... They finally killed what's her name!!! She suuuuuuuucked so much. Seriously tho every time she was on screen was painful. Most of the characters are obnoxious and annoying but she was by far the worst.
9 Reviews
Just when you think you couldn'r get lamer
amexspam17 August 2019
For starters, in this and every other episode Jessica Camacho's character only has a ten word vocabulary and her script must require the f-bomb to begin them - swearing is ridiculously often for what the crew is supposed to be. The series overuses flashbacks in trying to create dramatic affect, but it is simply annoying. And, as happened here, you'll have a tense scene when all attention should be focused on the crisis on hand, but in the middle the characters will try to an emotional catharsis. As others have said, this series should be called whiny millennials in space/
Off structure and drifting
Hillius4 August 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Another pretty decent episode. I can't help but worry this is due to the talents of director Mairzee Almas who also directed the previous show as well. When shows use too many directors it can sometimes skew episode quality up and down depending on who is up to bat when. Almas at least is a veteran director with some experience to her name. Sadly the same cannot be said for the writing team.
This episode begins with Niko in space, untethered floating away from the Salvare as it leaves her behind. The crew are still trying to do damage control from the previous show's fire. William is still non functional and everyone argues.
Things appear awkward between August, Oliver and Javier while Sasha is actually doing some work helping clean the ship. As predicted August finds the fried baby Moon Spider stowaway from last episode that has caused some problems.
Alone Cas and Michelle have a chat including covering the conversation between Cas and Niko of the previous installment and reminisce about previous history. While an attempt to restore William causes him to malfunction and initiate the "Go Home Protocol." Couldn't they think of a better name than that? This is what you get with a team of writers who have less than 15 credits of experience. I cannot help but imagine what this show might've been in the hands of much much better writers.
Anyway the creatively called Go Home Protocol causes the ship to separate between command and crew quarters and supplies. Without the other half of the ship the crew will die without food and water. They have 30 minutes to re-couple the ship, but one of the clamps malfunction
Niko doesn't have a savior complex. Up to this point no one else on the ship seems capable of doing anything so once again it is up to her to save the day. She heads out in a shuttle, but must perform a spacewalk in order to fix the clamp. This causes the ship to shudder which should have been anticipated. Instead the shudder causes Niko to lose grip and her tether line detaches from carabiner style safety clips and off she floats into space.
In a flashback montage we get to see how Niko first met Cas. She was kidnapped by some Latino organization for ransom and Cas was their supervisor. During the scene we get to learn that Cas was extremely smart and had a few ideas about advanced space travel. This ends with a paid ransom and Niko giving Cas her contact information. The most friendly kidnapping ever.
Meanwhile Michelle votes in favor of abandoning Niko, but Cas shuts her down brutal style telling her what we've all been thinking the past many episodes. The Salvare returns with Cas trying to find Niko. During a thermal search Niko manages to leak some O2 into space and then somehow uses a spark to ignite it alerting the crew to her position. Why the O2 leak didn't send her spinning off on a new trajectory I can't say. I guess that physics are optional depending on the needs of the scene in question. Alive, but hypothermic Niko is rescued and brought back aboard.
Jake Abel (Sasha) gets a chance to expand his range by playing a stressed out, sleep deprived character hounded by a stronger version of himself who wants control. Zane talks him into allowing a CT scan to see if there's anything wrong. Later we learn (again as predicted) that Sasha has some kind of creature in his brain, and that he deletes the results of the CT to hide this fact from Zane and the others.
As much as I hate the writing in this series so far I do love the term "exotic matter containment unit." I think I shall use this term to refer to septic tanks from now on. This unit is responsible for storing matter used for FTL travel and because of the fire this unit is now overcharging and building up to blow.
Michelle gets there first, but before she can do anything the control panel is damaged. With no time to wait for Cas to arrive she completely goes against character and enters the chamber. In order to prevent detonation she must remove tubes connected to the unit in order to power it down. Unfortunately doing so releases exotic matter which decomposes organic matter on the atomic level. Each one released causes harm to Michelle and finally she removes enough to power down the unit. Unfortunately she has also just gone full on Spock and committed suicide in doing so. Cas makes it to her just before she dies, promising her she will let everyone know what a hero Michelle is.
It is difficult to feel to badly here. I feel sorry for her fellow crew, but she was just such an unlovable character with no redeeming features it is not a huge overall loss. Perhaps this is why they wrote her character that way. It is easier not to miss someone when they were nothing but a major pain. It really seems like a cheap trick. Make an unlikable character to kill off so that way no one need feel bad when a likeable one croaks off. I'd like to think viewers are made of stronger stuff than that, but in reading some of what passes for "reviews" these days I am not all that convinced anyone is anymore. Besides, not to worry! With this format when one character dies, you can simply wake a new one up from Soma. Who will be mystery guest on the next episode?
