Really good episode. Put me right into the Christmas spirit even though it‘s not December yet. The story surrounding Misha and his daughter was heartbreaking but told in a beautiful way. Also Hilary Swank is so good in this role. In general the acting is great in this show.
When the daughter comes out, I want to fast forward
That was the first good episode for me.
Review by Dahj AshaBlockedParent2021-04-03T21:07:50Z
WOW! First minute and I'm already facepalming so hard... :o
Their mobile phone scenes never made sense (even if they had an UMTS/LTE/etc. sender at their spaceship) but now they have to make their disrespect of physics so obvious? :o I don't even know where to begin... RTTs increase linearly with the distance from earth and the signal quality doesn't suddenly drop half way between mars and earth. BTW: "Radio waves propagate in vacuum at the speed of light c, exactly 299,792,458 m/s. Propagation time to the Moon and back ranges from 2.4 to 2.7 seconds, with an average of 2.56 seconds (distance from Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km)." (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Earth_communication)
A RTT of 2.56 s is already way too much for a casual phone conversation and for Mars this is obviously much worse: https://blogs.esa.int/mex/2012/08/05/time-delay-between-mars-and-earth/
See also https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/spacelink/commdly.htm for how bad these delays actually are. And it's not like this is one of a few problems. This show bends the laws of physics and established procedures for space travel, etc. however they like. And I don't like that... Either make it a parody or comedy but not something that "pretends" to be (somewhat) real but just focuses on artificial dramas. Thanks! :D (sorry for the rant)
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Or in the words of the show: "They're trying so hard to make everything seem normal. But the more they try and do that, the more clear it is that it's... not normal. It'll never be normal."
A few good things though: