I was a big fan of the BBC's "MI-5," am a long-time reader of sci-fi, and a fan of cosmology. The first five minutes of "Hard Sun" had elements of all three, so I was hooked. I loved the choice that the series mad to have the McGuffin, a set of classified files, serve as a background and foreground driver of the series. But when the final episode revealed the specifics of the McGuffin, I cringed. Unless a show is pure sci-fi, I insist that the science be plausible, even if a bit speculative. What the final episode asserted is literally, wildly impossible, and no consulting astrophysicist (if there were one) would have given his/her blessing to this gimmick.
