Actually there quite a few science fiction operas, Philip Glass composed one called The Making of the Representative of Planet 8, based on a libretto by Doris Lessing, about a civilisation that, guided by an extraterrestrial intelligence, learns to accept mortality and evolve into a 'collective universal soul'.

I imagine the production crew does the best job they can under the circumstances, but it's the writing that really ruins Grimm. The whole concept of it is lazy, the human-animal hybrid look is hard to pull of convincingly and a better team of writers could have developed a show that wouldn't have had to reduce the…