This, upon being unfavourably impressed with "House", a little too predictable, the recommendation of my brother. 

There's really very little science in it, and quite a bit of fiction a space opera without the intriguing aliens, based on outdated ideas abut human nature and ideology, all these cable networks, reality TV, Disneyfication of DEI, everyone in the world is an actor now, the characters ridiculous, the steam-punk “huntress” with her bow, the ridiculous languages with Russian Accents (how do you portray a villain? Bad accent...). That said it's visually stunning, with stellar computer graphics - first rate CGI, and it's hard to imagine acting all this against a green screen, but given the inane dialogue and ridiculous plots they're not acting too hard.

Anyways, Season 1 down and it's not grabbed me in the least. I completely disagree with Asimov's vision of the future, space-ship-go-hyperspace is not science and if we're to cross the interstellar abysses and colonize the entire Galaxy I think we'll be finding a lot more miracles than are here portrayed and our nature will need to evolve substantially to allow these wonders in...

 

 

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