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

Slydice · 04-03-2023 05:05PM

3: Hold on.. is it because I'm behind or maybe I'm getting used to the show but this one was a bit better than I remember the rest!

Something I'm not sure I've seen much of before that I really liked was..

the shuttle landing gear having a claw/grasping mechanism. That was cool!

Also the performances of the everyone else didn't seem miles behind Tiana Upcheva as Eva from maintenance.

I liked the whole going for it and taking on the comet for water. It seemed so hard. The story, I think, was well crafted to pull the audience in there.

Funniest moment had to be Brice going mad, Scottish accent in full volume, and kicking the shuttle control systems 😁

Think I was getting more and more worried about the doctor and then a big 'oh no' 😲 when she took the stims. Vague recollections of the BSG stims storylines hit me.

Sudden Valley · 04-03-2023 05:19PM

I think it is getting slightly better with every episode in terms of acting and writing but the sets still look terribel. i actually enjoyed the latest episode 5 more than the latest Picard, it has a sense of stupid fun. The therapist and head of security are especially goofy and useless, but i cant stop watching

Slydice · 05-03-2023 01:51PM

4: Okay, Okay, O.. K..! 🙂 That was good. Felt like solid science fiction, problem, team, mystery, development episode.

I liked that..

at first it could've been cabin fever but then later was a molecule from the comet water.

I had started guessing Garnet was a cyborg/android or a clone but was leaning away from clone because of her strength and fighting skills. Would like to see that more explained.

Finishing off with MAYBE ALIENS!!! 😲 .. that I also liked.

So, if they stay consistent in their feel of the show and writing, I think could turn out a keeper show 🙂

Slydice · 05-03-2023 10:17PM

5: Ooooooh. I mean.. it doesn't seem a big thing at the moment but maybe further down the line.

Earth looks proper wiped out in the flashback scenes. Giant storms where there wasn't what looked like just giant smoke clouds or just plain old America on fire.

Guessing Alicia is gonna be broken up now for a while

I did like that they setup her tablet takeover earlier on. How they showed it on screen and I didn't spot it.

AMKC · 11-03-2023 01:06AM

Another good episode with some good crew relationships forming now.

I feel sorrow for the Doctor and its good the he has offered to help her but the actor playing her is just not that good. Her first real big moment and she is more like Beverley Crusher than a McCoy or a Basher.

Or to use another apology she is more like a Robert Beltran than a Patrick Stewart or Brent Spinner.

That was brilliant. ALICIAMINIUM lol.

Very interesting ending.

Looking forward to the next episode already.

Slydice · 11-03-2023 02:24PM

6: What?!?!? No you can't end the episode like that!!!

Dammit!

Alright, fairs fair.. they pulled me into that one.

It was pretty decent even without the ending. I liked..

How Eva and Brice seemed to be bonding a bit. Though, Brice seems be be a bit weird at times even more than the death wise stuff.. I dunno.. maybe it's just down to this disease.

Also the security guy has been doing a solid performance right since the start of the show. He's kept it consistent and I like how himself and the Doctor worked things out here.

I was a bit iffy on the solar sail and sun space walk because the Sunshine movie made going outside and just burning to a crisp so vivid. I dunno. Even the star seemed small compared to the ship.

Garnet pulled a solid leadership/self sacrifice story for herself though.

As for the bigger story.. now maybe looking like this famous creator dude.. thinking either he knew the Earth was dying faster so got out sooner or maybe he's a bit of a baddie and had some involvement with this acid stuff.

lol Aliciaminium.. her reaction to the name was hilarious! 😁

Mr E · 16-03-2023 03:43PM

Is this the same show as episode 1?

So much better now than its clunky start. Episode 7 was brilliant.

sioda · 16-03-2023 10:44PM

Without a doubt it's improving week on week I actually looks forward to it

Good ep this week poor Felix and good ending as.well will be interesting to see where it goes from here

AMKC · 17-03-2023 02:42AM

That was a brilliant episode. This show really has come on leaps and bounds. I have enjoyed it from the beginning but really am loving it now.

