The makers of Earth KNOW it's rubbish as they have to always say \'Gene Roddenberry's Earth.\' otherwise people would not continue watching. Their actions and reactions are wooden and predictable, often painful to watch. It's really difficult to care about the characters here as they are not simply foolish, just missing a spark of life. It may treat important issues, yet not as a serious philosophy. It's clichéd and uninspiring.) While US viewers might like emotion and character development, sci-fi is a genre that does not take itself seriously (cf.
(I'm sure there are those of you out there who think Babylon 5 is good sci-fi TV.
Silly prosthetics, cheap cardboard sets, stilted dialogues, CG that doesn't match the background, and painfully one-dimensional characters cannot be overcome with a 'sci-fi' setting. I tried to like this, I really did, but it is to good TV sci-fi as Babylon 5 is to Star Trek (the original). Sci-fi movies/TV are usually underfunded, under-appreciated and misunderstood. 'text': 'I love sci-fi and am willing to put up with a lot.
