I quite liked this first episode, kinda sets up the tone quite nicely, but the degradation in quality (due to budget, executive meddling, or whatever) is showing. The initial scene with the girl and the animals took almost 5 minutes of its own, with many still shots of the girl's expression and surrounding that don't actually contribute to something meaningful in the episode as a whole - the kind of directing you see in Walking Dead's filler episodes.
But I kinda liked how they tried to make up the shortcomings of Season 5. They tried to visually show the impact of the catastrophe caused by the asteroid shots on Earth. They tried to show how Rocinante crew tries to deal with Alex's departure/loss, something that was horribly executed in Season 5. I also quite liked how they tried to portray Marco more as a bullshitter, but it could've been done better than some abrupt speech about the people of Ceres out of nowhere. Speaking of Ceres, the decision to make Dawes' death off-screen is such a big disappointment, though understandable due to the actor having conflicting schedule. Still, disappointing.
Downside here is Filip's arc. I get it that they're trying to show him as wanting to get the recognition he wanted, but we haven't seen more what he is capable to do. So far we only sees him kill and nothing much. No leadership qualities, no camraderie qualities. So him bursting out in anger just came off some sort of angsty teen worse than Anakin in Star Wars.
Review by Pradipa PRBlockedParent2022-01-02T05:28:15Z
I quite liked this first episode, kinda sets up the tone quite nicely, but the degradation in quality (due to budget, executive meddling, or whatever) is showing. The initial scene with the girl and the animals took almost 5 minutes of its own, with many still shots of the girl's expression and surrounding that don't actually contribute to something meaningful in the episode as a whole - the kind of directing you see in Walking Dead's filler episodes.
But I kinda liked how they tried to make up the shortcomings of Season 5. They tried to visually show the impact of the catastrophe caused by the asteroid shots on Earth. They tried to show how Rocinante crew tries to deal with Alex's departure/loss, something that was horribly executed in Season 5. I also quite liked how they tried to portray Marco more as a bullshitter, but it could've been done better than some abrupt speech about the people of Ceres out of nowhere. Speaking of Ceres, the decision to make Dawes' death off-screen is such a big disappointment, though understandable due to the actor having conflicting schedule. Still, disappointing.
Downside here is Filip's arc. I get it that they're trying to show him as wanting to get the recognition he wanted, but we haven't seen more what he is capable to do. So far we only sees him kill and nothing much. No leadership qualities, no camraderie qualities. So him bursting out in anger just came off some sort of angsty teen worse than Anakin in Star Wars.