drael64

From an opening scene that could have been ripped straight from a Blair Witch project movie, this series features a largely fairly predictable premise and arc that is full of flawed well executed characters. Some events and decisions that don't entirely make psychological or physical sense although this is typical in shows with a teen ensemble. But this aspect does expound as the series goes on, with the team able to do extraordinary things in their survival efforts, but simultaneously unable to do other simple things. It all starts to be a little absurd. And the plot drags on, and on, without any sense of resolution.

Weaknesses in the script are made up for with the competency of the acting in the first season. From there it's down hill and the mystery pay offs when they come tend to be, so far, less satisfying than the suspense, and are sparsely distributed so as to lengthen the series. Some choices are fairly trope bound. What remains, really is the drama - and that is enough to make this worth watching along side the compelling cinematography and 90s soundtracking - but only for the first season. From there you may feel like you are wasting your time.

The opening scene holds promise for long moments of space silence, before that silence is punctured by the low budget kids pirate antics that tonally set the scene for the show. Between the little nods like blue milk, somewhat pedestrian dialogue, mediocre costuming and cgi draws the eye.

You can tell the creatives wanted to infuse a Speilbergian sense of adventure into this story, although this isn't well sold beyond the peppy soundtracking. Perhaps they have more love of that however, than the star wars setting, which seems almost irrelevant.

Stranger Things by comparison has a more ultimately mature tone, and is popular with adults moreso than actual kids. I can't help but wonder if millenial writers these days are falling out of touch with what very young gen z, and very old gen alpha might want - with gen z watching shows like 'Invincible', 'Loki', 'Rick and Morty' + 'Wednesday' for eg as well as a lot of animated shows.

I'm not sure Star Wars has ever particularly weighted for these generations, let alone a kids on bikes trope kind of 80s nostalgia than millenials lapped up (and if anything gen z seems more like a 90s nostalgia generation)

I digress a lot! But hey, word count lol. Will this be renewed? I'm very skeptical. I suspect it'll find very little audience.