So many great ideas. Like the original it rips off other movies: Alien (creature running amok on space ship), 36 Hours (waking up in an enemy hospital where they try to fool you), Vietnam War movies (fragging an officer), The Thing, The West Wing. Sci fi is like the Western – you can cross is with almost any genre.
Season 2 continues the high quality on the whole, although it has the first bad episode – “Final Cut”, which is one of those irritating “characters do a piece to camera” episodes. Lucy Lawless’ Kiwi accent throws you and it’s not remotely believable that a journo would be allowed unrestricted access in a time of war. But it soon recovers with the excellent Pegasus three parter and ends with a terrific whammy.
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