Reviews

The only thing the writers did right was to create a plot that deserved resolution. I really wanted to see how it ended. I thought about stopping almost every episode but cared slightly more to see how it ended.

And how did it end? With a rushed, disjointed, cringy finale. They completely gave up on continuity and rationale (which with they already had a limited relationship). I've blamed the writers from the beginning for screwing up an interesting story, and I stick with it. The actors were pretty decent, but the writing for almost every episode could have been done by high school drama students.

I stuck it out, but I would NOT recommend it. I really don't mean to be cruel. It's just soo bad.

I've always loved this show, but this season makes no sense. The whole cartel thing was just thrown in and didn't actually add much to the story, everyone ends up being a bad guy but I don't really care by the time I figure it out, and this episode was bizarre.

Chen Fao gets shot and no one does anything to try to help him. If his death is the direction they wanted to take, they could have done it a looot better. The only reason he got shot is because he went back for a stuffed rabbit. Then his injury doesn't even look that bad, but they all act like he's a goner. Then at the airfield, Jack stays behind to "hold them off" but does literally nothing, then hops in the helicopter. Why couldn't they just all get on the plane or immediately jump in the helicopter? It kinda feels like a middle school kid wrote this season and can't figure out how to move the plot forward without being obvious and disconnected. Maybe just let season 3 be the last season for you..

First let me say that my rating is only as high as a 6 out of respect for the first season. Last season was weird and had unnecessary drama, and season 3 is awful. I would rate season 1 a 9, season 2 and 6, and season 3 a 2.

As I'm sitting here watching season 3, I'm wondering how these idiots have had the discipline and fortitude to make it through the military and into space. Almost all the characters are highly dysfunctional. Danny is obsessed with his dead best friend's mom (that whole thing was just weird and out of the blue), he's jealous of Ed for getting along with his own (ex) wife, and he's clearly about to become addicted to pain killers. How is this the kind of person who NASA chooses to go to Mars? Don't they do psych assessments? He lost his parents in a horrific way and is clearly screwed up because of it. Stay home and work on your stuff, Danny.

Then in episode 6, a new character decides that his interview about being on Mars is the perfect time to tell the world he's gay. WHAT?!?! Again.. how do these people make it on this mission? I can't imagine what it had to be like for his character and I hate how he's being treated, but what an idiot. You're on a mission to freaking Mars, your house isn't working and it's your job to fix it, you're already in a tense environment with Russians breathing down your next, so why not make a stupid decision. Even though he shouldn't be treated the way he is being treated, it's dumb to risk the mission to make a point. Was he not trained in the army that the mission comes first?

So annoyed with the direction of this show. It's gone from great to a stupid decision factory. You're throwing away a great plot for unnecessary, stupid drama.

Seriously mind blown. I cannot get over how amazing this episode was! I wasn't super surprised to learn 001's identity, but everything after that was INSANE. I wonder if we'll figure out why Vecna chose Nancy to share his background with.

Another reviewer said this show connected dots they didn't know needed connecting, and that's exactly how I felt! I don't know if I've experience that satisfying of a "connecting dots" moment since Lost. Can't wait to see the next 2 episodes!

I don't understand why the writers made the characters make such stupid decisions. Literally every episode I've thought, "well that was about the most ignorant way of handling that situation." Most recently, Joyce has been fighting to help her husband remember who he is (and who she is). They finally have this moment where he feels connected to her and he tells her the truth about a woman he had a relationship with in France. He already had amnesia and didn't even remember his own name, let alone that he was married. Joyce decides this is just too much and gives him her wedding ring. What?! That makes absolutely no sense for Joyce's character or for the situation. I've thought about stopping many times, but I guess I care enough about how it ends.

The characters and actors make the movie better than it should be. There aren't many action movies where I'm laughing while the characters are being chased by monsters, so that was a plus. The concept is really interesting. There's something about our children and grandchildren coming back through time asking us for help that is really intriguing. It can be a decent movie overall-if you suspend logic and rationale. One part of me was enjoying the action, but the other part had all the thoughts below.

So, our kids from 30 years in the future figure out how to jump back in time to save the world from aliens. Their really stupid solution is to recruit untrained civilians to fight in the future war. There are about 478 other things they could have done that would have actually helped, but they choose to draft untrained civilians to go fight in a war against almost unbeatable creatures.

All the world governments totally go along with this and enforce the worldwide draft. Mortality rates are extremely high because, shocker, the civilians are untrained. Instead of doing something like researching a way to stop the war before it begins, they just keep sending people to die for absolutely no reason.

Fast forward to Dan, Chris Pratt's character, being recruited by his daughter for an essential mission, only to be dropped into a highly dangerous mission in Miami, which is going to be bombed in a matter of minutes because it's being overrun. Why would he not have been dropped near her lab? So then, his daughter finds him and, even though she's humanity's last chance, she goes on a dangerous mission to capture a female creature and takes her dad who she wants to protect for her own secret mission. She tells her dad that he's the only one willing to take the toxin back to the past. Um.. why would no one else want to do that?

Oh, and she tells her dad that he left their family only a few years later than his present, which is totally out of character and out of left field.

So they make the toxin, but of course it's too late. Dan is able to get it back to the past, but no one questions why the dad of the future's only hope is holding a vial and he just gets to do his own thing with it. No one in the government takes him seriously, even though they supposedly know who he is. So he just happens to know the exact right people, including a teenage volcano enthusiast, to get a rag tag group of people together to kill off the aliens. They don't think through the actions of injecting toxin into these makeshift wombs at all, and shockingly it backfires.

So yeah.. lots of potential, but the execution was disjointed and unbelievable. If you can suspend logic for 2 hours, it can be an entertaining watch. If not-maybe try something else.

Danny and Karen? Bleh. Ew. And super out of character for Karen! I could see Danny trying to kiss her and Karen saying no and being kind about it. Making out with him and then having sex with her son's best friend and her best friend's son? No. Just no.

There are some episodes where logic just has to be suspended and this was one of them. They're all acting surprised that the debris is connected-like it's a revelation. Um.. it all came from the same alien ship. Of course it's connected. The crazier (and harder to swallow) thing is that each piece of debris does something different. Plot holes abound!