this miniseries be mostly a 7 . 5 or so for me and until the last half of the final part where they proceed to represent basically ignore ( they throw in a casual explanation ) the two survivor of piedmont sub plot ignore the sub plot ( even if it be a horribly clichéd one ) of the estranged wife of dr stone and and rebellious son ignore the fact that there be airborne rubber eat andromeda above piedmont when the helicopter fly over turn the andromeda strain into a visible on screen entity provide no clear reason for why dae kims character die upon throw a thumb flub the end of the reporter sub plot and so it become a total who care . give andromeda an actual ( and completely dumb ) origin and rather than leave it mysterious like the novel bore u all to death with environmentalist clichéd 1960s star trek esquire moralise bore u past death to government conspiracy plot line that so horribly overdone provide no reason a to why there be lot of rubble fall down the central shaftbut perhaps the most burning of the flaw with this miniseries be the action that occur when the nuclear fail safe be activate . besides be motivate by a plot contrivance rather than logically occur a it do in the novel and it be also horribly drag out . i record this and watch it back via sky plus ( tivo esque machine for those of you not in the uk ) and i must have fast forward through most of that climb and crawl sequence . it actually seem to me like because they have a few ex 24 star and they felt like the thing need to happen in real time . do film maker really think we need to see every excruciate detail of climb up ladder and climb down ladder and throw thumb and climb into vent and climb out of vent and crawl across a floor and crawl up a wall and struggle to remove a key card and struggle to remove a thumb . just get to the point and we do not want to see 10 minute of pad in a 15 minute action sequence .