Highly Overrated But Still Good

Captivating movie !

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Yes, it was for me most painful finish of some serial. Even if it was never planned to continue it. Especially, as part 3 (what was actually 105 +106) was really dense, with lot of action, turns ... Which barely fit in 85 minutes. Is Sci-Fi with brain so unpopular, that it must be cut off ? Firefly, Caprica - just couple examples from not far past. Instead, there is whole bunch of zombie, blood thirsty car, and like crap. And situation with movies is really not better. Even some big productions smell only on money making. Will not give examples, most of people know which are it .. Ah, back to Ascension. I watched it for second time. Surely not perfect, first part was even slow, but there were many nice ladies, girls, as it can be only in Canadian productions. Basic idea is just genial. I have no clue is it made after some book or whatever. Acting was pretty good, as sets, direction - for TV serial sure. There was not much CGI, and was no need for it. But they left too much of it for third part, in last minutes it happened too much, and then boom - final scene and credits. That would be more-less normal when there is sequel, continuing. But no even trace of such plans. Really, I don't get SyFy leaders. Once in 4 years, there is some good serial among all crap. Maybe just pure statistical anomaly. And that's just sad.

Ascension starts off with a thrilling story and some really wicked twists, keeping you at the edge of your seat.Unfortunately this only lasts during the first half of the season. Then it gets more and more strange raising to a braindead finale with absolutely no appeal. Nice structures from the beginning are getting trashed without any reason and at the end you are left thinking: "Ok... This must have been the first half of the final episode. They can't be serious - this is just dumb, not even a bad cliffhanger. Simply nothing."Sorry, but this is wasted time (and potential).

Don't worry - no spoilers here -- nothing to spoil! So my husband I found this show right before Thanksgiving on Netflix and got hooked really, really fast! We couldn't watch the last three episodes until Thanksgiving company departed. So they did, we did and then it ended -- What in heavens name? I have repeatedly said that TV shows should not be allowed to air their finale until I have reviewed it and put the Humans of The Earth stamp of approval on it. Very, very disappointing. It was left wide open for a Season 2 which was not considered. DO NOT WATCH IT. You will be so disappointed! There was nothing the least bit satisfying about the ending -- don't tell me to use my imagination -- that is what you all get paid for! Disappointing show. Just have to sit and pout until Stranger Things comes back (but if it doesn't at least it ended well -- That gets my Humans of the Earth stamp of approval.

In the late fifties and early sixties there really was a project to develop a seriously large space rocket (around 50 times larger than a Saturn V) which was powered by Nuclear Pulse Propulsion. The real-world rocket, "Project Orion", never flew - killed by the nuclear test ban treaty, but the premise of this mini-series is that the project continued in secret. A substantial crew have lived in isolation on the ship to the present day caught in a time warp without any external stimuli for their microcosm of society. Despite its sound basis in real facts, the series accumulates many plot flaws. These become increasingly annoying as things progress. The real problem, though is that it builds as though it will run for several seasons with many characters and complex plot threads - and then - after six 43-minute episodes it just stops, the casualty, apparently, of politics and policy shifts at the SyFi channel. Clearly the writing team knew something was afoot as the plot becomes increasingly far-fetched in the last couple of episodes and then changes direction completely in the last 2 minutes of the last show leaving us all wondering why we ever bothered to watch in the first place.