Plot hole: The episode's climax concerns Bernie rushing to the airlock to stop the rest of the crew, who are infected, from flushing themselves into space. Except that he's infected too, so they can't flush without him anyway.
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I watched this show on Netflix.
I have mixed feelings about this show. I kinda meander between giving it 3 or 4 star rating.
Alright so it's pretty good show, and starts off pretty good too. With an interesting mystery and plot, setting up most of the characters pretty well. It's kinda funny seeing Justin Chatwin in this show, trying to redeem himself after Dragon Ball: Evolution. He's good but he still has those forehead vein bulging fart faces he makes. Lol!
So it's a good sci-fi mystery space thriller that actually has an interesting way of allowing characters to be killed off and replaced without it feeling too forced. The ship runs on a skeleton crew, with a lot of reserve crew members left in suspended animation. But the ship is damaged to where people can not go back into suspended animation. Once woken up, you're up. So they only revive people to keep up an active crew. When someone dies, they wake up a replacement. That's actually a really cool idea and I like it a lot.
There are some pacing issues with the series though. And it's very very full of more progressive woke political ideology and ideas. But thankfully it's not preachy about it, just has some stuff that is distasteful like setting up the polyamorous relationship between one of the girls and two other guys with her pregnant from one. The line about "you don't have to keep it" does fly in your face though but thankfully she does... I think. Actually I can't remember as I'm writing this review a few years after seeing the show lol.
There's other things here and there but also the captain is sort of set up as this ultimate girl boss character. That said... they actually make her flawed and sometimes making the wrong decision. She may be all piss and vinegar and often shown being perfect... yet she's not. They give her good character moments, vulnerabilities, and making mistakes. She second guesses herself at times. And sometimes you wonder if the others considering a mutiny are actually justified. So I have mixed feelings on it.
She's no Captain Marvel... at least I'll give it that. But she's no Princess Leia either.
What really brings it down though is the last season and ending. It is pretty obvious that this show needed one more season to finish everything and come to a satisfying conclusion in a non rushed way. But it's evident that they were given notice that the show was going to be canceled or not renewed... so they rushed a conclusion in the last parts that feel unsatisfying and... well rushed. Making it a botched landing that could have been better had they been given the chance to stretch it out for one more season. A shame really.
So I am left leaving it on a 3 out of 5 star rating.
Granted I am writing this review about 4 or 5 years after actually watching the show. had I wrote this with it more fresh in my mind I may have thought different.
Mistake Status: Caught a couple back when I was originally watching it, but not closely looking for them. May revisit it at some point for closer analysis.
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Through the Valley of Shadows - S1-E2
Question: Spoiler alert! At the end of the first episode, Ian attacks Niko with a knife. In self defence, she round house kicks him into an electrical current that kills him. She was reacting out of self defence and he struck first. With that being the case, why in the second episode is she not explaining that to the rest of the crew? She simply says he was a threat to the crew and she killed him... Leaving out completely that it was self defense and he attacked first. Why? It started causing tension immediately with some of the crew ready to turn on her for murder. Why didn't she just tell them he attacked her first and she defended herself?
Answer: This is a mistake and should be listed as such.
If it can be verified as such, sure. It seems there was a conscious decision by the show makers to do this though.
Answer: First, it should be pointed out that Ian didn't actually attack Niko. He had a knife, made a vague threat about not being as magnanimous as she was to him, and did raise the knife after approaching her, but she kicked him first. But the crew had already mutinied against her. The way I see if, she wanted to make sure the crew thinks she was willing to kill anyone who was a threat to the mission. Whereas if she claimed self defense she would either look weak or a look like a liar.
Bishop73
The crew members that followed Ian might not believe he would try to attack for no reason. She had no marks on her, so if she claimed he attacked her first, she would be lying. Most of the crew that was awake already mistrusted her, so claiming self defense at that moment wouldn't make them start trusting her.
Bishop73