On the plus side, the writing is interesting (MOTW, and the crew of the vessel isn’t too small to be believable). The personalities and interactions of the crew members makes me wonder who was in charge of the applicant screening/selection process, though.
I managed, somehow, to make it through the first series but i just hated it and all the characters, i wanted every one of them to be killed off in ever brutal and inventive ways. All of it was just entirely derivative of much better sci-fi as well. It’s a real waste of Sackhoff’s talents because she is doing a lot of heavy lifting with the poor material she is given.
It’s like they decided that you get the best drama by having all the characters shout and scream at each all the time and of course that’s the best way to operate a starship in deep space, right? I did initially think that Rimmer William was quite decent but i guess he turned into a bit of a creepy stalker?
At least when Stargate Universe tried that it could be justified as being whatever ragtag bunch of folks were closest to the gate when the base started collapsing, and they managed to (mostly) course-correct by the end of the season.
Still actually bitter we’ll never get to see that myth arc get finished.
Really brings home the point that the genocide of native peoples by white colonists didn’t happen in the past, it is ongoing using cultural erasure, food deserts, addiction, and metabolic disease in place of blades and bullets.
I came away wishing they had spent more time on food sovereignty and traditions and less on chef’s table style profiles of the activists they followed, but there’s a lot to like anyway.