Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets (2004) (TV)

Note Générale:

7,8/10   

Réalisateur:

Joe Ahearne

Scénariste:

Joe Ahearne (writer)

Date de sortie:

9 novembre 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Documentaire | Drame | Science-Fiction

Intrigue:

This two-part science fiction docu-drama examines the possibilities of a dangerous, manned space mission to explore the inner and outer planets of the Solar system. |

Plot Keywords:

Solar System | Aerobraking | Saturn | Part Narrated | Sun

Récompenses:

1 win

Avis des utilisateurs:

They did all right, considering...

Ensemble

David Suchet	...	Narrator (voice)
Martin McDougall	...	Tom Kirby, Mission Commander
Joanne McQuinn	...	Zoë Lessard, Exogeologist
Rad Lazar	...	Yvan Grigorev, Flight Engineer
Mark Dexter	...	John Pearson, Mission Medic
Michelle Joseph	...	Nina Sulman, Exobiologist
Mark Tandy	...	Alex Lloyd, Chief Scientist
Hélène Mahieu	...	Claire Granier, Chief Flight Surgeon
Lourdes Faberes	...	Isabel Liu, Flight Dynamics Officer
John Schwab	...	Larry Conrad, CAPCOM
Colin Stinton	...	Fred Duncan, Flight
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique:
Antoine de Caunes	...	Narrator (French version)
Rodolfo Jiménez	...	Principle

Autre(s) titre(s):

Voyage to the Planets and Beyond (International: English title) (DVD title)
Walking with Spacemen (UK) (working title)

Durée:

UK:100 min | Germany:100 min

Pays:

UK

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Son:

Stereo

Classification:

Australia:PG

Lieux de tournage:

Atacama Desert, Chile

Société:

Impossible Pictures

Goofs:

Divers: While the crew is on Mars, Mission Control watches a video of the rover on the surface. This is impossible unless there was a second vehicle.

Connexions:

Produit dérivé Space Odyssey: The Robot Pioneers (2004) (TV)

They did all right, considering...

My main criticism is quite simply that it isn't long enough or detailed enough. I would have loved to see more of everything: the building of the vessel, the engineering, the training, the first lift to orbit, preparations for departure, Venus Orbital Injection, everything. I would have liked to see more of the first leg, Venus to Earth, instead of zipping there like a n°10 corporation bus. In fact, I would have liked to see a series on the scale of Earth Story made of this, with a full hour dedicated to every planet and maybe another to the loop around the Sun. As it was, I was left hungry. On the other hand, I do understand budgets and viewers' attention-spans.

Re the science: Let's be fair about the speed-of-light time-lag: they did mention at the beginning that there was a lag in conversations, but they let this evaporate once they reached the outer planets. Some kind of conversation had to be presented to the viewers, and we have to assume that the lag was edited out for the sake of palatability; so no complaints there. But zero for noisy spaceships. The only film in which spaceships make no noise was Kubrick's 2001, and even then he copped out by using the noise of the crew breathing in their helmets - which *was* pretty effective. I wish the makers of Space Odyssey had realized just how eerie the sight of vast rocket-motors blasting in absolute silence might be but alas, Pegasus lets out much the same roar as every other cardboard spaceship in every other cardboard SciFi film.

But the rest of the science was excellent. No complaints there, in fact praise for bringing out the radiation problems as well as they did. I just hope that having done this film won't discourage the BBC from making a really detailed version, but I suppose that's not for next week or next year either...