Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

shoobe01-1 I could not trudge through more than a couple of episodes. And apparently, it starts off brilliantly then falls on it's face. It's hard to imagine that. Did they invent technology in the later season to actually punch viewers in the face? From the start it's just horrible. 1960s soap opera horrible. Wooden acting, but at least they have unconvincing dialogue to deliver badly. Comical effects and prosthetics, which no one can see so they leave in the part where everyone is impressed by the weak spaceships and tiny sets. Impossibly trite storylines. Stupid characters, who cannot see the obvious and argue because that is what is on the page. I'll give low-budget SF a chance if it tries. Babylon 5 is watchable to me, as an example. Hell, I watched half of The Starlost, and it was badly butchered and is cheap as hell. But no, just no to Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.

emil_hohmann-90375 I haven't watched the show in years and barely remembered it. Then i saw it available on Amazon Prime. I like older shows better than anything out today, so i cued it up. Season one started fast and got a little slow. But, it was intellectual, made you think deep, and start hungering for the truth about the hidden agenda of the Taelons. I knew right away in the episode with the probe, that it was not Taelon tech. That made a new and enticing possibility appear... would the Taelons turn to our side and completely open up as equals with the humans, or be destroyed by the hidden enemy? Then, we get to the end of season one... My favorite character gets killed... Left me fearful for season two...Season two.. A bland replacement for Boone arrives and the series seemingly struggles to regain its footing. A new evil Taelon arrives on the scene. Far more polarizing than the original bad guy, who gets more "good" but stays pretty ambiguous. By the end of the season though, the new lead (Liam) finds his place and takes over the show.Season three things start to develop more and deeper secrets are revealed...Season four things start to feel a little dragged out and convoluted.. But it has some really good episodes and starts to close some loops. The climax of the season leaves you expecting a very satisfying conclusion.Season 5.... Oh, what to say... WTF!? is what sums it up the best. They destroyed the huge opportunity they had to make the series conclude as one of the best scifi series ever! Killing off the lead...again.. and making the Attivus look nothing like the images of themselves in the earlier seasons, and making them "energy vampires" that had none of the sophistication of either of the their progenitor species, destroyed the mythos and any semblance of constancy, and thus destroyed the series all together. the plot was bad, the writing was worse, and the best of what the series had to offer was tossed with the best characters in the series. I could not get past episode 2. The executives should be fired and then have all their profits taken and given back to the fans. They should live in shanty's for the rest of their lives.

Thibaud If something is important in TV shows, it would probably be its first season, because it is supposed to establish all the bases of the upcoming series - apparently written and completed beforehand... at first sight - while keeping coherence to the show. That's exactly what EFC did not respect by implementing new elements which simply broke the illusion and made it clear, for any sort of audience, that the show was simply getting low-minded, as another reviewer put it, and I do agree in the cases of T'Than (Seasons 3-4) and Zo'or (Seasons 2-4), the characters were simply overplayed, making them sound illogical by moments.Everything that there is to say is said in the other reviews, read them, I found them really accurate and properly written. In season one, you had a good red line, it had all the elements to promise a good show : Taelons were fascinating, ill-wiled or benevolent,you really asked yourself the question. There were aspects of a big conspiracy theory which - though not really revolutionary nowadays, was pleasant to follow and then decipher. Then, there was season 2, WTF is happening you think, okay, a Kimera impregnates a woman who gives birth to Liam Kincaid, the only guy on earth who can grow up in five minutes, watch in hands. The guy - physically supposed to be more attractive than Kevin Kilner, that is the reason why they put him away, you see; has superpowers you cannot imagine and he eventually lost them. Well at least, the staff realized that these superpowers were simply under-used if that term exists in English.Yes, one of the factual mistake is the rotation of characters, let us put it that way. Some characters are simply thrown out like rubbish and you are never to see them again (or you have to wait.) Some examples to illustrate that : William Boone (buddy, we took four years to realize that you had to be on the show, shame it was Season 5), Lily Marquette (literally thrown out into space then she reappears, her characterization is seemingly accomplished in Season 4 but you realize that the whole thing sounds impossible, the character was virtually rearranged so as to make her quickly disappear, in other words, sounds hypocritical), Jonathan Doors (clearly misused in Season 2/3, except at the very end of Season 2 when he is nominated to the presidential election, shame he lost because that was promising) then there is Augur whose character was at first promptly repudiated from the show but they managed to do something quite interesting because he too was misused - something which never occurred with William Boone). There is definitely a problem with the characters. As it was said, Renee Palmer does not have the profile to fulfill our expectations as the leading character in Season 5, she is too plain and she was only correct as a secondary character (Season 4-5) because she is not very interesting : she knows too much people, she is always ready to help, you almost never see her pushed to her limits because she seemingly has none, the only moment when I was surprised about her is when they say she is infertile and effectively, it makes the show move on. Moreover, as regards for sweet Julia Street, she is completely A) boring B) useless and you never see her on screen, the only moment she is interesting happens once and that's all but THAT too remains undeveloped.But the show tries to be saved. That is something you realize when you see how they try to make it interesting. The first change to occur is the new open titles which take a more flashy form, gaudy or dowdy you choose, I find it casual and almost burlesque ("A man ... who is more than human'' - note that if you do not know the show, you'll find it weird to see that Liam is fundamentally human, as we said, his powers are misused.) I think this show can be watched from the beginning to ... the end of season 4. If, like me, you like William Boone, then you can make up your own red line because you will need to force yourself into watching the whole series, some episodes are craps, some are really goods (a couple in season 2, same in season 3, season 4 is a little more interesting that the last two we mentioned.) The best inevitably remains Season 1 and I'm glad to realize that Season 1 will always be there, no matter what they did to the show. Don't get into the plot too much or you will be astonished by the quantity of inconsistencies that there are in this series. However the ideas are there, some are really worthy to reflect upon - if contradicting elements had not been established in previous episodes -. This show needs to be watched for its first season only, and a half-dozen of other episodes throughout the following seasons. If you hesitate, do it, the first episodes are vintage.

ricknorwood The pilot episode written by Gene Roddenberry is excellent, but the show goes nowhere, all hugger mugger and no real story. Roddenberry's basic idea, that contact between humans and superior aliens will not be all black and white but will be filled with ambiguities, is a good one. Later writers, however, think in terms of good aliens and bad aliens. The use of female actors to play androgynous aliens was a good idea, but in later seasons everybody except Da'an overdoes it. In the third season, there are a number of scripts by Howard Cheykin, who is an excellent writer, and who wrote some memorable episodes of The Flash TV series, as well as some great graphic novels. However, he is unable to do anything here, because he is locked in to what is really not a workable story line. I have not watched the fifth season, but I have read that it throws out most of what was established in the first four. For scifi completists only.