After 1.5 seasons.... Writing...aimed too low. Writing is stiff and simple. Characters could be developed so that they are more than vehicles to deliver words. Acting....would help if the cast could do comedy. Jokes stiff and too far between. Would have helped if writing developed their characters as more than scarecrows. Plot...seems to be wandering...again, development of characters and story very slow. Idea... really good concepts. Nice alien conceptualization...would have helped if plots had worked with more than the surface concepts. The actual science is underdeveloped. Characters act as if they are in a soap opera rather than science fiction.
Between 1.5 and 4.5 the show is superb. Must have changed writers, change of the commander is a good thing, Harlan Ellison as adviser makes the show coherent between episodes. The scripts test all of the moral and ethical questions of government, friendship, and war. The political messages are a good primer on the struggle between freedom and the desire for order. Entertaining and well worth watching for the sci fi fan. Much better than the many series that wander around without plot depending on special effects and strange aliens. The characters in this show develop along with the story line, which doesn't devolve back to the standard plots of "I cant tell you"..."I don't trust you"..."I wanted to tell you but I forgot". After the war to liberate earth the show loses some focus until it finds the need to explain the biology of Teeps...finally...
Between 1.5 and 4.5 the show is superb. Must have changed writers, change of the commander is a good thing, Harlan Ellison as adviser makes the show coherent between episodes. The scripts test all of the moral and ethical questions of government, friendship, and war. The political messages are a good primer on the struggle between freedom and the desire for order. Entertaining and well worth watching for the sci fi fan. Much better than the many series that wander around without plot depending on special effects and strange aliens. The characters in this show develop along with the story line, which doesn't devolve back to the standard plots of "I cant tell you"..."I don't trust you"..."I wanted to tell you but I forgot". After the war to liberate earth the show loses some focus until it finds the need to explain the biology of Teeps...finally...