The meat of the story kicks in later, which is a shame because I hear this all the time. It’s like an RPG tutorial; yeah it’s slow, and it’s leading you by the hand for what seems like forever, but once the plot actually arrives it gets infinitely better. And then you keep telling other people how great it is, and they sit down in the tutorial and say, “this game is boring!” and all you can do is chew on your knuckle and say “keep going, keep going, it gets so much better, trust me!”

Like that, only with aliens and time travel and Nick Cage jokes.