Awwww, it wasn't THAT bad. The first half at least was exciting and well directed, if not exactly original. The moral dilemma had been done before and much better in "The Beast Below," which I loved.
Oh god, where do I start?!
Courtney, who I liked last episode, is now a whiny 5 year old brat: Waaaah! I'm not special!!!
Unless I missed a bit of dialogue (I played the scene twice), an astronaut with apparent dementia wanders off during an expedition with no explanation and nobody says a word.
Speaking of astronauts, why do they all have British accents?
They turn on the lights and immediately, voila! Oxygen?! Really?? The corpses all had helmets on; the base had been breached by spiders 10 years ago, so all oxygen had likely bled out then. Even if there was a miracle reserve, it wouldn't have cycled THAT fast!
Did I hear them say the moon wasn't made of rocks? Um, yeah, it kinda is ... We've brought back samples and done spectroscopic analysis of the moon, we know exactly what it's made of.
This creature gains what, millions of tons of mass in ~30 years time ... eating what? Mass doesn't magically appear from nowhere.
Courtney just happens to have a bottle of cleaning fluid in her spacesuit. And she can impressively operate a phone with clunky gloves on. Not only that, she can post to Twitter 30+ years in the past with no cell tower in sight.
The creature hatches and immediately lays an egg the same size as the one it just hatched from. Right. Can you say "ouch"?
There is a nice big full moon ... in broad daylight. Full moons by definition rise at sundown, it should not have been bright and sunny on that beach.
Not only that, the new "egg" looks exactly like the old "egg", right down to the last crater, mountain, and sea.
I'm sure there was more that I'm not remembering, but I'm not going back for a re-watch. I cringed through the entire episode, right from the "Waaaah, I'm not special" bit. Terrible concept, terrible science, terrible acting from the guest cast. What a disappointment after what's so far been a great season. That's 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back.