Recall has no Plot

Rating: 5/10 (11 November 2007)

The part I don't understand is if there was a "reactor" or whatever at the centre of the planet why hasn't it been working all this time? Who would turn the thing off in the first place? The original Martians were both advanced and probably peaceful otherwise they would not have been able to build such a machine in the first place. The idea that the "planet would go into meltdown" as Cohaagen seems to believe is wrong so why was the thing turned off? Also when the reactor starts and replenishes the entire planet's atmosphere in less time than it takes for two people to die from decompression wouldn't this result in an explosion that would have killed everyone in the immediate vicinity? The idea of a colonial revolt is good but there was too little depth and development. This "deus ex machina" is too much of a shortcut.