Seriously, I bailed when Captain Kirk started making out with green skinned women. Who wants to see that?

I mean, let's just come up with a hypothetical example. Let's say that baby formula manufacturers realize that the specific tests used by the regulator to check for protein can be fooled by melamine and so they use melamine as an ingredient to save money while fooling the regulator. Consequently hundreds of thousands of babies get sick and tens of thousands are hospitalized with some dying, and that's just the ones that are known about. Should the regulators be the only ones that get in trouble while the executives who made the decisions buy themselves some private islands? I mean, A. that's not a hypothetical example and, B. I just do not understand what you are trying to argue here. Maybe it's my fault, but it just seems incomprehensible to me given the actual, real-world history of corporate behavior when it comes to food and drug safety.

Q: What did the leper say to the hooker when he was paying her?

A: Keep the tip.

If you like sci/fi with lots of special effects and dramatic music this show is for you, they should have given it it's own title not recycling the "war of the worlds" name, lots of drama in this movie if you like tragedy/drama in your sci/fi, I am sure it is watchable to those that like that sort of sci/fi