Thibaud
If something is important in TV shows, it would probably be its first season, because it is supposed to establish all the bases of the upcoming series - apparently written and completed beforehand... at first sight - while keeping coherence to the show. That's exactly what EFC did not respect by implementing new elements which simply broke the illusion and made it clear, for any sort of audience, that the show was simply getting low-minded, as another reviewer put it, and I do agree in the cases of T'Than (Seasons 3-4) and Zo'or (Seasons 2-4), the characters were simply overplayed, making them sound illogical by moments.Everything that there is to say is said in the other reviews, read them, I found them really accurate and properly written. In season one, you had a good red line, it had all the elements to promise a good show : Taelons were fascinating, ill-wiled or benevolent,you really asked yourself the question. There were aspects of a big conspiracy theory which - though not really revolutionary nowadays, was pleasant to follow and then decipher. Then, there was season 2, WTF is happening you think, okay, a Kimera impregnates a woman who gives birth to Liam Kincaid, the only guy on earth who can grow up in five minutes, watch in hands. The guy - physically supposed to be more attractive than Kevin Kilner, that is the reason why they put him away, you see; has superpowers you cannot imagine and he eventually lost them. Well at least, the staff realized that these superpowers were simply under-used if that term exists in English.Yes, one of the factual mistake is the rotation of characters, let us put it that way. Some characters are simply thrown out like rubbish and you are never to see them again (or you have to wait.) Some examples to illustrate that : William Boone (buddy, we took four years to realize that you had to be on the show, shame it was Season 5), Lily Marquette (literally thrown out into space then she reappears, her characterization is seemingly accomplished in Season 4 but you realize that the whole thing sounds impossible, the character was virtually rearranged so as to make her quickly disappear, in other words, sounds hypocritical), Jonathan Doors (clearly misused in Season 2/3, except at the very end of Season 2 when he is nominated to the presidential election, shame he lost because that was promising) then there is Augur whose character was at first promptly repudiated from the show but they managed to do something quite interesting because he too was misused - something which never occurred with William Boone). There is definitely a problem with the characters. As it was said, Renee Palmer does not have the profile to fulfill our expectations as the leading character in Season 5, she is too plain and she was only correct as a secondary character (Season 4-5) because she is not very interesting : she knows too much people, she is always ready to help, you almost never see her pushed to her limits because she seemingly has none, the only moment when I was surprised about her is when they say she is infertile and effectively, it makes the show move on. Moreover, as regards for sweet Julia Street, she is completely A) boring B) useless and you never see her on screen, the only moment she is interesting happens once and that's all but THAT too remains undeveloped.But the show tries to be saved. That is something you realize when you see how they try to make it interesting. The first change to occur is the new open titles which take a more flashy form, gaudy or dowdy you choose, I find it casual and almost burlesque ("A man ... who is more than human'' - note that if you do not know the show, you'll find it weird to see that Liam is fundamentally human, as we said, his powers are misused.) I think this show can be watched from the beginning to ... the end of season 4. If, like me, you like William Boone, then you can make up your own red line because you will need to force yourself into watching the whole series, some episodes are craps, some are really goods (a couple in season 2, same in season 3, season 4 is a little more interesting that the last two we mentioned.) The best inevitably remains Season 1 and I'm glad to realize that Season 1 will always be there, no matter what they did to the show. Don't get into the plot too much or you will be astonished by the quantity of inconsistencies that there are in this series. However the ideas are there, some are really worthy to reflect upon - if contradicting elements had not been established in previous episodes -. This show needs to be watched for its first season only, and a half-dozen of other episodes throughout the following seasons. If you hesitate, do it, the first episodes are vintage.
TheEmulator23
This is quite the mediocre show. Now I have never seen the supposedly only good season which was Season 1. We here in the states only have seasons 3&4 (I'm not sure if 5 is) on DVD. I realize this probably had a minuscule budget, but even then so many of the stories not only don't make sense they are absolutely terribly written! I don't think Gene Rodenberry (for all those that don't know him he is the creator of "Star Trek") would have had this show in mind when he created it. I imagine this never would have been made if it didn't have Rodenberry's name attached to it. So many of the effects are so bad it's almost painful. "Star Trek: TNG" which had begun in '87, even those effects were better than these. Now as much as I'm ripping on this show there are a few decent episodes and stories. The budget must have been the biggest issue though, because many/most of the series regular actors are really not in the least bit good. The guy w/the scrill on his arm is really bad. He is almost completely dead/emotionless when he is saying his lines. I don't know if English is his second language or if he is purposefully acting like that, but for whatever the reason he is probably the worst. Not only that on the couple eps I did see of the 1st & 2nd season, they got rid of the main actor (never to return, don't know why never got that far) and the woman that played Lily was pretty good, although she did return, an Oscar winning actor couldn't have made the dialog come out any better than what she did. If anything you miss the distinct Rodenberry effect that showed up on all his previous things, hell even "Andromeda" seems almost Oscar winning compared to this. But if you want to get involved in another universe of some sort, there are a lot better than this, but there are a lot worse. What surprises me the most is that somehow this show made 5 years! I remember it very vaguely being on many years ago (it was on really late at night or something on the weekends blocked with "Farscape" now that was the way a good Sci-Fi should be done) but I don't know who watched it here in the States. Maybe it was big somewhere else in the world, just as "Stargate SG-1" I don't know.