Wow. This episode is boring! I cannot work out how a series with this potential has it's first episode being so tedious. For a start the opening credits are over long. They just keep going. Then there are the characters. Not hugely charismatic. I just can't be bothered to care about any of them. This despite a voice over introducing each, immediately forgotten, spear carrier.
Then the 'action scene' in a shot up bomber. Just not that great either. What's wrong with this show? The CGI looked fine, if a little clean. Yet it did not carry it off. For realism, why was no one smoking? Those barracks and bars would have been fugs of blue smoke. So if we are giving up on realism, how can anything else be convincing.
It seems to be poorly lit as well. And, for a show set in the boundless sky, it feels claustrophobic.
For all the hype this first episode does not bode well.
Then the 'action scene' in a shot up bomber. Just not that great either. What's wrong with this show? The CGI looked fine, if a little clean. Yet it did not carry it off. For realism, why was no one smoking? Those barracks and bars would have been fugs of blue smoke. So if we are giving up on realism, how can anything else be convincing.
It seems to be poorly lit as well. And, for a show set in the boundless sky, it feels claustrophobic.
For all the hype this first episode does not bode well.