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I'm disappointed to find another reviewer already declared this the worst episode of sci fi they had ever seen. I've watched whatever I could from the Golden Age of the 60s/70s through to the 2020s... I've put up with bubblewrap aliens, detergent bottles dangling from strings masquerading as attack fleets... and yes, there were hits and misses, forgettable stories or daft premises. Until now, the honour of being the Worst Episode was a tie between Dr Who's "Orphan 55" and "The Timeless Children" for the dreadful eco-lecturing of the former and the fully-intentional legacy defilement of the latter.

But not now. Take a bow "How The Light Gets Lost". There is literally nothing redeeming about this episode. The plot doesn't advance one iota and instead there is a bizarre and tasteless aside into drug-fuelled sexual abandon into which even the ship's AI enthusiastically throws himself. I could at least understand the motivations for the Dr Who writers to script those two episodes even if I didn't agree with them. But how and why anyone signed off on this episode of sub-space-prawn in what was already a tough watch is completely beyond me. I actually felt sorry for the actors involved; some scenes must have been particularly demeaning and to no useful or worthy end.

Pretty good first half of the show. We don't get to see much back on Earth, an injured Erik takes his equally injured daughter Jana to a medical tent. Why there isn't already helicopters on the ground to do med-evac for someone as important as the secretary of defense I don't know.

In space, love is in the air or is it drugs? A pretty hilarious event unfolds as Sasha gets everyone in the crew but him and Beecham stoned out of their mind on magic alien forest leaf dressing on their salad. The crew hallucinate in a variety of ways, and I loved the eclectic disco scene courtesy of William. Bernie and Zane end up making out- didn't see that one coming- and August gets together with Oliver and Javier, while Niko gets intimate with an Erik version of William. To me, the scenes weren't all that racy to qualify even a soft porn, there are some very brief scenes of backsides but this doesn't even begin to approach the level of a Starz production.

Later a still buzzed Cass decides to terrorize Beecham on the bridge, while the infected Sasha, still being followed around by alpha Sasha erupts in anger at poor Oliver for his inability to shut own William and destroy the Salvare because it is a planet killing threat. They spare us the eyeball drill again, thankfully. How someone can be bothered by a bit of skin but not the idea of an eyeball drill is beyond me.

On earth Erik is greeted by General Dubois asking about Jana. Tragically we learn that the artifact has somehow given his daughter leukemia. Tell me it aint so Joe! Furious Erik goes to scream and rant at the artifact over his daughters cancer when suddenly it opens back up and an injured Harper Glass emerges.

Finally on the Salvare, crew find an unconscious Oliver laying in the hallway. Sasha arrives on the bridge (intro scene) and sees William glitching out. William seems to be in agony of some kind and allows Sasha to talk him into shutting down for him to reboot. With William shut down, the bridge stops erupting in sparks, and Sasha smiles at alpha Sasha. He then proceeds to completely deactivate AI shutting William down for good for now. It doesn't take the crew long to smell a rat, and they soon discover that the laced salad was intended purposefully and not a mistake. August gets trapped in the airlock, while everyone learns that Sasha has a guest in his brain courtesy of Zayne's recycle bin. Niko rushes to the sealed off bridge just as Sasha brings the eyeball drill to bear on poor Beecham.

Great cliffhanger and just the right amount of stress. A lot of drama too as well as some pretty fun scenes this time. How people are not entertained is again, beyond me. I enjoyed this episode and even the previous was pretty good. I feel that given half a chance this show could be much more watchable if given time to develop more. Tell me, what show has ever been perfect in it's first season? Better writing of course would do this show and countless others a truckload of good. This is bound to happen however when audiences ooh and awe over tons of expensive films with massive CGI budget but with stupid and shallow plots that don't require too much thinking. Little wonder that all the super hero movies have done so well.

I think this is more for fans of Sackoff from BSG and those of us old enough to have lived through the real nightmare of sci fi with actually horrible movies like "Saturn 3", or the extremely stupid although fan favorite "Ice Pirates." -As for the haters out there. Just delete this. Wipe it from your memory. It shouldn't be too hard for you.

I mean, I've seen a LOT of bad scifi on TV ie, Helix, Under the Dome, Defiance and many many others. But this show and this particular episode gets, at least in my view, the prize for The Worst Episode EVER in a TV series! It's an aberration! There's not a single human being with a rational behavior in the entire cast. An AI falls in love with the captain??? C'mon!!! The Aliens can send an Mega Ship to Earth and wait months to comunicate with humans but they don't have the technology to defend themselves and obliterate a Blender without having to sabotage it??? Oh, (this is new) and have to enter the mind of one of the crew members? What about the drug scene? What about the smuggled Vodca in the most important mission of the humankind??? There are so many wrong things in this show, in so many levels that Netflix will be downgrade many points in my book. We all should have a "Kill Another Life TV show" campaign. It's so so sad.

I really thought I was hating on the seemingly obligatory diversity but the more I watch it, like the Expanse, the trans, homo, hetero and questionable (meaning all else I haven't identified) relationships are ok. As a hetero man, I wanted to think at first that it was obligatory, but it's growing on me as I see the characters true identities. I think that is what society is looking for is the acceptance and the immersion of non traditional characters. I say, just give it time since sometimes it takes a while for everyone to loosen up their grip on their expected standard characters and see the characters for who they are.

Let's just hope the writing proceeds in their favor from here on out.