The first episode of this series about an astronaut caught up in a space mishap just barely got me to watch the second episode. It began slowly, as you watched uninteresting characters do and say uninteresting things.
But when the mishap came it brought just a little life into the procedings. And the weird end made me curious what would come next.
In the second episode there was a little more intriguing weirdness, a little more interesting mishap drama, and the same amount of draggy parts and bland characters.
If this were a movie, where the plot points came more quickly (from reading the wikipedia synopsis there are lots of plot points), then perhaps the bland characters wouldn't matter much. If I cared about the characters, they would help propel the story. For that matter, if the series didn't keep thinking I *should* care about their cardboard characters and just spent less time trying to generate feelings of caring, I might have given this another chance.
But ultimately the lack of any interesting people combined with the insufferable slowness is more than I could take.
Not recommended.
But when the mishap came it brought just a little life into the procedings. And the weird end made me curious what would come next.
In the second episode there was a little more intriguing weirdness, a little more interesting mishap drama, and the same amount of draggy parts and bland characters.
If this were a movie, where the plot points came more quickly (from reading the wikipedia synopsis there are lots of plot points), then perhaps the bland characters wouldn't matter much. If I cared about the characters, they would help propel the story. For that matter, if the series didn't keep thinking I *should* care about their cardboard characters and just spent less time trying to generate feelings of caring, I might have given this another chance.
But ultimately the lack of any interesting people combined with the insufferable slowness is more than I could take.
Not recommended.