I've heard of this book series for a long time now, but something has always kept me from reading it. When the show came out I figured it would be a quick a little easier to digest, which it surely was but I regret watching it without reading it. There are a lot of elements that are quickly glossed over with a hand wave that I'm sure had a lot of painstaking detail in the book. Much of the series felt underexplored, a lot of peoples actions or attitudes didn't feel properly motivated, and none of the super scientists felt like people who understand relativistic physics. Maybe the mopey guy, if he wasn't all mopey.
Not a total loss though, the show was very entertaining. It looked good, there was some good excitement, but I could tell all of the actual hard sci-fi was just ignored as much as possible.
Not a total loss though, the show was very entertaining. It looked good, there was some good excitement, but I could tell all of the actual hard sci-fi was just ignored as much as possible.