This is indeed a magical drama, and perhaps its very hard-core posters make people mistake it for a film similar to "The Martian", full of visual wonders and thrilling plots. It disappointed a lot of people because it didn't have that. The only visual spectacle you've seen so far in the show's third episode is the Mars launch shot. In addition, it is the constant nagging of all kinds of people, as well as their endless psychological problems.
Yet it's still a spectacle. It's not about Mars, it's about The First, and everything it takes to get there. To be precise, the main content of this film is not how to get to Mars after the rocket is launched, but how to let the rocket launch again after a failure. The charm of its protagonist is not how to get to Mars through hardships, but how to still strive to become a Mars pioneer in the entanglement of public opposition, family conflicts, psychological problems and so on.
Yes, this film is about feelings. We're all just bugs in the gutter, but there's always someone who has to look up at the stars. Astronauts are the worms looking up at the stars. In this drama, you can see a father who has lost his beloved son reaching a settlement for his son's career after seeing the palpable aurora in outer space, and you can also see the female colonel impassionedly telling the MPs that we will use the Space exploration to inspire our next generation. After that failed launch, astronauts and leaders scrambled for ways to keep the mission going and their ideals to come true—making humanity a transplanetary species.
A favorite way of science fiction or movies is to set a scene full of extreme contradictions, and then describe human beings in this situation, thereby magnifying the glory or evil in us, and the charm of science fiction is also here. This show is no exception, and its extreme scenario is the explosion of a rocket. When everyone fell into despair, this group of astronauts who never gave up broke out with a shocking spirit of exploration and contempt for death, and worked hard towards that good night. The spirit of human exploration of space is the real protagonist of this drama.
If you love sci-fi, if you don't demand visual effects, and if you're equally determined that space is the way forward for humanity, then this show won't let you down. Because here is a group of like-minded people working hard to make their way to Mars.
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