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Mars (2016)
So deep, So emotional.
There's one thing I don't understand, or missed, and that is - How did the workshop, vehicles and the base get to Mars before the crew!
Other than that this is a captivating series and I'm only beginning episode 3. In some ways it's more like a riveting documentary with the history of it, space events, the ISS, space travel disasters. It's educational for those that didn't live through the early years, it's dramatic but for real, emotional to to point of making you weep which I did when I saw the shuttle Challenger explode.
I've been with space travel since reading Dan Dare in my childhood comics and would have loved to have taken part myself. This is the closest I can get.
A wonderful series for those interested in space, a drudge for those that are looking for an exciting Sci Fi series such as Star Trek Discovery!
UPDATE - Editing after watching the whole thing to the end of Series 2.
Fabulous, and I find the comments moaning about the documentary sections that are in between the fictional Mars story, really annoying. This is a valuable film with an even more valuable message.
Series 1 is about Space Flight and the preparation to go to Mars, the very brief journey (it's 8 months otherwise!), and getting set up on the planet.
Series 2 is about what we have done, and are doing, to our beautiful planet Earth and the greed and ignorance that might do the same to Mars.
No spoilers, watch it, stick with it, enjoy it, and be enthralled right up to the monumental final scene.
Loved it.
Queen of the Desert (2015)
Could have been so much better
I feel that with so much to tell us about the life of Gertrude Bell far too much time was spent on her romantic episodes. Although they are vital to the story it took an hour for her to be leaving Great Britain for her first post in Terhan.
A few paragraphs written before the closing credits did not do justice to what she achieved.
I was so disappointed after wanting to see this film for so long.
Oshin (1983)
On Saudi TV
When we watched Oshin I was working, and living, in Saudi Arabia. We had small children, a baby, a 3 year old and a 10 year old. Oshin was a programme that had all of us riveted to the TV following the progress of this little girl to womanhood and her success in business from her very poor beginnings. It had nothing shocking so very suitable for small children. It was a great topic of conversation in the expat community and even with Saudi's that I worked with. The acting was superb and the fact that it was in Japanese did not detract from the pleasure we had in watching it. The subtitles were very good and we would read them out to the children.
It Happened Here (1964)
Wandering through London
Must have been 1967 when I was based at High Wycombe and often went to London for the day. The film was released during this year and wandered into the cinema. The title and posters intrigued me and I was just killing time.
I was amazed at how realistic this film portrayal was and how quiet the cinema was, not a sound from start to finish. The way ID cards/papers were used, the attitude of some people that collaborated, and the resistance starting to fight back, it was just brilliant.
I'd love to see it again,let's hope it is screened on TV but I don't remember seeing it on TV to date, unless it was during the 80's when I was working abroad.