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Anyone viewing this? Just watched the first two episodes. It's not a skop, skiet an donner kind of thing, but I do find it interesting. So far.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
I'm 5 episodes in, enjoying it very much. Excellent production value and performances.

Really makes me want to read the novel by Dan Simmons, who also wrote the brilliant Hyperion Cantos.
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Only the best (four) sci-fi books ever written . . . ok, theres the Dune and Foundation series I know.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
I'm 5 episodes in, enjoying it very much. Excellent production value and performances.
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Yes - as you say, it's the acting and the production that are quite gripping. When I started watching I was expecting to bail out 30 minutes in; but it got its hooks into me.
 
I am at episode 7. This show is excellent. One of the best I have seen in a while.
 
OrbitalDawn said:
And the Night's Dawn trilogy, Culture, Xeelee Sequence etc.

Lots of competition for that title. :)
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I will save these suggestions. I am looking for a good book after being forced to read 30 other books by UNISA. :)
 
Madhawk said:
Good series, bad CGI
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Having just watched episode 3, I get where you are coming from. It's like they have one real ship to film on, and a couple of ice sets that they use over and over. And certain CGI is poor. The underwater scene where the prop was being cleared was brilliant though, imo.

Having said that, the acting is still awesome, and the story-line engaging.
 
Six episodes in and really enjoying it (despite the aforementioned iffy effects).

Question in spoiler tag though...

Who's the guy again who's missing the back of his head and why is he being kept around when he seems very dead?
 
Agent_Smith said:
Six episodes in and really enjoying it (despite the aforementioned iffy effects).

Question in spoiler tag though...

Who's the guy again who's missing the back of his head and why is he being kept around when he seems very dead?
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He's not anyone particularly noteworthy. Just resembles the lingering commitment to not leaving people behind. He's not dead, though. Likely just in a coma.

One of the other dudes has a good analogy. If men are like books, this one only has blank pages. Still a book, but not much going on behind the eyelids.
 
Watched the first episode, I normally give a series about 3-4 episodes before I don't like it... guess I'll keep going with this one. Thanks
 
Finished.

As pointed out earlier the production is first-rate.

I'm still in the dark as to ' the creature', what's with the tongue cutting, and if custom demands the woman must leave because the creature is dead does that imply there were previous versions of it ?
 
The cutting out of your tongue, "binds" you to the creature. It becomes "yours". And there may have been previous versions of it, if there is this custom, yes.
 
daveza said:
Finished.

As pointed out earlier the production is first-rate.

I'm still in the dark as to ' the creature', what's with the tongue cutting, and if custom demands the woman must leave because the creature is dead does that imply there were previous versions of it ?
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The show doesn't really explain, but Netsilik shamans sacrifice their tongues to the Tuunbaq and gain some (limited) form of mastery over it.
 
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