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Where we take everything broadcast during the past week and blend it into a concentrated, easy-to-digest paste. I\u2019m your entertainment emissary, Daisy Wences, and with me as always is this other person.\n\nLars Gonall: Why do I feel like the job title \u2018Paste Purveyor\u2019 would go over better with my parents than \u2018Spectrum Critic?\u2019\nDaisy Wences: Because even though you\u2019re a grown adult, you still live your life seeking your parents\u2019 approval?\n\nLars Gonall: Once again, thanks to Daisy, I\u2019m going to have some deep thinking to do after this show.\nDaisy Wences: That\u2019s why we\u2019re all here, right? Profound self-epiphanies.\n\nLars Gonall: Profound epiphanies through the prism of spectrum are the perfect medium for self-reflection.\nDaisy Wences: Which reminds me, have you caught Far From Home yet?\n\nLars Gonall: I have\u2026\nDaisy Wences: Yes! How many episodes have you done? Ten? Twenty?\n\nLars Gonall: Daisy has been begging me to check it out since she discovered it last week and I gotta say\u2026 it\u2019s not for me.\nDaisy Wences: What?!\n\nLars Gonall: For those of you unfamiliar, Far From Home is this personal diary and advice show that a solo pilot puts out from his Freelancer. It\u2019s basically like when you get seated next to your friend\u2019s uncle at a dinner party and they just want to talk about how good ships used to be in the old days.\nDaisy Wences: You did not just compare Old Jegger to someone\u2019s random uncle.\n\nLars Gonall: Later, when you go back and check the recording, you will see that I, in fact, did exactly that.\nDaisy Wences: Despite what Lars says, I still think that this is a show worth checking out. I heard about it on a DIY forum when I was trying to fix a glitchy heater in my hab. Of course, instead of actually fixing the stupid thing, I wound up spending the rest of the night consuming every Far From Home episode I could find. Maybe because part of me always wondered what it would be like on the drift. Hearing him talk, you start to understand the difference between a solitary life and a lonely one.\n\nLars Gonall: I will say that I appreciated how he seemed very much about everyone finding their own best way to live. It wasn\u2019t just him preaching about how we should all be space hermits. And I\u2019ll also give it a few more points now that there\u2019s that rumor circulating that he\u2019s dead.\nDaisy Wences: Wait? What?\n\nLars Gonall: You didn\u2019t see this? It was on the Galactapedia page. Turns out he hasn\u2019t put out an episode since the last one he did from Charon. People are speculating that something might have happened to him. A bunch of fans have started trying to organize a search for him.\nDaisy Wences: He is a hermit, right? I bet he\u2019s simply staying off the grid for a bit. I\u2019m sure this is just one of those dumb spectrum rumors and he\u2019ll show up in a week or two with a great story to tell. At least, I really hope that\u2019s what\u2019ll happen.\n\nLars Gonall: Yeah. You\u2019re probably right. Just promise me that you\u2019re not gonna run away to join the search.\nDaisy Wences: Don\u2019t worry, Lars. I\u2019m not leaving the show\u2026 yet.\n\nLars Gonall: Since we got to talk about one of your new favorite shows, you want to talk about my new crush that you can\u2019t stand?\nDaisy Wences: Fine. Go ahead.\n\nLars Gonall: From the makers of such fine reality vids like Kid Empire and Weapon Wars: Shoot-Out Edition comes my brand new obsession, Face to Face, a dating show with a brilliant premise.\nDaisy Wences: You mean an insanely creepy premise.\n\nLars Gonall: Oh, yeah. Won\u2019t argue with you there. This is definitely a show for people who love cringe binging. All the contestants are sent into one of those new and really expensive BiotiCorp machines and given identical faces.