A Voice from the Other Side

The writers are grasping at straws with yet another useless and pointless episode, that not only does it add nothing to progress the narrative, but just keeps adding more questions to the already growing list of unanswered questions. All we have here is just more melodramatics, the addition to more repetitive characters that say and do the same nonsense, and the current already useless characters circling back to the same pointless nonsense. Aside from more boring characters and lack of narrative progression, this episode also had the bonus of adding more convoluted subplots and major plot holes. We're now half way through the second season, and there's barely a total of one hour of engaging and relative sci-fi progression. At this point, I'm getting irritated and annoyed with every wajo I hear.

Giving it a 6 just because the woman keeps running around with something that kills the aliens and won't hand it over to have a weapon for humans. Nobody is that stupid or selfish. Also we have these aliens which are unstoppable but they stay at one point and don't overrun every human settlement? Or free the stranded ship?

I am no sure yet of the aliens intentions but it sure look like they wanted to terraform so what is holding them back so much they are clearly more advanced or capable than what is dragged out. The humans have way too much time on their hand now for study and counter reactions.

Well, this episode finally started to piece together many of the disparate aspects that we've bemoaned were drawn out and incoherent, ever since the first series. There are aspects shown in Episode 5 which would require you to recall the very first episode of series 1 with Sam Neill's character and his brief appearance. Poked by an alien appendage, he's assumed dead but now we see some hint that this may not be the case and in fact the mothership may well be taking visitors.

We also, and it's hard to believe I'm writing this, but we're also seeing the first communication with these visitors after 15 episodes and they speak our language. Imagine that. The humans could have taken a leaf out of Amy Adam's character in Arrival and tried communication at the outset.

The billionaire egoist is still annoying and his presence adds nothing but to drag the whole thing down, although his looks are probably his greatest charm. Likewise, the ongoing sub-story of our wandering family and sleuthing soldier is interminably drawn out and frustrating, particularly as the pace keeps shifting from what has become a somewhat compelling storyline with Mitsuki and her attempts to understand and communicate with the aliens, versus these padded, filler, sub-plot wanderings. They are however starting to tie all of that together and in that respect it helps one to forgive what's gone before to some degree.

There may well be redemption in this series yet and this is the most interesting episode so far, but it's one episode good, one bad, so let's wait and see.

On season 2_episode 5: same as season 1, though, my wish was granted and I got to see the bright, daring, tenacious and lovely Mitsuki, the only one out there with a scientific and academic background that I like and respect.

Other than that, a little subpar season in comparison with season 1, with the same nonsense with Aneesha and her family and acquaintance, some lengthy dragging scenes and episodes with the British kids and an ending that is worse than the whole season.

Time to cancel the show. This time and this series, really.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 5.5
• Development: 7.5
• Realism: 6.5
• Entertainment: 6
• Acting: 6.5
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 7.5
• VFX: 8
• Music/score/sound: 7
• Depth: 7
• Logic: 2.5
• Flow: 6
• Drama/fantasy/sci-fi: 6.5
• Ending: 4.