I enjoyed it. I think the casting is excellent and the writing looks promising. Good effects.
I do have a problem with the premise. The whole “we’re killing the earth” meme is just getting old. First off— we’re just NOT in fact killing the earth. We’re making it cleaner. Our state of environmental awareness and science is improving all the time.
So... I’m just choosing to ignore that and concentrate on a bunch of people living millions of years in the past. I had the same problem with Serenity/Firefly... Great story, writing, casting... But the same tired premise. I was able to look past it though.
I did find it kind of funny that they didn’t want to mess up their own timeline but didn’t have any problem screwing with another. LOL
Another problem is that overpopulation is not going to be a challenge in the near future. In fact, the West is collapsing with its below replacement birth rate and even half of the Arab World is already there (Look at countries such as Tunisia, Lebanon, just to name a few)
I agree it makes no sense to claim a crises of a worn out planet and energy shortage at the same time we are able to cross galaxies or time.
This was a very basic flaw of AVATAR too.
Smoke-stacks IN the city, spewing pollution?
We don’t even do that now, industry is OUTSIDE the city, and most stack exhaust have already been reduced to invisibility.
I guess the simplistic backdrop is required due to the average American’s comprehension level, around fifth grade as I recall.
So anyone even a fraction more intelligent has to suffer trite plot lines in the main story, hoping that the subplots may be more thoughtful and interesting.
The actors and their character interactions made Firefly/Serenity. Do you watch ‘Castle’?