Amazon pilots

I watched "Oasis", I won't be watching any of the other 4, uninteresting premises or too goofy.

Oasis was pretty good, a UK production filmed there and in Namibia which stands in for the planet where the "mysterious multinational corp." has established a colony.

The sets and environment are good, Namibia looks like an alien planet, at least the parts where they filmed. 

A couple of things early on that initially had me questioning the S-F accuracy. but then I listened more closely when repeating and they covered their bases.  At first they didn't seem to address where the planet is, but in an offhand remark someone says..."when traveling to the edges of the galaxy"....so we know it's a heck of a long way away...it has 3 moons, that we've seen so far....but how  did they discover it, so far away.  The show takes place in 2032 and of course there is the usual dystopian culture, people starving, living in squalor, etc.....why ?.....don't know.

Then they show the big, Russian style rocket taking off from Kazakhstan,  the Russian rocket base, with the latest load of colonists on board.  I guess they didn't want to use Cape Canaveral....possible leftist propaganda to come... But the rocket is a conventional chemical thrust rocket ! What the !.....they are going to go to the "edge of the galaxy" in that ?.....what ?,  in about 500,000 years !? But wait....in a scene just before that we see the 20 or so colonists sitting in a semi circle inside, and the crew puts oxygen masks on their faces and gives them some pills and says, ...."this will help you feel better during the jump."  Ah-ha !  So they are using  an acceptable S-F meme, hyperspace travel, wormhole, etc. So we're okay there.


But then the very next scene shows them after arriving on Oasis and meeting the colonists already there, many of whom seem to be testy and confrontational.

All in all this series has promise, there is only one episode available to judge by but I'll go to Amazon and do the survey. How much that positive viewer reviews will influence their decision to pick up the pilot for production remains to be seen.  Of course it's possible that since it's a British prod. that all the S1 episode have already been made and they are just waiting to see if Amazon will put it in their sched.

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