Something's Changed

This show has had such a long time off aire, it took a bit to remember the season 1

The beginning felt like a 1979's Godzilla show. Very cheesy by todays standards.

But as the show warmed up it became quite good.

I also think this episode was a great restart to the show because the more interesting characters were showcased.

I really like the Asian girls plot, character, etc. It is always interesting and full of the cutting age suspense.

The Pharise mom with the kids is another good grouping. The son was a little over annoying. But that is on par for the age. And I really really loved the sequence introducing the rebel group.

I love sci-fi films and TV programs. My understanding as a someone who has no science background other than what I read or see on YoutTube, is that any species that is capable of traveling x numbers of light years to reach our beloved Earth is they would be so technologically advanced that they may likely see us the way we view ants. I am not even convinced interstellar travel is possible by living beings due to the great distances between star systems. Even so I watched this program for its entertainment value. If aliens arrive, and that's unlikely, it will be unfortunately a disaster for humanity and perhaps many other species as well if they decide to strip mine the planet for resources. Lucky for us intelligent life may be exceptionally rare even in a cosmos of billions of planetary systems. Thank you Fermi Paradox! Let's hope we don't encounter the Great Filter of self destruction or natural disaster.

Don't get me wrong I feel like season one got abit too much hate, but I do agree that it kinda didn't know what it was doing. The thing I loved was the character building, there isn't a character I don't like.

Now season 2 starts and I'm expecting similar but wow !!

The progression in just this first episode is more than we had all last season. Characters are even better and the action is so much better. I just hope they can keep this momentum going cause if they do this could be a great sci-fi show.

Here's hoping people give it a second chance and go into this season with no expectations .

The first season started interesting but then rapidly went downhill. By the end I, like so many others, was rooting for the aliens.

The beginning of the second season has plumbed all new lows. This is incredible, and the thought that so many millions went towards such a busted, turgid product is just such a waste. Burning the money in a bonfire would have been a better use.

Characters that you just *hate*. Portrayals that are so D-grade they boggle (the portrayal of purported Canadian military members -- who strangely had Southern US accents, though this was in the "deserts of British Columbia", so expectations weren't high -- was cartoonish). Situations that...there is no way serious professionals are involved with this, right?

The Mitsuki scene that starts the episode is so laughable that I was sure that she would wake up in a cold sweat. But it was actually sincere. Amazing.

Occasionally you see shows on IMDB where there are loads of suspicious reviews that look like cast and crew and their families, and this one easily takes the crown for that. Seeing the desperate high rating that quickly starts nosediving as actual normal, unbiased observers weigh in is fascinating.

Keep on telling your mom to call it a slow burn and give it a 10, cast and crew. You'll hold on for a while.

Much of the criticism of the first series was the drawn out drip-feeding of 10 episodes where nothing much happened except script errors and plot holes. And so, the last episode of the first series was actually the beginning of the story, "A New Dawn" they called it and left us hanging yet again.

Now that the second series is here, have we gotten the new dawn, not quite. It is better, with more action and special effects, set-pieces etc. But, they had established a rythym and tenor of story-type in the first series that is hard to escape to be frank. And so, we're faced with some more boring time fillers as our hapless little family scrape around to survive and get arrested etc. All very boring and pointless padding.

And, as a first episode of a new season you'd expect it to be full of captivation and hook people into the rest of the series, so it's annoying that they couldn't get away from their established pattern of rationed writing and direction for even the first episode. Annoying but hardly surprising given what went before.

The good parts were the slight pushing ahead with the story, but we're yet again seeing this unfold at a micro level, through disparate stories, rather than the macro view they left us with at the end of the first series ... Remember the huge spacecraft luring through the atmosphere? ... hardly mentioned at all.

We're instead led on a trip to the Amazon where the first mothership was downed by the power of a boy's mind alone(eye roll) and are introduced to megalomaniac billionaire, Kapoor (modelled on, take your pick of well known rich egoists) played by a British actor who for some reason seems to talk to everyone as if they're a newborn puppy and he seems to suffer from a kind of inflection-tourettes as his delivery places inflection and emphasis in all the wrong places, while he cajoles in an insipid, chidish way. This character doesn't work and is irritating beyond the patience of anyone reasonable or sane.

At the end of the first episode, we're left with not much more knowledge than we had at the end of the first series so their title "Something's Changed" seems oddly innacurate when precious little has actually changed.

It's a bit better, but as an introduction to the second season, this first episode doesn't hold much promise that the second season will correct the huge amount of negativity which the drip-feeding, padded first series evoked. [Update: It seems that Episode 2 has confirmed that suspicion and is a big nosedive compared to Episode 1.]

Let's hope we won't see people tearing their hair out after 5 episodes again, wondering why nothing much has happened.