Jake Newby

If you are someone who analyzes what you watch or try to understand it beyond simply watching and listening (nothing wrong with that btw it’s good to desensitize sometimes), taking things at face value; this show is not for you. Sick with the flu, I binged the entire first season in a day. This is sci-fi, I get it. That being said, the whole premise behind sci-fi is the science part, aspects of plausible events or things that would be “scientific” must be in media labeled “sci-fi” otherwise, it would just be fiction. And that’s exactly what this show is, fiction billed as sci-fi. Take Star Wars for example, Jedi/Sith can use the force. This isn’t just magic, these individuals have Midi-Chlorians, micro organisms that life in their cells. They communicate with the Force, which again; not magic, the force is a type of energy field binding the galaxy together. My apologies for rambling, my point is that in the show there are several things that don’t add up. For one, the most glaringly obvious thing o can think of is that if the sun is essentially “microwaving people” like the show literally says, everything would be so irradiated that the survivors would be dead as soon as they came in contact with the surface (or much sooner probably). Why do dead bodies only have minor burn marks INSIDE of them? That much heat would surely fry your skin. Why do electronics still function, especially considering that enough radiation to kill a human would very likely fry any electronics similar to an EMP. Another thing, why set up a plethora of characters in the beginning only to kill them off near immediately? I don’t care about these people…? They were on screen (most of them) for less than five minutes. I don’t have all bad things to say, although it’s not a lot of good. I did think the picture quality was good, computer generated scenes were not bad at all, I did appreciate the multiple languages being used. I turned off English dubs and watched with English subtitles. It was a *little* more immersive. FWIW I did get like 4 or 5 episodes into season two but it ends up going everywhere really fast. Season 1 had me waiting for some sort of “pay off” or “when is this gonna get good.” Nope, 75% or the show was on a plane.