Pandora

A young woman's family is killed by mysterious forces, which results in her traveling to study with an uncle(?) at the space academy while figuring out what happened back home.

This low budget space faring adventure comes in low and crashes on the runway. Dialog is rough. Production values for a story set hundreds of years in the future aren't at a level to make a believable series. Effects look incredibly cheap. Wardrobe looks passable and futuristic in some scenes, but in other scenes, it looks like the cast shot in whatever they were wearing when they arrived on set. Overall, the series is so rough around the edges that it's surprising CW picked it up for broadcast.

Yet really good shows get cancelled all the time. TV companies are really unfair, and this should have never have been given a second season.

My first complaint is the acting its subpar, it feels to me like a Teen Series at best you better watch far from superior shows like The expanse or Dark matter.

2 the story: it is very basic for a first episode, not memorable, and nothing that seems really good enought to want me to see a second episode.

3- the Chemistry between the characters is a big zero to me. it feels artificial, charisma of characters is just not there, they need someone like at least for a main character thats gonna pull up the rest of the cast and im not seeying it here.

its like one of my buddy says if a character "X" dies and u would care? if u say no what does that tell u about the character ?? he or she feels insignificant... well thats how i feel with these characters.

4- the special FX, they feel like an old scifi from the 90s series on a very low budget. If only they had made em alot better i would understand and think; oh they put all the money into FX and invested zero into story telling or charismatic actors but thats not even the case here.

i might force myself to watch a second episode but my expectation very low.

I know its not fair to judge entire series by just one episode but if this is the kind of acting and direction we going to get for rest of the season then i am probably done right now. I found it hard to finish the first episode. Pandora is dead on arrival.

I just watched the first episode of this. I seems this is a lower budget offering. If you're watching the fantasy show The Outpost, it's of similar budget, in writing, production value, acting, direction and effects, but, sci-fi instead of fantasy.

It feels like a made for TV show, similar to how the old Xena, Hercules productions were all relatively lower budget shows, though, they were still worth watching.

It's too soon to say if this can be another Xena or Hercules as far as popularity, since we seem to expect and require a LOT more sophistication in story telling, set pieces, and everything else these days when we get spoiled by big budget productions like GoT, The Walking Dead, Star Trek Discovery, etc.

It's probably 1/2 a notch below The Orville in production value, but, The Orville doesn't take itself seriously while this feels like it wants to be more than it is.

I'll continue to give this one a chance. The Swamp Thing has a bigger budget, and I'm watching that, though, I'm putting an effort into trying to like it. I dunno. The whole Flash, Supergirl, Arrowverse formula works really well, and I love those shows even though they're low budget, but, i suspect this is less than half the budget of those per episode.

Eh, We'll see.

Recommendation: I think it's too soon to make a call on this. There are, however, tons of shows that've had far greater popularity, better writing, more likable characters, and production value that've gotten the axe almost right off. if you find you really love this show, don't invest too much, because I expect they're depending on the low budget as one of the selling factors for renewal, but, that might maybe not be enough.

I say give this show a chance to grow and develop, but, don't get married to it. It's something to watch and there's far worse on TV that needs to go away, but, can't ever seem to die, as well as far better shows that've wound up on the chopping block far too soon.