Space Island One

Wish I could find a place to buy videos of this show! We're taping it at 1 a.m. on Mondays.

For us, and my friends with scientific training, this is a great show. It's much more realistic than any other "science" show I've seen -- the lab is kind of messy, there are personal tensions about research results, research is seen as an ongoing thing you do every day.

It is kind of dry, but that's partly why we love it.

We saw the first part of a two part one where they're abandoning the station -- and they didn't show the next episode, the next week! So we'd really like to find that one!

Kathges

I like this a lot. There's a TV movie called Trapped in space 1995 which this show I think heavily copied, even orienting themselveson the way the actors in the movie looked, which was great idea because I love that movie even more than this show. This show is awesome because the script is well written, the actors are great actors because in the 90s you actually still had to have talent to be allowed on the screen, love the 90s graphics and style of the space station and the way people look. The show is a bit very strong on promoting feminism in several episodes and strong on promoting artificial intelligence and making masculinity look bad at times, therefore for this sexist and pro robot stance I'll give it 8 stars, other than that it's very good, only unfortunate thing is they had a low budget because they're Europeans, that gets through to the viewer just a little bit. If guys know of any other hidden treasures like this let me know thanks.

This is a show that some may think a bit too dry. There are no cool graphics or sound effects. All there is is a good plot and characters with depth. It is not a show to just watch one of -- you will be confused.

One of the things that I like about it is that there are very few people and they are within a limited space. Not a lot of visitors or other distractions. Most of the show is how the group acts within itself and to some outside stimuli. It is definitely more of a character study than anything else.

If you are looking for flashy, this is not for you. If you want something that has substance, then it may be.

This show did not have a big budget, or action packed stories, but it captured the feeling of the old British sci-fi shows of the 80's.

I liked the show for it's distinctive atmosphere, and the easily-likeable characters. It was a good break from Star Trek clone shows (although I generally do like those shows too :).

If you liked shows like Blake's 7, this show is for you, although the special effects are distinctly better than the effects in Blake.

...if you're really, really dull. Seriously, children enjoy flashy lights and whiz-bang sounds in outer space and really don't care if the little toy rockets driven by their little toy spacemen don't carry reaction mass. Adults prefer something that could actually happen; where the plot is actually driven by the characters; where those characters can be interesting without being caricatures or clowns.

This is a show for adults. Thus far I've seen the first five episodes, and it's the ONLY genuinely hard sci-fi space-based television show I recall ever having seen. EVER. Here you will find NO magic gravity and NO sound in space. There are NO particles-of-the-week, NO omnipotent aliens. If you don't exercise you'll experience bone loss. This is a solid 5.5 on the Moh's Scale of Scientific Hardness.

It's a total breath of recycled, carbon-scrubbed, artificially oxygenated fresh air.