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Topic: The Ark (2023)

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The Ark takes place 100 years in the future when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.

DRM "manages access" in the same way that Prison "manages freedom".
http://xkcd.com/488/

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OMG.  This is truly awful.  I have seen better CGI in 80's shows.

In the first couple of minutes there are so many issues with this, I didn't even get to the opening titles.

Spoiler

They all put on their helmets so that they don't die, yet none of them are wearing gloves!

DRM "manages access" in the same way that Prison "manages freedom".
http://xkcd.com/488/

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I nearly watchlisted it despite it not sounding like my jam just to see if Ryan Adams' genius would extend to acting or if it was limited to songwriting and being an asshole.

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so it is a must watch then?

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I think Independence Day producer Dean Devlin used the same CGI guy from 1996.. maybe that guy needs to upgrade his PC..

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Botox wrote:

I think Independence Day producer Dean Devlin used the same CGI guy from 1996.. maybe that guy needs to upgrade his PC..

He's keeping that same mac in case he needs to upload some more viruses to alien tech.

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I couldn't make it thrugh Ep 1, even with skipping forward. It's all formula and no imgination either, especially from the casting director.

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It's often more a question of how much budget and time the cgi guys have and not necessary how good they are/their equipment is.
Especially if the director wants last minute changes or screwed up the lighting,positioning, etc during the filming in the first place.

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Wizard wrote:

OMG.  This is truly awful.  I have seen better CGI in 80's shows.

In the first couple of minutes there are so many issues with this, I didn't even get to the opening titles.

Spoiler

They all put on their helmets so that they don't die, yet none of them are wearing gloves!


Spoiler

The helmets are like the escape gear that submariners in the past would use to escape from a sinking sub -  not a full suit just a helmet with enough air in to allow them to have a chance to get to the surface. You did notice the clothing around the wrists zipped tight? In this case not to survive a vacuum just a low air environment  for a short time until they can escape..

CGI looks ok to me

very unattractive actors. Lots of English accented actors remember the Pandora show?  Give it a chance, nothing much else to watch at the moment?

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> very unattractive actors

I saw this line before I saw who wrote it, and I knew right away it was you, merc. Maybe we need a new category, "cast uses tons of makeup", to satisfy your needs?

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lighton wrote:

> very unattractive actors

I saw this line before I saw who wrote it, and I knew right away it was you, merc. Maybe we need a new category, "cast uses tons of makeup", to satisfy your needs?

and just like you to miscontstrue. I mean none have any charisma or projected personality like Picard/Stewart ( how ever old he gets) rather than Anson Mount/Capt Pike ( with that ridiculous hair that is a throw back to the 50's, "B" sci-fi show ). They dont have to be famous actors either , many of the actors in "The Outpost" had that quality

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I'm glad that I am not the only one that found this show "truly Awful". The ARK is a bad tv show. Very bad..... Its not even worth writing a review more in depth than that. Its just bad.

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OMG cheap acting, cheap story details, cheap humour... Feels like one of those soap-operas from the 1980s, just in a spaceship.

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Just finished watching the first couple of episodes. Whew...

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Watched first and second episode, thinking the first was SO BAD that maybe it'd get better. Wrong, what rubbish.
The premise of the show sounded good, but the writing, directing and the awful acting made watching just laughable.

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I tried hard to watch eps 2 but only got about 2 mins in before I felt they were all losers and not worth my time. As I said before not one of them has any star quality

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Episodes three may have been one of the dumbest episodes of TV I've ever watched. They've made a science fiction show that hates science.

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if any one likes this show or are a masochist, try Tribes of Europa from 2021

https://next-episode.net/tribes-of-europa

I see it has a forum entry. Doesnt deserve one why posting here

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i thought tribes of europa was ok for a teen thing in the vein of the 100. gave it a 2/5. there are way worse things that got renewed repeatedly.

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This show is overall pretty generic and cheap, but also kind of endearing. Sort of like The Outpost, in a way. Probably not coincidence.

One thing I appreciate about it is that, even though it keeps creating generic drama like so many other shows, it usually also resolves that immediately instead of letting it fester. Getting tired of stories that only ever move forward because all the characters can't even make a single reasonable decision to literally save their life. Bit of fresh air, that.

All in all, a decent if only slightly above average scifi show. Quite enjoyable.

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some_one wrote:

This show is overall pretty generic and cheap, but also kind of endearing. Sort of like The Outpost, in a way. Probably not coincidence.

One thing I appreciate about it is that, even though it keeps creating generic drama like so many other shows, it usually also resolves that immediately instead of letting it fester. Getting tired of stories that only ever move forward because all the characters can't even make a single reasonable decision to literally save their life. Bit of fresh air, that.

All in all, a decent if only slightly above average scifi show. Quite enjoyable.

no way should  you compare it to The Outpost!!!!! The Outpost had an interestting unique mythology and interesting attractive characters who had a degree of prescence or charisma. Some nice story lines. The ark is just cheap crap - compare the ark more to Pandora pls

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Ok, all this gab made me want to watch the show.  I just watched the 1st episode and thought it was ok.

I get why some_one is reminded of The Outpost... I mean, the actor that played Zed in The Outpost plays Spencer in this program.

I think it's ok though.  I've got nothing against it and I will start the 2nd episode here in a bit.

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I just finished season 1 and I think it was just fine.  I don't know what anyone else's problem is but I don't have a problem with it.

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LuC wrote:

I just finished season 1 and I think it was just fine.  I don't know what anyone else's problem is but I don't have a problem with it.

I wouldn't worry, I think this site should be called OppositeWorld.net sometimes.  Everyone seems to:

  • Hate anything to do with Star Wars

  • Think some of the comedies I watch aren't funny

  • Think some totally unfunny shows are hilarious

  • Find the acting of some actors Grammy level when they needed a couple more lessons before they left acting school

  • love Foundation

And yes I know, we're all different, but if everyone agreed with me all the time the world would be a much better place. tongue

2020.  Meh.

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Haha, well said graybags. Pretty accurate assessment of how it is around here.