Reviews

While most of the episode is ok, the ending very much feels rushed. Like the show only had 42 minutes so they had to wrap things up. Which is too bad given that it could have been a cool episode. The villagers all go from being against fighting the beast in one minute to all standing up against it. It doesn't feel particularly earned.

Also operating a time dilation field for 10,000 years, even a small one, seems like it would be well outside the power of a single ZPM. Especially given what later episodes establish. At the very least this point about powrt should have been properly addressed and not just handwaved away.

Why does Vader command only one star destroyer in the hunt for Obi-Wan?

Why couldn't the star destroyer chase after the rebels once Vader followed Obi-Wan to the planet?

Why does Obi-Wan not kill Vader? Leaving him alive allows him to kill countless innocents. Is letting someone do that the Jedi way? Also if the Jedi don't kill then what was Yoda planning for Sidious at the end of the prequel movies? It is unbelievable that Obi-Wan wouldn't kill Vader when given the chance. Which is why the writers should have never made it an option.

Why does Leia seemingly forget his help during a New Hope? (in the prerecorded message)

The whole episode just feels so contrived.

The whole person we thought was legitimate turns out to be the bad guy has been done so many times before.

Everyone on this show seems to be required to act stupid in order to ensure the bad gal gets her way, including not checking into her background more.

I didn't find the plot to be interesting even when you ignore the plot holes. Hopefully next episode is better.

This episode really shows how shields and sensors regularly never work in the Kurtzman universe because if they did they would actually have to write around their existence. So instead they just get ignored or bypassed easily. Its not even the first time this season that this has come up and I'm sure it wasn't the last.

Somehow the shuttle doesn't detect anything before the ship is impacted, despite this show being set 1000 years after other series. I guess sensors just aren't a thing anymore?

For some reason Tilley gives up so easily at reviving a dead crew member despite them being at a point in time where even a shuttle craft should have access to at least some actually useful life saving equipment. Because again it's 1000 years into the future.

Everything about this show and its plots feel so contrived. There is nothing logical about the characters actions and everything is about expediting the plot at the expense of the show making sense.

The characters in this show are extremely unlikeable. Everything feels very self congratulatory and superficial. This episode doesn't change that opinion for me it only reinforces it.

First, there are huge leaps of logic in this show. In one of the season 4 episodes I watched the lead character concluded that because someone locked their shed they must be guilty and hiding something in there. Of course they were, because the plot required it, but there was nothing leading up to that moment to suggest to that character that this was the case. Her entire line of thinking was "they lock their shed so they must be guilty"

The show does this all the time too. It is really poorly written.

Four seasons in and there is very little substance to these characters. Except for the title character (given its in the title) I've honestly forgotten their names already. The acting is fine but the writing is so bad.

All the men in particular are written so poorly. The men bicker over the women in the show like school children and everything is so over the top with them. You can literally predict what the men are going to do at all times in the show because they are either over the top sexist and misogynistic or bickering school kids.

Seriously. Name a single well-written male character on this show. They had to borrow Crabtree for an episode because of how bad the show is at writing them.

The people responsible just kind of give up even though the evidence against all of thrm is shaky at best.

Also the topic of self defense could have been explored.