RetroRomper wrote:

Just finished a little over half of episode one of the new season and absolutely nothing happened: the whole episode was full of technobabble, cheap jokes, gags, and set ups for gratuitous action scenes. Almost nothing in the episode made any logical sense and they played up whatever stereotypes the characters fall into. Just a complete waste of time.

Series creator Bryan Fuller deliberately gave Martin-Green's character a traditionally male name, which he had done with the female leads (George, Jaye and Chuck) in three of his previous series. Martin-Green decided that the character was named after her father.[7] Executive producer Aaron Harberts spoke to TV Guide and explained the reason for calling the character a traditionally male name, explaining, "We've worked on many shows with Bryan and it's a motif. It's his signature move to name his lead women with names that would typically be associated as male."[8] He felt the name was "cool and different"[9] and pitched it himself explaining, "[I was] thinking of female columnist Michael Sneed, who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times, and The Bangles' bassist Michael Steele."