Defying Gravity, the new TV series from Fox is aired this summer in the US (on ABC)  for a 13 episodes run. I liked the way you open the doors and the user interface on the spaceship, the Antares.

Looks like the series need a boost (aka: ratings are low). So please press Start!
(No it’s not a video, just a screenshot showing the crew in the Antares starting their boosters to hum to Venus)

I doubt any space console user interface will be designed that way but it’s way cooler than the Windows XP Start button!

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Defying Gravity is the story of eight astronauts going to explore planets in our neighbourhood.
It has been inspired by the BBC series Space Odyssey: Voyage To The Planets and of course 2001: Space Odyssey.

The first 80 mn (the pilote episode) were available for free on the US iTunes Music Store. Thanks Fox.
Note: It’s easy to download them: you just need to create an account choosing any US address and don’t give any payment details. Then you will be able to download all the freebies.

Defying Gravity’ story is characteristic of the new trend of storytelling with a lot of characters, complicated plots fast paced. I just hope the pile of questions the story unfold will not grow up to the mount Everest before “they” start resolving them.

This series is a perfect excuse to be an educational one, like Numbers tried to show mathematics are sexy and useful.

Look, it’s easy to go to space: hope in and go! (you need to be good looking though)
- Oops, we forgot 2 astronauts.
- No problem, they can take a cab and join us in orbit.

But wait.. there’s nothing to do in this spaceship!
It’s boring: everything is slow, it takes ages to go from A to B. You’re filmed all the time and people on Earth laugh at you like watching a Big Brother show.

Yes, but you can have sex on space when the head of everybody on Earth says:
– “Give the mission’s commander some privacy with his wife” and turns off the cameras on the deck.
You need to be a commander and willing to go back to Earth which make the sex session in space a bit pricey.

We can understand easily why space education needed more than the marvels of the Universe, like a thriller plot.
Mysterious pod 4 and Venus I’m looking at you!
And what’s going to happen when they’re going to reach Mars? Are they going to discover the skeletton of the previous astronauts they left 10 years ago?
Are we going to see the first human being born in space?
Etc.

That’s how it works and 2001: Space Odyssey did not only show people what life could be in a spaceship, it engaged emotionally people in this pathway. And being engaged, having a goal, clearly change everything. You don’t learn anymore the same way.

But enough talk, for all picture junkies who already skipped the text above, here the tutorials you’re waiting for (click on the images to see them bigger):

Tutorial to access a pod in the Antares spaceship

And because schizophrenia seems to be a strong pattern in a spaceship, you need to know how to open outer door by despair or by mistake:

Outer door open tutorial

As you can see we don’t open doors in a spaceship like we would do in a normal home.

Well.. with all those doors opened let’s go for a ride, shall we?

That’s Defying Gravity.. naked.
Elle va attrapper la mort là, c’est sûr.

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Published on Thu 6 Aug 09, modified on Mon 30 Nov 09 at 6:47 (GMT) , by tibo.