Hi all,


Here's the scoop for the episode that aired on Friday October 2, 2009.


Season 1, Episode 10


Titled: "Deja Vu"


Synopsis:


On Election Day, the crew aboard the Antares is still processing the news about the true nature of their mission.

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Guest Star:


-Anna Galvin as Tara Harding


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0303442/


-Rick Ravanello as Walker


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712262/


-Lara Gilchrist as Sharon


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1968493/

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Note:

I will add the links to watch the full episode online this week. Therefore, keep a look out if you are still interested in watching this series until the end.

Hi all,


Here's the full Episode 10 "Deja Vu" that aired on Friday October 2, 2009.


Enjoy!
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Defying Gravity S01E10 part 1/5


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7YcjEMahMo

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Defying Gravity S01E10 part 2/5


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mfUKYwA2tM

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Defying Gravity S01E10 part 3/5


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY-2B-0vRE0

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Defying Gravity S01E10 part 4/5


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owLl9bJyGKE

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Defying Gravity S01E10 part 5/5


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwrU_S22-1g

Hi all,


Here's the scoop for the episode that aired on Friday October 9, 2009.


Season 1, Episode 11


Titled: "Solitary"


Synopsis:


The Antares crew has to face the isolation and loneliness of space during the final hours before the Venus landing.

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Guest Star:


-Zak Santiago (Hal Garcia / Robson Arms / 2005-2008) as Juan


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015865/


-Peter Howitt as Trevor Williams


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0398185/

Hi all,


Watch the full Episode 11 "Solitary" that aired on Friday October 9, 2009.


Awesome!
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Full Episode " Solitary"


http://www.sidereel.com/Defying_Gra...hlinkviewer/468

Hi all,


Here's the scoop for the next episode on Friday October 16, 2009.


Season 1, Episode 12


Titled: "Venus"


Synopsis:


The day of the landing on Venus has come. The day that will change their lives eventually.

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Guest Star:


-Zak Santiago (Hal Garcia / Robson Arms / 2005-2008) as Juan


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0015865/

Hi all,


Here's the full Episode 12 "Venus" that aired on Friday October 16, 2009.


Enjoy!
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Watch Episode 12 "Venus"


http://www.challanging.com/now-you-...ng-idfted4.html

Hi all,


Here's the scoop for the Season 1 Finale on Friday October 23, 2009.


(Season Finale)


Season 1, Episode 13


Titled: "Kiss"


Synopsis:


After the landing on Venus, Zoe's life is at risk when she follows her hallucination.

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Guest Star:


-Genea Charpentier as Young Jen


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3573088/

When it comes to Zoe not having the baby, and the one I am betting on, was that she had the baby removed and put on ice for re-insertion at some more convenient time later on. They appear to have some limited suspended animation abilities in this world, so that should theoretically be feasible. Hell, it’s practically on the borderline of being feasible today to remove an embryo from one person and implant it in another, provided the recipient has been adequately hormonally prepared. Let me rephrase that: It is *not* possible to do that today, but it is an entirely plausible extrapolation of our present medical technology, and it’s an option that - with funding and research - could be available in 5 to 10 years. So there’s your third option right
there. And if we can *ALMOST* do that, then how is it possible that 35 years down the pike, we *STILL* won’t have a third option?

So the conclusion of the baby arc runs very disappointing for me. I mean, this *is* a science
fiction show, SF shows are all about ideas and showing us things that are on the edge of possible, or at least conceivable, about opening our minds up to change and stuff like that. It would have been a great way to introduce a solid - and thought provoking - SF concept that could have opened up a whole lot of interesting discussion and debate. I mean, would pro-
abortion types oppose or support a third option? Has the concept ever occurred to them (Probably not)? If a third option were available, would they support it, or oppose it on the grounds that it might make their own stance less politically viable? Would conservatives accept such an option? We’re frequently known for opposing thing simply because they’re new,
strange, ‘not what nature intended’ and so on, so the way the right would react to something like this is every bit as interesting as how the left would react: A lot of *US* would probably oppose the concept of postponing or transplanting unwanted pregnancies simply because such a thing is a hard concept to wrap your brain around, and it’s clearly not mentioned in
the bible. I think such a stance would be a mistake, frankly. We’re talking about life and death here, and any time you can come up with an alternative that makes the ‘death’ option less of a certainty, that’s a victory, don’t you think?

So that’s what the show *COULD* have done, but instead they decided to make a political statement about…well, frankly, I’m a bit fuzzy on what they were going for here. Why they decided to declare fealty to something that’s been a fait acompli since 1973, I don’t really
pretend to understand. We’re told that in 2052 Abortion is illegal (Though evidently not Europe),
and I guess they’re making the kneejerk “Keep it legal and safe” stance, but, really, why? Since
Abortion became universally legal, there has never been any serious talk of delocalizing it again. Never. Political rhetoric on both sides stacking up to high heaven, yes, but actual organized political maneuvering to remove it? No.

So why the show strings us along for six weeks to show us 1973, rather than opening up the floor to new ideas, clever end-runs around the problem that the future might bring, they decided to make a heavy-handed statement that basically hasn’t needed to be made since Richard Nixon’s 2nd term.

I’m also annoyed that it was a girl’s club surrounding the abortion. All of them bend over
backwards to cover it up, “It’s a stupid ol’ law,” endanger their careers and the program itself, not
one of them says “No, dammit, this is wrong!” or “Wrong or right, you’ve screwed the pooch darlin’, and we ain’t endangering our careers for your sorry ***.”

Their lack of vision has let us all down. And, yes, I am annoyed that I came up with a cleverer plot twist than the writers did.

Paula is from Jersey City, New Jersey. I had just assumed she was from Latin America.

Where is the ISO headquarters, anyway? They talk about “Heading down the coast,” but it’s never clear where they’re talking about. Wherever they are, it’s fairly clear they’re not in Texas, using the Johnson Space Flight facilities there. It looks like Cascadia, which is like the worst place in the world to launch something from, so where is ISO headquarters? It does seem to be near their launch facilities, but since the launches we’ve seen are at night, there’s no
recognizable features.

Jen says her bunny is the first live birth in space. That’s not true. There’ve been literally scores of ‘em. The Soviets have been doing experiments with gestation in space since the earliest days of the Salyut program, and we did a lot of them on Skylab, both in the early 1970s. These always go very badly, by the way. Live births in space are possible, but horribly traumatic on the mother, owing to decalcification and blood flow problems, and the babies invariably are horribly deformed by developing in a weightless state.

AJ is briefly in this episode after his conspicuous absence, however Rollie is conspicuously absent this time out.

The scene where Donner sees the blood on his hand and pukes outside the hospital was pretty funny, as was him getting hit by the door earlier. His narration, the title, and the whole ‘pig’ thing seem fairly extraneous, however. Yeah, I realize he’s the star, they’ve got a format that revolves around him, but it just seemed more like shoehorning this time out.

Evram has identified himself as having full-blown hallucinations. How long ‘til Shaw tells him about Beta? Why would Beta want Evram to hallucinate? Evram’s bit about never remembering the patients he saves, since there’s nothing to learn from them was pretty cool.

They can force-grow a new thumb in “About a month?” They can have a re-attached thumb working fine again inside of two weeks? Crazy! So we can prognosticate on trivial matters, but have to make disingenuous political statements to avoid going off the party line elsewhere? Disappointing.

So does anyone out there know how the ratings on this show are doing?

Hi all,


Watch the full Episode 13 "Kiss" (Season Finale) that aired on Friday October 23, 2009.


Enjoy!
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Episode 13 "Kiss"


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