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"The Ark". New Sci-Fi show by SyFy out on Feb 1st

  • 22-01-2023 7:27pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭
    Ms


    Could be interesting,

    Anyone going to watch it?

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 55,334 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    This was pretty decent.

    The acting was a bit amateurish in places though! Comes across as a bit YA in parts too.

    Special effects were pretty good for a SyFy show.

    Good enough show to make me want to watch more.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Where did you watch it?

    I have not found it anywhere.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 55,334 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    If you download TV, you'll find it in those places. Can't give any more details than that because it's against the charter.



  • Registered Users Posts: 31,262 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    Looks errr a bit crap...plus Ryan Adams in the cast bizarrely.....not for me



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    1: I .. eh .. this was weak in many places. The budget seems low.

    Much of cast feel very inexperienced and the writing for many of the characters feels a bit too impersonal.

    Overall they've got a big ship. A start and an endpoint goal. They could make something of it.

    The story writers seem to have thought out a few different lines to follow and have thrown up plenty of problems to solve.


    If I was to guess..

    the ship problem was something to do with either:

    -Earth influences

    -maybe the ship has been drifting for ages since noone has computers screen reading skills

    -ithe senior officers waking up first and blasting something in the ship for some reason

    - another ship or space rock hitting them


    Top performer I thought, in this episode at least, was Tiana Upcheva as Eva the head of maintenance.

    There was also a scene outside the ship where the special effects seemed to be better than most of the rest.


    Future: Well.. I sure hope they didn't blow the budget on episode one!


    Oh.. the one thing I kept thinking about the ship was that it looked like it had bolted on the the front of Klingon bird of prey to it and painted it grey 😁



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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭sioda


    Oh god this is shocking bad but yet I'll probably watch the second ep.


    We really are short decent sci fi at the moment.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    It's always very disappointing to see another badly written and cheap Scifi show. The acting was so bad you wouldnt see it on a CW show, and weirdly so many bad american accents. Will still watch episode 2, just because its so bad its funny.



  • Registered Users Posts: 23,767 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    It reminded me of Avenue 5 without the comedy and without any memorable characters. I'll try another episode just in case. 😂

    Based on episode 1 though:

    If anyone does manage to get through all of the episodes, I hope for their sake it doesn't end with a cliff-hanger, because I somehow don't think there will be a second series. SciFi has cancelled better things than this.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,811 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    I got as far as Angry Girl saying "Where's the captain????!!!"

    Nope



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Well I found it just have to watch it now :)

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,161 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    half way through this I was hoping the oxygen problem would actually finish off the rest of the crew



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Just watched it. The CGI at the beginning was awful some of it looked more like it was out of a cartoon and there was certainly some parts that were so bad they were funny but as it went on it seemed to get better. It could improve and be very good. I think it might have been better as a Cartoon do.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    2: What even is this show?! 😁 At some points, I was like.. this ain't so bad. Then a dude does a flying summersault mid..

    space suit walk while looking down at his hand that is burning with frostbite and spacesuit is burning off .. and lands easy "coming in hot" into the airlock! hah 😂

    Right.. anyway.. the main story.. seems cut and dry that the military guy was the killer now. Unless the farm guy told him about the knife or something.. or maybe it'll be a lesson about how news travels fast in a small crew



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Just finished watching episode two. Again some of it was terrible and some of it was good.

    I will watch episode 3 because I want to know how they solve both their problems now as two ended on a cliffhanger kinda.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users Posts: 23,767 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Let's give the nerd a big pair of black spectacles, or no one will know that she's a nerd, and have her talking nineteen to the dozen each time she opens her mouth. The highlight was her being told to shut up.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    They are copying the plot of stargate universe with no iota of intelligence. Im enjoying how bad it is.



  • Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 55,334 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I had it on in the background yesterday while I was working. Harmless show, I'm watching for the story more than the acting.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Awe now that's harsh. Your one did explain to your man who took over the sewage disposal what is in urine. How true or right or not I do not know or what to know it was TMI.

    I think the right thing would have been for her to be training him at least untill he had some idea what he was doing.

    Post edited by AMKC on

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,811 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    I have not watched this but I assume the "plain" bespectacled nerd is unfeasibly attractive if only it wasn't for those damn hideous glasses



  • Registered Users Posts: 23,767 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec



    She definitely doesn't look like Nanny McPhee. 😛



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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭Sudden Valley


    What a strange show. The CGI of the outside of the ship looks worse than the CGI in Babylon 5. The scene with the blonde therapist, with the crying engineer was also weird on so many levels.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭sioda


    I want to stop watching this as let's be honest it makes Dark Matter or Killjoys look like sci-fi masterpieces but for some reason I keep watching.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Dark Matter was a Sci-Fi masterpiece do. I miss that show.


    As for "The Ark" I actually think this third episode was really good. They was a lot happening and nothing stupid in it. I suppose the shuttle shoukd have had a systems check but that's about it.


    They eventually all worked together and solved all there problems. I woukd happily watch that third episode all over again. I enjoyed it.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Registered Users Posts: 864 ✭✭✭somuj


    10 minutes in to episode 1.

    This is so bad that I want to keep watching.



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 34,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    ...



  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 34,975 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Episode 4 spoiler:


    Instead of all that shíting about with not telling them she is a clone, why didn't she just say it was her twin sister in the video. It's technically true and she has proof she was nowhere near that area at the time.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Really good episode. I enjoyed that. Actually despite some bad acting and terrible CGI in the first episode I am genuinely enjoying this show.

    I think the character development in the show has been quiet good too despite it only been 4 episodes in we know the Councillor was caught in a solar flare storm that left her scared on her head and she wears wigs to look as beautiful as she does.

    We know that the Acting Captain had a twin sister that went a bit awol and that she is a

    Clone.

    We know one of the characters is gay big deal not and that what's his name fancies the Acting Captain.


    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 55,334 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    This is turning into a decent little show. Episode 4 was great.



  • Registered Users Posts: 14,892 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Just watched episode 5. Not the greatest episode but there was some good bits like Alicia or whatever her name is and your man finding a solution for the glove goo no spoilers and that ending was just overdone.


    Episodes 3 and 4 were much better do.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 23,767 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    "I haven't seen that fella in this programme before, I wonder what's going to happen to him?"

    "Uh oh.😜"



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