5/15/2023 0 Comments Ascension tv show![]() Which characters will you love? Viondra is the ship’s head steward and runs the sexy stewardess service sort of like a brothel. However, with a bit of tinkering and some exploration of who these people are and what it is like to be trapped on a mission they never signed up for, this could be sci-fi’s (and SyFy’s) next Peabody winner. There are very few large or interesting personalities (other than Viondra) to push the action along or make viewers really want to get invested in this journey. Like attending your partner’s high school reunion, there are just far too many people to meet in such a short time and so many of them seem indistinguishable. (This, of course, isn’t taking into account Battlestar’s ending, but I don’t want to enrage the SF masses.)Īscension has a bit of a problem with its characters. It just always told great stories and let the viewers fill in the gaps, making both the show (and the viewers) seem that much smarter. That is what was always genius about SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica. That said, it is sometimes a bit too obvious in its search for a “greater meaning” in something that could be pure sci-fi fun. The concept for a show is great, considering there is a culture that is stuck in the 1950s (they haven’t gotten any new clothes or had any new records since the Ella Fitzgerald recordings they left with) and is self-contained, it’s ripe for all sorts of interesting social experiments and reflections on the culture these humans left behind. Is this show any good? It’s getting there. Don’t worry, I won’t give it away, but it’s a doozy, in the best possible way. You mentioned something about a twist? It happens at the very end of the first episode and will make you rethink the series in its entirety. Meanwhile there’s a power struggle for the captain’s chair, of which his wife Viondra ( Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer) is at the center. He unearths (ha!) possible connections between an insurgency on the ship’s lower decks, where all the blue-collar engineers work. The ship’s captain ( Cougar Town’s Brian Van Holt) is reluctant to investigate but assigns Oren Gault (Brandon P Bell) the ship’s executive officer, to find the truth. What happens in the premiere? Lorelei (Amanda Thomson), one of the teen girls living on Ascension is found murdered. What’s the show’s pedigree? Philip Levens, a veteran of Smallville and the failed NBC Knight Rider reboot, serves as the writer and co-creator. We catch up with the crew and their new society about halfway through their journey. What is this show? In the 1950s, the US government put 70 people on a giant spaceship and sent them off to find another planet that could sustain human life, a journey that will take 100 years.
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