The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I've called a network just one time in my life to complain about a show being canceled, and it was for Earth 2. If I recall it was on NBC on Sunday evening in a tough time slot. When I saw one of the actresses on 90210 the following season I knew it wasn't coming back.I loved this show! I'm watching it again on Netflix for the first time since it went off the air.It was so creative and had so much possibility. It had similarities to Star Trek. I wish someone would take a shot at bringing this show back and picking up the story where it was left off. PLEASE! I would watch it.

There comes a point, when you've watched all the glitzy, fancy sci-fi series that have come out in the last decade, and miss that sense of discovering an awesome new series with some good sci-fi elements that you start turning backwards, watching shows from previous decades, which begin to make more and more unrealistic projections of the next 20 yrs...But then there's this show, this horribly-titled, 1-season show, with a pilot that begins on the wrong foot (sickly children in need of help. Awwwwwwwwww....) but... about three or four episodes in, you're hooked.Because it's a damned good show. It relies a bit heavily on the whole 'Gaia Earth' theory, and it's a bit corny to hear characters circumventing the usual technobabble of sci-fi by insisting all oddness on the planet can be explained through 'the planet's strong metaphysical plane' (I mean, what the ****?)... But having just finished watching all of 'Deep Space Nine', I can definitely say that Earth 2's cheese quotia is far below that of anything 'Star Trek'. I'd even put it on par with some of the old Stargate SG-1.Though there are weak episodes (mostly in the beginning). The good news is that a few of the characters who begin out the show extremely annoying eventually become quite likable, and the way in which story arcs develop is commendably good.Beware when watching this show that you see the last few episodes in the right order. The very last episode is called 'All About Eve', even though it's often packaged earlier in the series. If you see this episode before others, you'll ruin the mildly cliff-hangery (and unresolved) ending for yourself.

This review is just about 1 episode in general. I saw some eps of earth 2 a long time ago (i don't recall them as being anywhere above a 5 star rating), but when i saw this episode today i felt animated to write a review. The first 30 minutes weren't really interesting, just some:"oh there's a time rift, black-hole whatever thing in this cave". The fun actually started when they "got a theory" about how this time-rift whatever works. There were spiders at each side of the rift and after a spider bit one of the actors and he suddenly started to be in love with one of the other actors they got to set up a theory. Some time ago in this ep a spider bit one of those Grendel's(at least they are called so in the German translation) and it got angry as hell. So... 2 different types of spiders. One makes you feel positive and the other negative. Think logical and you might think of a positive and a negative magnetic pole. a positive on the one side of the rift and the negative on the other side of the rift. Sure... 2 magnetic spider webs equals 2 poles = magic rift of instant teleportation. When the rift broke down they came to the conclusion that they might have brought a spider from one side to the other and by removing the "wrong" spider by placing it in a plastic tube, TAdaaaah the magic rift appears again.Someone talked about brain in this series.... i think this is the hardest anti-brain ep i ever saw in sci-fi for a long time..(OK except for Andromeda maybe).My final words: go watch battle-star galactica or the "new" enterprise for some serious sci-fi. earth 2 has some serious problems explaining things(and sci-fi is mostly about stuff you can somehow explain... as its called SCIENCE-fiction) and the story wont keep you longing for the next ep. This last paragraph is my personal thought only so pls don't flame me about that.Best regards Dobs

As sci-fi goes, this one was terrific. Much as I like spaceships, I've had my fill of military-based action sci-fi. I've just rewatched Earth 2 on DVD, after never forgetting its run in the 90s, and it has dated pretty well.The show focuses on character conflicts and strange happenings on an alien world as the Eden Advance team of 16 adults and children, who have crash-landed off-course, make a 9-month journey to New Pacifica. I love the characters as they struggle to get along (half of them weren't even supposed to be there, but are now stuck 22 light years from Earth). Most of them grew up on space stations, because Earth is barely habitable, so they are ill-equipped for traversing an alien continent on foot. They've never even seen rain before.The native Terrians are one of the most "alien" aliens ever created for TV, with their plant-like biology, their organic connection with the planet, their rituals and beliefs, their creepy method of travel, and of course the dreamscape. The Grendlers are more typical beasties, mostly malign. Interestingly, there were no real "monsters" on the planet. The dangers mostly came from Earth adversaries such as penal colonists, the Council's killer android, and implanted biochips. One thing that did consistently annoy me was the number of humans that our team keeps running into on this supposedly uninhabited planet, but I guess that was the writers' way of developing a richer fictional universe full of conspiracies and competing interests. Humanity is definitely the bad guy here.The characters are varied and interesting, very flawed, sometimes acting stupidly or selfishly, but in the end coming to realize they have to pull together. Julia and Alonzo's romance was curiously underplayed rather than having the sexual tension drawn out for two seasons or more, but that mainstay of episodic TV was left to Devon and John's relationship. The child actors were stand-outs.I was so disappointed when the show was canceled after one season, on a cliffhanger no less. I would love to have watched the Eden team make base at New Pacifica, welcome the incoming 250 families and their "syndrome children", and establish a new community from the ground up. I dread to think of the production nightmares involved with filming a weekly show that was almost exclusively out-of-doors. Earth 2 is gone for good, but I would love to see a new show based on the colonization premise.