scottwallvashon

This show is depressing, claustrophobic, and cliché. It has an assortment of characters and plot elements borrowed from other plays and shows.

There is the disillusioned war hero that decides to sign on as sheriff. There is Lady Macbeth. There is the great leader that doubts her abilities. Of course, there is Romeo and Juliet.

The show centers on a rebuilt town trying to hold its own against a fallen and desperate world. That is the claustrophobic part.

And the whole show is, no doubt, filled with contemporary liberal morality. "We must learn to accept diversity in a new world where everyone is an immigrant." Not that they really are. That is just what we are supposed to accept. Never mind that the newly diverse crowd has destroyed the environment and left civilization in ruin.

I miss shows like Star Trek that centered on a positive future that is moving forward. This show features a world hopelessly lost in the middle ages. Please, no more remakes of Mad Max!

This is pretentious faux deep nonsense. It was designed so that pretentious faux deep pseudo intellectuals could watch it, then sit around, smoke cigarettes, and say pretentious faux deep things. The things they say will be gibberish, but they and their pretentious faux deep friends can pretend that they have meaning so that they feel sophisticated. Many of us knew them in college. I think a Saturday Night Live skit was made about these sorts of people featuring Catherine Zeta-Jones, but I can't recall the exact episode.

I heard that this was intelligent science fiction. It wasn't. It had a pinch of vague stereotypical psi phenomena so that it could jump genres, but the psi had nothing to do with the plot. I waded through the whole thing hoping that there would eventually be some point. There wasn't. It was just the same old annoying and sometimes creepy sexual tension and promiscuity mixed with a lot of emoting and confusion.

I would give this movie one star, but that would be unfair since the acting was reasonably good. It's not the actors' fault they got dragged into this thing. They probably needed the work. The actors deserve some small concession.