Shark Bytes

I can't believe nobody mentioned that fact that they killed off most of the cast. You can't have a show when all of yur charactarsare dead!

Bset show ever!Never jumped.Original and exciting.Those who didn't get....sorry for you.

It jumped at the beginning of the first season when the doctor made contact with this man who was supposed to be an evil burocrat with some bad intentions....hello? They needed decades frozen in ice to travel to the planet. Nobody could contact them from earth anymore and nobody with real power would want to sit in the orbit of some godforsaken planet.

This show started so wonderfully, and then it fell down the stairs into the shark tank. It began with the appearance of Tim Curry. While the man is an excellent actor, it seemed like he was in everything and then some at the time...

I started watching this show along with 2 other friends. When we'd see each other we would discuss this show. They both quit watching it earlier than I did. I wanted to like it, but then they had this episode with these nasty looking spiders that were either negatively or positively charged. If someone was bitten by a negative spider, they got a bad attitude. A bite from a positive spider and everything was coming up roses. It was at that point that I said "OK, I'm outta here" and I quit watching the show.

It never jumped. I think it had tons of possibilities but maybe it was too different....A woman leading? scifi without technology?. Morgan Martin...I hated them but none of them was ever prepared to live in a planet and they should have done a lot of mistakes. They weren't ready. Sure, maybe there were too many humans around there to be a inhabited planet... My fav character was Julia Heller. I hope somebody in Universal decides to make a special edition (what about 10th anniversary?) in DVD with tons of extras. I always wondered how they were going to wake up her and the reaction of colony ship members when they arrived there

Man, I really loved this show when it first aired. My brother and I were so into it. My father even got into it. I agree the quality did decline, but it had SO much promise...reminds me of Roswell, in that the potential was there but bad writing got in the way.

Sorry guys, this show never jumped! Okay it might have had a few campy sci-fi moments, but I dare anyone to name one show that hasn't. Mostly this show didn't last long enough to have to jump and I'm mad about that because I liked where it was going.

When they replaced the Taelons with the Atavus, killed Liam and made Renee the lead

Thanks to the person who posted the info about the show's writers getting fired. I was wondering why there was that sharp decline in quality before the show met its end. I guess it was this new crew of writers that started injecting all the new age nonsense into show. In my opinion that coincides with our learning too much about the aliens, so that's where my vote goes.

This was a good show. It only had one problem Devon Adair always whining and crying about her son Ulysses. I was glad when they had to freeze her in the last episode unfortunately it ended.

The only time Earth 2 can be said to have jumped the shark is when it refused to be like all the other shallow tripe out there and strove for quality. I knew then that it was doomed.

I'm surprised that not many people realize what actually went on behind Earth 2. It's not just your imagination that the later episodes were ridiculous pap compared to the first ones. In the middle of the first season, Universal fired the entire creative team responsible for the show. This was reported to have been done so as to reconfigure the show to appeal to a Sunday night audience--which translated, in some twisted exec's mind, into "dumb it down for the football crowd." THAT was the unquestionable jumping moment. The time slot itself didn't help any, though, seeing as how the show got preempted every other week for "World's Greatest Weddings" or some other such crap. I took the deterioration of the show pretty hard--when it came on I thought it was a sign that television was perhaps ready to embrace more serious, intelligent fare. What other sci-fi show actually portrayed a logical progression of technology and a sensible, thoughtful cast of characters without any (or at least, without many) caricatures? Damn it, I want Earth 2 on DVD! At the very least!

Earth 2 had an excellent premise when it started. You had the mystery of who had sabotaged the mission and why in addition to the stranded crew on an alien world. Unfortunately the show introduced many new age ideas that became increasingly out there. Eventually the show became unwatchable and died.

This was a great sci-fi show for all to watch and enjoy. It started out great and preceded to get a little slow (i'll admit that), but doesn't that happen to a lot of shows? Anyway the show was original, and should have been praised for that instead of criticized. The best part of the show was John Danziger and anyone who criticizes him obviously needs their t.v. taken away...