![]() ![]() If they want to write an episode on terrorists within the ship who steal plutonium or whatever, only then is it necessary to mention the ship uses nuclear explosions or whatever, or mentioned in an episode or two beforehand. It sounds good in the trailer (bit cheesy perhaps), but in the show it feels forced. We've had had in the first episode, when someone mentions how Ascension is the lifeboat for humanity. It would be empty unnatural sounding expositional dialogue. So what happens if they show the ships use nuclear explosions or fusion or whatever for no reason? (well, simulates because we know it's actually on Earth) Like, someone mentions it in a conversation. ![]() I know Walter White makes killer meth, I don't need to see the formulas and list of ingredients. That's part of the suspension of disbelief a show, not just a sci-fi show asks of you. Just because they didn't define it doesn't mean it's not there. If they didn't have a storyline about that, people would be complaining about the lack of explanation on how a crew of 600 recycles oxygen. Thanks to the progression of the story we know there's an actual thing like CO² scrubbers on the ship. In the end, what enriches the experience of watching the show, technical details or all of the stuff I mentioned? It seems to me we have a pretty good idea of what an Orion class ship is and people like Dr_Drezz want to know what fuels the engine or some other in-depth detail. In the 3 episodes we've had exposition on the entire setting instead of the inner workings of engines or gravity or whatever, and they did a good job: He wants a cold textbook definition on a silver platter, like schematics or something. How does it matter how the propulsion works? What good does it serve the show as a whole? So Dr_Drezz's observation of a supposed lack of defining how an Orion ship works is a problem to him. Personally I don't think you need exposition on objects, hell, I think it's what drags a sci-fi show down. While tech would just have some neckbeards masturbating over it. I tend to think something like introducing cities, villages, the nature, the land and the people works a helluva lot better, the audience then is amazed by all that and it draws them in. So something like Game of Thrones introduces you to the world in the first eps, while a sci-fi show explains tech. The thing with sci-fi is, the explaining is done about the objects. Sci-fi shows do suffer for it because writers feel the need to explain some stuff in the first episodes. ![]()
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