I was (mostly*) on board with DEFYING GRAVITY (it looked, at least superficially, like a modernized take on Stephen Baxter's VOYAGE, and I loved VOYAGE, so I had ... hopes!) until they dropped the "psychic space monster that can see the future, ZOMG" plot device onto the unsuspecting audience's lap; I was still hoping they weren't going to go where they seemed to want to go with that plot device when they decided to plop in a throwaway line about how abortions were illegal in the future and now it was all back-alley all the way and then the one character who seemed sane about it said "You know I want to have babies with you, right?"; at that point I knew it was ... not going anywhere good, and wisely stopped watching.
*I say mostly because the "hero" of the story is a raging chauvinistic asshole and I did not like how the story kept bending over backwards to justify his chauvinism like we were supposed to sympathize with his reasons for being a chauvinistic asshole. But I liked most of the other characters! Until the ... "illegal abortions" thing, anyway.
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*I say mostly because the "hero" of the story is a raging chauvinistic asshole and I did not like how the story kept bending over backwards to justify his chauvinism like we were supposed to sympathize with his reasons for being a chauvinistic asshole. But I liked most of the other characters! Until the ... "illegal abortions" thing, anyway.