I don't understand the "hype" around this show both from people who want to watch it and from the promotional side. It's just a show about cloning. Has been done so many times before. Maybe I'll like it if I see it, but from reading the synopsis I read I didn't get a "o yeah I have to see this" vibe.
O and I don't like the name either. Unimaginative.
well it is the same as the book it is from
i have watched the first 2 eps
the main actor is a guy i like whenever he is in something--not necessarily the material but the guy's persona makes just about anything watchable--he could have been in SGU and his performance would have made it worth watching
these are NOT spoiler, just basic over lay of the plot i have seen so far:
it isn't just about cloning. the cloning and the 'banking/icing' of bodies mainly prisoners. funny and predictable--given the natural evolution of our current uber capitalistic world-how this "resleeving" into prime specimens at an early age can only be done by the wealthy while others get less desirable bodies based on ability to pay
victim restitution is done by the state on 'you get what we give' basis. an asian couple gets their 12 yr old hit and run victim daughter back as a older middle aged white woman. so typical of our bureaucracy in the hands of high tech
the main tech point of the show is the cortical stacks in every one from 1yr of age that updt daily and store all life experience,. when re sleeved, this stack is transferred surgically into a "sleeve", a body.
interstellar travel is not really any further advanced then where we are now. such travel is done only by digital, sub space. the consciousness of a person is sent by sub space to a desired planet/station where it is downloaded into a new stack and then into a body.
it seems that initially-though it hasn't been clarified yet-that this travel was facilitated by some alien species physically similar to humans who volunteered their bodies/clones in human form to allow humanity to travel interstellar distances
all i can say about the show itself and its watch ability is that the first 2 eps are good
of course that probably means that now it is doomed and no one will watch it!