"I don't want to argue with you. Would you like me to argue with you?" Who in their right mind would ever say such an idiotic thing? This is just an example of the bad writing in this movie. Another one: they just discussed that the planet is doomed, but they went on the hallway and just started making small talk, smiling and relaxed like nothing happened. So yeah, the writers could have done so much better!

The science they use in this movie is also far from accurate. Even with a Google search they could have done better. People mentioned here repeatedly the ice expanding, but I have another example: how would it be possible to make it so fast to Alpha Centauri, located about 4 light years away (over 25 trillion miles), with a speed of only 286,000 per hour? Someone says to Don: "Hey, you've been there and back a few times (!!!), how is it there?" So yeah, he's been there a few times, said the writers, although he's about 30 years old. Impossible!

Also, if the planet is "yearly" dying (that planet's length for a year, which cannot be much too different from ours, given the distance to the sun), how is it possible to have such mature vegetation and fully grown animals? It's simply not!

Another inadvertence in this movie: the kids didn't age a day from the moment they started to build Resolute until they were actually on it (including Resolute making a few trips, since they already had started a colony there). In the meanwhile, the kids also became experts in everything!

Also, if their mom helped build Resolute, it makes no sense why her family would have to test to be accepted in the program!! They should have been automatically in.

Moreover, you can see that everybody's working on the temporary planet, but nobody seems to notice a lady just leaning in a corner, doing nothing (Dr. Smith). I agree that she is annoying, but since when are villains supposed to be likable?

At some point it was hilarious though: there's a guy in the background, strongly built, all muscles, repeatedly moving from place to place something that looks like an empty white box, all this while in the cave, some puny "snowflake" girl is struggling to scrape the petrified biomass. Wrong assignment of tasks!

In conclusion, this movie had a lot of potential, and hopefully they will fulfill it to the fullest in season 2. It is visually stunning, acting is good IMO, and even with the countless plot holes, the story still kept me interested enough to watch it till the end. Therefore, I hope it will be renewed. However, the writing needs to be substantially improved!