Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

midge56 I thought I was going to see a nice scifi about a space colony and their efforts to build a home & society on a new planet. The colony story lasted all of 5 minutes. It also gets old showing Earthlings as having no consideration that someone else might own the planet before we setup colonies or try to strip the planet of its resources or disrespect a sacred site.What I got was a gung ho "Marines in Space" which spend every episode shooting & attacking their Alien enemy. Every episode was the same boring repetitious shootemup, over & over again at an incredible slow pace. It doesn't even have any decent technology or effects. Only the alien design was unique.Also, what moron would use C & W music on a sci fi? I had my lifetime fill of Patsy Cline & Johnny Cash. Most sci-fi fans are not C&W fans. Personally, I can't stand C&W. It belongs on cowboy movies.Clearly, this series must appeal to males who get off on war films & shootemup violence which doesn't require any thinking or storyline outside of the repetitious battles between the space marines & aliens... over and over and over again on each episode. There is no depth to the characters. They are 2 dimensional & you never warm up to them. This is the fault of the screenwriters & director. Not the actors. The potential to develop the characters was in their profiles but never attempted.The scenes drag so slowly, you have to fast forward to tolerate it to make it thru to the end. There is only so much shooting & watching marines running thru the trees in full gear you can tolerate. After the first few episodes, this flying space squadron of Marines mostly become foot soldiers on the ground shooting toy machine guns. They don't even have laser weapons.This show would probably appeal to ex marines who crave combat and don't care about story lines or thinking. But not scifi fans. This series would drive any intelligent, thinking person up the wall after one or two episodes. There is only so much repetition someone can endure.This reminds me of NBC execs trying to turn Star Trek into a cowboy wagon train to the stars. These neophyte execs seem to think they need to dumb down everything so the public can handle it. Anyone who is that bad off wouldn't watch sci-fi in the first place. They would be watching Martha Stewart or Archie Bunker.Almost all engineers, scientists & technicians are sci-fi & Star Trek fans. Out of several hundred of my peers, I never met one engineer or Scientist in 30 years who wasn't a Star Trek fan. We were all influenced in our careers & our hopes for a better future by Star Trek. The scifi series & films should be written for these fans. Not the critics.We like in-depth, intelligent stories which don't drag. Fancy, futuristic technology & effects. As well as 3 dimensional characters & a deep connection & relationship between the cast members like Kirk & Spock or Ender's game or the series Eureka. Of course, every time someone comes up with a great series, they cancel it or do something stupid to ruin it like they did to the reboot new Dallas series by turning an oil & riches show into a Mexican cartel with dumb idea story lines which violated the original Cannon. Bobby already owned Southfork outright from the original series final season. Nor did they utilize surviving former cast members & slung Sue Ellen back on the bottle when she was so much better when successful. This is a perfect example of wasted opportunity as they did to this series.One of these days, maybe someone will create sci-fi for sci-fi fans instead of trying to appeal to some other low bracket to attract non scifi fans and ending up with none at all.If you like scifi, this isn't it unless you like slow, boring, repetitive shootemup marines running through the trees with full backpacks & toy guns firing at aliens who dissolve into green goo when they get wet or exposed to air. Every episode the same shootemup, no technology, no story & no effects.At least it doesn't have some overprotective mother whining about her spoiled kid on every episode like we suffered thru on Earth 2 (forever lost in the wilderness) or the reboot of V (FBI agent) where they stupidly killed off the original Diana. Or some lost in space series where they never get home. Or Rick Berman & Abrams killing off every decent character which appeals to the audience & deliberately destroys everything Roddenberry created. I include these side issues as comparative analogies in the hopes that someone will learn from these mistakes & avoid them & create something great.The last two episodes are the best. I agree with those who suggest watching the first 2 episodes & the last 2 and skip everything in between. The alien was clearly an award winning design which should have been shown from the beginning. The characters left in jeopardy at series end were all recoverable. The two females had thrusters & parachutes to land. When Wang's pods blew apart only the right side was obliterated. The section he was in broke away intact. Rerun the scene & you will see it for a split second. McQueen was still alive but wounded. The alien spy they never revealed was the commander of the Saratoga. He sure recovered from that fake cold quite rapidly. Nary a sniffle after the big meeting & they made sure to show a few shifty eye clips of the commander. He's the alien mole whose been providing info to the enemy.Unless you only plan to watch the last 2 episodes, don't waste any time on this series.

