For all the visual beauty of the series, the dramatic arc of the first season was predictable from the first episode. As intriguing and inventive as the situation is, some of the pivotal moments simply don't make sense unless you arbitrarily change characters' personalities, intelligences, and moral centers in order to justify the plot. In other words, things have to happen for no reason other than it says so in the script. For all the talented cast and crew, it all suffers from the lack of rigor in the writing.