This is the pilot, the goal of this episode is to make the watcher want to watch the rest of the show and to introduce the concept and characters, well this episode was off to a extreme rough start.
I have watched dozens of shows and quite honestly in most of them, the first few episode's acting is always mediocre, so I won't take too much of that into account. Out of the five main characters, I have honestly disappointed by all of them, they did not make believe in what was happening, I was distanced from the show because the acting was so bad.
My second point is the plot of this episode that I can't believe was planned to be put in the pilot. The crash in itself of course, but the girl getting froze out, while the mother's leg is broken and the little guy dropped out of nowhere and abandoned there because the other sister's problem was not alarming... what is this really? I did not feel emotionally attached to any of their (life-threatening) problems and we can see the producers actually try to make us feel that way but simply failed. For example the scene where Penny (the older girl) has to cut into her mother's leg to fix it, she is stressed and this moment has to be intense, whether she'll be able to do it or not, but no, no music, no momentum, just her saying few bad sentences that makes everyone watching just feel 'what was that, were we supposed to be engaged, stressed about that?'
The setting, the ambiance in general is mediocre and so not acclimated to the plot. They are lost! in space! There is unknown weird stuff and they have 6 hours until they freeze to death, 5 hours until the lil sister has no more oxygen, oh and Will is somewhere else far away, but everything's chill eh? Lets talk about how we feel. No momentum, no music that made us thrill a little, and 100% clear images, we saw EVERYTHING, no suspense about what this robot thing is, we saw it completely in two minutes and stopped scaring us in 2 seconds, how can we ever be attached to such intense but unacclimated plot with bad acting from characters? Visuals were, as most Netflix's show are, but as other Netflix shows, acting was poor, as I will watch episode 2 in the coming days, I just hope the actors are going to make me feel the story more. Plot can always be weird and irrational, but with good acting and good background production, it usually still gets the watcher involved and entertained, this episode did not.
I have watched dozens of shows and quite honestly in most of them, the first few episode's acting is always mediocre, so I won't take too much of that into account. Out of the five main characters, I have honestly disappointed by all of them, they did not make believe in what was happening, I was distanced from the show because the acting was so bad.
My second point is the plot of this episode that I can't believe was planned to be put in the pilot. The crash in itself of course, but the girl getting froze out, while the mother's leg is broken and the little guy dropped out of nowhere and abandoned there because the other sister's problem was not alarming... what is this really? I did not feel emotionally attached to any of their (life-threatening) problems and we can see the producers actually try to make us feel that way but simply failed. For example the scene where Penny (the older girl) has to cut into her mother's leg to fix it, she is stressed and this moment has to be intense, whether she'll be able to do it or not, but no, no music, no momentum, just her saying few bad sentences that makes everyone watching just feel 'what was that, were we supposed to be engaged, stressed about that?'
The setting, the ambiance in general is mediocre and so not acclimated to the plot. They are lost! in space! There is unknown weird stuff and they have 6 hours until they freeze to death, 5 hours until the lil sister has no more oxygen, oh and Will is somewhere else far away, but everything's chill eh? Lets talk about how we feel. No momentum, no music that made us thrill a little, and 100% clear images, we saw EVERYTHING, no suspense about what this robot thing is, we saw it completely in two minutes and stopped scaring us in 2 seconds, how can we ever be attached to such intense but unacclimated plot with bad acting from characters? Visuals were, as most Netflix's show are, but as other Netflix shows, acting was poor, as I will watch episode 2 in the coming days, I just hope the actors are going to make me feel the story more. Plot can always be weird and irrational, but with good acting and good background production, it usually still gets the watcher involved and entertained, this episode did not.