The Basics of Space Travel & Black Folk in Space
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“I agree with Cooper the Rocket Dog. The writers should get the science right about the time it’d take to traverse the distances mentioned, especially after their consulting “physicists, mathematicians, and scientists”. The writers’s science consultants had one job and they blew it. Let’s hope their space/time calculations are accurate going forward.
The same goes for correctly attributing the origins of “folding space”: Frank Herbert, not Asimov.
As for those commenters in this thread who are upset about the writers’ deliberate selection of black folks to play heroic characters, just relax. Imagine how I felt seeing nothing but white folk play heroes in all of the outstanding shows I watched during most of my life, and yet I managed to see past that kind of overwhelming racism to appreciate the stories for what they were: good fiction, plain and simple.
White folk have controlled the narrative for centuries yet get bent seeing black folk inserted into “their” stories over the last 5-10 years or so. The parallel between that kind of arrogance and the Empire’s is as obvious as it is sad.”
SirLancelot5045 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/14/21
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“This is an excellent podcast to listen to after each episode that allows you to process and download everything you just got done watching! Well done! Can’t wait for season 2!!”
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United States of America ·
11/21/21
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“I cannot recall many companion podcasts that has the show runner involved week to week, so there’s a lot of great insights. I love the focus on story and character, but I would like to have a little more discussion of the performances too. Episode 3 is a good example, excellent breakdown of the...”Read full review »
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Australia ·
10/01/21
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