My sense, watching only the first episode, is that the story being told here was steered generally by the availability of sets and locations and not by an intended narrative, and most of the sets give the impression of having been either taken directly from another show or borrowed, half-redressed and then shot in soft focus to avoid attracting attention to details or overall sturdiness.
Whatever its inspirations are, Pandora doesn’t stay concentrated on any single genre or plotline for long. Is that explained by anything in the text? Heck no, but it’s at least acknowledged that some of these references are dated and absurd, like a toss-off “We’re not in Kansas anymore” joke that confuses its intended audience or a space flight playlist of 1980s classics highlighted by “She Blinded Me With Science.” Altman has imagined a distant future in which characters talk like they were raised watching WB dramas from 20 years ago and where their stable of pop culture references stalled out in the late ’90s. Very little by way of rules, stakes or mythology are established in the pilot, so I’m not sure how much to care about any of these secrets other than “Not much.”Ĭreator Mark A. Fortunately, Jax has several secrets of her own, including at least one biggie that she doesn’t know herself. Atria is a clone! Tom is telepathic! Ralen is the son of an alien ambassador! Greg is Australian! Etc. Actually, all of Jax’s friends have secrets. Starting classes a couple weeks late, Jax has to hurry to make friends, including with Raechelle Banno’s Atria, Ben Radcliffe’s Ralen, Martin Bobb-Semple’s Tom, John Harlan Kim’s Greg and Oliver Dench’s Xander Duvall, a TA whose very British manners obscure possibly several dark secrets. Basically orphaned, Jax returns to Earth, where her ultra-affluent uncle (Noah Huntley’s Donovan Osborn) is able to get her a coveted position in the Space Training Academy, which definitely shouldn’t be confused with Star Fleet Academy. Set in 2199, Pandora stars Priscilla Quintana as Jax, a young woman whose parents disappear from some distant planet under mysterious circumstances.
Pandora also has occasional bursts of anachronistic humor that seem intentional and verging on effective, rather than relying on accidental laughs to break the monotony. Pandora almost looks like Avatar compared with The Outpost, in the sense that I’m pretty sure not all of the show’s sets could be toppled by an aggressive sneeze.
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