Reminds me of the old TV series 'Lost in Space'!

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On Tue, 12/15/15, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: [TML] Off-Topic: Been Binge-Watching Dark Matter On Netflix
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 9:45 PM

 I finally got a
 Netflix account and immediately started re-watching this
 show. Watching the episodes without commercial interruption
 and one right after the other - at least for me - highlights
 the very game-like nature of the action. The crew barely
 gets out of one mess before they're plunged straight
 into the next one . . . and sometimes several messes hit
 them at once. Add in the two running gags of their
 off-kilter android [who essentially crews the ship by
 herself) and how saidr beat-to-hell ship keeps breaking down
 everytime they turn around and I find myself wishing I was
 running this as a campaign.
 There's one scene where most of the crew gets
 locked in the mess by an android (NOT their own) that's
 been reprogrammed to kill them by plunging their ship into a
 sun. As the speakers play the dramatic announcement in the
 reprogrammer's own voice, we get shots of the crew
 members barely pausing in spooning up soup, saying in
 response to The Voice things like, "Wish we could
 remember doing that." and "Sounds like we're
 doomed." I was laughing my butt off, imagining players
 reacting the exact same way around a gaming
 table.
 --
 Richard
 Aiken

 "Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A.
 Heinlein"A word to the wise ain't
 necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the
 advice." - Bill Cosby"We know a little
 about a lot of things; just enough to make us
 dangerous." Dean Winchester

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