Look. It's not great. But there's a lot of interesting elements here. Crazy low budget - so you have to move past that. I can't understand why they waste so much money on extras - when the money could go to special effects? I wish they'd really hit character beats more, and emphasize the growing drama of heroes and villains. At the end of the season, it's still hard to know who the lead Jax Zhou "is" and why we should care about her - which is a problem. It's an odd mishmash of serialized and episodic storytelling - but they don't seem to understand what that means. Too little given to the interesting elements - too much given to the things that are forgettable. That said, the building blocks are there. The dynamics that could be built upon are there. And the writers are obviously thinking of the right things when they're building the scripts, it just gets diluted and lost somewhere along the way. I'm a huge sci-fi fan, who longs for some good old fashioned content. Every show has a learning curve, so I'll absolutely be tuning in next season. Don't judge just based on the first episode - give it some time, and it'll start to grow on you.
Review of Pandora
