I'm up to episode 5 of series one and frankly I'm a bit disappointed. Everyone has been telling me how great this is but I'm not convinced.
The dialogue is very often clichéd and unrealistic, the special effects that relate to aeroplanes are very, very clunky (to put it politely), as are many of those relating to the spaceflight sequences, and the whole feel is underwhelming.
I'm (just) old enough to remember the Apollo programme and have seen lots of real footage over the years. This programme's attempts to recreate that look are quite simply not good enough. People and objects on screen just don't move in the right way and with 21st century film/TV technology the producers should be able to create something that looks like a high definition version of real footage - but have failed dismally.
All of that could be forgiven if the characters were engaging and believable and if there was ever any real feel of tension, drama of jeopardy. But no, there's little or none of that. It's also missing a trick by being too American centric - this is a space RACE but we only ever see one competitor. If we got to see at least a little of the Soviet side of the story then we might get some tension . As it is, the USA is in a one-man race and still coming second!!!
It all feels like a lost opportunity. Far from being the "A+" I'd been led to expect, it's more of a "C-".
I'll stick with it until the end of the first series, but unless it pulls its socks up I'll cut it adrift, leaving it Lost In Space.
The dialogue is very often clichéd and unrealistic, the special effects that relate to aeroplanes are very, very clunky (to put it politely), as are many of those relating to the spaceflight sequences, and the whole feel is underwhelming.
I'm (just) old enough to remember the Apollo programme and have seen lots of real footage over the years. This programme's attempts to recreate that look are quite simply not good enough. People and objects on screen just don't move in the right way and with 21st century film/TV technology the producers should be able to create something that looks like a high definition version of real footage - but have failed dismally.
All of that could be forgiven if the characters were engaging and believable and if there was ever any real feel of tension, drama of jeopardy. But no, there's little or none of that. It's also missing a trick by being too American centric - this is a space RACE but we only ever see one competitor. If we got to see at least a little of the Soviet side of the story then we might get some tension . As it is, the USA is in a one-man race and still coming second!!!
It all feels like a lost opportunity. Far from being the "A+" I'd been led to expect, it's more of a "C-".
I'll stick with it until the end of the first series, but unless it pulls its socks up I'll cut it adrift, leaving it Lost In Space.