SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Borgarkeri A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

dire_wolfe In the beginning we see the ship making an escape while undergoing a bomb search. Quite wise to do both, for those Nasty Politicos seem a very determined bunch! They just tried to kill you with a bomb, so why not leave a message (broadcast) over the whole planet to that effect? AFTER you are far enough on your way that they won't come after you... Just to make things interesting for those whose politics are 'difficult' with you leaving. A drone broadcasting on one side of Earth, and a regular broadcast on the other, just for redundance! It only seems fair to do this, especially in view of the way the landing was botched. Seems that the Bad Folks may have sabotaged the landing craft, among other things, a VERY petty means of revenge. It is obvious that the Great Diaspora has begun, at least for this Milieu.Oberrti, on the Outward Looking Journey

jpetto One of the best TV shows I ever watched. I have been waiting for this show to return or be re-invigorated for years. When I discuss Sci-fi shows, this is always the one I put first. Why? because it gives me hope for humanity. I worry about our future & this was although 'out there' with imagination, near reality for me. I guess it was what I hope could be in our future. I also felt the plots were well organized, it kept me guessing. When I first watched it, I was left hanging week to week & nothing interrupted my viewing. A great idea, worth a look, hope some imaginative producer grabs this & does something with it. I'd love to see an ending, as I am left wanting more.

invincible_irvine I'll never forget the advertising that led to the debut of this series in the Fall of 1994. This show had passion, intrigue, suspense, sci-fi and creativity that the "Star Trek" franchises couldn't touch.In a span of only 21 episodes, "Earth 2" took its devoted followers from space stations hovering outside Earth's orbit to a foreign planet, leaving port without clearance and cut off from support. After 22 years of deep sleep, their ship crashes onto the foreign planet before they can properly evacuate.With so much talent from their starring cast, including Debra Farentino, Rebecca Gayheart, Antonio Sabato Jr., Jessica Steen, Clancy Brown and so many others, it really is a shame that the executives at NBC didn't have as much faith in the show as the critics and even the Emmys, which the show won.Now that it has finally been released on DVD, Earth 2 can now be enjoyed by those of us who enjoyed the show every Sunday back in 1994-95. But that's still no excuse for networks to scrap great shows that stir intrigue and emotion instead of the ridiculous arisal of reality and legal drama shows that NBC thinks the public wants now. If that were the case, why are there fewer and fewer people regularly watching the shows they put out every year? But maybe it's just me...

Sara C As sci-fi goes, this one was terrific. Much as I like spaceships, I've had my fill of military-based action sci-fi. I've just rewatched Earth 2 on DVD, after never forgetting its run in the 90s, and it has dated pretty well.The show focuses on character conflicts and strange happenings on an alien world as the Eden Advance team of 16 adults and children, who have crash-landed off-course, make a 9-month journey to New Pacifica. I love the characters as they struggle to get along (half of them weren't even supposed to be there, but are now stuck 22 light years from Earth). Most of them grew up on space stations, because Earth is barely habitable, so they are ill-equipped for traversing an alien continent on foot. They've never even seen rain before.The native Terrians are one of the most "alien" aliens ever created for TV, with their plant-like biology, their organic connection with the planet, their rituals and beliefs, their creepy method of travel, and of course the dreamscape. The Grendlers are more typical beasties, mostly malign. Interestingly, there were no real "monsters" on the planet. The dangers mostly came from Earth adversaries such as penal colonists, the Council's killer android, and implanted biochips. One thing that did consistently annoy me was the number of humans that our team keeps running into on this supposedly uninhabited planet, but I guess that was the writers' way of developing a richer fictional universe full of conspiracies and competing interests. Humanity is definitely the bad guy here.The characters are varied and interesting, very flawed, sometimes acting stupidly or selfishly, but in the end coming to realize they have to pull together. Julia and Alonzo's romance was curiously underplayed rather than having the sexual tension drawn out for two seasons or more, but that mainstay of episodic TV was left to Devon and John's relationship. The child actors were stand-outs.I was so disappointed when the show was canceled after one season, on a cliffhanger no less. I would love to have watched the Eden team make base at New Pacifica, welcome the incoming 250 families and their "syndrome children", and establish a new community from the ground up. I dread to think of the production nightmares involved with filming a weekly show that was almost exclusively out-of-doors. Earth 2 is gone for good, but I would love to see a new show based on the colonization premise.