![]() The plot is paper thin and absolutely ridiculous most times. If you look deeper into this love letter to diversity, you get. The main cast (I'm not talking about the expendable characters that die in the first 20 minutes) have plot You hate to see it folks. Still, the plot is interesting, suspenseful, has good action making the season enjoyable even if I would not call it good. The other aspect that makes this still bad is whenever they have a problem they are able to come up with a solution way beyond the technical capabilities of humans and miraculously pull it off. ![]() The thrust from the laser and sail will cancel each other out. Apparently the writers have never heard of Newton's third law. A spaceship is too massive for a light sail but the truly bad part is that the lasers used to shoot photons at the sail are on the ship it self. Not, we might hit a planet traveling through a dark matter cloud bad, but bad. Unfortunately, they left the annoying, totally incompetent doctor alive. ![]() The new characters are good and one of them makes a comment wondering why the AI woke up unqualified characters before. Viewers after season 1 pointed out they have crew in hibernation and could kill all the annoying characters and wake up new ones and that is exactly what they did. Viewers after season 1 pointed out they have crew in hibernation and could kill all the annoying characters and wake up new ones and that is exactly what Season 1 is a 1/10 so season 2 at 5/10 is significantly better but still not good although I did enjoy it since I like sci-fi so much. Season 1 is a 1/10 so season 2 at 5/10 is significantly better but still not good although I did enjoy it since I like sci-fi so much. Not flawless, but definitely worth a watch for fans of the genre in general or Katee Sackhoff especially. Final verdict: much improved over season 1. Ultimately, Another Life is Katee's series, her vehicle, and she shows that she's earned the lead as Niko, delivering on her rare talent to play nerdy, bad-ass, and sexy, all in the same frame. But she had the next episode pretty much to herself, and she delivered in a way that would have made Captain Kirk proud - character and actor both. The incredibly toned and ripped Sackhoff - always a physical specimen - may be the best non-verbal actor in North America, and she dominates the screen when she's on, much like she did in Battlestar and Longmire her absence is palpable in the series at times, as it was in particular for one entire episode where she failed to appear even once. But the good is there too: decent action and drama, solid effects, and the reigning regent of sci-fi Katee Sackhoff showing why she's worthy of the title. The" science" part of the sci-fi is sketchy sometimes, the plot often relies on convenient timing and contrivance to move forward, and the writing (and some acting as well) could be better. Heck, even the Achaia get to develop and grow - and wait until you see whom they chose to be the human interface with Niko (inspired choice, both on screen and as a choice of actors). Cas continues to receive well-earned screen time, Erik improves over season 1 (and his cringe-worthy season 2 opening scene), and Niko starts really showing the leadership traits that got her nominated as Captain of the mission in the first place. ![]() Even with the quickened pace and new characters, we get actual character development. Some original characters with stalled story lines are airlocked in favor of new characters who have more personality, direction, purpose - and who look like they actually belong on a space mission, unlike the first crew who looked like the local after-school crowd at he internet cafe. After drifting through space through much of season 1 (or sitting around in a park staring at the Achaia artifact back on Earth) season 2 picks up the pace and the plot lines dramatically, much to the improvement of the series and the enjoyment of the fans.
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