In an exciting atmosphere, this television series follows the daily activities and struggles of a group Marines pilots, who do their best to save earth from aliens invaders that plan for destroying earth through putting their control over the world.
Space: Above and Beyond doesn't seem to know whether it wants to be a mind-numbing video game or a heavy-handed allegory for contemporary social issues.
While the acting was sometimes wooden, the lack of star power made the bleakness of war against the technologically superior Chigs more realistic; the show's stars came across as ordinary and therefore more credible.
I watched a TV show find itself. Discovering what it was good at. Finding a way to balance action packed episodic narrative with serialized arcs long before Alias, 24, and Lost.
Space: Above and Beyond, which appeared on Fox in 1995, accomplished a lot. While it didn't last, it still made quite a mark - and influenced much of what followed.
It takes nearly two hours of tiresome setup to get there, but Space: Above and Beyond may be on to a winning formula: a fighter-pilot drama set in space.
The visual components of the show-particularly the armament and the battle scenes-are sleek enough to excite younger viewers. But the plots and characters in Space are as thin as the air up there, and might leave adults floating out in the cold.
There were plenty of interesting sci-fi touches to the action, including the introduction of clone soldiers that brought up some deep questions about the nature of humanity.
