i guess i shouldn not be surprise and scifi channel hasn not do science fiction since they take the 4th season option to cancel farscape . but i digress . first off and if you go into this expect to hear shade of the 1980 movie queen soundtrack and youre go to be disappoint . the opening theme wasn not that bad ( it actually have a lot of potential ) and but the rest of the soundtrack be a letdown . typical can music that one would expect if hollywood ever make a porn movie . if scifi channel be go to remix the original flash gordon song for their trailer and you would think that it would show up somewhere in the series . the music isn not the major letdown and however . it the completely soulless re imagination of a science fiction classic that dump just about everything that make flash gordon from the original comic and serial and animated series and and movie so great . about the only thing that carry over be character and planet name . i be sorry and but it go to take more than that to make an interesting series . if the comic could be re imagine into the buster crabbe serial and and the serial into the animated series and and all of that into the 1980 movie while still keep the whole flash gordon spirit and how hard would it be to make a tv series that can do the same . the character lack any character . between the bad acting and the poor writing and it be impossible to find a character that isn not boring and or even likable . the actor be 20/30 somethings and few of them be well know . probably because scifi channel decide to save on money by hire their usual low grade and pretty face talent maybe if the write hadn not be do by committee it would seem less like dawson creek in space and but i doubt it . i can understand the whole slider rift thing a a convention for the character get to mongo interstellar flight isn not possible for earth when this series be set and most viewer realize this but overall there isn not much innovation . perhaps scifi channel should learn to develop their imagination before try to re imagine any other series . final thought represent i think that cbs re imagination of kolchak the nightstalker be the bad remake ever . scifi channel have prove me wrong once again .