\nDaisy Wences: Want to know how they picked what that face would look like? They created a composite head from all the main single person\u2019s exes. How messed up is that?\n\nLars Gonall: The show claims they\u2019re trying to create an ideal partner for the selector by looking at their previous romantic choices. The lucky -\nDaisy Wences: I guess that\u2019s how they could be described\u2026\n\nLars Gonall: The lucky bachelor is a fitness instructor from New Babbage named Eris who goes on dates with all the contestants and eliminates anyone they don\u2019t like. Once eliminated, the candidates are reverted back to their original face.\nDaisy Wences: I swear it\u2019s like some bizarre cult. One of the contestants who got cut was sobbing because they didn\u2019t want their old face back. I know it\u2019s pretty common these days to adjust how you look, but the way they were all losing their identity while trying to become someone else\u2019s fantasy made me really uncomfortable.\n\nLars Gonall: You had a much darker take than I did. For me, it was fun to watch people get to know each other in a situation where their looks didn\u2019t matter. Eris couldn\u2019t judge people on who was attractive or not, it was all about if they had a connection. What\u2019s really going to be interesting is that the winning contestant gets to reconstruct their face however they want. Do they go with their original? An \u2018improved\u2019 version of themselves? Keep their new face? So many choices.\nDaisy Wences: Do you think the people at BiotiCorp would have made the Calliope if they knew that this was how their amazing invention was going to be used?\n\nLars Gonall: I assume all scientists hope for a day when their discovery or invention can be used to help strangers pretend to be in love on spectrum.\nDaisy Wences: Shall we move on to a show that we were actually scheduled to review this week?\n\nLars Gonall: Even better, a show that we both actually liked.\nDaisy Wences: Last Friday saw the premiere of the much-heralded docu-series One Step Back. Filmed on Asura, it\u2019s a hard look at what life is like for former criminals trying to re-enter society. The first episode focuses on Liz \u2018Necro\u2019 Salguero, a convicted shipjacker who was released from Quarterdeck last year.\n\nLars Gonall: You get a real sense of what it must be like to have this criminal reputation hanging over your head. At one point, she goes through a checkpoint on her way to sell some scrap and seeing how security swarms all over her to do a deep scan was really surprising to me. Maybe this is just my na\u00efvet\u00e9 talking, but I always figured that serving time was enough to clear your record. It turns out though that the Advocacy keeps you flagged as a person of interest for a long time after you\u2019ve been incarcerated, and a lot of people get access to those records.\nDaisy Wences: One of the people they interview is a criminal rights advocate who is trying to change the law so that once your crime is atoned for, your records remained sealed unless you are charged with a crime again. We expect these people to be able to make a life for themselves, but with their past available to potential employers, many can\u2019t find work and even when they do, it\u2019s a long hard road to earning trust and respectability again.\n\nLars Gonall: This isn\u2019t exactly the same thing, but I do remember this one time growing up when my dad accidentally clipped a ship that was rising out of hangar bay. He got flagged and until he paid off the fine, we weren\u2019t allowed to use a lot of public landing areas. It was only a week, but still.\nDaisy Wences: I had no idea you came from an outlaw family. It\u2019ll be interesting to see what the show does to help forward the dialogue about all this. Apparently, since the episode was released, Liz has been overwhelmed with job offers and people looking to help her out. Pretty touching really. Of course, that\u2019s just one person.\n\nLars Gonall: Strongly recommend you give this show a try. It\u2019s not exactly lighthearted, but it\u2019s doing some important things.