MrHarley

This combines the worst of the original Bladerunner voice overs, the continuity lapses of the final Star Wars trilogy (7-9), and the wooden acting of a failed pilot. Any one of which would cause me to rate it as a four. But no, they had to combine all the flaws in one direct to streaming pastiche. Star Tech techno babble was in full force and even worse than usual, and they demonstrated that with lazy script writing it just adds to the sense of "I will never get this hour and a half of my life back."

OK, hour and twenty minutes of my life back, because the choreography/wire work with the Empress's long sleeves was well done for the first introductory fight scene, so I upped my rating from 2 to 3 stars. However EVERY fight scene afterwards was poorly paced and weakly executed, with long pauses between actual combat moves.

I had high hopes after the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The one thing this abomination does well is demonstrate how these writers hold the franchise and the fans in contempt. If you gave me a choice between this and the last episodes of GoT season 8, I'd rather gouge my eyeballs out with a teaspoon.

I wouldn't let the Empress do it, because in this incarnation she would monolog until my ears were bleeding.

First, I wanted to like this. CW's "I, Zombie" has been a truly clever new series, and "The Flash" understands the fine line between Super Hero Fantasy versus Super Hero Science Fiction, favoring the latter. Both series have likable characters who you grow to care about, and they become deeper and more nuanced as the series progresses.

This delivers none of that. Instead you are immediately confronted as to why Lucifer needs to show up via a Meteor Impact, or why God has chosen the actions of these six people to stop the Apocalypse. He's VERY unhappy with us, but what's really mysterious is why He chooses any of these characters to give us one last chance!?!. Trust me, none of them are Noah nor Lot.

The series suffers from trying to bring too many main players too quickly onto the screen for you to develop that much attachment to them. What is supremely annoying though is that instead of cleverly weaving the characters to ending up at the same place, evidently God is heavy handed and just pushes them all to the same locations with the subtlety of a Political Attack Ad. This happens both at the beginning, sort of, and then at the end of the second episode. Since nothing terribly significant come from this it's not even a plot spoiler. THAT'S an even bigger problem.

The acting ranges from decent to more than a bit over the top, though I don't know if the latter is due to the script, director, or the actors involved. It's not a good sign when the viewers ask themselves that question. Plus the series cannot make up it's mind about Science versus Divine and Infernal meddling, with an unhealthy does of conspiracy theory thrown in for either paranoia or simple stupidity.

So you have heavy-handed, disjointed, and lazy script writing combined with multiple weakly acted/scripted/directed characters who appear more or less central to the series, and whom you don't care about particularly. I figure I'm only out less than two hours of my life, and I'll forgive CW after their other good series debuting this year. Everyone gets to screw up occasionally. If Apocalyptic is your preference, "Sleepy Hollow" is a much better alternative.