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Star Trek: Discovery: Rosetta (2022)
Senseless boredom
So the fate of the galaxy is at stake and all the characters do is ponce about and talk about their feelings while drinking in front of an open fire, where's the damn urgency !! Kirk, Picard et all must be cringing at this poor attempt to continue their legacy, by my reckoning they could have condensed the 11 episodes shown so far into a 90 minute film which might have just been average enough to watch !!
Pandora (2019)
Gives sci fi a bad name.
From the awful clipped perfect English accents to the poor acting, plastic sets and terrible cgi this series was surely someone's idea of a joke. I see it advertised as the new Babylon 5, well if I were you I'd just rewatch Babylon 5 and give this car crash a miss.
A Discovery of Witches (2018)
Boring second series
I enjoyed series 1 but they have dragged 10 episodes out of series 2 when half that would have made it reasonably enjoyable. I can only hope that series 3 moves at a quicker pace otherwise it'll lose its interest for me. 5 stars as the first series was a solid 7 but the second a poor 3.
Raised by Wolves (2020)
Ragnar in space ?
Overall I found this series quite entertaining with obvious connections to Scott's Alien films but every scene Travis Fimmel appeared in I just got reminded of Ragnar Lothbrok from Vikings which was a shame.
Doctor Who (2005)
Dire 🙈
Please please bring this dreadful current incarnation of the Doctor to a swift end, along with her awful companions. The writers and producers also need ejecting as the show has hit an all time low for me. Brought up on Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker then seeing the show revived excellently with Chris Ecclestone and David Tennant I feel badly let down that the show appears to be aimed at a pre school audience at the moment. It's not to late, regenerate !!!!!
The War of the Worlds (2019)
Abysmal
All I can say is that this is the worst adaptation of The War of the Worlds I've ever seen, not worth any more comment !!
Space: 1999 (1975)
Brilliant 70s sci-fi
Watching this series again I realised very quickly why I enjoyed it so much in my youth but I'd also forgotten how bad the second series was compared to the first. The missing characters, altered control room and uniforms that changed into various bright colours turned the previously gritty and occasionally dark tone of the show onto more of a Xmas pantomime. With the scripts matching the poor changes the cast looked like all they were doing was picking up their money knowing that there'd be no third series. And to top it all there was no explanation about the changes or the missing characters. I've scored the series 8/10 but only because of the first series, if I could mark the second on its own it would be 4/10 but don't let that put you off enjoying some classic sc-fi !!
Doctor Who: Resolution (2019)
Shockingly bad
I've been a Dr Who fan for over 45 years but this latest tosh isn't the show I love. Awful casting with even worse storylines and dialogue putting far too much emphasis on being "PC" and morally judgemental, whatever happened to good old science fiction !! The Resolution Xmas special hit rock bottom for me with the Dr looking completely out of her depth and as for the Dalek well.......Die hard fans will watch this and just hope there's a major change in direction soon rather than the show being shelved again. I've given this zero stars only because I can't give it a negative score, BBC please listen to the fans of the series and sort this claptrap out !!!!