\nDaisy Wences: All right, on that surprisingly serious note, we have to take our first break. When Spectrum Spectators returns, we\u2019ll be discussing the new Tavi Arteaga comedy, One Mann\u2019s Treasure, about a young woman named Aleria Mann who leaves her bustling life in Prime to run her sick mother\u2019s salvaging business out in the far reaches of Corel.\n\nLars Gonall: I\u2019m pretty excited because we haven\u2019t reviewed a \u2018the character\u2019s name is a title pun\u2019 show in a long time, so be sure to stick around and we\u2019ll be right back.","de_DE":"Daisy Wences: Willkommen wieder in Ihrer Show der Shows, Spectrum Spectator. Hier nehmen wir alles, was in der letzten Woche gesendet wurde, und mischen es zu einer konzentrierten, leicht verdaulichen Paste. Ich bin deine Entertainment-Botschafterin, Daisy Wences, und bei mir ist wie immer diese andere Person.\n\nLars Gonall: Warum habe ich das Gef\u00fchl, dass die Berufsbezeichnung \"Paste Purveyor\" bei meinen Eltern besser ankommt als \"Spectrum Critic\"?\nDaisy Wences: Denn obwohl du ein erwachsener Erwachsener bist, lebst du immer noch dein Leben und suchst die Zustimmung deiner Eltern?\n\nLars Gonall: Noch einmal, dank Daisy, werde ich nach dieser Show einiges an tiefem Nachdenken haben.\nDaisy Wences: Deshalb sind wir alle hier, oder? Tiefgr\u00fcndige Selbst-Epifancien.\n\nLars Gonall: Tiefgr\u00fcndige Offenbarungen durch das Prisma des Spektrums sind das perfekte Medium zur Selbstreflexion.\nDaisy Wences: Was mich daran erinnert, dass du Far From Home schon erwischt hast?\n\nLars Gonall: Ich habe.....\nDaisy Wences: Ja! Wie viele Episoden hast du schon gemacht? Zehn? Zwanzig?\n\nLars Gonall: Daisy hat mich gebeten, es zu \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen, seit sie es letzte Woche entdeckt hat, und ich muss sagen.... es ist nichts f\u00fcr mich.\nDaisy Wences: Was?!\n\nLars Gonall: F\u00fcr diejenigen unter Ihnen, die es noch nicht kennen, ist Far From Home dieses pers\u00f6nliche Tagebuch und ein Ratgeber, den ein Solopilot aus seinem Freelancer herausholt. Es ist im Grunde genommen so, wie wenn man sich auf einer Dinnerparty neben den Onkel seines Freundes setzt und sie wollen nur dar\u00fcber reden, wie gute Schiffe in den alten Zeiten waren.\nDaisy Wences: Du hast Old Jegger nicht nur mit dem zuf\u00e4lligen Onkel von jemandem verglichen.\n\nLars Gonall: Sp\u00e4ter, wenn Sie zur\u00fcckgehen und die Aufnahme \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen, werden Sie sehen, dass ich genau das getan habe.\nDaisy Wences: Trotz allem, was Lars sagt, denke ich immer noch, dass dies eine Show ist, die es wert ist, angesehen zu werden. Ich h\u00f6rte davon in einem DIY-Forum, als ich versuchte, eine defekte Heizung in meinem Gewand zu reparieren. Nat\u00fcrlich, anstatt das dumme Ding tats\u00e4chlich zu reparieren, verbrachte ich den Rest der Nacht damit, jede Far From Home Episode zu konsumieren, die ich finden konnte. Vielleicht, weil ein Teil von mir sich immer gefragt hat, wie es auf der Drift sein w\u00fcrde. Wenn man ihn reden h\u00f6rt, beginnt man den Unterschied zwischen einem einsamen und einem einsamen Leben zu verstehen.\n\nLars Gonall: Ich m\u00f6chte sagen, dass ich es sehr zu sch\u00e4tzen wusste, wie sehr er dar\u00fcber schien, dass jeder seinen eigenen besten Weg zum Leben findet. Es war nicht nur, dass er dar\u00fcber predigte, dass wir alle Weltraum-Eremiten sein sollten. Und ich werde ihm auch noch ein paar weitere Punkte geben, jetzt, da es dieses Ger\u00fccht gibt, dass er tot ist.\nDaisy Wences: Warten? Was?\n\nLars Gonall: Du hast das nicht gesehen? Es war auf der Galactapedia-Seite. Es stellte sich heraus, dass er keine Episode ver\u00f6ffentlicht hat, seit der letzten, die er von Charon gemacht hat. Die Leute spekulieren, dass ihm etwas zugesto\u00dfen sein k\u00f6nnte. Ein paar Fans haben angefangen, zu versuchen, eine Suche nach ihm zu organisieren.