Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A group of people, bound together for some reason on a space ship, fly through the galaxy sometimes solving other people’s problems but usually just creating more of their own… It’s a known trope but another new show uses it really well.
How do the colonies go from nothing to a complete and accessible media landscape in less than twenty years? And how does computing help drive it? That’s what we’re talking about this week!
It’s a show about teenagers ejected off a space station to see if Earth is again habitable 97 years after a nuclear war. But, despite that premise and being on the CW… it’s actually really worth watching.
The TV show Ringer really got me thinking. (Maybe for the first and last time on a show of that caliber.) With banker’s facing life terms to protect the fact that they’re stealing, what’s really to stop them from dropping a few bodies to stop it from getting out? Have we figured out a way to make white collar crime violent?
With the release of HBO’s Game of Thrones on video, I thought it might be fun to discuss some aspects of the storyworld that stuck in my mind while reading the books and watching the series.
