Review of Mars

I love the snippets of history so it had a feel of a documentary. They have numerous scientists adding to the show but they didn't do anything with them. Many valid points were made by Elon Musk, but he is only a visionary and business man. I knew the show was in trouble when they have a problem with one of the circuits. In a ship that size there should be at least a back-up for every system and the software should be monitoring all systems continuously, not at the last second. If they didn't want that character in the show, just use someone else and don't kill them off on stupid things. The plan that they outlined for putting a colony on Mars was sound but they forgot all about safety when building the habitat. Doors must always open inward to the higher pressure so that they always want to seal. They would never open outward to a lower pressure environment, and between each unit should be a seal-able door just like the build in submarines. Should any problem occur, the doors should automatically seal. That would have prevented the deaths of seven people in episode 5. They also lost a very good set up for drama when they found ice in the underground cavern. The cable that lowered the person ran to the end of the cable so how did they get everything else down to the lower levels? The show isn't all bad. as I liked the way they followed the wind directions to see where life might be deposited. That was pretty cleaver. But the best thing this show does is give a direction for NASA and humanity to follow as they pointed out that ever since Apollo moon landings, NASA did not keep going. This was the best show to date for space travel and destination and that is why I gave it an 8. There is still much room for improvement.