Dropping AWAY

I'm dropping AWAY. It's not science and exploration and adventure in space. It's "everyone has a shitty life, so let's make everything shittier by sending a bunch of people into space who clearly should NOT be in space, and then make everything mechanical go wrong so often that you wonder who the hell designed such a POS ship." Nearly every scene goes on for two or three beats too many. We linger on tragedy and people weeping. (Not one of the astronauts comes from a stable, positive family background, as we learn in long, dull, weepy flashbacks.) You can tap the pop-ahead function four or five times and not miss a thing.
The characters make no sense. We have a doctor who doesn't seem at all concerned that a big chunk of someone's foot fell off, and who is carrying a disease that should have instantly disqualified him from this mission. We have a cosmonaut/engineer who's self-centered and bitchy and so unable to get along with other people that I can't believe he got assigned to this mission. We have a Tragic Gay (a lesbian who is unexpectedly outed and disallowed from ever contacting her love again). We have a botanist who lets his faith influence his science. And we have a wishy-washy commander who can't focus on her mission. (How was she selected, again?)
I stuck with it for six episodes, hoping it would get better. It's only gotten worse. I'm out!



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