Well my opinion, if the 18 episodes of the season had been shown over a period of, say, 18 weeks, instead of a spurt here and there with many months in between, it could have worked. But of course that would interfere with syfy's primary agenda to eliminate all science fiction so it can be replaced with rasslin', ghosts and reality crap.
After seeing it all I'm convinced even more than when I first supposed it in the ancient beginnings of this thread. What an utterly lost, depraved society. The colonists deserved genocide. It's a shame any of them survived to pollute the gene pool of earth.