As for Ark 15. I would say there is escaped renegade crinimals and prisoners on it who want to get to the new planet all for themselves and wanted to stop all the other arks gone before them from getting there. They did not factor in the determination of does on Ark 1 do.

Next week's episode should be interesting in a slightly different way.

Have to feel sorry for poor Felix with all his loses.

Earth really did sound like hell.

Can't blame anyone for wanting to get away from that.

Slydice · 18-03-2023 12:38PM

7: Mystery INTENSIFIES! 🙂 This is getting pretty good storywise. A lot of unanswered questions now.

Obviously they original lack of supplies issues and slow space journey might now be sorted... but..

There's the mystery around what happened on Earth. Maybe the people there sorted themselves out and went out for revenge for the original ark creators abandoning them. Or maybe they didn't sort themselves out and still went out for revenge.

Then there's the questions of what happened to this Trust guy... doesn't look like he went willingly.. plus also who is the woman with him.

Think the standout this episode though had to be the security guy. He's been consistent from the start and this episode built his story up well.

Also some kinda Worf from Star Trek vibes now with the Sword.. Kitana is it?

AMKC · 18-03-2023 01:36PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120372338#Comment_120372338

There's the mystery around what happened on Earth. Maybe the people there sorted themselves out and went out for revenge for the original ark creators abandoning them. Or maybe they didn't sort themselves out and still went out for revenge.

I doubt it. After all the Woman found alive on the ship explains what sounds like hell on Earth.

I would say it's some rogue crinimals that took control of Ark 15 and that's why it has weapons too.

sioda · 18-03-2023 01:39PM

Why do I get the feeling that it's gonna be Trust versus Maddox and that's why he's on the Ark

Slydice · 19-03-2023 01:42AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120372502#Comment_120372502

I dunno. I got the feeling the situation she was talking about was..

less that 15 Ark ships. I'm not sure, the maths on the number of Arks was hard to follow and I'm not sure how trustworthy she is.

This 15th one seems special somehow.

Still though. I wouldn't discount the criminals idea but also would be open to other ideas on it too

Sudden Valley · 19-03-2023 12:30PM

I thought the survivor was pretty dodgy in the epusode, she seemed to only recall critical facts when it suited her.

Slydice · 19-03-2023 03:08PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120375386#Comment_120375386

Yeah something cagey for sure!

AMKC · 23-03-2023 10:47PM

Another excellent episode. Some good humour in it at times too and some silly mistakes from command as well. Let's just if I was Sharon I would not have done that.

As for the FTL woo how that was cool but crazy.

It's all getting a bit edgy now.

Also what was that that flew buy the Ark near the end? Was that Ark 15 I wonder?

AlmightyCushion · 23-03-2023 11:23PM

That whole FTL scene was stupid and didn't make any sense. Why would it malfunctioning cause them to jump forwards and backwards in time like that. My only guess is there idea is that travelling faster than light speed causes weird time dilation effects but that isn't how time dilation works and also the whole point of this drive is that they aren't actually travelling faster than the speed of light.

This actually has the potential to be a decent show but a lot of the science-ey stuff (even the basic stuff) they mess up and all the stupid tropes they keep falling into. The acting has come a long way since the first episode so hopefully they can improve these aspects as well and we could have a great show on our hands. I don't even care if the CGI is rubbish, sure I would rather it was better but poor CGI doesn't detract from a show as much as other things do.

AlmightyCushion · 23-03-2023 11:28PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120393757#Comment_120393757

I think I know the scene you are on about but I don't remember seeing anything specific fly by. Something does streak by but I don't think it is meant to be anything. Even if it was I doubt it would be Ark 15. It attacked Ark 3 at least a few days before hand and probably has a faster FTL drive than Ark 3 seeing as it was able to catch up to it so surely it should be way ahead of where Ark 1 with an FTL drive could be.

