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gridloreLast night I watched the first two episodes of Away on Netflix. I will not be bothering with the rest of them.
There were just too many points where my suspension of disbelief failed. First of all, who the hell approved this crew to fly an eight-month mission? Even after a supposed two-year training period, they don't really know each other, don't trust each other, and two of them openly hold their commander in contempt. Eight. Month. Mission. They can't even get to the Moon without fucking up an emergency and pointing fingers at each other.
Which brings up another point. They launch this Mars mission from the Moon. WHY? Low-Earth Orbit can be reached in a few hours, is shielded from radiation by the Van Allen Belts, and you don't need to escape another gravity well to begin your transfer orbit. Not to mention all the scenes of the crew tromping around on the lunar surface in the same suits they'll be wearing on the trip to Mars and on the Martian surface. Ask NASA, lunar fines are impossible to clean and can screw up electronics. Build the ship in orbit, boost from orbit, and avoid all these problems.
Finally, the big conflict comes when Commander Green's husband, a fellow astronaut grounded for medical reasons, suffers a severe stroke. There is a battle about replacing Green as mission commander as it is seen that her concerns about her husband and daughter might cloud her judgment, which has already been questioned.
For fuck's sake, she would be removed in a heartbeat and the back-up commander, already on the Moon with the back-up crew, would be immediately slotted in. There would be no question about this!
Finally, when they lift off from the Moon, their ship leaves a long red trail of flames. That only happens in an atmosphere. Sigh.
I will give them props for having a rotating crew section for artificial gravity. But they lose one point for having everything folded away into compartments. Build it in orbit!
There were just too many points where my suspension of disbelief failed. First of all, who the hell approved this crew to fly an eight-month mission? Even after a supposed two-year training period, they don't really know each other, don't trust each other, and two of them openly hold their commander in contempt. Eight. Month. Mission. They can't even get to the Moon without fucking up an emergency and pointing fingers at each other.
Which brings up another point. They launch this Mars mission from the Moon. WHY? Low-Earth Orbit can be reached in a few hours, is shielded from radiation by the Van Allen Belts, and you don't need to escape another gravity well to begin your transfer orbit. Not to mention all the scenes of the crew tromping around on the lunar surface in the same suits they'll be wearing on the trip to Mars and on the Martian surface. Ask NASA, lunar fines are impossible to clean and can screw up electronics. Build the ship in orbit, boost from orbit, and avoid all these problems.
Finally, the big conflict comes when Commander Green's husband, a fellow astronaut grounded for medical reasons, suffers a severe stroke. There is a battle about replacing Green as mission commander as it is seen that her concerns about her husband and daughter might cloud her judgment, which has already been questioned.
For fuck's sake, she would be removed in a heartbeat and the back-up commander, already on the Moon with the back-up crew, would be immediately slotted in. There would be no question about this!
Finally, when they lift off from the Moon, their ship leaves a long red trail of flames. That only happens in an atmosphere. Sigh.
I will give them props for having a rotating crew section for artificial gravity. But they lose one point for having everything folded away into compartments. Build it in orbit!
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Date: 26 Nov 2020 20:26 (UTC)no subject
Date: 26 Nov 2020 21:58 (UTC)