Ascension (UK)
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Mini-series starts tonight at 9 on Sky 1. Worth watching?
"A young woman's murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3696720/
"A young woman's murder causes the subjects of a century-long mission to populate a new world to question the true nature of the project as they approach the point of no return".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3696720/
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I'll probably watch a full series to see where they go with it.
cheers........I was toying with watching it but I shan't bother now !
IMO it was a good idea, poorly executed.
But it might be worth you watching in a so bad it's good type way.
With slightly less surrealism and no backwards-talking dwarfs.
A decent enough start.
Now it becomes how well the next episodes are scripted.
May stick it out but depends on my mood next week.
You weren't really paying attention were you?
It's not the 1960s - 51 years have elapsed since the start of Project Ascension, and there were references in Episode 1 which indicated that the XO was born "below decks", i.e. the lower-class area, which indicates he "worked his way up" to where he is in 2014.
Although it retains a number of artifacts and style cues from the Sixties, the societal rules and mores aboard the Ascension could be expected to move on to include a greater degree of freedom and equality, as they have on Earth. Whether it is realistic for an isolated society 'in a bubble' to develop in parallel with the outside environment is a whole other debate!
As an aside I recorded the programme rather than watch it as it was transmitted and I don't know if my receiver went wrong or what but one whole section was repeated. It went into an advert break then suddenly repeated the section where Gil Bellows and the other chap were talking in what looked like an underground walkway. Anyone else notice?
Its Flash Forward meets Mad Men. 0 /10 from me, and I'm being generous.
So the first three posts are positive - but you pick the first negative one to base your decision to watch or not on......
I am guessing you don't get to watch much.
I watched episode 1 via OnDemand and wasn't over impressed,hopefully it will get better,much better
Yes would agree...little hints before, but what really gave the twist away, was when the girl saw the person in the radiation suit.
So you need to be told by others what to watch...rather than using your own mind and deciding for yourself. Do you go through life like that?
It's a good enough series (and pretty much the only "hard" SF there's been for a while
But, it was kind of ridiculous. The twist did catch me off guard a bit, but other than the writing was quite poor, pacing ploddy and most of the cast were wooden. In particular Brian Van Holt as the captain and that guy overseeing the whole thing made me cringe.
Then they killed off the one character I genuinely liked, as well as the last few moments being a bit WTF. 'Oh so that fake out was actually a fake out of a fake out' so in the end it just felt empty. I'd probably try it if it went to a series but they'd need to hire different writers to run the show imo.
On a positive note I thought the set design was absolutely brilliant and award-worthy. The team they had in Montreal outdid themselves and it would be kind of a shame if the show didn't go to series just on the sheer expanse of those sets alone.