Twin Storytelling! This novel approach to story telling has great potential and I've chosen to characterize it as that of twins: one brainy the other dramatic, together dynamic. National Geographic (not somewhere I expected to find good SciFi) has artfully presented the race to colonizing Mars as both Science (using interviews with those intimately involved in the historical and current space program) and Fiction (as a dramatic projection of the how those theories will play out in the next 15+ years). I've found it fascinating, even though, in the first season, I was sometimes impatient when the drama had been interrupted by the science (the drama is that good!). The first season I binged because I hadn't become aware of it until it had finished broadcasting. The second season I watched episodically, as broadcast, and feel they have fine tuned the balance and rhythm of integrating hypothesis and projection. I gave the first season an 8 (fascinating) out of 10, but have now raised my rating to 8.5 (exceptional) and hope National Geographic will continue this experiment by renewing it for an indefinite run. This is a really great series! [Documentary Science and Dramatized Fiction hybrid]
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Twin Storytelling! This novel approach to story telling has great potential and I've chosen to characterize it as that of twins: one brainy the other dramatic, together dynamic. National Geographic (not somewhere I expected to find good SciFi) has artfully presented the race to colonizing Mars as both Science (using interviews with those intimately involved in the historical and current space program) and Fiction (as a dramatic projection of the how those theories will play out in the next 15+ years). I've found it fascinating, even though, in the first season, I was sometimes impatient when the drama had been interrupted by the science (the drama is that good!). The first season I binged because I hadn't become aware of it until it had finished broadcasting. The second season I watched episodically, as broadcast, and feel they have fine tuned the balance and rhythm of integrating hypothesis and projection. I gave the first season an 8 (fascinating) out of 10, but have now raised my rating to 8.5 (exceptional) and hope National Geographic will continue this experiment by renewing it for an indefinite run. This is a really great series! [Documentary Science and Dramatized Fiction hybrid]