\nDaisy Wences: Er ist ein Einsiedler, oder? Ich wette, er bleibt einfach eine Weile vom Netz. Ich bin sicher, das ist nur eines dieser dummen Spektrum-Ger\u00fcchte und er wird in ein oder zwei Wochen auftauchen und eine tolle Geschichte erz\u00e4hlen. Zumindest hoffe ich wirklich, dass das passieren wird.\n\nLars Gonall: Ja. Du hast wahrscheinlich Recht. Versprich mir nur, dass du nicht wegl\u00e4ufst, um an der Suche teilzunehmen.\nDaisy Wences: Keine Sorge, Lars. Ich werde die Show nicht verlassen.... noch nicht.\n\nLars Gonall: Da wir \u00fcber eine deiner neuen Lieblingssendungen sprechen durften, willst du \u00fcber meinen neuen Schwarm reden, den du nicht ertragen kannst?\nDaisy Wences: Gut. Nur zu.\n\nLars Gonall: Von den Machern solcher Videos wie Kid Empire und Weapon Wars: Shoot-Out Edition kommt meine brandneue Obsession, Face to Face, eine Dating-Show mit einer brillanten Pr\u00e4misse.\nDaisy Wences: Du meinst eine wahnsinnig gruselige Pr\u00e4misse.\n\nLars Gonall: Oh, ja. Da wird er nicht mit dir streiten. Dies ist definitiv eine Show f\u00fcr Leute, die es lieben, sich zu verkriechen. Alle Teilnehmer werden in eine dieser neuen und wirklich teuren BiotiCorp-Maschinen geschickt und erhalten identische Gesichter.\nDaisy Wences: Willst du wissen, wie sie sich ausgesucht haben, wie dieses Gesicht aussehen w\u00fcrde? Sie schufen einen zusammengesetzten Kopf aus allen Ex-Figuren der einzelnen Hauptpersonen. Wie vermasselt ist das denn?\n\nLars Gonall: Die Show behauptet, dass sie versuchen, einen idealen Partner f\u00fcr den Selektor zu finden, indem sie sich ihre bisherigen romantischen Entscheidungen ansehen. Das Gl\u00fcck -\nDaisy Wences: Ich sch\u00e4tze, so k\u00f6nnte man sie beschreiben.....\n\nLars Gonall: Der gl\u00fcckliche Junggeselle ist ein Fitnesstrainer aus New Babbage namens Eris, der sich mit allen Teilnehmern verabredet und jeden ausschaltet, der ihnen nicht gef\u00e4llt. Nach dem Ausscheiden werden die Kandidaten wieder in ihr urspr\u00fcngliches Gesicht zur\u00fcckversetzt.\nDaisy Wences: Ich schw\u00f6re, es ist wie ein bizarrer Kult. Einer der Teilnehmer, der verletzt wurde, schluchzte, weil er sein altes Gesicht nicht zur\u00fcckhaben wollte. Ich wei\u00df, dass es heutzutage ziemlich \u00fcblich ist, das Aussehen anzupassen, aber die Art und Weise, wie sie alle ihre Identit\u00e4t verloren haben, w\u00e4hrend sie versuchten, die Fantasie eines anderen zu werden, hat mich wirklich unwohl gemacht.\n\nLars Gonall: Du hattest eine viel dunklere Einstellung als ich. F\u00fcr mich hat es Spa\u00df gemacht zu sehen, wie Menschen sich in einer Situation kennenlernen, in der ihr Aussehen keine Rolle spielt. Eris konnte die Leute nicht beurteilen, wer attraktiv war oder nicht, es ging nur darum, ob sie eine Verbindung hatten. Was wirklich interessant sein wird, ist, dass der Gewinner sein Gesicht nach Belieben rekonstruieren kann. Passen sie zu ihrem Original? Eine \"verbesserte\" Version von sich selbst? Ihr neues Gesicht behalten? So viele M\u00f6glichkeiten.\nDaisy Wences: Glauben Sie, dass die Leute von BiotiCorp das Kalliope gemacht h\u00e4tten, wenn sie w\u00fcssten, dass ihre erstaunliche Erfindung so verwendet werden w\u00fcrde?\n\nLars Gonall: Ich gehe davon aus, dass alle Wissenschaftler auf einen Tag hoffen, an dem ihre Entdeckung oder Erfindung genutzt werden kann, um Fremden zu helfen, vorzugeben, auf dem Spektrum verliebt zu sein.\nDaisy Wences: Sollen wir zu einer Show \u00fcbergehen, die wir diese Woche eigentlich \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen sollten?\n\nLars Gonall: Noch besser, eine Show, die uns beiden wirklich gefiel.\nDaisy Wences: Am vergangenen Freitag fand die Premiere der vielgepriesenen Doku-Serie One Step Back statt. Auf Asura gefilmt, ist es ein harter Blick darauf, wie das Leben f\u00fcr ehemalige Kriminelle aussieht, die versuchen, wieder in die Gesellschaft einzutreten. Die erste Episode konzentriert sich auf Liz 'Necro' Salguero, eine verurteilte Schiffsr\u00e4uberin, die letztes Jahr aus dem Quarterdeck entlassen wurde.