You'd think a TV show would understand the rule of "show, don't tell." The audience should see what's going on, not just the action but with the characters as well. To stop all the action while some character suddenly unloads their tragic personal trauma, unbidden, is not going to bring the audience in. It ruins the natural flow of the story and keeps the audience from learning about characters' personalities on their own. It's not how people normally behave, regardless of the setting.
To have the debris doing every kind of damage imaginable is pretty farfetched, but there's a lot more in this show that could be interesting--- the International plots, government conspiracies and competition, etc. The agency director, who we know only a little about, is really interesting, because we have to watch the scenes with him to find the clues and figure him out. That's what interesting, because they show us things, instead of telling us.
Why they didn't do that with the main characters is a mystery to me. If your main characters aren't interesting, all the alien technology /special effects in the world are not going to keep people watching.
