![]() ![]() ![]() She’s basically a sci-fi author’s dream, and one of the main reasons to stick with Ascension. She knows Ascension‘s secret, she can communicate with the dead, she’s clairvoyant, and she is aware of everything that happened on Earth while she was in “space” (she makes references to the World Trade Center and an endless war). But the show managed to retain its science-fiction roots with Christa, an eerie little girl aboard the ship with a handful of supernatural powers. The idea that they are just in a giant metal contraption on Earth can be a little disappointing, even with the whole murder mystery still at its center. That reaction is understandable - the built-in intrigue is about people living on a spaceship. This reveal is when the show either completely won over viewers like me or made them throw up their hands in frustration and quit. I would watch that, and actually keep up with it, unlike the more boring social experiment Utopia.īut back to Ascension. There are so many gross questions here about morality, honesty, safety, and so on, but obviously the biggest question I had was, “How has this not already been a reality show?” I mean, it’s 2014 and we totally have the technology (and shady ethics) to create a reality show that spans decades and makes people believe that they are living in space. The “ship” has remained on Earth and is being monitored closely and creepily. the too-obvious reality that it’s essentially a very, very long pilot episode - something that ultimately hurt the program.Īscension started off strong, got very weird, and then ended with a questionable nudge from Syfy: “Eh? Don’t you want to know more?” The biggest twist came early in the miniseries, at the very end of night one, when it was revealed that the Ascension never actually went to space but instead was a highly elaborate, and devastatingly expensive, social media experiment. The big behind-the-scenes clash was far more interesting: Syfy’s public insistence that Ascension is a miniseries (or “television event”) vs. There were clashes galore between the ship’s passengers, but also one between the two time periods that Ascension straddles: the futuristic 2014 world of people living on a spaceship and the 1960s world that they left behind but are still stuck in, due to the ship’s time-capsule nature. It threw viewers deep into the alternate-reality story of Project Orion, transporting us onboard the Ascension ship and introducing a beautiful but worrisome, timeless world. The first night of Ascension was a thrilling and original 90 minutes of science-fiction television. ![]()
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