“I thought the battle was a big of a muddled mess.”
I’ve been in combat, a muddled mess is an apt description. That part was probably the most realistic. In battle, there are bullets flying, you don’t know if they are coming or going, everybody is running, all of the plans you talked about ahead of time go out the window and you just do what you are trained to do and take the order of the guy in charge of you and hope for the best.
That battle was probably my favorite part of the whole movie. Everybody is running and gunning, CO is on the line trying to hold his ship together to buy enough time for his crew to complete their mission, nobody knows exactly what they are doing but they fall back on training, interlocking fire, fire and retreat, finding cover. It was pretty cool.
“The big ending wasn’t bad”
Considering how bad most SciFi shows end, this one was pretty good. It was pretty consistent with the show as a whole and it didn’t feel like they pulled the ending out of their buttocks at the last moment.
Some have argued that nobody would walk away from their tech but after 5 years of living in metal eating artifical food with tech chasing them down to kill them, going native would not be a hard sell.
While a muddled mess may be realistic, it isn’t necessarily right for novels, TV shows, or movies, where an audience has to follow what’s happening. In fact, part of the magic of “reality” shows is that they turn a muddle mess into a narrative that the audience can follow because most people don’t like watching muddled messes.