Defying Gravity

[coyote6]

I saw no commercials or promotions for this SF series on ABC, but I stumbled across the two hour (two episode) premier last Sunday, and ended up watching it. I liked it, so far anyways.

If you didn't see it, it's on Hulu, here. It's set in 2052 (IIRC), and the premise is that a spaceship called the Antares is taking off on a 6-year tour of the solar system with an eight-person crew. Except there's something weird going on (of course).

The science is, of course, not perfect -- for example, they give an explanation why everyone walks around (rather than floats), but that doesn't cover why their hair & other things aren't always floating (the reason for that is that it's a TV show, and it would be bloody expensive to do that). Then there's the apparently instantaneous Earth-to-Mars communication. But the Antares looks something like a real spaceship probably would work, and the world building seems kind of interesting (some offhand comments imply some intriguing societal changes).

I'll catch the next couple of episodes, at least.

 

[Morrus]

I've not seen it, but I read something about the Earth-Mars communication not being Earth-Mars communication but Mars-Base Orbiting Mars communication. Or something. Like I said, haven't seen it, but thought I'd pass on an out-of-context snippet.

 

[coyote6]

That's right, I think the only people conversing were the folks in the lander and in the orbiter.

 

[RangerWickett]

This show likes its pop music waaaaaaaaaay too much. In something like LOST, you might get a pop song tastefully used once every two or three episodes. Even crappy teen shows like Smallville would only use one song an episode, and only at the denoument.

I think they had something like 3 songs in the span of an hour of Defying Gravity. Blech.

 

[Crothian]

So far I really like this show.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I happened to catch it flipping through channels as well. I didn't think it was terrible, but it wasn't anything special either. I'm certainly not going to go out of my way to watch it.

I was a bit turned off by the utopian/clean sci-fi vibe at first. However, I think that was more because dark/gritty sci-fi has been at the fore for a while now. A couple of the science/astronomy things bugged me a bit as well.

It seems to me that the show is more of a drama set in space, rather than a hardcore sci-fi story. This isn't surprising, seeing how a fair amount of the staff worked on Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, and Desperate Housewives. Admittedly, the head exec (Perriot, IIRC) also has a bunch of sci-fi experience as well, so we'll see.

 

[Mark]

The pilot and episode two are available. I'll have to give it a shot and see what's up with it.

 

[Kunimatyu]

So, uh, when does the Wicked Witch show up?

 

[Darthjaye]

Uh, your issue with the show is the soundtrack? So other than that did you like it or dislike it?

Me, I thought it was very entertaining. My hope is that the mystery ends up interesting. From what I saw it's not on their fall schedule and only has about 6 episodes in the can. Not sure if that means 6 from the pilot or 6 including the pilot but with the fall season rolling out soon it can't be on much longer than a couple of months tops.

 

[coyote6]

FWIW, I don't think there was any pop music in the last episode. None that I noticed, anyways.