Point of Origin

We're all the same, no matter where we are from, why can't we all get along?

Cool, it almost screams this at you, then there is a further 25 minutes left to watch.

This entire season seems to be so very heavy handed in its social and political messages, almost makes you feel as though you, as the audience, are being treated like a dumb dumb.

Which I'm not, my mum said I'm the smarterrest boy in skewl.

Now expoos me as I'm off for a cup of toast.

Good day sir!

What could have been a great episode is ruined by yet another heavy handed message, this time immigration gets it's turn

I'm late to the party in watching the New TZ, but I have to agree with most who say the writing is flat and shows are way too long. Point of Origin was the most tolerable of the S1 episodes I've watched, but the story just went on and on long after the point had been made. This would have been OK if we were being led to a Serling-like ending twist, but alas, the story just ran its course and ended. Of course, the only message the writers cared to get across was "Anti-Immigration" attitudes are bad. It's really quite sad that they have so little a grip on the economic realities of immigration control.

Again another PC episode. The show needs to cool down a bit. Trying to take current issues and make sci-fi stories out of them. However there were too many questions leftover and so for me this story didn't feel complete. Nevertheless it was still an interesting idea.

This felt like the original series. The first quarter of the episode felt like they were going to go all preachy about immigration and the rich versus the poor, but they managed to move it in a direction that made a more universal point about people in general. Everyone is a stranger to everyone, and sometimes even themselves.