warded1313-988-182514 Can't see why this didn't get continued after the pilot

Bookisbetter The casting, the dialogue, the foundational details--it's all wrong. I was excited to watch this, as I love sci fi books and movies, even the Could-Never-Happen-Like-Ever sub genre. The author, writers and director on Oasis, though, take implausible to ever greater heights.Can we please start with Haley Joel Osment's character? He is fat, anxious, has a learning disability and, also, astigmatism. Early on in the pilot, It is mentioned that it costs $100 million to send each person to Oasis. I am not currently on any NASA committees, but I think I am qualified enough to say that the child actor who grew up to be Zach Galifinakis's less attractive, nervous little brother should be off the list. You, sir, are no Matt Damon.If that's not enough (and it is), the timeline is a major plot hole for me. It takes place in dirty near-future (2032), yet we have in 15 short years from now created spacecraft and technology suitable for intergalactic travel such that we have a colony on the new planet (with Jeeps) as well as a dialogue with the aboriginals and some early adopters of Christianity.Which brings me to: in 15 years we're interested in converting our first alien allies to Christianity? It's confusing. Are we trying to help them? Hurt them? Is it so humans appear more credible or less credible? Oh, here's the major spoiler for the rest of the season: the pilot is based on a sci fi novel called The Book of Strange New Things. Why is it called that, you may ask? Because the aliens can now speak English and they can also read the Bible which they call the Book of Strange New Things. (Facepalm. If the one book we're giving them is the Bible, I think the message is better conveyed in the original Greek? I don't know. It's not really my thing.)I do want to interject here that the effects were pretty awesome for a streaming TV pilot.Anil Kapoor is an opportunist. He was poorly cast. This fella had never seen a sci fi movie prior to filming this pilot, though, in his promotional interviews for this show, he confirms that he has since seen 2001 and Star Wars, so now he understands the genre. I mean, yes, a person's first two sci fi movies should be 2001 and Star Wars, but those two movies are not eponymous enough to be a genre study. (Okay, they are, but this man is an interloper in the sci fi world.)Also, bad dialogue and the acting is a mixed bag. I do not need a full season of this.

jonathonpenberthy-85279 I feel like I have seen this before, if I remember rightly I quite liked it, but it was canned after one series.I really hope that I'm wrong and that the writer use of all the classic clichés will be flipped to provide novel and entertaining story that takes us to unexpected places.I would be disappointed if it turns out that: The commander has made contact with an enigmatic subterranean alien race who used to be like humans before they evolved beyond anthropomorphic existence on the surface. The second in command was in contact with some shadowy gov/mil organization that knew about the aliens all alone, but was willing to genocide them to save the human race, with a plan that turns out not only to be flawed but known to be flawed. The second in command were to take increasingly punitive measure to maintain control as rumors begin to spread that the commander is helping the aliens to communicate through peoples subconscious'. But just as Progress is being made BG were to be killed as a result of the use of his dead fathers persona by the alien when trying to communicate with him, unwittingly provoking a violent reaction from BG. This death would then trigger a the deployment of marines, with all there tech and jingoism that studio execs say will turn the viewing figures around, around this point the show is canned.Because that would be really predictable

Khun Kru Mark (Review based on the pilot episode only.)There is so much wrong with this rubbish that it's hard to know just where to begin. Within ten minutes you'll want to start punching these feeble minded idiots in the face! Well, I did.Once again TV has a bash at making sci-fi and once again it's a bloody mess. A good looking teenage boy finds God when he meets his wife... God then kills his wife so he becomes a priest. With me so far? So the front cover of Male Fashion Monthly skips to another planet to escape wandering around the soup kitchens of a post-apocalyptic London.When he gets there, people are having hallucinations and dying at an alarming rate. Well, for the viewer it's alarming - nobody on the planet seems to even notice! Eventually, they DO notice and the new vicar- detective starts an investigation.There are drones from Best Buy but they have a blue light so you know they are from the future! The water is scarce so it's rationed and baby wipes are the order of the day... although there's enough water to do the laundry because everyone has spanking bright clean uniforms on even after a bloody operation in the makeshift hospital.The planet itself is a desert with a factory on it manned by talented ex- cons... the new hire is a dyslexic botanist who, in one day, manages to devise a whole new system for conserving water... there's an even sprinkling of races and genders so this bilge water can be sold worldwide... forced drama for no reason... a man cries because his horse died... and on it goes.Every attempt at tension fails. Nobody smiles and everyone struts about barking out orders and being miserable... that's the only bit of this crap-fest that I can associate with. I, too, would be as miserable as sin if I had to spend an eternity with this horrible collection of morons.So what is this about? It's a vicar detective in space... that's all you need to know!