This show is bananas! The pilot episode is no holds barred tension from beginning to end. It opens on an exhausted crew and a clock ticking down in 33-minute intervals. Why is the crew exhausted? Who is the crew? They’re running from something? Right? What are they running from? The show gives us none of this! Everything that I expected from an opening episode was thrown out the window. I don’t know the character names, I don’t know their motivations. The first episode is entirely plot-based. One thing happens then the next thing happens then the next thing happens, one after the other after the other. People die, then come back to life. A lady is a hallucination, no wait she’s a robot, no wait. It’s a constant, unexplained, mess. But the mess is executed with good writing and compelling cinematography. There is a short space battle, but nothing crazy. Normally I would say plot-based writing was a bad thing, but the air of mystery that surrounds the first episode, paired with plot points that feel like the climax of a greater narrative, makes the first episode so engaging and suspenseful that I did not miss the character development. I’m confident that all the things we’re missing in this first episode will come out later, subtly and naturally. Isn’t that exciting?