\n\nLars Gonall: Du bekommst einen echten Eindruck davon, wie es sein muss, wenn dir dieser kriminelle Ruf \u00fcber den Kopf h\u00e4ngt. An einem Punkt geht sie durch einen Kontrollpunkt auf ihrem Weg, um etwas Schrott zu verkaufen, und zu sehen, wie Sicherheitsschw\u00e4rme \u00fcberall auf ihr zu einem tiefen Scan f\u00fchren, war f\u00fcr mich wirklich \u00fcberraschend. Vielleicht ist das nur mein naives Gerede, aber ich habe immer gedacht, dass die Wartezeit ausreicht, um deine Akte zu l\u00f6schen. Es stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass die Anwaltschaft dich f\u00fcr lange Zeit nach deiner Inhaftierung als eine Person von Interesse markiert h\u00e4lt, und viele Leute erhalten Zugang zu diesen Aufzeichnungen.\nDaisy Wences: Eine der Personen, die sie interviewen, ist ein Anwalt f\u00fcr Strafrechte, der versucht, das Gesetz so zu \u00e4ndern, dass, sobald Ihr Verbrechen geb\u00fc\u00dft ist, Ihre Aufzeichnungen versiegelt blieben, es sei denn, Sie werden erneut mit einem Verbrechen angeklagt. Wir erwarten, dass diese Menschen in der Lage sein werden, sich selbst ein Leben zu erm\u00f6glichen, aber mit ihrer Vergangenheit, die potenziellen Arbeitgebern zur Verf\u00fcgung steht, k\u00f6nnen viele keine Arbeit finden, und selbst wenn sie es tun, ist es ein langer, schwerer Weg, wieder Vertrauen und Anst\u00e4ndigkeit zu gewinnen.\n\nLars Gonall: Das ist nicht genau das Gleiche, aber ich erinnere mich an dieses eine Mal, als mein Vater aus Versehen ein Schiff kappte, das aus der Hangarbucht aufstieg. Er wurde markiert und bis er die Geldstrafe bezahlt hatte, durften wir nicht viele \u00f6ffentliche Landepl\u00e4tze benutzen. Es war nur eine Woche, aber trotzdem.\nDaisy Wences: Ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass du aus einer Gesetzlosenfamilie kommst. Es wird interessant sein zu sehen, was die Show tut, um den Dialog \u00fcber all dies voranzutreiben. Anscheinend, seit die Episode ver\u00f6ffentlicht wurde, ist Liz mit Jobangeboten und Leuten, die ihr helfen wollen, \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigt worden. Ziemlich r\u00fchrend wirklich. Nat\u00fcrlich ist das nur eine Person.\n\nLars Gonall: Wir empfehlen Ihnen dringend, diese Show auszuprobieren. Es ist nicht gerade unbeschwert, aber es tut einige wichtige Dinge.\nDaisy Wences: In Ordnung, mit dieser \u00fcberraschend ernsten Bemerkung m\u00fcssen wir unsere erste Pause einlegen. Wenn Spectrum Spectators zur\u00fcckkehrt, werden wir \u00fcber die neue Tavi Arteaga-Kom\u00f6die One Mann's Treasure sprechen, \u00fcber eine junge Frau namens Aleria Mann, die ihr gesch\u00e4ftiges Leben in Prime l\u00e4sst, um das Rettungsgesch\u00e4ft ihrer kranken Mutter in den Weiten von Corel zu f\u00fchren.\n\nLars Gonall: Ich bin ziemlich aufgeregt, weil wir eine Sendung mit dem Titel \"Der Name des Charakters ist ein Titelwortspiel\" seit langem nicht mehr \u00fcberpr\u00fcft haben, also bleiben Sie in der N\u00e4he und wir sind gleich wieder da.","zh_CN":"Daisy Wences: Welcome once again to your show of shows, Spectrum Spectator. Where we take everything broadcast during the past week and blend it into a concentrated, easy-to-digest paste. I\u2019m your entertainment emissary, Daisy Wences, and with me as always is this other person.\n\nLars Gonall: Why do I feel like the job title \u2018Paste Purveyor\u2019 would go over better with my parents than \u2018Spectrum Critic?\u2019\nDaisy Wences: Because even though you\u2019re a grown adult, you still live your life seeking your parents\u2019 approval?\n\nLars Gonall: Once again, thanks to Daisy, I\u2019m going to have some deep thinking to do after this show.\nDaisy Wences: That\u2019s why we\u2019re all here, right? Profound self-epiphanies.\n\nLars Gonall: Profound epiphanies through the prism of spectrum are the perfect medium for self-reflection.\nDaisy Wences: Which reminds me, have you caught Far From Home yet?