Through the Valley of Shadows

As none of my friends were foolish enough to watch this past episode one, I feel the need to review to properly share the contempt and horror I feel for this production.

This second episode improves nothing over the first.

Again, the crew are completely unlikable and shockingly insubordinate. Again, every single person manages to disobey the most minor orders attempting to keep them alive without a single valid reason to do so. There remain massive science errors any technical adviser should have caught.

At this point, the best hope for all of humanity is probably for William to vent the atmosphere and handle the mission himself.

Episode 2 picks up where the pilot left off. The now damaged ship is running low on oxygen so the crew must source it somewhere close to their position in space in order to survive. Back on earth Erik & his team make little headway trying to figure out the purpose of the terrestrial alien that seems to mimic music.

To me, this episode felt right out of Star Trek Enterprise. A crew that has not yet melded together, a great unknown and of course danger everywhere. A new addition makes an appearance. I can understand why folks might be frustrated at this point.

I will agree with some that the crew is questionably assembled. For being supposedly military organization, or perhaps more fittingly the science arm of a military organization it seems to me that it would have been easier for some folks if they had gone with uniforms and military style space command, but perhaps they were trying to break away from shows like that which have already been done plenty.

Sure I have lots of questions, some of which should have been answered already like what year is it, and who or what William actually is. Some of us however like mysteries we have to solve for ourselves and do not appreciate nor need every detail spoon fed to us. I for one am going to soldier on and keep watching. No show is ever perfect in its first few episodes. At this point I will say without spoiling anything that if they go in the direction where the end of this episode seems to lead, I will be very disappointed.

Others have questioned the validity of the science, and rightly so. I have just one question or maybe two. Is there traveling faster than light how were they able to communicate? Some unknown subspace channel like Stargate? And traveling faster than light as far as they are going how old will her daughter be when she gets back? The same age as her mom?

Is because all remaining viewers did not care about the ridiculousness and errors in science and space technology.. nor were they bothered by the terrible dialogues and childish behaviour of the crew. At least after the mid section bullying the commander I decided to leave this series for good.

The first show I reviewed and slated it, but I must confess it's growing on me. Despite the actors being totally annoying and over made up there is the bones for a good sci fi series. What won't grow on me is the unprofessionalism of a team of astronauts sent to save the world, put a uniform on and say yes sir.