AMKC · 23-03-2023 11:40PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120393963#Comment_120393963

Yes that is the scene I am on about. Maybe when they used the FTL they went further than they thought they would but they never said so more than likely then ended up behind. I would have had them going too far and having to turn around to find Proxima B. Maybe it was just a comet or something.

AlmightyCushion · 23-03-2023 11:48PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120394005#Comment_120394005

Yeah I think it was just a comet or something like that. Just random space stuff. If it was meant to be something like another ark then I think they would have made it more obvious and have a cliff hanger.

Slydice · 25-03-2023 02:27PM

Right. Right. .. Right so. I have to say.. this is turning into some solid Saturday Morning TV.

8: Ha! In the Airlock! 😁

or airlock changing room, whatever 😀.

It does look like maybe Brice and Eva could get a deep connection/bond storyline going and maybe there could be some heartbreak further down the line.

I think the biggest strength this show has is the way it's weaving it's mysteries. Nothing too much all at once and yet enough to keep me wondering what's going on.

Also helps that they have the aircon sound in the background that makes a nice spaceship scifi show feel.

So after this one, that explains the celeb/therapist wan wanting to keep Trust a secret, I wonder what Project Juno is, I wonder what some of explanation they have for the weird time effects in the warp bubble, the girl from Ark 3 still on the suspicious list.. though I'm wondering now if Ark 3 might have been stolen and that's what Ark 15 was doing chasing them.. though that would still leave the Ark 1 attack unexplained.. unless it was Ark 3.. I dunno.

AMKC · 25-03-2023 03:33PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120399545#Comment_120399545

Good points. Yes maybe crinimals stole Ark 3 and Ark 15 was sent to stop it. We did not hear or see anything about weapons on Ark 3 do only the guns that were in the locker.

Sudden Valley · 31-03-2023 12:01AM

Episode 9 was pretty good. They have been good at creating opposing factions within the ship though the cgi still looks really bad. Hard to know where the storyline is going.

AMKC · 31-03-2023 01:07AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120421782#Comment_120421782

Agreed and I knew there was something fishy about your one from Ark 3. Now we know. This is what Star Trek Voyager should have been in some ways. Great ending.

Slydice · 01-04-2023 08:58AM

9: Wasn't the strongest episode. I think the big reveal I got was Yelena's name. I'd only just started guessing that..

yer wan was working for Ark 15

The Trust coup plot felt a bit weak so I'm guessing the big deal was just to have it as filler to get past his expertise and divide loyaltie more or something

AMKC · 07-04-2023 12:08AM

A lot happens in this episode. The CGI is still terrible do it's like something out of a 2d game lol.

So will Garnet succeed? Next week's episode should be interesting. Will Ark 1 get away or be destroyed? I am guessing the former.

Can't believe they actually let Helen die. I thought the councillors acting was terrible do. Quiet a week episode for acti g do except for the part where the crew find out that Eva and Brice have getting it on together.

ejmaztec · 07-04-2023 02:07PM

I'm thinking that the acting would have been an awful lot better had the series not been filmed in Serbia, with a lot of the cast being from the area. Another problem in my opinion, is that listening to the UK actors pretending to be Americans also throws it. The only actress that I can remember seeing in anything else, is the counsellor, who played Pennyworth's daughter in the cancelled Bat Woman series. She at least stuck to her English accent in that.

The one who plays Kelly is the strangest specimen, and she'd frighten children by just looking at them.🤣

Slydice · 10-04-2023 12:25PM

10: Oh no, my head! I assume there's a few steps

ahead that Garnett has planned

Ha! Brice and all the ladies! 😁

Guessing Kelly will end up returning with Anghus.

if they know that we know that they know that... lol, reminded me of..

The Princess Bride (5/12) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Wits (1987) HD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo

JP Liz V1 · 13-04-2023 08:19PM

Renewed

sioda · 13-04-2023 08:26PM

Great news it's improving every episode

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

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