Pathetic

Mikunitk

Pathetic show in every sense, they attempt to rip off other shows with a mix of Lost and Stargate-Universe themes and fail miserably.

What should be a struggle for survival feels more like a walk in the park. 40 people stuck on a ship in the sea, with apparently unlimited food, fresh brand drinks like Coke, sweets and cookies, medical supplies comparable to a full fledged hospital, carpentry and electronic tools and supplies, make up, dresses for weddings and carnival, unlimited power, with everyone looking fresh and happy as if they are on a holidays cruise rather than a post-apocalyptic world where most of the population and land/cities are gone; you see their breakfast tables everyday with stuff you would find on a 5-star hotel dining hall, with all sort of brand foods which the actors even mention fondly as is typical with Spanish series.

Pathetic acting except maybe 1 or 2 who do just short of average. Most of the dialogue is beyond pathetic, nonsense and lacks any kind of rational thought that you would expect from a human.

Special effects worse than a 10 year-old kid could accomplish with Photoshop and After effects. You see stuff like volcano ashes erupting from the sea which look no better than a show from the 70's, and in most other scenes they simply skip forward.. there is this scene where a tsunami is about to hit them: they show the incoming wave for a brief moment before it hits the ship, and next you are back in the ship with everyone alright and the danger gone, everything has passed..

Half the show is also riddled with nonsense romance plots without any feeling or development whatsoever, with people going through various different partners and talking as if they'd been together for years. Humorous scenes every moment as well, killing any chance of drama or suspense.

Apparently for the writers it is normal that a guy suddenly goes talk to his daughter's new guy right in the middle of a shooting with the bad guys, they are rampaged by bullets from outside a house by 20 guys, and he goes talk to the guy "oh hey erm about my daughter".. really? Oh and you can survive 4 bullets to the chest while you are even in the water. And cold-blooded criminals murdering girls for no good reason are treated as if they were actually good people and nothing ever happened.

There is so much more to say, I almost have no words to describe what an insult this show is to other series with similar plots. Maybe it's actually worth it to watch if you are in for a laugh at just how pathetic it is.

score 1/10

Mikunitk 7 March 2014

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw2975506/