I reviewed this title after watching the first episode and found it unsatisfactory. Now it is finished I feel I have to add a few comments. If this had been the pilot of a series I might have found it workable but it has been touted as a 'drama in six parts' for which you can change to three parts here in England. The whole premise of the show being that a spaceship with several hundred people is 50 years into a 100 year voyage to another star system, the kicker being that they have never actually left Earth but are in some underground complex. Leaving aside the absurdities and impracticalities of the subterfuge I would like to know how we are supposed to rate this drama highly when it finished with a whole raft of unanswered cliff-hangers. Now I don't mind having some open-endedness in a film where you are left to make up your own mind about a situation but really, there were so many of them. Was it really Lorelei's ghost that appeared to Christa? If it wasn't a ghost what was it? How come it appeared to Aaron at the end of the film? What happened to Stokes once he had escaped from the Motel? Who was the woman that murdered Samantha working for? Was Aaron teleported? If so, how? Where to? What happened to the thug that was lying on top of him trying to throttle him? What was the real reason for the lie? Was Crista evolving, if so into what? Are we supposed to believe this evolution happened in a mere fifty years? If so, why did they have to create a multi-billion dollar project with hundreds of 'prisoners' to oversee it? I'm all for suspending my disbelief in the name of good science fiction but the Clifton Bridge would have trouble holding this up. If it had played out to a resolution I might be able to forgive the film makers but this travesty felt like going to the cinema and having the film break down half way through. It's a shame because it was well made but good production can't make up for sloppy writing. I can't recommend this to anyone.
Review of Ascension
