Ithought ep 8 started very well and was definitely enjoying the premise of the episode. The time loop idea, and the infection and the creatures. But then it does seem a little too coincidental, they just happen to stop near an Ice planet and bring back ice, that seems fine but the small creatures in the water grow large enough to be seen on microscope, just as they happen to be taken ill, and they have dropped out of FTL to check a planet that just so happens to have a creature on that might have antibodies to the unknown ice infecting creature in its venom. That is quite a coincidence.
Then the episode started to suck a bit, with the whole people dying and everyone crying, and then the second attempt to send the kino back.
Surely, sending the kino back in time was a fluke, the flare from the sun can disrupt the worm hole and bend it back on itself, either in the past or the future. Who is to say that the second time (if indeed it was the second time) they sent it back it would have even gone back in time and not forwards, elt alone ended up in a perfect wormhole loop that takes it to the same planet again. That the wormhole looped once was quite unlikely, but twice in 2 days, that's a bit of a stretch.
Also, I thought that the emotional moments, where Eli talked of his mother's HIV and the dr woman told about her life, even the moment when Rush found out he actually has something in common with the commander, were good for building the relationships between the crew, but now those moments wont ever happen, so no-one will know that Eli's mum is ill, or that Rush likes Butch cassidy and the sundance festival kid.
Still I will continue to watch as long as I can