Event Horizon Easter Egg, Episode 8?!

"If it goes into SF horror direction, I'll be horrified and stop watching. Episode 8 was nasty but tolerable. If it goes much further in that direction, maybe I won't be watching the second season"

I believe the show is trying to feel its way into figuring out what works.

My premise, the Discipleship of JJ Abrams, is that they'll keep all options open and test the reaction of audiences as time goes by.

So if the show fails at becoming the next 'Expanse' (IMHO, tough shoes to fill), they'll opt for the Sci-Fi/horror M.O. which may be the only recourse, as 'Supernatural' has 15 seasons of ideas to pilfer from, which only makes the job of schlock writers a whole lot easier.

Right now, the problem many new shows have is that they have yesteryear's series, 'The Expanse', 'Dark Matter', 'Supernatural', 'Warehouse 13', etc, to form a comparison. They can't really start fresh w/o falling on their sword because a lot of ideas about Empires, Barbarians (at the Perimeter), Precognition, and Predestination are rather derivative.