I just finished watching the last episode of this remarkable TV show on the Sci-Fi channel, which was canceled previously by CBS. It is one of the few shows this year of which I have endeavored to see every episode, and I did not know it had been previously canceled until tonight. I'm terribly sad and disappointed, but at least it ended on a hopeful note.
It must be incredibly difficult to gather such a load of talent in one place to produce something as tremendous as this was. If it were BBC, the show would still be on-air and just getting started, like Dr. Who at one time. It is just one of the minor tragedies of our capitalist system that some of the very best talent is wasted because it does not make the ratings to justify itself in a given period of time and through a given venue. The loss of this show is a golden example.
The entire cast was excellent and I wish them all well in having found new and rewarding work since. I just cannot get over what must have been an incredibly fun and creative collaboration having been shutdown for lack of market share. Surely an arrangement could have been made to pass it lock stock and barrel to another network that wanted to do something with it? But I probably could expect no more from the imaginations of the money men in corporate entertainment.
Anyway, I am too upset to say much more about the show itself, except that you should take every opportunity to see every episode from the beginning to its fateful end. By design or coincidence the final episode does hint at a positive outcome to the struggle with a huge challenge to human survival that the show conveys. An alien invasion through super-fast and mass genetic mutation from another dimension is one tricky challenge, indeed, In that regard, they probably could not have picked a better episode to close it down, at least of all the episodes that aired. Still, so much more remained to be explored to answer all of the questions raised by the show's unfolding.
Read other reviews for more details on the show's content. I can only reflect on my current sense of loss at what might have been. May it somehow come to be yet again.
It must be incredibly difficult to gather such a load of talent in one place to produce something as tremendous as this was. If it were BBC, the show would still be on-air and just getting started, like Dr. Who at one time. It is just one of the minor tragedies of our capitalist system that some of the very best talent is wasted because it does not make the ratings to justify itself in a given period of time and through a given venue. The loss of this show is a golden example.
The entire cast was excellent and I wish them all well in having found new and rewarding work since. I just cannot get over what must have been an incredibly fun and creative collaboration having been shutdown for lack of market share. Surely an arrangement could have been made to pass it lock stock and barrel to another network that wanted to do something with it? But I probably could expect no more from the imaginations of the money men in corporate entertainment.
Anyway, I am too upset to say much more about the show itself, except that you should take every opportunity to see every episode from the beginning to its fateful end. By design or coincidence the final episode does hint at a positive outcome to the struggle with a huge challenge to human survival that the show conveys. An alien invasion through super-fast and mass genetic mutation from another dimension is one tricky challenge, indeed, In that regard, they probably could not have picked a better episode to close it down, at least of all the episodes that aired. Still, so much more remained to be explored to answer all of the questions raised by the show's unfolding.
Read other reviews for more details on the show's content. I can only reflect on my current sense of loss at what might have been. May it somehow come to be yet again.