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The Silen Sea was fun as well (article was written before its release)

Fun but also infuriating at times for me. Without spoiling, when the characters were being presented with evidence as strong as possible that X occurred because of Y and not Z they kept scratching their heads wondering if Z wasn't the cause of X after all. They were at times more stupid than a gang of drunken teenagers in an 80s horror movie, not top class scientists, astronauts and soldiers. What I kept wondering is, what am I missing? Is this a cultural difference? Is the translation difficult?

Simplest explanation, it's just not great writing/directing.

> when the characters were being presented with evidence as strong as possible that X occurred because of Y and not Z they kept scratching their heads wondering if Z wasn't the cause of X after all. They were at times more stupid than a gang of drunken teenagers in an 80s horror movie, not top class scientists, astronauts and soldiers. What I kept wondering is, what am I missing? Is this a cultural difference?

This is pretty common in cases where an existing ideology specifies that Z causes X. I assume that's true in all cultures.

Most of the characters aren't written as hardcore ideologues.

And you haven't described them that way. If they were hardcore ideologues, they wouldn't be saying "are we sure it isn't Z?". They'd be saying "but it's Z".

>...what am I missing?

Nothing. The Silent Sea was brutally criticized in Korea for its writing/directing. I thought the visuals were great, but only that aspect of it.

The visuals may have been too good. I was expecting some Expanse level space stuff when I saw their ship. Instead, their lander detached from their rocket while in orbit and... began to fall?

This criticism is funny because this is exactly what happens in the Expanse book. I have never watched the series but in the book they kept referring to kinetic bombardment as "release bombs and let them just fall to the ground", and other glaring scientific errors.

Aha! Thanks for the info. The visuals were really good and I suspect the actors are not bad either. They just had bad lines.

…if you like a S. Korean version of Alien (right down to the string-filled theme music). If someone pulled out a flamethrower in those air ducts, I would have likely thrown the remote at the TV.

That said, we’re still watching it with two episodes left. If there is a second season, it’s debatable if we will watch it. I went in prejudiced to like it, too, as I like Bae Doona in everyone thing we’ve watched her in. The contradiction I can’t get around is that the set work is good for the most part, but the writing is either losing a lot in translation (we watch English audio/subtitles) or it’s just plain poor. And if you were complaining about the science in Gravity, stay well away from this one.

The representation of the gravity on the moon was so off that it completely killed the show for me.

One thing that is easy to miss in the first episode: the moon base has “artificial gravity”. How does it work? Why, it works by making the filming easier. :-) Alright, I’ll give them that one, as we all have to work within a budget. But the rest of things you’re thinking of, yeah, suspending my disbelief was really difficult. I mean, how much more would guy wires have added to the budget?

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