For this push on LEO Adventures I'm (re)watching a bit of StarCops and it's flawed but brilliant from the first minute.
It opens with a murder during a spacewalk but intercut with a drowning murder on Earth. I love they do such an approachable way explaining a high concept to an 1980s television audience.
And then the first time we meet the main character he's working from home, how prescient.
It's the show that taught me to love near future sci-fi. It's like a proto-Expanse.
I think the biggest swing in #StarCops is also their biggest miss unfortunately.
They include a lot of international politics in their stories. This is pretty fresh and interesting and gives it a big dose of realism and potential for dynamic plots BUT their execution can be a bit... stereotyped.
It's just that kind of British exoticism of other cultures meets ignorance meets production limitations that all combines to make it a bung note sometimes.
This was a PROMOTIONAL picture FOR Star Cops. It was cancelled after nine episodes.
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