When I watched the first few episodes, I was surprised it managed to get a rating as high as 4.7 (the rating at the time of writing).
Katee Sackhoff is the one redeeming feature throughout.
****There will be spoilers ahead****
So let's get the bad things out of the way first:
1) The crew of this ship are totally unbelievable. This is a critical mission for humanity, yet the crew behave more like high school teen's than highly qualified experts.
2) The ships second in command seems unstable, mutinies and puts the entire mission at risk. Surely any space mission would also require psychological screening to weed out unsuitable candidates.
3) The script doesn't really generate any empathy for the characters. So when some characters die, you don't really care. And there's no real impact anyway, as there seems to be an entire 'backup' crew held in suspended animation or deep sleep - so when someone dies, they just defrost another crew member.
4) Much of the show revolves around sex in some episodes. I'm no prude, but it seems out of place.
And the good:
1) The scripts get better - but probably too late for many who've given up watching. I found the show started improving by episode 5.
2) The story becomes more relevant in the last couple of episodes, when we actually find out what the aliens intentions are.
----------Summary----------
If you ignore the first half of the season, it starts to show some promise.
Problem is, by then it's probably too late, as many will have stopped watching.
My honest advice - watch the first few minutes of episode 1 to see what's happening. Then skip to the final few episodes and see what happens.
As it is, this seemed like a very very long trailer for a possible second season that will probably never happen now.
Come on Netflix. Many of your originals show promise, yet seem to be let down by poor scripts.
A shame, as while this was probably never going to be a scifi classic, it could have been so much better.
Katee Sackhoff is the one redeeming feature throughout.
****There will be spoilers ahead****
So let's get the bad things out of the way first:
1) The crew of this ship are totally unbelievable. This is a critical mission for humanity, yet the crew behave more like high school teen's than highly qualified experts.
2) The ships second in command seems unstable, mutinies and puts the entire mission at risk. Surely any space mission would also require psychological screening to weed out unsuitable candidates.
3) The script doesn't really generate any empathy for the characters. So when some characters die, you don't really care. And there's no real impact anyway, as there seems to be an entire 'backup' crew held in suspended animation or deep sleep - so when someone dies, they just defrost another crew member.
4) Much of the show revolves around sex in some episodes. I'm no prude, but it seems out of place.
And the good:
1) The scripts get better - but probably too late for many who've given up watching. I found the show started improving by episode 5.
2) The story becomes more relevant in the last couple of episodes, when we actually find out what the aliens intentions are.
----------Summary----------
If you ignore the first half of the season, it starts to show some promise.
Problem is, by then it's probably too late, as many will have stopped watching.
My honest advice - watch the first few minutes of episode 1 to see what's happening. Then skip to the final few episodes and see what happens.
As it is, this seemed like a very very long trailer for a possible second season that will probably never happen now.
Come on Netflix. Many of your originals show promise, yet seem to be let down by poor scripts.
A shame, as while this was probably never going to be a scifi classic, it could have been so much better.
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