personalspaceshow: thecosmosmadeconscious: This kid is going…
This kid is going places.
Gail Gartner, age 6, 1961
#well not literally#but it definitely sounds just like her#gail gartner#second shift#personal space (via @personalspaceshow)
So, things I know or suspect based on the character summaries at the cast page:
- There are four crewmembers per shift. Each shift lasts 25 years, after which the crew wakes up their replacements and goes to sleep. I wonder how many more shifts there are (that is, how many more sleeping crew there are), if any, after second shift.
- Second shift has two men and two women. Is there an assumption that they’ll pair off romantically? Are they already pairs when they’re selected?
- I’m guessing that if that’s the case, Blasto is (or will be) paired with Li. (They did photograph them together.) So presumably Gartner is paired with Freeman? That sounds like it could make sense in terms of their (minimal) character profiles.
- We only know of two crewmembers from first shift, the commander and the flight engineer, both men. Were there two women on first shift as well? If so it looks like we won’t be seeing them in the show. Since at least some of the drama appears to hinge on the first-shift commander having issues with relinquishing command, maybe the two first-shift women are already in cryosleep when we join the action.
- I’m quietly (well, maybe not so quietly) excited about some of the transmedia ideas they’ve hinted at. The show takes place in an AU where Werner von Braun defected to the US before World War II, putting the US space program 10 years ahead of our timeline. But it sounds like the Internet and social media is very much that of today, with things like Buzzfeed, viral reality shows, and Twitter.
- So they could have a transmedia component playing out via real-world Twitter and online video in which Actaeon, the profit-oriented company that took over the mission a few months ago from the US space program, and which only gives token nods to the mission’s science goals, repurposes the crew’s AI therapy program Ami 2.0 to manufacture drama in pursuit of ratings, then airs the resulting crew vlogs without their knowledge.
- Given how vlog-based fictional webseries always have a steep believability hill to climb with this issue (these characters are sharing this content with the world why, exactly?), this sounds really clever, and makes me hope the transmedia will be really immersive and mind-bending (in the best sense).
- So, in conclusion: I am excite.
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