\n\nLars Gonall: I have\u2026\nDaisy Wences: Yes! How many episodes have you done? Ten? Twenty?\n\nLars Gonall: Daisy has been begging me to check it out since she discovered it last week and I gotta say\u2026 it\u2019s not for me.\nDaisy Wences: What?!\n\nLars Gonall: For those of you unfamiliar, Far From Home is this personal diary and advice show that a solo pilot puts out from his Freelancer. It\u2019s basically like when you get seated next to your friend\u2019s uncle at a dinner party and they just want to talk about how good ships used to be in the old days.\nDaisy Wences: You did not just compare Old Jegger to someone\u2019s random uncle.\n\nLars Gonall: Later, when you go back and check the recording, you will see that I, in fact, did exactly that.\nDaisy Wences: Despite what Lars says, I still think that this is a show worth checking out. I heard about it on a DIY forum when I was trying to fix a glitchy heater in my hab. Of course, instead of actually fixing the stupid thing, I wound up spending the rest of the night consuming every Far From Home episode I could find. Maybe because part of me always wondered what it would be like on the drift. Hearing him talk, you start to understand the difference between a solitary life and a lonely one.\n\nLars Gonall: I will say that I appreciated how he seemed very much about everyone finding their own best way to live. It wasn\u2019t just him preaching about how we should all be space hermits. And I\u2019ll also give it a few more points now that there\u2019s that rumor circulating that he\u2019s dead.\nDaisy Wences: Wait? What?\n\nLars Gonall: You didn\u2019t see this? It was on the Galactapedia page. Turns out he hasn\u2019t put out an episode since the last one he did from Charon. People are speculating that something might have happened to him. A bunch of fans have started trying to organize a search for him.\nDaisy Wences: He is a hermit, right? I bet he\u2019s simply staying off the grid for a bit. I\u2019m sure this is just one of those dumb spectrum rumors and he\u2019ll show up in a week or two with a great story to tell. At least, I really hope that\u2019s what\u2019ll happen.\n\nLars Gonall: Yeah. You\u2019re probably right. Just promise me that you\u2019re not gonna run away to join the search.\nDaisy Wences: Don\u2019t worry, Lars. I\u2019m not leaving the show\u2026 yet.\n\nLars Gonall: Since we got to talk about one of your new favorite shows, you want to talk about my new crush that you can\u2019t stand?\nDaisy Wences: Fine. Go ahead.\n\nLars Gonall: From the makers of such fine reality vids like Kid Empire and Weapon Wars: Shoot-Out Edition comes my brand new obsession, Face to Face, a dating show with a brilliant premise.\nDaisy Wences: You mean an insanely creepy premise.\n\nLars Gonall: Oh, yeah. Won\u2019t argue with you there. This is definitely a show for people who love cringe binging. All the contestants are sent into one of those new and really expensive BiotiCorp machines and given identical faces.\nDaisy Wences: Want to know how they picked what that face would look like? They created a composite head from all the main single person\u2019s exes. How messed up is that?\n\nLars Gonall: The show claims they\u2019re trying to create an ideal partner for the selector by looking at their previous romantic choices. The lucky -\nDaisy Wences: I guess that\u2019s how they could be described\u2026\n\nLars Gonall: The lucky bachelor is a fitness instructor from New Babbage named Eris who goes on dates with all the contestants and eliminates anyone they don\u2019t like. Once eliminated, the candidates are reverted back to their original face.\nDaisy Wences: I swear it\u2019s like some bizarre cult. One of the contestants who got cut was sobbing because they didn\u2019t want their old face back. I know it\u2019s pretty common these days to adjust how you look, but the way they were all losing their identity while trying to become someone else\u2019s fantasy made me really uncomfortable.