Watched most of the first episode last night, whilst it is watchable it has some very poor parts to it. The zooming in on faces during 'tense' scenes is almost laughable and some of the acting is extremely dodgy.
I'd probably rate it 5.5/10 at this point, I'll give it a go for a few more episodes to see if it improves, but the direction is poor and I agree with Cas, the cast is completely wrong. For apparently the mission that has the fate of the whole planet in its hands, the cast is nonsense. You have to wonder who the casting director was here, did they come from the CW and were just told young, good looking people only. Surely if this ever happened you would have an older experienced crew?
Plus the crazy event in the first episode just made no sense. As if a former commander would behave that way with so little provocation.
I like Katee Sackhoff and she certainly has spent an extremely long time in the gym before filming this, it's a shame she is the lead in what looks from the first episode to be a very poor effort.
I think I'd have agreed with a slightly higher score for the pilot, but you wait until episode 2 goes all Prometheus. I'm on episode 4 and have lost the will to live. Only The Boys can bring me back now.
The Boys ticks my box (Folks moaned The Tick but still watched it because it was fun and stupid) so will be giving that a go and with the season 2 of Succession on the horizon soon........Yup the second episode really is a shocker in shere stupidity of the crew and even the bloody ship AI that managed to miss an entire bloody moon .
I'm on ep 3 of The Boys and loving every bloody minute of it .
Katee Sackhoff was ok in Longmire and this is probably a step too far for her talents.
She as this one look sometimes when you think there is trouble in pushing out a turd ...........
Just finished the first ep, to be honest I was hoping for another Nightflyers (That was brilliant
Nightflyers could have been better but we have all seen worse, Can Katie lead a series? tough call as so many factors need to be in place...That's a bit worrying, we really didn't like Nightflyers, was a heaving mess (in our opinion), so if this is like that I might just give it a miss completely. Ironically we have also just started watching BSG with a younger Sackhoff which we are thoroughly enjoying.
Defo, she can act but this (I am currently into ep 3) is worse than watching Love Island.She's FANTASTIC in Battlestar Galactica. Amazing actress.
Just goes to show how much of a difference a good script can make...
Sir Roger was never the same againMy lad was watching this earlier and at seeing Sackhoff again, I couldn't help but be reminded of dear old Roger Moore when asked what it was like to go to bed with (similarly toned) Grace Jones?...It was like riding a bike!