[4Tran]

The Stellar – Four comparison was the most obvious one to me as well. Unfortunately, one of the worst ideas in Zeta ended up as one of the worst ideas in Destiny.

While Zeta is a little on the depressing side, I'm sort of curious as to why so many people call it dark. After all, most of those deaths don't occur until the very end, and it's not as if they really affected the story all that much.

I don't think that lots of characters dying is necessarily either a good thing or a bad thing. It comes down to how well it's executed, and whether they serve the story or not. In Zeta's case, the deaths don't really contribute to anything, but they don't really detract from anything either. It's almost as if the creators were trying to deliver some sort of message with them, but it sort of got muddled along the way.