Great premise, poor delivery, no satisfaction

Rating: 4/10 (7 January 2007)

Fantastic premise - no child has been born in the entire world for 18 years, until now. A woman is pregnant, and then the story falls apart. The writers have created a new world, but don't establish the reasons for the boundaries. Why is the world sterile? Why is the world dirty, with trash in the streets and such? Why has society broken down so badly that there are revolutionaries? Why don't countries want immigrants? Why are government conspiracy theories so rampant with the revolutionaries that they start a violent uprising? The writers did not establish the rules for this world, making it impossible to connect with the characters and the story. What was the purpose of showing Luke and his band killing Jasper? That gave us no new information, and only served to annoy. The story was hopeless and full of holes. The minute Julian is killed that tells us Theo's a goner as well. Why does he stick to helping the girl? That was never established. What's so great about the human project? Theo wasn't even certain it existed! Why continue on that course? I could go on and on with the questions. Again, fantastic premise, poorly written. Way to holey.