Rating: - 'All your Abyss are belong to...' Who? Us? Them? No One.
(Spoilers abound!!)

I give it two for the only real reason I liked this season at all; Trance (Laura Bertram). Yeah ok I know, fanboy alert! But her appeal tripled from an 'ehh, ok pixie chick, that affords potential and not much else, to her presenting different facets of her character/acting ability over following seasons. This season was another change for her and it worked, I guess. Seeing as how she was an amnesiac it made sense to her as frail as she was. Rather than seeing the mature, no-nonsense version in previous seasons become what should have been saved for this season. A victim of writing is all.

The show itself, the biggest victim. There were too many arcs thrown in without any previous foreshadowing. As if a military commander of Hunt's proficiency would go without doing any kind of recon. Where am I? What system do the stars in the sky tell me I am in? I mean once I found out I was on my 'home' planet I'd have to know about everything going on in-system. Who was on every planet, who ran what schemes where, what circles everybody trod in, any more missing friends I might be running into, etc. NO surprises. Not for me as a character, but for the audience, yes.

The point about the thugs and bar-fights, I agree with. Too many with so much more to deal with, potentially, than dumb, drunk sheople.

Evidence and reasoning as solutions to erratic issues the crew had to manage, were drawn out of thin, vacuuous, air. It seemed they knew they were on their way out, and pseudo-writers were stepping up to Majel Roddenberry with requests to do their own episode. A buddies of mine and I would ridicule this show/season to no end.

Previous seasons were too run on a fuel they invented, and not probably not true to Gene's source material. My buddy and I deamed it 'andromeda'. The drug that lets you write anything and get away with it. You don't need foreshadowing, you don't need to tie loose ends, you don't even need entire armadas to disappear in accordance with the laws of physics.

Nope!

Not with andromeda! Take a hit and those delusions will sell better than logic in no time! 'Majel! Majel! Let me do my own episode, maaan, I just took some andromeda I should get to do one now.'

After it was over, after the complaints I had about what a sun might do to a planet it physically encountered, or to how a sun can be dragged/towed by anything smaller than itself, I still wanted more. I had to know what else...even after the lights went out on the show, literally! I seemed to be missing something. I was empty, unsatisfied. I soon realized it's probably because I didn't get enough to begin with.

Alas I wanted what I had in mind, and not what I got. So rich this story was. They just got away with poor fight choreography, repetitious stock footage, rushed story-wraps, and regarding their audience as sheople in previous seasons.

I admit, everyone on the shows production team could out-perform and out-produce me in a tv show-making contest. Being fair I have to take into account any problems they had with Cobb and a lacking budget. But that doesn't mask plot-holes.

I should have watched this years ago before I hit up "Firefly", "Heroes" and "Enterprise." I was spoiled.

Rushed through it they did, mmmmmm. Mmmmmm. My own council I will hold on what is good.

I liked it because of Trance, 2 or 3 good fight sequences, the idea the storyline presented, but not how any of it was executed...except for Trance of course.

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