First let me say that my rating is only as high as a 6 out of respect for the first season. Last season was weird and had unnecessary drama, and season 3 is awful. I would rate season 1 a 9, season 2 and 6, and season 3 a 2.
As I'm sitting here watching season 3, I'm wondering how these idiots have had the discipline and fortitude to make it through the military and into space. Almost all the characters are highly dysfunctional. Danny is obsessed with his dead best friend's mom (that whole thing was just weird and out of the blue), he's jealous of Ed for getting along with his own (ex) wife, and he's clearly about to become addicted to pain killers. How is this the kind of person who NASA chooses to go to Mars? Don't they do psych assessments? He lost his parents in a horrific way and is clearly screwed up because of it. Stay home and work on your stuff, Danny.
Then in episode 6, a new character decides that his interview about being on Mars is the perfect time to tell the world he's gay. WHAT?!?! Again.. how do these people make it on this mission? I can't imagine what it had to be like for his character and I hate how he's being treated, but what an idiot. You're on a mission to freaking Mars, your house isn't working and it's your job to fix it, you're already in a tense environment with Russians breathing down your next, so why not make a stupid decision. Even though he shouldn't be treated the way he is being treated, it's dumb to risk the mission to make a point. Was he not trained in the army that the mission comes first?
So annoyed with the direction of this show. It's gone from great to a stupid decision factory. You're throwing away a great plot for unnecessary, stupid drama.
As I'm sitting here watching season 3, I'm wondering how these idiots have had the discipline and fortitude to make it through the military and into space. Almost all the characters are highly dysfunctional. Danny is obsessed with his dead best friend's mom (that whole thing was just weird and out of the blue), he's jealous of Ed for getting along with his own (ex) wife, and he's clearly about to become addicted to pain killers. How is this the kind of person who NASA chooses to go to Mars? Don't they do psych assessments? He lost his parents in a horrific way and is clearly screwed up because of it. Stay home and work on your stuff, Danny.
Then in episode 6, a new character decides that his interview about being on Mars is the perfect time to tell the world he's gay. WHAT?!?! Again.. how do these people make it on this mission? I can't imagine what it had to be like for his character and I hate how he's being treated, but what an idiot. You're on a mission to freaking Mars, your house isn't working and it's your job to fix it, you're already in a tense environment with Russians breathing down your next, so why not make a stupid decision. Even though he shouldn't be treated the way he is being treated, it's dumb to risk the mission to make a point. Was he not trained in the army that the mission comes first?
So annoyed with the direction of this show. It's gone from great to a stupid decision factory. You're throwing away a great plot for unnecessary, stupid drama.