The reviews have been quite harsh and overly much so. It's almost seems like a conspiratorial vendetta. Admittedly, the show isn't great; but it's not terrible. Since it's on Syfy, the budget was likely a constraint. The sets and props look plasticky and flimsy, not the solid and tactile look of, say, Alien. It sort of looks toy-like. And the opening was reminiscent of a Saturday morning live-action show.
Nevertheless, the concept of a fleet of Arks exploring known space is intriguing, but not original. It has the potential to have several, intersecting storylines as the show tells the story of other Arks.
As for not being original, that's true. It has the feel of a YA novel, so it's not going to satisfy people over 20. It's good for someone 10 to 15 despite a few mild curses and a slightly provocative shower scene.
The show is chock full of cliched characters such as the vapid blond narcissistic Valley girl type, glasses-wearing, overly talkative geeky types, a glib sinister type, and a navigator with a charming brogue. It's a mishmash of Harry Potter, Lost in Space, Space 1999, Starlost, and those post Armageddon shows from the 1970s. The writing, characters and sets are at about that level, except for Starlost, by Harlan Ellison, and Space 1999, which both had good dialog.
The characters seem out of place in a dead serious mission, but is expected for a YA story; and girls who must save the day is a must have. There's a gratuitously condescending scene between Garnet and Brice. "Nobody stepped up." Uh, no. All three lieutenants are pulling their weight. Again, "What the hell did you do?" Uh, the navigator put the ship back on course. So, quite a bit. Writers have this fetish of women grinding their heels into a man's manhood. Those aspects make it harder for me to take the show seriously. Also, it seems like it's going to be a bit of Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys mystery.
So if you're a junior high schooler, or a gender studies major, you might like this. I'm going to watch the next episode anyway. I want to know a whole bunch of stuff that didn't make sense: what damaged the ship, how compressed suits compensate for muscle atrophy, why they couldn't access command overrides to unlock the doors and flight logs, why a leak plunged the O2 levels but went back to normal even before repair, why they weren't warned of falling O2 until 18.2%, why the geodomes were't already growing plants to scrub the air, why they need hyper sleep if the journey is only six years, and why they haven't already used ftl to shorten the time. Since they have artificial gravity, they could've been minding the ship, training, learning, rehearsing, and exercising before arrival.
Nevertheless, the concept of a fleet of Arks exploring known space is intriguing, but not original. It has the potential to have several, intersecting storylines as the show tells the story of other Arks.
As for not being original, that's true. It has the feel of a YA novel, so it's not going to satisfy people over 20. It's good for someone 10 to 15 despite a few mild curses and a slightly provocative shower scene.
The show is chock full of cliched characters such as the vapid blond narcissistic Valley girl type, glasses-wearing, overly talkative geeky types, a glib sinister type, and a navigator with a charming brogue. It's a mishmash of Harry Potter, Lost in Space, Space 1999, Starlost, and those post Armageddon shows from the 1970s. The writing, characters and sets are at about that level, except for Starlost, by Harlan Ellison, and Space 1999, which both had good dialog.
The characters seem out of place in a dead serious mission, but is expected for a YA story; and girls who must save the day is a must have. There's a gratuitously condescending scene between Garnet and Brice. "Nobody stepped up." Uh, no. All three lieutenants are pulling their weight. Again, "What the hell did you do?" Uh, the navigator put the ship back on course. So, quite a bit. Writers have this fetish of women grinding their heels into a man's manhood. Those aspects make it harder for me to take the show seriously. Also, it seems like it's going to be a bit of Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys mystery.
So if you're a junior high schooler, or a gender studies major, you might like this. I'm going to watch the next episode anyway. I want to know a whole bunch of stuff that didn't make sense: what damaged the ship, how compressed suits compensate for muscle atrophy, why they couldn't access command overrides to unlock the doors and flight logs, why a leak plunged the O2 levels but went back to normal even before repair, why they weren't warned of falling O2 until 18.2%, why the geodomes were't already growing plants to scrub the air, why they need hyper sleep if the journey is only six years, and why they haven't already used ftl to shorten the time. Since they have artificial gravity, they could've been minding the ship, training, learning, rehearsing, and exercising before arrival.
