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The result of this split is less time spent fleshing out the characters in the leap story line. This leads to a lot of telling and not showing. A lot of exposition explaining, for example, the relationship between the commander of the space shuttle and his second in command. Instead of showing us their relationship, we only hear about it from the second in command. Not so interesting. We know the commander took her under his wing and trained her for a decade. We get some hints of a romantic relationship between them, which would've been really cool to explore. He's a married man, and she's his protege. I mean, if we had time in this episode, we would've been able to really flesh that out. And when the commander gets injured, if we've already seen how him and his second in command are close, it would've made us feel more for the second in command when we see someone she loves get hurt. We could've seen her rattled for a bit as she tries to struggle to get into the mindset of being the person in charge of the mission. In essence stepping out from under the commander's shadow and being her own person; her own hero. Then when the commander regains his consciousness, the struggle for whose decision is right would be way more impactful.
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