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* BittersweetEnding: The mission is saved, and the ''Marco Polo'' is clear to return home. Elis, on the other hand, has lost her lover.
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* BittersweetEnding: The mission is saved, and the ''Marco Polo'' is clear to return home. Elis, on home, but Acheron is dead.
** The ending gets even more bitter if theother hand, has lost her lover.events of the sequel are taken into account: The ''Marco Polo'' never makes it home because it's destroyed by a "Black Sailor" (an unidentified hostile starship). Jason, Gaia and Elis are rescued by the space station Nexus at the last moment, but Leda doesn't make it.
** The ending gets even more bitter if the
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* MsFanservice: Elis. She is the only one serving as a LoveInterest, and also has a shower scene.
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* MsFanservice: Elis. She is the only one serving as a LoveInterest, and also has a shower scene. (Behind frosted glass, so we don't actually see any details.)
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* OhCrap: Minor moment and a bit of a fake-out since nothing actually happens (at the time), but when Gaia and Jason talk about the "stowaway" early in the first episode and how the computer isn't picking up any signs of said stowaway, we get this minor moment:
-->'''Jason:''' Gaia... only ''living'' creatures will be picked up by the computer, right?\\
'''Gaia:''' ''(casually, as she walks towards the door)'' Exactly! For all we know, the stowaway might be lying dead right outside this door. ''(Stops as the door slides open, the camera focusing on her suddenly very worried expression.)''
-->'''Jason:''' Gaia... only ''living'' creatures will be picked up by the computer, right?\\
'''Gaia:''' ''(casually, as she walks towards the door)'' Exactly! For all we know, the stowaway might be lying dead right outside this door. ''(Stops as the door slides open, the camera focusing on her suddenly very worried expression.)''
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* GhostShip: Another ship is found floating in deep space, right in the path of Marco Polo. It turns out the crew died after a similiar visit to Rossum, and Leda breaks the Prime Directive to get clues, and an important artifact, from the ship. A subtle giveaway comes when Acheron gets upset and wants the ship blown apart before anyone can trace what is aboard it.
* GhostShip: Another ship is found floating in deep space, right in the path of Marco Polo. It turns out the crew died after a similiar visit to Rossum, and Leda breaks the Prime Directive to get clues, and an important artifact, from the ship. A subtle giveaway comes when Acheron gets upset and wants the ship blown apart before anyone can trace what is aboard it.
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* ShoutOut: The planet ''Rossum'' - Habitat of [[Theatre/RossumsUniversalRobots farming robots]]. And of course the Biomat itself, programmed to take over the entire ship and destroy it.
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* ShoutOut: The planet ''Rossum'' - Habitat of [[Theatre/RossumsUniversalRobots [[Theatre/{{RUR}} farming robots]]. And of course the Biomat itself, programmed to take over the entire ship and destroy it.
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* WrenchWench: Gaia, the technician.
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* WrenchWench: Gaia, the technician.technician.
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* ArtificialHuman: The Biomat/Acheron. It copied every aspect of Acheron, his antics, his speech patterns and his behaviour - but was caught off guard when Elis wanted to have sex with him in the winter garden. In an ironic twist, it is "Acheron" who explains what a biomat actually is. Serves as a ShoutOut to ''Theatre/RossumsUniversalRobots'', where the "robots" are just as human-like as this biomat (created by ''regular'' robots on Rossum).
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* ArtificialHuman: The Biomat/Acheron. It copied every aspect of Acheron, his antics, his speech patterns and his behaviour - but was caught off guard when Elis wanted to have sex with him in the winter garden. In an ironic twist, it is "Acheron" who explains what a biomat actually is. Serves as a ShoutOut to ''Theatre/RossumsUniversalRobots'', ''Theatre/{{RUR}}'', where the "robots" are just as human-like as this biomat (created by ''regular'' robots on Rossum).
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* FiveManBand: Played straight. TheLeader is Leda, who seems to take responsibility in some difficult cases, and solves some of the main plotline. TheLancer is Jason, who solves the rest of the plot. TheSmartGuy is Gaia, who is the technical girl, and makes the cybernetic tracking device. TheBigGuy is Acheron (or the biomat), and TheChick is Elis, who is the most feminine of the three women on board. To be fair, the five share responsibilities to a point that makes it difficult to point out the actual captain of the ship.
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* FiveManBand: Played straight. TheLeader is Leda, who seems to take responsibility in some difficult cases, and solves some of the main plotline. TheLancer is Jason, who solves the rest of the plot. TheSmartGuy is Gaia, who is the technical girl, and makes the cybernetic tracking device. TheBigGuy is Acheron (or the biomat), and TheChick TheHeart is Elis, who is the most feminine of the three women on board. To be fair, the five share responsibilities to a point that makes it difficult to point out the actual captain of the ship.
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The ''[=SpaceShipMarcoPolo=]''' (Norwegian: ''Blindpassasjer'') is a three-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} Norwegian]] ScienceFiction TV series from 1978, written by the two authors Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd. The series is essentially a sequel to the ''Routine'' series; a series of four audio dramas that aired on Norwegian radio from 1977-1996 and featured the eponymous space ship and its three crew members Jason (captain and sociologist-linguist), Acheron (computer engineer) and Gaia (biologist and technician), on strange and often unsettling adventures on distant planets and space stations.
