Stargate survivor Richard Zeman, Rocketeer man Billy Campbell and Supernova veteran Peter Fonda among the citizens of New America, an outer-space colony with independence issues. Directed by Michael Rymer, who's overseen many Battlestar Galactica episodes, it has pilot show written all over it. But it never grasps its big themes in the way of Ian McShane's bizarre TV series Kings. It's pitched much more like a TV soap. The colonised planet, a weird mixture of cornfields and space shuttles, looks remarkably like Earth. And so the new frontier looks just like a New Age version of the Old West
which all helps on the Sci Fi Channel's budget front.
2 Reviews
interesting incorporations of future cultures & techs...
robertbruced8 April 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This show has an interesting incorporation of technological advancements like sky-lifts, biometric sensors, designer clones and even galactic travel plus much more. A good culmination of past, present and future culture and tech.
The story line is OK, 400 years of oppression left the colonists on a farming planet to a bloody revolution that ended with only a few concessions. The United State is now pushing for more corn putting the colonists back into the defensive.
Character development is good, the flesh of the story is filled out with the right suds.
A purple or yellow sky would be nice tho'. Seriously, the only hint we get we are on another planet is the ever-so-drull dual moons and that apparently, the place smells like honey. The place smells like honey. yerr right royal alien planet sounds to me.
Overall it was a nice watching experience leaving me wanting some more.
The story line is OK, 400 years of oppression left the colonists on a farming planet to a bloody revolution that ended with only a few concessions. The United State is now pushing for more corn putting the colonists back into the defensive.
Character development is good, the flesh of the story is filled out with the right suds.
A purple or yellow sky would be nice tho'. Seriously, the only hint we get we are on another planet is the ever-so-drull dual moons and that apparently, the place smells like honey. The place smells like honey. yerr right royal alien planet sounds to me.
Overall it was a nice watching experience leaving me wanting some more.
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