Anyone planning to watch Ascension?

jd2cylman said:

I wondered the same thing... What about the ship being constantly under acceleration? Say 1g??? Not sure of the science of this, just thinking out loud....

Adrian

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The ship is under constant 1g acceleration. Ascension uses Orion-style nuclear propulsion. They even mentioned Project Orion very briefly in passing.

The flaw in the story is the interstellar "Super Orion" profiles called for 1g acceleration for about 40 days and then coast until time to decelerate.

I watched the first episode last night. Without giving away any spoilers, the "twist" at the end of episode 1 was not a welcome development for me. I was hoping for a more straightforward drama about a multi-generational Orion-class starship, not this. I'm probably going to watch at least 1 more episode, but my main reason for wanting to see the show has been lost.

ThirstyBarbarian said:

I watched the first episode last night. Without giving away any spoilers, the "twist" at the end of episode 1 was not a welcome development for me. I was hoping for a more straightforward drama about a multi-generational Orion-class starship, not this. I'm probably going to watch at least 1 more episode, but my main reason for wanting to see the show has been lost.

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What? Are they going to kill off Tricia Helfer's character????

Rob Campbell said:

What? Are they going to kill off Tricia Helfer's character????

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It's the little red light that I miss.

Rob Campbell said:

What? Are they going to kill off Tricia Helfer's character????

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For the love of God, NO!

I recorded it, started watching it this afternoon and feel asleep.
I just deleted it without watching the rest.
Pretty bad.

M

My wife could not believe how mad I was when they revealed the plot twist.

So from the sound of the posts here I guess it's safe to say that SyFy still can't do good Sci-Fi??

Their reputation is secure... LOL The losing streak continues...

Later! OL JR

luke strawwalker said:

So from the sound of the posts here I guess it's safe to say that SyFy still can't do good Sci-Fi??

Their reputation is secure... LOL The losing streak continues...

Later! OL JR

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We'll see how it wraps up tonight. However, I think you're right. Last night's episode came across as filler.

watching tonight in the garage while glue dries

I was interested until the plot twist..

V2rocketeer said:

I was interested until the plot twist..

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Agreed

My assessment so far...

1960's......Madmen in space....

"Sex is the only currency on this ship..."

"Escort them to their sleeping pods!!!

Cameo by ALF!

Rob Campbell said:

Cameo by ALF!

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How did they now it wasn't an extraterrestrial life form?

MaxQ said:

How did they now it wasn't an extraterrestrial life form?

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Maybe because he speaks English. Remember, these people never saw Star Trek and wouldn't know the entire Galaxy speaks English!

Ok ....Just watched the end.

WTF?

Pure BS ending. I would say they jumped the shark, except in this case, I think the shark jumped them.

I can't believe I wasted 10 hours of my life, watched part 2 again cause fell asleep yesterday.
Agree with MAXQ "WTF" kind of ending was that?
Well at least the women were HOT !!
:wink:

HUH--WA--HUH :surprised::surprised:

So, what started out as a test of a generational space vehicle's effects on the future ship's population (complete with steerage passengers/lower caste - ala Titanic) became an "anomaly" under a misguided project leader, while a secret organization planned to develop and then extract an advanced clairvoyant and paranormally talented star child (the little girl) which apparently had to be developed over a protracted fifty year period - ALL within the confines of the fake generational space vehicle (did they really need an elaborate hoax involving a huge spaceship with 600 people that doesn't go anywhere to do that?.....or - couldn't they have done that genetic experiment much cheaper in some smaller hidden lab in a back lot of Area 51 ?).

When pigs fly...or to be exact...when pigs run loose on the space ship bridge!

Not sure I get the point of the repeated zombie appearances of dead Lorelei in the last episode....is this just some appeasement to the current zombie trend...(TV producer: "Ok we got the sleezy sex scenes, ....NOW....put a few zombie/vampires in there")

And at the end....when the ship restabilizes after the big electrical power surge....the girl says she doesn't want to go - ?...and where the hell did the black officer end up...?

That was kind of a rip off of the end of "The Quiet Earth" :

Watched it to the end too.

What a frakking mess.

And that was well before the ultimate "WFT" in the last 10 seconds. OK, so "It worked" and thanks to the girl the guy is on a planet, way way off somewhere (with apparently nothing he could eat, even if there is breathable air and even if that liquid is water safe to drink) so it would seem he'd be dead soon. She didn't know how she did that, so it's not like her next trick would be to bring him back anytime soon.

Which all leads to NOTHING because almost surely this is not going to turn into a series. Even if 10 million had watched it (no way) and it did become a series, it would be too stupid to ever want to watch.

I think then only thing missing from that last scene was a flying shark in the background.

- George Gassaway

I kept wanting it to be good, but again Si-Fi takes a good idea and flushes it down the toilet.

I want a do-over for the last three days evenings.

I just rewatched the Quiet Earth again, if only to hear that magnificent orchestration in the theme....
What a mind-blower of a movie. "He tells lies." Did anyone see the ending of "Quiet Earth" coming?

MALBAR 70 said:

I kept wanting it to be good, but again Si-Fi takes a good idea and flushes it down the toilet.

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The toilet spit it back out! uke:

Kirk G said:

I just rewatched the Quiet Earth again, if only to hear that magnificent orchestration in the theme....
What a mind-blower of a movie. "He tells lies." Did anyone see the ending of "Quiet Earth" coming?

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Ah yes...."The Quiet Earth" .....and that ending.
memorable.

[video=youtube;w2hnfTqQKO0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2hnfTqQKO0[/video]

I enjoyed it..but then again I enjoyed Snakes on a Plane also ..

Kenny