This episode begins with Niko in space, untethered floating away from the Salvare as it leaves her behind. The crew are still trying to do damage control from the previous show's fire. William is still non functional and everyone argues.
Things appear awkward between August, Oliver and Javier while Sasha is actually doing some work helping clean the ship. As predicted August finds the fried baby Moon Spider stowaway from last episode that has caused some problems.
Alone Cas and Michelle have a chat including covering the conversation between Cas and Niko of the previous installment and reminisce about previous history. While an attempt to restore William causes him to malfunction and initiate the "Go Home Protocol." Couldn't they think of a better name than that? This is what you get with a team of writers who have less than 15 credits of experience. I cannot help but imagine what this show might've been in the hands of much much better writers.
Anyway the creatively called Go Home Protocol causes the ship to separate between command and crew quarters and supplies. Without the other half of the ship the crew will die without food and water. They have 30 minutes to re-couple the ship, but one of the clamps malfunction
Niko doesn't have a savior complex. Up to this point no one else on the ship seems capable of doing anything so once again it is up to her to save the day. She heads out in a shuttle, but must perform a spacewalk in order to fix the clamp. This causes the ship to shudder which should have been anticipated. Instead the shudder causes Niko to lose grip and her tether line detaches from carabiner style safety clips and off she floats into space.
In a flashback montage we get to see how Niko first met Cas. She was kidnapped by some Latino organization for ransom and Cas was their supervisor. During the scene we get to learn that Cas was extremely smart and had a few ideas about advanced space travel. This ends with a paid ransom and Niko giving Cas her contact information. The most friendly kidnapping ever.
Meanwhile Michelle votes in favor of abandoning Niko, but Cas shuts her down brutal style telling her what we've all been thinking the past many episodes. The Salvare returns with Cas trying to find Niko. During a thermal search Niko manages to leak some O2 into space and then somehow uses a spark to ignite it alerting the crew to her position. Why the O2 leak didn't send her spinning off on a new trajectory I can't say. I guess that physics are optional depending on the needs of the scene in question. Alive, but hypothermic Niko is rescued and brought back aboard.
Jake Abel (Sasha) gets a chance to expand his range by playing a stressed out, sleep deprived character hounded by a stronger version of himself who wants control. Zane talks him into allowing a CT scan to see if there's anything wrong. Later we learn (again as predicted) that Sasha has some kind of creature in his brain, and that he deletes the results of the CT to hide this fact from Zane and the others.
As much as I hate the writing in this series so far I do love the term "exotic matter containment unit." I think I shall use this term to refer to septic tanks from now on. This unit is responsible for storing matter used for FTL travel and because of the fire this unit is now overcharging and building up to blow.
Michelle gets there first, but before she can do anything the control panel is damaged. With no time to wait for Cas to arrive she completely goes against character and enters the chamber. In order to prevent detonation she must remove tubes connected to the unit in order to power it down. Unfortunately doing so releases exotic matter which decomposes organic matter on the atomic level. Each one released causes harm to Michelle and finally she removes enough to power down the unit. Unfortunately she has also just gone full on Spock and committed suicide in doing so. Cas makes it to her just before she dies, promising her she will let everyone know what a hero Michelle is.
It is difficult to feel to badly here. I feel sorry for her fellow crew, but she was just such an unlovable character with no redeeming features it is not a huge overall loss. Perhaps this is why they wrote her character that way. It is easier not to miss someone when they were nothing but a major pain. It really seems like a cheap trick. Make an unlikable character to kill off so that way no one need feel bad when a likeable one croaks off. I'd like to think viewers are made of stronger stuff than that, but in reading some of what passes for "reviews" these days I am not all that convinced anyone is anymore. Besides, not to worry! With this format when one character dies, you can simply wake a new one up from Soma. Who will be mystery guest on the next episode?
Yay
molvich29 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Well the show and the writing remain terrible. I mean, almost unspeakably bad.
Although, in a way, things start to make sense now. If all of this ship were recruited from street gangs it explains a lot.
Perhaps this is actually like suicide squad, a crew of the worst people in the fleet under the biggest screw-up of a Captain. Perhaps, out there, the real ship carries on while this one is some sort of distraction.
At least one of these terrible people died this episode. I can't stop laughing.
