Good concept, poorly executed.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It had some good things going for it. Good location, high production values, there might have even been a workable storyline buried in there somewhere. Unfortunately, burning a giant pile of money may have produced a better show.-Cliched into oblivion. -For some reason cut, polished diamonds float in the ocean. Also skeletons exposed to sea water can remain perfectly preserved for millennia. -Thinly veiled Christian bashing. It's getting old. -Completely unbelievable society. Apparently solar panels are enough to power all this future tech for 70,000 people, none of which ever breaks down or is torn apart in the giant electromagnetic storms that happen frequently. They must have nanomachines that can replicate anything because they seem to be completely self sufficient within their gates. -Completely blatant male bashing. Remember, penis = evil. -Their President is willing to order the wholesale slaughter of entire populations then is too much of a puss to follow through when they survive and are angry he tried to exterminate them. He also promotes power hungry, sociopathic cult leaders into positions of power (which is obvious and even he knows himself). -They completely missed an opportunity to give the bad guy a German accent. American accents (especially southern) are more those of the eccentric cowboy than the cartoonishly evil madman.-Karl Marx himself couldn't dream up a more communist little enclave. I'm genuinely surprised they didn't all call each other comrade and fly a red banner. -Lives are lost to gun violence because law abiding residents and even guards at first don't carry guns. This is satire right? Right? -The aliens mess with peoples heads then tell the leader of the human colony they're going to exterminate humanity when they could have just exterminated humanity and been done with it. The aliens are also highly justified in wanting to kill humans considering the humanity they have encountered this second time not only managed to destroy their own planet but are complete idiots. The acting didn't stand out as terrible to me but it lacked anything impressive. The production values were good and the locations were pretty awesome though. Could have been a great series.

This sorry excuse for a Sci Fi show is basically a vessel for male bashing. I couldn't even make it through the first episode without hearing a handful of misandrous comments in merely the first 20 or 30 minutes. The last one I heard before I turned it off came from a high ranking woman who said with absolutely no basis that "desperate men are a danger to their children" as if women are the only ones with an instinct to protect their offspring and must do so against their male counterparts.Even the initial plot was a thin cover analogy of the emasculation of society. The colony was originally founded on the backs of the hard working, brave military men who scouted the new world for them, but this show starts out ten years later when the government no longer has a use for them and is enforcing a weapons ban to keep them in line. They throw in one weak- willed male character who pretends to honor them, but he's basically just spineless yes-man to the women that push him around throughout.

Okay, we all love sci-fi adventure stories, otherwise we would not be watching this show. I happened upon this series on Netflix and right out the door, this series is a bit violent and portrays a lot of people as untrustworthy, even if they are trying to assist or help.But my biggest question is, why are are 100% of the older men (mainly) up in space and the young people (under 35) on the planet? I'm a lover of the Stargate SG-1 series, love it with all my heart.This series has A LOT of potential, but WHERE is the futurist things and such. IF we are doing space travel, we have not learned how to communicate planet wide? But the 'hate' of so many make the future look like a place I NEVER want to go.I'm on episode 3 and I think I may end my viewing here. I can not connect to any of the characters, even though they have a range of characters. Where is the computer geek (or geeks)? A doctor is not a computer geek nor a video games player. The tone is just too serious all the time. Also, when visiting planets like Earth, why no new plant or insects or animals? Not everything HAS to be a green, slimy, brain sucking alien. Just look at the Tribbles on Star Trek.I think I am ready to return to Mass Effect 2. Shame Being Human is FAR MORE appealing than this show. But then again, if you like Battlestar Galactica, you might like it.

The show is about a colony on Carpatia after it became impossible to live on Earth. There are many scifi shows like this and yet theidea was interesting and I found the pilot very promising.Unfortunately Jamie Bamber and his character couldn't help it anymore after he was killed off. Right after the pilot it went down into a slow show with unlikable characters, poor acting and bad writing. I kept on seeing ideas that I felt would make an improvement, but unfortunately nothing was happening. The acting was mediocre, I only want to keep Liam Cunningham out of it who did a good job throughout the show. The rest, especially Jeanne Kietzmann, were disappointing most of the time.Toward the very end the show seemed to pick up, and the 7th episode was the one that I was actually watching with real interest. Unfortunately it was too late. Would it become better if the show wasn't cancelled? Who knows. But the finale wasn't one of those that would keep me waiting eagerly for a new season to begin, so it is safe to assume that it would be just the same.