Was there too much bigotry to be renewed?
Full Definition of BIGOT
A person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.
I liked the story premise where the young of two different races, for the first time meet and learning to inter-mingle. But despite it's Scifi back story, the amount of bigotry in this show just turned me right off. In 2014 most people are fighting to remove injustice and intolerance form the world yet here we have alien students being forced to go to a school filled with bigoted students. A school surrounded by their placard wielding bigoted parents, with a bigoted government making them live in shipping containers.
I understand that their being alien is part of the story but am i supposed to imagine that the free world has gone back 50 years in order to make the story work? This was the part that just didn't make sense to me and I felt it let the whole story down.
Overall, the level of hatred was so palpable and overdone it took my attention away from most everything else and this is why I think it didn't make the grade for a second season which is a shame.