Sometimes, a series can seem bad but still pull me in to watch. This was one.
It sort of felt very 'manafactured'. Like a couple industry people had decided they want to make a sci-fi series, so just make one up and go. Not a lot of heart.
But it was very good in some ways. The special effects in particular, and bits - some storylines, some characters. Acting was generally pretty good.
But an example of the artificial feel was the season was where the leader Tom told the camp 'find their rage'.
This had 'some writer came up with the idea and forced it all over the season' all over it. Episodes would have things that seemed created just to use the theme.
A pet peeve, though. Or two.
One was when they decided to start killing women off near the end, purely to try to increase the drama they added pregnancy to it, gratuitously.
First, the long going relationship with I think her name was Sarah and the Hans Solo type. She was a pretty good character but hey let's have some drama and kill her.
So, out of nowhere she and the guy started going on and on about her desire to have kids, talking about how they were now planning to do so. Minutes later, she's trapped, to motivate the conflict between the guy and Tom they create a pretty absurd dilemma where Tom has to choose not to save Sarah and gets the blame for killing her. One gratuitous use of pregnancy this way is bad. Two is terrible.
Next up soon after, time to kill off Tom's wife for no reason at all.
So, what does she tell him minutes before? She's pregnant! Increase the drama!
Then the series finale - won't spoil it here but could it have been more cliched and artificial?
There was enough good to keep me watching, but it was a bad aftertaste the whole time.
Maybe any show has 'good and bad' but the type of bad on this one was a bit grating with the types of flaws. The pain by numbers feel to it.
I guess as an analogy I think of the Monkees. You might get a song of theirs stuck in your head but you realize you don't really think it's good music.
It sort of felt very 'manafactured'. Like a couple industry people had decided they want to make a sci-fi series, so just make one up and go. Not a lot of heart.
But it was very good in some ways. The special effects in particular, and bits - some storylines, some characters. Acting was generally pretty good.
But an example of the artificial feel was the season was where the leader Tom told the camp 'find their rage'.
This had 'some writer came up with the idea and forced it all over the season' all over it. Episodes would have things that seemed created just to use the theme.
A pet peeve, though. Or two.
One was when they decided to start killing women off near the end, purely to try to increase the drama they added pregnancy to it, gratuitously.
First, the long going relationship with I think her name was Sarah and the Hans Solo type. She was a pretty good character but hey let's have some drama and kill her.
So, out of nowhere she and the guy started going on and on about her desire to have kids, talking about how they were now planning to do so. Minutes later, she's trapped, to motivate the conflict between the guy and Tom they create a pretty absurd dilemma where Tom has to choose not to save Sarah and gets the blame for killing her. One gratuitous use of pregnancy this way is bad. Two is terrible.
Next up soon after, time to kill off Tom's wife for no reason at all.
So, what does she tell him minutes before? She's pregnant! Increase the drama!
Then the series finale - won't spoil it here but could it have been more cliched and artificial?
There was enough good to keep me watching, but it was a bad aftertaste the whole time.
Maybe any show has 'good and bad' but the type of bad on this one was a bit grating with the types of flaws. The pain by numbers feel to it.
I guess as an analogy I think of the Monkees. You might get a song of theirs stuck in your head but you realize you don't really think it's good music.
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