Here's the thing: with little to no backstory for any of these characters, it makes it extremely challenging to actually care about any of them. And if I can't care about them, I can't get invested in the outcome. I spent so much time trying to figure out who these people were and when these people were, that I couldn't keep track of what was going on. Which brings me to my next point: I appreciated knowing where we were, but would it have killed someone to tell me when each of these storylines were taking place? In addition to not being able to become invested in the characters, I also had no context most of the time as to when these story lines were happening in relation to one another, and whether they had any connection at all beyond the "Horizon" flyer that kept popping up. The abruptness of switching between the storylines was also jarring, which brings me full circle to not being knowing the characters, which meant half the time I couldn't figure out if we had circled back to a previously introduced storyline or were being thrust into another one for several minutes, and about the time I would start to figure out where we were in this storyline, we were suddenly in another. Frustrating, because I think there are actually some really good stories to be told here, if we could actually get to know who the heck these people are.

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