What disappointed you about Mako?
The premise had potential (even though it was ‘The Last Starfighter’ reboot), but the story ended up just replaying set pieces of a dozen other books. Don’t expect any depth to the story. Ridiculous things take place and the best rationale the author could come up with was “science & stuff happened”. The characters were satisfied with the ridiculousness of it all, but I was not.
What was most disappointing about Ian J. Malone’s story?
About halfway through the book I found myself checking (hoping) if it was close to being done. If you like mildly entertaining stories, with little explanation of events or circumstances, and no attempt to make things even slightly plausible, you might enjoy it. For me the incongruities built up to the point where I could barely finish the book.
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
Performance was average. Nothing special, but not bad either.
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Mako?
The beginning was ok, but as soon as the author started attempting to paint a view of the future, the silly explanations made the story fall apart for me. A space fighter was described as rolling down the tarmac… out of another space craft. Personally, I’m not sure nasa would approve of using tarmac as a building material within a spacecraft. An alien race that evolved to be nearly 100% genetically identical to humans was interesting… who all have western names and everything from every day life we have (newspapers, bacon, beer, etc.) but they were fascinated by our music. The author made no attempt to create another culture, etc. Humans just got stamped all over the universe conveniently. I guess it would save on costume costs for the tv movie version.
Any additional comments?
This could be a series created for the early sci-fi channel. It would of been cancelled after 4 episodes however. Could also work as a cartoon mini-series.