Watched 4-Jul on Bluray
This one seems to have some layers.
It's an appealing hard edged SF base under siege story with a coterie of sexy, ugly, smart, dumb characters wearing overalls and bitching at each other. There's "cute" aliens (Oods) and scary aliens (Oods) and an entertaining big bad.
But where it succeeds best (and this is mostly in the second ep) is when the 'devil' starts promptig characters to 
question their own beliefs. The reveals are fascinating and counter to expectations.
I like the line from Rose about space being tough not glam. It's a sober dash of realness.
The black hole physics are ok without being stunning. The concept of orbiting a black hole is perfectly valid. But the falling in without relativistic effects (time dilation, mass dilation, dimension dilation(aka spaghettification) is a thing which disappoints me. (Subsequent efforts such as The Doctor Falls are not perfect either.)
ABM Rating 3.50 & 3.55/4.00
LJM Rating 4.26 & 4.28/5.00
SPJ Rating 9.70 & 9.75/10
No. 21 (out of 182) and 20 (out of 183)
LJM Rating 4.26 & 4.28/5.00
SPJ Rating 9.70 & 9.75/10
No. 21 (out of 182) and 20 (out of 183)
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