I'm predisposed to liking SF series with space lasers and aliens and stuff, but I'm having difficulties with this. It's a future with antimatter drives and machines that can display your thoughts, but mechanised transport has disappeared so cops on the trail of dangerous criminals go on two day hiking trips where they get nibbled by nocturnal monsters. The dangerous mutant gang are apparently a major threat to Porthaven (isn't that where the Dieppe ferry leaves from?) but are too stupid to understand their own machine guns. And the colonists, ignoring the traditional colonising philosophy of eliminating the natives and grabbing as much land as they can, choose to live inside an unfuturistic Rotherham with no transportation network and a sodding huge gate even though nobody drives anything.
And they whinge. Boo hoo, you stole my mother's berth and nobody can get pregnant and my daughter doesn't love me and I'm not giving my horrible family ring away and waaaah my hands are covered in blood. Get with the programme, you muppets. This isn't the spirit of the country that erected the Millennium Dome. I'm about one emoting heart-to-heart away from supporting the mutants.
As for the President of this shambles, well, much as I admire his tough-but-fair policy of genociding the mutants on the off-chance that it improves Childhood Mortality Statistics, I reckon it's a mistake entrusting the eradication programme to a moody bloke with multiple personality disorder (even if he was Apollo in BSG) and then not checking the bodies afterwards.
