They tried the same eye-rolling games in the nBSG "The Plan" movie, where they got a bunch of nobody extras to romp around nude, because they couldn't make Sackhoff, Helfer, and Park do it. If you can't deliver the real thing, don't bother with the smoke & mirrors. Tricia Helfer body double "nudity" is disappointing. I half expected Destro or Serpentor to show up on a mobile throne.ĭidn't care about the murder case, and frankly I forgot about it by the start of Night 2. The shadowy corporate sponsors with agents willing to commit casual murder (that all the employees are aware of) was also a little too much.the only way they could have gone more in-your-face was if they had the TC Group be a PMC. Literally, the whole payoff for the 50+ year project is suddenly (in the middle of the second episode) reduced to "Selectively breed smart people from 1963, wait a couple generations, and Instant Psychic Ubermensch!".
It's just that they obviously just tacked on the psychic child and the whole ending sequence. I liked the fact that it was a soul-crushingly cynical manipulation of several thousand people (2.5 generations or so) at some great cost to their lives, rather than the starry-eyed space fiction it was baited as. "Hey, guys.we're out of time! Anyone got an ending we can introduce, run through, and wrap up in 20 minutes or less?". Keep going.Įpisode 3-I see Syfy is definitely going to make this into a series. I have no faith in Syfy to do something smart with this, but I hope to be proven wrong.Įpisode 1-FUCK YOU syfy! You promised a space opera! Not some soap opera set on Earth! I don't want to see this shit anymore.Įpisode 2-Okay, you've caught my attention. I know Syfy sold it as "Mad Men" in space, but I think it's more akin to "Lost." Which the jury is still out to see if the writers are actually have an idea in mind, or if they're just going to write themselves into a corner, like Lost did, and NuBSG. Some of the stuff feels forced and like it's pandering, like the nudity and even the psychic stuff, but I feel like by the end it's come around. The story is and keeps getting intriguing with all the twists and turns it takes.
Overall the acting isn't bad, it's definitely better than what they've been putting out lately. I like the show after finishing the third episode, but I'm really disappointed it's not a space opera like Syfy has been marketing for the last several months.
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