Review by Kareneo

Opening scene, two sick guys growling gutterally at each other - yawn. Do not care. Boring. Next scene - guy on rocks watching ship arrive through dire and dour mist with ominous music. Yawn. Do not care. Boring. Next scene. Soldiers board wreck to check things out. Bash up some rotting dudes. Yawn. Boring. Do not care. So - how long do I have to wade through this tedium for the story to start? How long do I have to wait for the scriptwriters and the director to show me who to care about? Or will it be dirty men growling gutterally at each other for the rest of the journey? Of course, at some point they will introduce the young flawless Japanese beauty, and she will be a cookie-cutter 'strong female character', on her own journey to fight the patriarchy while being weepingly beautiful, but more growling, speaking to one another in low or gutteral voices, machinations, yawn yawn yawn, infinite yawn. The high ratings on this show can only be attributed to the visual beauty, the good settings, the good costumes, but beyond that it is more tedium from cookie-cutter writers, who mistake dark themes for intelligence. The emperor has no clothes. How endlessly tedious shows like this one get 8.6 star ratings will never cease to amaze me. Perhaps it is tweens watching a TV series for the first time or something - teens and tweens who have not yet learned how to say the lines before the actor says them, because it's all so predictable. Shame on you America for having so much money to make these series but putting zero effort into the writing and directing.