Positives:
+ Interesting plot. The main story of Sara Werec and her attempt to understand why the brother she loved slaughtered all of her friends is appropriately dramatic for a space opera. The series is paced well and gives you answers at the right times, and it's fun to follow along and theorize about it yourself as you watch.
+ Art is very good considering it was made in 2006. Apart from a handful of dated looking character designs, you would never know this series is that old. The animation and CGI looks solid and everything is well drawn and smoothly animated for the most part.
+ Emily is ridiculously adorable. You can't even understand until you watch it.
Negatives:
- Characters lack personality. Sara especially, while recovering from the trauma of her friends' deaths in the series opener, is basically a personality black hole. She rarely speaks and has no internal monologue, so you never understand what she's thinking until she begins speaking to a doll occasionally. The side characters are also all just there for the most part, only Lottie has anything like a real personality among the other Reasoners on the Libertad.
- Some poor voice acting. I noted more than once while watching this series that the voices sounded flat and like they weren't matching the emotion that the scene called for.
- Slight spoilers, but the absolutely ridiculous way of setting the plot in motion on Gall by having Lavinia suddenly become extremely gay for Sara and go to extreme lengths to seduce her was too much and was not set up well enough to take seriously.
- The action is sometimes kind of boring. The Tumors are uninteresting baddies and the action is not especially dynamic. Most battles become a one sided massacre and lack drama beyond "which characters are going to die".
- Lack of worldbuilding. I'm not asking for like Game of Thrones level lore here, but there is so little explanation of the broader universe that they live in that it feels a bit impersonal, or like there's nothing that exists in the show universe outside of what's being depicted on screen at that very moment.
- Sudden ending to the series that comes out of nowhere. Feels like it was missing the last 5 minutes or something, it was very unexpected when it went to a black screen.
