Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27889456-20160229081228

I just started watching the first episode (14 minutes in) and I'm having major trouble beliving this show. I want to enjoy it, but the following things nag at me:

- The space station wouldn't have big open areas that have to be filled with air (like the prision block). That makes no sense. It would be small compartments built on to each other. Air is precious.

- The sets should look more like Snowpiercer sets. They've been in space for a long time. Things get dirty, oily, stained.

- There's no way the space station would jettison a container that size with that much wasted oxygen inside (oxygen is a premium and they're just throwing it away). They would have sent them in an extremely crapmed container with just enough oxygen to survive entry.

- The gravity is a big problem. Rotational gravity in all of the space station locations isn't a possibility. Plus, to get rotational gravity, the structure rings need to be big or else your head feels a much different gravity than your feet. That would cause disorientation.

- The speech of the people would have changed over 100 years. They wouldn't sound like our generation.

- Assuming that the kids sentenced to earth would have only spent their lives in gravity 40% or lower than Earth gravity, their bones/muscles would not be very strong. When they arrived on Earth, they would all be pasted to the ground and really weak. They were born in space and even their eyes would be slightly deformed due to the lack of gravity (they might not be able to see well). No way in hell. I mean NO WAY IN HELL, would they set down, jump out, and be up for a 20 mile hike in a single day. This is just lazy writing.

If the bullshit like this continues, I don't know if I can detach my mind enough to watch this. This is really hard to suspend my disbelief. 