the_james_carey The best part about this were the sarcastic jokes in my head in between each poorly uttered, stagnant, piece of detritus dialogue. Atrocious acting, unbearably slow direction and what the hell is with the constant ear grating sound track?!? From beginning to end my only hope was for them to all just die already and be done. It's only saving grace being that it was cancelled after just 23 banal and facile episodes. Having read many of the good reviews here before watching, it was beyond disappointing. The only reason I've bothered to write a review is in the faint hope that if per chance one day another bored little sci-fi geek comes along looking for something fun to watch after running out of "Dark Matter" Episodes... is that they see and heed this as a warning! Would be more aptly titled: TIME(A complete waste there of): Below average and Beyond comprehensionCould be fun to watch with friends as a drinking game, if you take a drink every time there is a shudder or cringe inducing line or scene. Might take a few sittings due to 'black-outs' (alcohol induced time travel) but at least you'd likely forget where you were what you were doing and maybe even the entire show... If you could be that lucky!Enjoy

Dan Fox has a habit of commissioning good scifi but then cancelling it after 2 seasons or so. But SAAB's reputation in the business must be pretty good - many other productions (e.g. Starship Troopers, Battlestar Galactica) copied verbatim much of their look and feel from it.The themes are familiar - a desperate battle against overwhelming odds, the stern but ultimately kind commanding officer, flawed but heroic characters. All familiar but done rather well. But there were problems too. I found the whole thing relentlessly grim - much like the crime series Millennium which was made around the same time. And we never got to see much of a perspective from the other side of the war.SAAB certainly deserved another series or two, but the fact is - military Scifi that concentrates on just one side has never worked long term, before or since. Star Trek always humanised its enemies by presenting them as eloquent and honourable - more so than the humans sometimes.

karl-leofrsson It seems to be that if a show has gadgets, lots of flashy lights and at least one taking computer, it is set to be a hit. Think of Blake's Seven, Star Trek, more Star Trek. If a show has a deadly enemy, structural technology and computers that are programmed rather than told, it is doomed. Here think of Babylon Crusade, and Space, Above & Beyond.Dr Who & Star Trek were axed, once, a long time ago, but they were brought back by popular demand a private investment, so put the money up and anything is possible. I think that Farscape survived and grew because the ship was organic, a living conscious entity. This was unique and imaginative.Stargate survived because... What can I say. Stargate has established its own genre, as well as securing its place in TV history.When Space, Above & Beyond was first broadcast, I only got to see the first episode. I think it was work that I missed the rest of it. But those first forty-five minutes hit hard. I never forgot those few precious scenes.A few weeks ago I was introduced to Babylon 5's spin off series, Crusade. Much more engaging and enjoyable than Babylon 5, yet cut off at thirteen episodes. Not only was the story not finished, it was not even ended. It just ran out of time. A great opportunity of storytelling thrown away.Yet this gave me the push I needed to start trying to find out what happened to Space, Above & Beyond. I found out of course, axed at part twenty four. The characters were amongst the best of any in a space series. The interaction of the members of the team was tightening, as they became a family. The relationship between Commodor Ross and TC MacQueen was fascinating, being a distant fondness of family, with a close respect and understanding of command.This series could have run for years, incorporating true life politics and experiences was wars around the world into the matrix of its story structure, but this was not to be. When you consider the cost of the costumes and the principal sets, the models and the props, and the concept art and sculpting for the aliens, how can they justify cancelling after so short a time, and then have the gall to claim that the show was not a financial success. The drawings, designs, tech specs and models for the tow dozen or so different types of space craft used, Terran and alien, fighters, bombers, transports, shuttles, escorts and capital ships, there is thousands of hours of work, for an eighteen hour program.I will never understand the mindset of entertainment executives, or whatever they like to call themselves nowadays, and I do not know if this series will ever be available on DVD. For those who know where to look, the series is available to watch again.It is their mistake. It is our loss.