Fox has a habit of commissioning good scifi but then cancelling it after 2 seasons or so. But SAAB's reputation in the business must be pretty good - many other productions (e.g. Starship Troopers, Battlestar Galactica) copied verbatim much of their look and feel from it.
The themes are familiar - a desperate battle against overwhelming odds, the stern but ultimately kind commanding officer, flawed but heroic characters. All familiar but done rather well. But there were problems too. I found the whole thing relentlessly grim - much like the crime series Millennium which was made around the same time. And we never got to see much of a perspective from the other side of the war.
SAAB certainly deserved another series or two, but the fact is - military Scifi that concentrates on just one side has never worked long term, before or since. Star Trek always humanised its enemies by presenting them as eloquent and honourable - more so than the humans sometimes.
The themes are familiar - a desperate battle against overwhelming odds, the stern but ultimately kind commanding officer, flawed but heroic characters. All familiar but done rather well. But there were problems too. I found the whole thing relentlessly grim - much like the crime series Millennium which was made around the same time. And we never got to see much of a perspective from the other side of the war.
SAAB certainly deserved another series or two, but the fact is - military Scifi that concentrates on just one side has never worked long term, before or since. Star Trek always humanised its enemies by presenting them as eloquent and honourable - more so than the humans sometimes.