\n\nLars Gonall: You had a much darker take than I did. For me, it was fun to watch people get to know each other in a situation where their looks didn\u2019t matter. Eris couldn\u2019t judge people on who was attractive or not, it was all about if they had a connection. What\u2019s really going to be interesting is that the winning contestant gets to reconstruct their face however they want. Do they go with their original? An \u2018improved\u2019 version of themselves? Keep their new face? So many choices.\nDaisy Wences: Do you think the people at BiotiCorp would have made the Calliope if they knew that this was how their amazing invention was going to be used?\n\nLars Gonall: I assume all scientists hope for a day when their discovery or invention can be used to help strangers pretend to be in love on spectrum.\nDaisy Wences: Shall we move on to a show that we were actually scheduled to review this week?\n\nLars Gonall: Even better, a show that we both actually liked.\nDaisy Wences: Last Friday saw the premiere of the much-heralded docu-series One Step Back. Filmed on Asura, it\u2019s a hard look at what life is like for former criminals trying to re-enter society. The first episode focuses on Liz \u2018Necro\u2019 Salguero, a convicted shipjacker who was released from Quarterdeck last year.\n\nLars Gonall: You get a real sense of what it must be like to have this criminal reputation hanging over your head. At one point, she goes through a checkpoint on her way to sell some scrap and seeing how security swarms all over her to do a deep scan was really surprising to me. Maybe this is just my na\u00efvet\u00e9 talking, but I always figured that serving time was enough to clear your record. It turns out though that the Advocacy keeps you flagged as a person of interest for a long time after you\u2019ve been incarcerated, and a lot of people get access to those records.\nDaisy Wences: One of the people they interview is a criminal rights advocate who is trying to change the law so that once your crime is atoned for, your records remained sealed unless you are charged with a crime again. We expect these people to be able to make a life for themselves, but with their past available to potential employers, many can\u2019t find work and even when they do, it\u2019s a long hard road to earning trust and respectability again.\n\nLars Gonall: This isn\u2019t exactly the same thing, but I do remember this one time growing up when my dad accidentally clipped a ship that was rising out of hangar bay. He got flagged and until he paid off the fine, we weren\u2019t allowed to use a lot of public landing areas. It was only a week, but still.\nDaisy Wences: I had no idea you came from an outlaw family. It\u2019ll be interesting to see what the show does to help forward the dialogue about all this. Apparently, since the episode was released, Liz has been overwhelmed with job offers and people looking to help her out. Pretty touching really. Of course, that\u2019s just one person.\n\nLars Gonall: Strongly recommend you give this show a try. It\u2019s not exactly lighthearted, but it\u2019s doing some important things.\nDaisy Wences: All right, on that surprisingly serious note, we have to take our first break. When Spectrum Spectators returns, we\u2019ll be discussing the new Tavi Arteaga comedy, One Mann\u2019s Treasure, about a young woman named Aleria Mann who leaves her bustling life in Prime to run her sick mother\u2019s salvaging business out in the far reaches of Corel.\n\nLars Gonall: I\u2019m pretty excited because we haven\u2019t reviewed a \u2018the character\u2019s name is a title pun\u2019 show in a long time, so be sure to stick around and we\u2019ll be right back."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":26,"created_at":"2019-01-16T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"7 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-27 00:00:15","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":16928,"next_id":16931}}