Clarissa Mora
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Nigel Robinson
As a pilot episode for a new sci-fi show, I was willing to give this show a chance, but being a sci-fi show, a risky genre that fails miserably a good 60% of the time, I knew there were risks.And somehow, Oasis managed to succeed and fail perfectly.The plot isn't exactly thrilling. In a world that's barely surviving, a priest named is sent to a colony on a new planet that hopes to prepare to keep the human race alive. However, the members of the colony begin experiencing weird visions, and the leader of the colony has disappeared leaving only cryptic messages, and no clue as to why he called for Peter's help.Nothing in this plot is original and sadly, it doesn't really lend itself much to thrills. There are few moments in this episode where I was on edge, where I was clutching the edge of my seat, and because of this the second act really begins to drag, and I even checked to see how long the episode had left (never a good sign).Oasis tries to make up for this with plenty of characterisation for the crew of the colony, except there really isn't as much characterisation as it seems to think. There are some well developed characters, some I really cared for and some I developed strong opinions about, then there were plenty that I didn't really care about at all which rendered any of the suspense this episode was going for completely flat.Thinking about it though, what character do any of them have except they've all lost something at some point. Some of them only have implied character that's never confirmed or expanded upon, and some of them are only given character because they're about to die.The biggest problem in this area is the character of Morgan who is the reason Peter gets sent to this colony, and has lots of mystery surrounding him and why he disappeared, but he never makes a proper appearance, and this mystery is never cleared up at all!The writing is pretty strong, there are some great lines of dialogue and it's very sharp. The direction's nice too, especially during the first act where the struggling Earth is realised beautifully.The colony planet has some beautiful shots where the colours just jump off the screen. Definitely the most beautiful show I've ever seen from Amazon.The acting is, fine. To be honest, I feel it would've been better if any of these actors had anything to work with, but they're all very one-dimensional as I mentioned before.I think Oasis definitely tried to fit a few episodes worth of narrative into one hour, and yet somehow still managed to make the second act drag. As a result, everything feels underdeveloped, the characters are bland, the story is basic, and nothing ever gets solved.Despite this, I did enjoy the experience, well the first and third acts anyway, and I do hope that this gets made into a full series because it could be something a bit special given enough time, but while it's proved to me that it's got what it takes to be a really great sci-fi show, it hasn't proved that it deserves a full series. Unless news of a full series arises, I can't recommend this pilot. It was good at points, but nothing captivated me. It felt too thin, and too shallow to be worth your time.
danimilk-41982
Oasis, only with just a pilot we can see that is very good, the cast is awesome and the story make you try to guess what will come, it's very interesting,the way that was build is really complex,the music of opening and how things happen should have more reviews positives because i'ts not any simple story. Is inspired in a book that I will read now. #season complete please.
jonathonpenberthy-85279
I feel like I have seen this before, if I remember rightly I quite liked it, but it was canned after one series.I really hope that I'm wrong and that the writer use of all the classic clichés will be flipped to provide novel and entertaining story that takes us to unexpected places.I would be disappointed if it turns out that: The commander has made contact with an enigmatic subterranean alien race who used to be like humans before they evolved beyond anthropomorphic existence on the surface. The second in command was in contact with some shadowy gov/mil organization that knew about the aliens all alone, but was willing to genocide them to save the human race, with a plan that turns out not only to be flawed but known to be flawed. The second in command were to take increasingly punitive measure to maintain control as rumors begin to spread that the commander is helping the aliens to communicate through peoples subconscious'. But just as Progress is being made BG were to be killed as a result of the use of his dead fathers persona by the alien when trying to communicate with him, unwittingly provoking a violent reaction from BG. This death would then trigger a the deployment of marines, with all there tech and jingoism that studio execs say will turn the viewing figures around, around this point the show is canned.Because that would be really predictable
janeb-87499
Wow, must be made into a series! The amount of story lines that could be generated for this thought provoking series are endless.The acting and the scenery are stunning and it deserves to be shown to everyone.Please please make more episodes.An award winning series in the making.
