Lance Grooms

Fair disclosure, I stopped watching after Episode 3. I can usually sit through bad sci-fi, but not when they profane the source material and tell a far inferior story. Read Beacon 23. Skip the show. They have nothing in common but a few names. (FWIW, I thought Silo did a much much better job on Apple and is worth a watch.) Some examples: Q-bits are entangle bits used for telegraph-style messaging. Only way to communicate FTL, limited in quantity, and incredibly expensive to produce. They are NOT a form of currency. But apparently on the show there is FTL communication radio-style. Why do you need a lighthouse-style beacon if you can just call ahead and ask if everything is ok or communicate FTL from anywhere? Dark matter blocking the lanes? Trek-speak McGuffin much? Throw in some new characters and introduce a random lesbian romance? Sure. Why not. The GWB (gravity wave beacon) does NOT make you high, which is an actual plot INVERSION from the written story. Nobody could survive the 'crash', and in the story Harlan feels a deep loss due to the crash. On the show he's ready to abandon the beacon and let thousands more die. You may have better luck if you haven't read the actual source material. Having read it, it constantly broke my suspension of disbelief because it mentally kept pointing me back to the far superior source material. I was so excited to see this existed. So disappointed upon viewing. Yes, some adaptation would definitely be required to port the story to screen. But this was some yahoo writers thinking they could do a better job (as they did with the Witcher). Spoiler: They didn't.