This seemed like about 20 hours worth of story shoved into 4 hours. As a result, there are characters who are set up to be important that just disappear, and then characters who appear out of nowhere in the end (or were severely underdeveloped) and are very important to the end.
Also, a lot of things depended on coincidence. Lorelei's boyfriend somehow knew that she hid a movie underwater...and I'm not entirely sure how that movie played into the resolution. Wasn't it just some old movie? And then the captain left that trinket behind in Lorelei's room so that the little girl could find it? Did they ever bother to reveal who stole Lorelei's computer and uploaded the video???
And the boyfriend quickly fell in love with Lorelei's best friend? In fact...was there ANYBODY in this show that wasn't having sex with each other??
Meanwhile, I watched this because Michelle Mylett is in it (and for the record, I'm sure that the computer program would choose for her and I to procreate)...but why was she in this??? Her character added NOTHING. She was just the friend of Nora who seemed like she'd be a main star, but then Nora disappeared from the plot and was actually just herding a random pig during the climax...so why does she need a best friend character that wastes precious screen time? Maybe instead, Mylett's character could have been merged with the blonde prostitute who showed up midway through and played a huge role and then disappeared again. One character who was a young, ambitious "stewardess" and worked her way into an important position would have given that character a bit more depth. Like I said though...ultimately we don't even need Nora in the show because she was a plot that went nowhere. This was an issue throughout...as the show was crowded with characters who took up time and then ultimately didn't matter...and then the final climactic fight was between the main "hero" and a guy we had never even met until a few minutes before. Why is a stranger involved in THE climax?? Couldn't you have had the "inside man" want to remove the girl from the ship, and have him fight in the end? Sure, he was under-developed as well...but at least he had SOME character earlier in the show!
Speaking of which...GHOSTS???? SUPER POWERS??? What was all that nonsense? The concept was strong enough that it didn't need it. Are we supposed to believe that a computer program picking sex partners would create a HUGE evolutionary leap in TWO generations????
But the basic concept was fine in an Illuminati sort of way. There's this unseen power structure that is guiding society, even causing disasters...and even running its own controlled opposition...to shape and control the future of mankind. I get that...but ultimately it's derailed by the ghost and super powers nonsense.
If this culture is stuck in the 1960's, why did it seem so progressive? One of the highest ranking guys (and our main "hero" despite him being kind of a scumbag) is a black guy. The entire society seemed perfectly fine with prostitution. The period they launched from was SUCH a turbulent time...and yet there were NO signs of that. Sure, they had a lower level that were seen as beneath the higher levels, but it was kind of randomly thrown in from time to time. Even the main investigator lady...I think I'm supposed to think that she found her humanity because, as a lesbian, she saw that this eugenics type experiment was kind of Nazi-esque...but it failed to actually show her emotional arc...and given that blacks had quickly risen to leadership positions and sexuality was open and free...her complaints ring a bit hollow.
The characters were so poorly developed that I spent half the run time trying to figure out who was related (for instance, the little girl spent most of the film with the doctor lady, but then her mom showed up in a cameo as a random drunk).
