have such a large leak in it all ready as if all that stuff wouldn't have been tested and retested before a 6 year mission was launched. Stuff like that can drive me insane.
Why split up husband and wife team and the other male female team at the last minute? It was almost like the "thing" was conducting a social experiment with the humans to see what they are made of, what their limitations are, toying with them etc.
It was weird and not so much in a good way and I love LOST so it's not like I don't like that kind of thing.
Well I do know the answer to one of the questions, she zoomed out of the airlock because the door opened while there was still air inside the airlock and the decompression would have blown her out fast. As for the rest of your questions it was the mysterious unknown forcetm fucking with them, why, because it's the mysterious unknown forcetm that's why.
One question I did have was when he was reeling her in by hand! I would have thought that they would have had some sort of winch or hand crank to make that sort of job 1) easier and 2) faster.
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