That makes me remember when I used to like OSC. He's another author on the to
be avoided list.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote:
>
> I've heard mixed views, but never a good synopsis, thanks. What you presented
> made it sound like a great premise. I love the idea of hypersleep causing
> such problems. I may check it out. How does it compare to another scifi film
> I really love, "Event Horizon"? I know that latter is much more of a
> horror-focused scifi film.
>
> As for hypersleep, I remember reading a book by Orson Scott Card ("Ender's
> Game", among many others). It postulated a fascinating world in which people
> who were deemed absolutely critical to humanity (great politicians, wealthy
> financiers, brilliant scientists, etc.) would "skip" generations. A person of
> sufficient means would live among humanity for a few years, doing whatever he
> or she did for a living. Then, that person would go into suspended animation
> for a time. As an example, Steve Jobs might run Apple for three years, set
> its future course, then go into suspended animation for twenty or thirty
> years. He'd wake up, get the lay of the land, do some more work, then back
> into the routine. If you think about it, it's a cool way to be granted a sort
> of immortality, as you can skip across the centuries, experiencing and
> influencing human development.
> The only problem is that the sleeper's mind is "bubbled" into a storage
> device before the body is put under. If something happened to that device,
> the sleeper would be rendered little more than a body with no mind, akin to a
> newborn babe, albeit in an adult's body. In one story, that very thing
> happens with a colony ship to another planet. There's an accident, all the
> crew's bubbles are destroyed, and the one guy who was awake is left with
> trying to retrain and re-educate all the now completely blank people.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B Smith" <daikaij...@...>
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:52:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Pandorum
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> Has anyone seen this movie? I was pleasantly surprised. Don't get me wrong
> it's not great but it was interesting and pretty well executed.
>
> Long story short: An Earthlike exoplanet called Tanis is discovered in the
> early 21st century. A probe using an advanced drive is sent there, finds that
> it's very, very Earthlike and can support life.
>
> 22nd century Earth is massively overpopulated, resources are dwindling, etc.
> A generation ship called the Elysium is built by all nations and 60,000
> volunteers set off for Tanis. The journey will take 123 years so multiple
> crews rotate in two year shifts and go into hypersleep the rest of the time.
>
> Hypersleep is a tough process and people wake up with memory loss, mild
> sickness, etc. Some folks develop a severe type of sickness called pandorum.
> Another deep space Earth ship suffered a massive disaster when a pandorum
> affected crew member jettisoned all of the ship's hyperspace modules, killed
> the remaining crew and then himself.
>
> A crewman on the Elysium wakes up out of hypersleep for his 2 year shift.
> He's out of it, doesn't remember his name, etc. He reads his name off his
> sleep pod and begins to remember that he is ship's engineer Bower. A second
> crewman, Lt. Payton, awakens and they realize that they are the only people
> from their shift that are awake. The power is down and they are cutoff from
> the rest of ship. The reactor is out of synch and needs to be repaired before
> the ship's power can be restored. Bower grabs some tools and sets off to
> restore the power.
>
> Then the fun begins.
>
> I was surprised at how much I liked the movie. There were a few things that
> strained logic but it's a fun, scary movie with a healthy dose of semihard
> sci fi.
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