First things first, this is a pretty clear movie-pilot for an ongoing series. That factor gets more and more obvious as time goes on, so there's two ways of looking at it.
As a Standalone, its pretty weak. The ending is 95% sequel baiting, there's only a little development of the characters, minimal resolution to the story beats, and going to two worlds feels kinda weak. If it had been 3, we'd have been able to see a big variety of worlds, but if it'd have been 1, we'd have gotten more focus. There was both too much and not enough focus on the second world, turning into a lot of mindless filler.
As a pilot... it's intriguing. It's definitely going for Lost-style mystery and secrets, the last 10 minutes being big reveal after big reveal. Its trying to set up the rudimentary aspects of alternate universe travel, give us broad sketches of the characters (that would be developed in the future episodes, presumably), and lots of tasty world-building morsels to be tantalized by... and it more or less does all that well well.
The big problem is that it's dull a lot of the time. The Nuclear Wasteland world is pretty strong, and nicely subverting a few obvious story beats. The future tech world, though... it's just boring. There's not enough happening, characters act like idiots, the usual flaws. It's to the point where it feels like they were just hitting those beats because of course they have to, but when you're trying to buy super-future-awesome tech with a credit card... yeesh.
But I've seen worse pilots go on to become great Sci-Fi series (Next Generation, anyone?), and alternate universe travel is the sort of story that you could really make a strong series out of. Hope it gets picked up.
A B+ Effort, but needs work
First things first, this is a pretty clear movie-pilot for an ongoing series. That factor gets more and more obvious as time goes on, so there's two ways of looking at it.
As a Standalone, its pretty weak. The ending is 95% sequel baiting, there's only a little development of the characters, minimal resolution to the story beats, and going to two worlds feels kinda weak. If it had been 3, we'd have been able to see a big variety of worlds, but if it'd have been 1, we'd have gotten more focus. There was both too much and not enough focus on the second world, turning into a lot of mindless filler.
As a pilot... it's intriguing. It's definitely going for Lost-style mystery and secrets, the last 10 minutes being big reveal after big reveal. Its trying to set up the rudimentary aspects of alternate universe travel, give us broad sketches of the characters (that would be developed in the future episodes, presumably), and lots of tasty world-building morsels to be tantalized by... and it more or less does all that well well.
The big problem is that it's dull a lot of the time. The Nuclear Wasteland world is pretty strong, and nicely subverting a few obvious story beats. The future tech world, though... it's just boring. There's not enough happening, characters act like idiots, the usual flaws. It's to the point where it feels like they were just hitting those beats because of course they have to, but when you're trying to buy super-future-awesome tech with a credit card... yeesh.
But I've seen worse pilots go on to become great Sci-Fi series (Next Generation, anyone?), and alternate universe travel is the sort of story that you could really make a strong series out of. Hope it gets picked up.