I think the second one is the weakest of the three but that's becasue it's hard to go forward and show the future and not have it age badly. I kinda wonder if we remade it but kept it in the 80s and they travelled to today if it would still be a good story. I think it would.
In Alaska there are places where the vegitation grows over small lakes making them look like plesant meadows but it's the ground is just like this. Falling in is a nightmare as you often find yourself under the mat of plants unable to surface.
While the ice cream may not be eaten in space there are other foods that are which were preserved using the process developed for preserving the ice cream. There are a lot of technologies that get developed by NASA but never find application in space but make life better on earth.
There is a part of me that wonders if this is more of an attempt by to white wash the past. Capcom is a Japanese Company. Japan has a lot of revisionism going on among their ruling party and in much of that there is an attempt to sanitize the past and make it look less like the Japanese were aggressors. While it has meant discarding some symbols of the past it also makes it easier for many folks in Japan to forget the terrible things their government and military did nearly sixty years ago.
This is a great idea. I threw away a lot of parts and pieces of material because I couldn't figure out how to fit everything together tightly on the laser cutting platform.
I've been told they stopped sending tang and citris drinks because it causes a lot of gas and that isn't particularly pleasant when you're sharing a capsule for 8 months.