@hotscot: Yes. The last episodes have been moved to a graveyard slot, and the chance of a second series is precisely zero.

And so the adventures of the Golgafrinchan telephone sanitizers continues. Outcasts is now so bad it's nearly entertaining, in a MST3K kind of way.

This looks really cool!

Yes. I think the required steps and conditions leading to an intelligent too-user - one capable of building computers and radio telescopes - must make us freakishly rare.

@Amortal: Agreed.

@rudecherub: The Fermi Paradox bothers the hell out of me.

Thanks, I had them use a Horizontal Integration Facility and cut a lot of corners on safety, and they compartmentalized a lot of information (a lot of the pad rats who put the stages together thought they were lofting a secret big-ass military payload, not everybody who knew it was manned knew it was going to…

@ElimGarak: I'm actually (rather surprisingly) okay with that. I started but never finished a covert Apollo mission tale for nanowrimo a few years back (involving Surveyor photographs of a Great Race of Yith temple in Copernicus crater) and handwaved it as -

She may be the best thing ever (although for geeks of a certain age, Wonder Woman will forever be Lynda Carter) but I'd be more concerned by the script than the casting:

She may be the best thing ever (although for geeks of a certain age, Wonder Woman will forever be Lynda Carter) but I'd be more concerned about the script than the casting:

Agreed. We're expected to believe that the first interstellar colony ship will be leaving in 15 years. And unless Carpathia is at Alpha Centauri, those ships travel faster than light. And have enough spare capacity to take a load of useless tat. But of course the writers have no idea where Carpathia is, and no concept…

I really wanted to like Outcasts...

The West Antarctic ice sheet melting would deliver about 6 meters.

Yes - I thought the incoming transport ship might as well have "WE'RE ALL DOOMED" spray-painted across its hull!

It's 2040 according to the BBC press release.

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Sure. But the fun in science fiction is using the genre playground equipment. Outcasts is apparently a somewhat overwrought drama about people in a frontier society. The question is, what value is added by setting it on another planet in another solar system in 2040? I'm pretty sure the writers don't know where…

Yes, it's set in 2040.