Tonight I waded through about 3 episodes of season 2 and just had to give up.

It was a while ago but I seem to remember enjoying Season 1.

In Season 2 everything seems to be over-done and over-dramaticised to the extreme.

Smith has taken ridiculous evil to a level that is just incomprehensible. The kids get themselves into danger by refusing to follow instructions about every 15 seconds without so much as a reprimand. We're taken through heartwarming childhood flashbacks far too often. There's just too much fluffy hugging every time someone gets saved (and that is all too often).

Hey, the graphics are brilliant and the sets are awesome but there's no real story and no real adventure, just a bunch of people getting into trouble and then being overjoyed when everything predictably work out fine.

I might have missed it in S1, but I always thought Alpha Centauri was a Star rather than a habitable planet????