11th November 2010, 1:25 PM
Quote:First though, I have to mention it -- why is 2075 so much like '90s Japan? I mean, the office full of piles of paper, okay, the cultural attitudes of '90s Japan, okay (unlikely but things generally reflect their time), but stuff like finding who that guy (the company president or whatever's son) was in episode 5 by... looking through a big binder to find that guy's profile in it? Really? Maybe, but I'd think these days there'd be other ways... that's just a minor example, though. Really the issue is that the show doesn't exactly have much that's futuristic about it aside from the size and number of the space stations and colonies. Other than that it's essentially a present-day setting.
I think that's to emphasize just how little everyone thinks of the salvage crew. They're shoved back into some tiny room, all their computers are ancient, they still uses paper files, and so on. Whereas everything around them is much more advanced.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.