At least one of these terrible people died this episode. I can't stop laughing.
Here am I floating outside my tin can
nebilcs-168-16529817 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Oxygen burns in a vacuum, apparently.
Also, exotic matter which destroys organic matter "on an atomic level" permits sufficient time to deliver a moving final few sentences despite the fact most of it would first have attacked the lungs what with all that yelling and shouting. Definitely no time for a poignant closing speech. It would have been far more effective had the body just been found as the puddle it ended up - which would also answer the question of why, if the exotic matter was still actively digesting its victim, it didn't transfer to the first responder.
The spoiling of a reasonable premise with very decent sets and high production values by providing it with a teen drama script, inconsistent science and unlikeable characters having emotional breakdowns every 5 minutes is almost criminal.
Also, exotic matter which destroys organic matter "on an atomic level" permits sufficient time to deliver a moving final few sentences despite the fact most of it would first have attacked the lungs what with all that yelling and shouting. Definitely no time for a poignant closing speech. It would have been far more effective had the body just been found as the puddle it ended up - which would also answer the question of why, if the exotic matter was still actively digesting its victim, it didn't transfer to the first responder.
The spoiling of a reasonable premise with very decent sets and high production values by providing it with a teen drama script, inconsistent science and unlikeable characters having emotional breakdowns every 5 minutes is almost criminal.
Writing is terrible
kcrateau4 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This show is so strange. I see the reviews go way up in season 2 which is the ONLY reason I'm pushing through season 1. This episode was a real doozy tho. So cliched. Leave a guy alone by an alien object -"nothing will happen I swear" = "something happens and now he's the bad guy". Whiniest character ever dies doing something (I don't even know because I skipped ahead to see her randomly unplugging stuff to save the ship) and two people call her "fearless"??!! She was the most afraid of EVERYTHING. A fart onboard made her fly of into a crazed lunacy of fear.
I'm sticking with this because I like sci-fi and love Katie Sackhoff not really from BSG but actually Longmire, but season 2 better pay off.
I'm sticking with this because I like sci-fi and love Katie Sackhoff not really from BSG but actually Longmire, but season 2 better pay off.
one scene, 30 seconds for all 20! eps added together... Action!
ru48616 October 2021
Our Captain reminisces back to the time she was kidnapped and held for ransom. By the Second in Command. Before they got on this spaceship. To another solar system.
Now, I know that doesn't make any sense but it is accurate. Let me try again.
So, like the person in charge of our spaceship you know, to an alien civilization, is also a kidnapping victim (could you believe?), in a Another Life. Like, you know, years ago. And so now like, the 'KnR' specialist (you know KnR, right, yea) is like an officer now, high up you know like, on the bridge of the person they kidnapped years earlier. Yea, no, that doesn't likely make sense either.
Someone on a ship was kidnapped by someone else who is also in this ship. That, that... Yes, that's how we can make sense of this tripe.
Now, I know that doesn't make any sense but it is accurate. Let me try again.
So, like the person in charge of our spaceship you know, to an alien civilization, is also a kidnapping victim (could you believe?), in a Another Life. Like, you know, years ago. And so now like, the 'KnR' specialist (you know KnR, right, yea) is like an officer now, high up you know like, on the bridge of the person they kidnapped years earlier. Yea, no, that doesn't likely make sense either.
Someone on a ship was kidnapped by someone else who is also in this ship. That, that... Yes, that's how we can make sense of this tripe.
So figure your way outta this one
kiwired519 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Well stone the crows! Writing this review as I watch Episode 6 and good grief Charlie Brown. Does anyone on this ship know how to Astronaut properly?
Even Lister from Red Dwarf is a better space cadet than these plonkers. If you think that 7 minutes to dock a shuttle, get changed into a space suit and then space walk to fix a docking clamp, then you deserve to be left behind when the ship jumps to ludicrous speed.
And there is no way on earth, the universe or infinite multiplex that you can turn the ship around, manually pilot it back under FTL drive and then try and find your Space Captain.
If you're going to do space sci-fi in near earth future then do it properly. Even Star Wars is more scientifically accurate.
Even Lister from Red Dwarf is a better space cadet than these plonkers. If you think that 7 minutes to dock a shuttle, get changed into a space suit and then space walk to fix a docking clamp, then you deserve to be left behind when the ship jumps to ludicrous speed.
And there is no way on earth, the universe or infinite multiplex that you can turn the ship around, manually pilot it back under FTL drive and then try and find your Space Captain.
If you're going to do space sci-fi in near earth future then do it properly. Even Star Wars is more scientifically accurate.
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