Ben Mcle

This show is one of the few redeeming pieces to come out on netflix recently. Exciting, intriguing and insanely binge-able, this series is some of the most entertaining sci-fi I've seen in the last few years. Reviews complaining about poor character writing; "Why did so-and-so not think about alien diseases?", "Why didn't such-and-such tell that to the crew?" make me wonder about what people want out of a TV series. Audience cynicism is out of control: "I want a TV series that tells a story without boring me with narrative and I want it to be fantastically original but grounded in reality, I want to relate to characters but also have them be robots that never make a mistake because my suspension of disbelief cannot handle the fact that somehow this dude isn't thinking clearly while hurtling through the vacuum of space on a planet that turns into lava on a full moon." But we get all nostalgic for Star Trek. Why can we overlook that time Kirk and Spock were naked in a space Nazi concentration camp and used nothing but gymnastics and lasers to escape but I can't fathom how a scientist didn't pay attention in astro-biology class? This show is incredibly entertaining, well acted and superbly paced. Can't we all, just for old times sake, overlook some bad CGI and an overused plot device or two?