While a good idea, the premise was steamrolled by basic continuity and technical errors, even within the sci-fi context.
There is an entire plot point of the deep sea mining project, which could have been a great Halliburton/Dick Chaney reference. Instead, it was a weak point which was underdeveloped, and lead nowhere, except as some weird type of divine inspiration note for 'thermal vents' being the source of Andromeda.
Additionally, we did not need the resolution with the wife/son combo at the end of the episode. It was a useless plot tool and did nothing.
Ending the story on "we don't know" as to the origins and intentions was almost as idiotic as the giant touch pad in the oversized space station containment lab on what was...the ISS? Right, because a multi nation space station isn't going to have astronauts from other countries shrugging their shoulders when told they cant go in a major component of the station.
The idea and book has a lot of potential, and maybe with a real budget in future could be turned into a good TV show.
There is an entire plot point of the deep sea mining project, which could have been a great Halliburton/Dick Chaney reference. Instead, it was a weak point which was underdeveloped, and lead nowhere, except as some weird type of divine inspiration note for 'thermal vents' being the source of Andromeda.
Additionally, we did not need the resolution with the wife/son combo at the end of the episode. It was a useless plot tool and did nothing.
Ending the story on "we don't know" as to the origins and intentions was almost as idiotic as the giant touch pad in the oversized space station containment lab on what was...the ISS? Right, because a multi nation space station isn't going to have astronauts from other countries shrugging their shoulders when told they cant go in a major component of the station.
The idea and book has a lot of potential, and maybe with a real budget in future could be turned into a good TV show.
