Let's hope they properly balance the facts (as we currently see them) with some excitement to generate the interest of the general public. If it isn't spiced up enough to attract the general public, it will be the last expensive documentary of this type.

Obviously, there will need to be some drama, like a near fatal incident in transit, problems during atmospheric entry, sex drama-preferably with hot chicks!, crew insubordination and disagreement, somebody dying from a failure in their life support suit, etc. The movie has to end at a point of them being "just on the verge" of determining if life exists or ever existed on the planet, since we still just don't know. If they are trying to be realistic, they can't be showing fossils or some slimy thing crawling around in a martian cave. So, they are going to have to resort to plain old sit-com drama tactics to keep most people interested. Of the few like us who are genuinly interested in science and space, we will stay on the edge of our seats during the entire three hour movie, afraid to get up to go to the restroom for fear of missing anything!

Let's face it - the general public doesn't give a rat's a#s about science and discovery. It is sad, but it would be interesting to know the percentage of the world's population that actually find science and discovery interesting and exciting. I believe we are a very small fraction of that.

Don't mean to sound pessimistic here. Any differing opinions?