Something goes terribly wrong aboard The Artemis and Scott awaits his impending doom while the ship’s smart-ass computer, PHAL, sings an uplifting song to soothe Scott’s fraying nerves. Show producer, Jack Spratt, sends the now unemployed ground crew running for their lives except for two whom he shanghai’s into helping him bring Scott home. Jack [...]
GBC Network Exec, Tripp Steves, bullies Scott into believing he will be home soon. Meanwhile, Scott’s wife, Becks, deciphers enough of the geek-speak from Ratish and Gerry to learn that her idiot of a husband is stuck in space until his ship makes the round-trip journey to Mars and back. Jack’s dirty little secret surfaces [...]
Scott suffers from the classic Five Stages of Grief. Making personal, desperate calls to the President of the United States and wallowing in his own depression, one might assume he is falling deeper into his own form of space madness. Or is he simply running away? Becks learns that Scott was fired 9 months ago, [...]
A very special, holiday message from our boy and his toy in space.
Scott attempts to learn how to fly the ship, only to be distracted by the joys of virtual reality in space. Jack, fearing for his life, makes a break for it… Created by Jonathan Nail. Produced by Allison Vanore. Directed by Frederick Snyder. Photographed by Raphe Wolfgang. Edited by Frank Mohler. Music by Rob Gokee. [...]
The Yakuza put their plan into action – and Scott discovers he is not alone on the ship. Created by Jonathan Nail. Produced by Allison Vanore. Directed by Frederick Snyder. Photographed by Raphe Wolfgang. Edited by Frank Mohler. Music by Rob Gokee. Starring: Jonathan Nail, Jason Burns, Michele Boyd, Jay Caputo, Amol Shah and Melissa [...]
Space Ninja has subdued Scott and hacks PHAL, but still lacks the access codes she needs to take control of the Artemis. Created by Jonathan Nail. Produced by Allison Vanore. Directed by Frederick Snyder. Photographed by Raphe Wolfgang. Edited by Frank Mohler. Music by Rob Gokee. Starring: Jonathan Nail, Jason Burns, Michele Boyd, Jay Caputo, [...]
PHAL teaches Scott “Wushu” and persuades him to help overthrow the Space Ninja. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Yakuza Bossman dishes out pain like it was candy at Halloween. Created by Jonathan Nail. Produced by Allison Vanore. Directed by Frederick Snyder. Photographed by Raphe Wolfgang. Edited by Frank Mohler. Music by Rob Gokee. Starring: Jonathan [...]
The Yakuza finally have what they need to take control of the ship. Scott fights back! Created by Jonathan Nail. Produced by Allison Vanore. Directed by Frederick Snyder. Photographed by Raphe Wolfgang. Edited by Frank Mohler. Music by Rob Gokee. Starring: Jonathan Nail, Jason Burns, Michele Boyd, Amol Shah and Melissa Dalton. Special Guest Star: [...]
Season One Finale! All hell breaks loose. Ratish and Bossman go head to head. Ninja gains full command of the ship’s navigation. Scott screws it up, once again. Created by Jonathan Nail. Produced by Allison Vanore. Directed by Frederick Snyder. Photographed by Raphe Wolfgang. Edited by Frank Mohler. Music by Rob Gokee. Starring: Jonathan Nail, [...]
Scott suffers from the classic Five Stages of Grief. Making personal, desperate calls to the President of the United States and wallowing in his own depression, one might assume he is falling deeper into his own form of space madness. Or is he simply running away? Becks learns that Scott was fired 9 months ago, and the creditors are repossessing her shoes.
Starring: Jonathan Nail, Jason Burns, Michele Boyd, Jay Caputo, Jade Carter and Ron Butler.
Created and Written by Jonathan Nail. Directed and Produced by Allison Vanore. Director of Photography: Raphe Wolfgang. Composer: Rob Gokee. Edited by Frank Mohler.
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July 20th, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Everyone here at scifights loves this series! We’re fighting over who gets to write the next review! thanks for laughs.
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February 24th, 2011 at 8:35 am
It’s way too late to point out the obvious “time-lag” error, isn’t it. There’s no way that Scott could be having contemporaneous conversations with people back on Earth even 36 days in: there’s an obvious delay when a message is bounced through geostationary satellites (watch a news report on any given day for example) and those are FAR closer.
Also, that last shot of Scott’s ship approaching Mars? No way would he be that close to Mars so quick. Not to mention that, were he that close to Mars, the conversation delay I mentioned would likely be on the order of minutes, not seconds.
Regardless of this small technical hitch (which I assume is down to making the show watchable rather than having us sit around for ages waiting for responses) I am enjoying the show so far, and looking forward to the next episode.
February 24th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Yes, we did take certain licenses when it came to making the show. I’ll have more fodder for you to pick apart in eps 4-9 and that’s a promise.
Mars does appear larger than it should be, granted. And we’ve fixed that, somewhat, in a new digital composite. However, since the Artemis engines are still blasting away (plasma pulse engines – yes, I know…) we could shorten the assumed 8 month journey (give or take a few months) and get Scott there a little sooner.
As for communications… Yeah, lag time would kill us all.
I chalk it up to nano-microwave, hyper-densic communication technology that NASA has failed to share with us.
Thanks for watching!