Pretty Good

Did you people see the same film I saw?

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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).

A 100 year multi-billion dollar project overseen by one person. A leading group of scientists and philosophers, but seemingly no artists or musicians, who in 51 years have managed to devolve into some weird elitist hierarchy of upstairs/downstairs The Captain wife however is running some wide ranging brothel operation and everyone seems cool with that A 'surprise' hidden hatch that no-one knew about on the beach. A parachuted consultant who's trust was total in a conspiracy theorist, nah she had a getaway car stashed locally with all sorts of passports, cash and guns Hidden camera's throughout the ship that seemed to move with the action, but seemed to miss crucial bits When did they invent the word 'upload' in their isolation Don't even mention the strange scene where someone steals some jewellery from the ship only for these-director to then steal it and give it to his wifeWhat a shambles.

Ascension was a great mini series that should continue with season 2. Its cancellation was unfair, you can't judge a TV series with only a 3-night event. Ascension has a very fascinating story with very interesting characters, it should go on for season 2. I hope netflix picks it up as a series. The show was a great remind of the good old Battlestar/Stargate days. It reminded me what true sci-fi meant. Syfy is the best at CANCELLING GREAT sci-fi TV-series.

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.