Intergalactic

I was able to watch this streaming via Xfinity's Peacock site. My wife and I watched the first episode, she left when one of the characters began to lick up blood on the floor. I watched the entire episode and wasn't very impressed. But I wanted to give it a fair trial so I also watched the entire second episode.

"Intergalactic" by its meaning involves travel to another galaxy. But to me that is just a trick to make the show seem more interesting than it is. The setting is 120+ years in the future, 2145 or so. Much of the world we know now was in ruins by then but nothing seems to be done to tear down the ruins. To travel to another galaxy either takes thousands of years, or you have to learn how to warp space and time. But the space ships in this future still have lots of wires and switches, not a very likely development. No explanation is given, we just have to trust they figured out a way to do it.

So what we see is very limited imagination of what the future will be like. But they sure have preserved the widespread use of handguns, the same kind we use today. And almost every scene has someone pointing a gun and threatening to kill one or more people. Plus all the characters are ugly and unlikable. A very dark dystopian future and viewers who like that might like this series.

But not for me, I will watch no more. The space travel is just a gimmick, the story is really about bad people and isn't substantially different from all the other TV series featuring bad people.

It is hard to describe exactly how bad this show is.

It seems that the producers wished to portray women in dominant positions, showcase women of colour and flesh it out with some dubious-gender roles. An ability to act, it would seem, was not a requirement and may even have hindered hopeful applicants.

Stereotypes, cliches, emotion-driven actions .. everything that a Female-centric platform would want to eliminate ..., they're all here, and they're in your face.

The only impressive feature is that someone has actually managed to produce a show that gives the exact opposite meaning to the one they intended .. and they did it so well.

The "Woke" and the "Feminists" are going to have a hard time with this one, because they won't know whether they should be supporting it or protesting against it.

I've just watched the complete series, and enjoyed it a mild kind of way. It's low budget, the script isn't great, and the acting is ok in parts - I'm glad to say some of the cast members obviously have some fun with it, and that comes through on screen.

Watch a fews eps and see what you think - it would be good if the title got a second series, and a bit more investment in script and story development.

As one of the probably very few people who can remember watching William Hartnell as Dr Who, I can testify to the show's rough edges and iffy bits - so don't be too enthusiastic about slating a programme like this. It could turn around with a second series green light.

Characters get better by ep.5 - even the men are getting less whiney; 'captain' is still far too shouty and unstable: not sure she got this far in life. Witch woman, tech-girl and flyboy are good characters now; screwball and dread-girl getting better.

Was looking forward to this but was disappointed.just a lot of woke nonsense..