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The ''[=SpaceShipMarcoPolo=]''' ''[=SpaceShipMarcoPolo=]'' (Norwegian: ''Blindpassasjer'') is a three-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} Norwegian]] ScienceFiction TV series from 1978, written by the two authors Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd. The series is essentially a sequel to the ''Routine'' series; a series of four audio dramas that aired on Norwegian radio from 1977-1996 and featured the eponymous space ship and its three crew members Jason (captain and sociologist-linguist), Acheron (computer engineer) and Gaia (biologist and technician), on strange and often unsettling adventures on distant planets and space stations.
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The '''SpaceShipMarcoPolo''' (Norwegian: ''Blindpassasjer'') is a three-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} Norwegian]] ScienceFiction TV series from 1978, written by the two authors Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd. The series is essentially a sequel to the ''Routine'' series; a series of four audio dramas that aired on Norwegian radio from 1977-1996 and featured the eponymous space ship and its three crew members Jason (captain and sociologist-linguist), Acheron (computer engineer) and Gaia (biologist and technician), on strange and often unsettling adventures on distant planets and space stations.
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The '''SpaceShipMarcoPolo''' ''[=SpaceShipMarcoPolo=]''' (Norwegian: ''Blindpassasjer'') is a three-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} Norwegian]] ScienceFiction TV series from 1978, written by the two authors Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd. The series is essentially a sequel to the ''Routine'' series; a series of four audio dramas that aired on Norwegian radio from 1977-1996 and featured the eponymous space ship and its three crew members Jason (captain and sociologist-linguist), Acheron (computer engineer) and Gaia (biologist and technician), on strange and often unsettling adventures on distant planets and space stations.
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* GreenAesop: The planet Rossum was actually populated by humans, and the robots took over when they understood the planet suffered from the human interference in the eco-system. Thus, they set themselves up as rural guardians of the eco-system, and stripped the humans of all civilisation, making them powerless, naked apes. It is implied that [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped this point had to be driven home pretty hard]], as the authors understood our own planet might suffer a harsh fate over time.
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* GreenAesop: The planet Rossum was actually populated by humans, and the robots took over when they understood the planet suffered from the human interference in the eco-system. Thus, they set themselves up as rural guardians of the eco-system, and stripped the humans of all civilisation, making them powerless, naked apes. It is implied that [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped this point had to be driven home pretty hard]], hard, as the authors understood our own planet might suffer a harsh fate over time.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Biomat is revealed during a sex scene. Actually monitored from another room because of the implants.
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The '''SpaceShipMarcoPolo''' (Norwegian: ''Blindpassasjer'') is a Norwegian Science Fiction ground-breaking series spanning three episodes. It aired in 1978. The eponymous nspace ship has a [[FiveManBand personnel of five]], returning from a field trip to the planet Rossum, "encircling Barnard´s star", as the narrator states. During a time of hibernation to save energy, one of them is killed by a biomat, who replaces the murdered crew member (Acheron), seeding mistrust among the others, as they have to figure out which of them is the dead one. After some consideration, the members inject themselves with a cybernetic probe, set to keep a check on all of them, in case of some anomalies that can reveal the biomat. At the end the day, the biomat reveals itself to be unable to improvise, and is thus discovered. It promptly dissolves.
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The '''SpaceShipMarcoPolo''' (Norwegian: ''Blindpassasjer'') is a three-episode [[UsefulNotes/{{Norway}} Norwegian]] ScienceFiction TV series from 1978, written by the two authors Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd. The series is essentially a sequel to the ''Routine'' series; a series of four audio dramas that aired on Norwegian Science Fiction ground-breaking series spanning three episodes. It aired in 1978. The radio from 1977-1996 and featured the eponymous nspace space ship and its three crew members Jason (captain and sociologist-linguist), Acheron (computer engineer) and Gaia (biologist and technician), on strange and often unsettling adventures on distant planets and space stations.
In the TV series, which seems to take place some years later, the ''Marco Polo'' now has a [[FiveManBand personnel of five]], as Jason, Acheron and Gaia have been joined by Leda (machine engineer) and Ellis (ecologist), and is, as the narrator states, returning from a field trip to the planet Rossum, "encircling Barnard´sstar", as the narrator states. star." During a time of hibernation to save energy, one of them is killed by a biomat, who replaces the murdered crew member (Acheron), seeding mistrust among the others, as they have to figure out which of them is the dead one. After some consideration, the members inject themselves with a cybernetic probe, set to keep a check on all of them, in case of some anomalies that can reveal the biomat. At the end the day, the biomat reveals itself to be unable to improvise, and is thus discovered. It promptly dissolves.
In the TV series, which seems to take place some years later, the ''Marco Polo'' now has a [[FiveManBand personnel of five]], as Jason, Acheron and Gaia have been joined by Leda (machine engineer) and Ellis (ecologist), and is, as the narrator states, returning from a field trip to the planet Rossum, "encircling Barnard´s
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The authors of this series is the two authors Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd.
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: The crew clearly has one, and Leda clearly breaks it when she goes off on her own to search the GhostShip. It turns out to be a necessary action after all. Leda calls back and takes full responsibility. This scene is (of course) a ShoutOut to StarTrek.
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* AlienNonInterferenceClause: The crew clearly has one, and Leda clearly breaks it when she goes off on her own to search the GhostShip. It turns out to be a necessary action after all. Leda calls back and takes full responsibility. This scene is (of course) a ShoutOut to StarTrek.''Franchise/StarTrek''.
