The new commander's "heroics" were extremely forced....

That scene with the fire was so contrived and formulaic it was hard to watch.

Did anyone not think the exact following was going to happen after the initial commander died?:

- Old commander dies, so the new commander has a little bit of self doubt.

- The crew starts to fear the new commander may not be entirely ready to be the new leader. Their faces start to look concerned when she can't provide immediate solutions to everything going wrong that they present to her.

- Very soon after this (of course), something very bad happens that requires action.

- The new commander (and no one else from the crew) heroically addresses it and succeeds, even putting her life on the line.

- Things then soon start looking up for the crew.

Horribly written. They went even more over-the-top by having her lock the door behind her so that only she was in the fire's path. Then, of course, they felt the need to make her appear physically, as well as mentally, strong by striking the window with a pickaxe type object after creatively making a thin crack. I think they even went with the "3rd time is a charm!" in regards to how many strikes it took before it broke. Wow.

Come on.