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Steer Your Way
Oct. 10th, 2022 01:08 pmI'm watching a couple of TV shows about going to Mars. On AppleTV+, there's For All Mankind, and I just love it. This is the third season, there's a three-way race to the Red Planet - well, it becomes a two-way race when one faction overclocks its ship and badly damages it and another faction brings the survivors on board its ship. The cast and characters and writing and production - all of it just rocks my socks. And I have a monster celebrity crush on Shantel VanSanten.
On Netflix, there's Away. It's okay so far. The drama's more overwrought - multinational mission, so the obligatory conflicts around national and political lines. I like the bigger names in the cast - Hilary Swank and Alessandro Juliani - and I think they're going to be enough to carry me through the ten episodes.
I'm a sucker for good Mars stories. ERB's sword-and-planet tales. Ray Bradbury. Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Bova. Andy Weir's The Martian. I follow real-world Mars exploration missions reasonably closely, and have a faint hope that I'll see a crewed mission to Mars before I die. I'm still plinking away at a Mars sourcebook for Shadow of the Beanstalk, and would love to run a Mars exploration game someday.
On Netflix, there's Away. It's okay so far. The drama's more overwrought - multinational mission, so the obligatory conflicts around national and political lines. I like the bigger names in the cast - Hilary Swank and Alessandro Juliani - and I think they're going to be enough to carry me through the ten episodes.
I'm a sucker for good Mars stories. ERB's sword-and-planet tales. Ray Bradbury. Kim Stanley Robinson, Ben Bova. Andy Weir's The Martian. I follow real-world Mars exploration missions reasonably closely, and have a faint hope that I'll see a crewed mission to Mars before I die. I'm still plinking away at a Mars sourcebook for Shadow of the Beanstalk, and would love to run a Mars exploration game someday.
