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opiate_lifer OP t1_jal69xt wrote

Reply to comment by kingdazy in The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer

You're right about that 2 decade old throwback thing!

Its like a cheap attempt to cash in on the 00s BSG that somehow got shelved and forgotten about.

A ship full of earth's best and brightest who will set up a colony don't know what a comet is("it has a tail!")

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kingdazy t1_jal6m35 wrote

I fucking died laughing at episode... 2? 3? Where "oh no! we're going to hit an asteroid!" was the premise of the episode? Fucking hilarious. How completely fucking idiotic and unrealistic, even for a bad scifi show.

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a4techkeyboard t1_jal88sc wrote

The worst thing is they pepper in attempts to show they pay attention to science like it's a hard science show only to completely disregard that point specifically.

"Oh what about solar sails to push us away from its path? What, we're too far from any suns!"

then later

"Oh, wait, the asteroid is a comet, you can tel by its tail!"

Comets only have tails if they're near a sun.

And nevermind all their inconsistent stuff about gravity.

Establishing the spinning is required for gravity and then... they have gravity on the bits that don't spin. And on the bit that spins, they walk where the ceiling should be and have domes implying they'd be bowl shaped if the gravity was working correctly.

Plus, they're under thrust! They're ignoring thrust gravity, too.

Also, where do they get their seemingly infinite supply of oxygen anyway? They have a leak and suddenly, the air gets refilled just by being to locate the leak, not by actually plugging the leak.

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kingdazy t1_jalebii wrote

Yeah, I figured out pretty quick that it's attention to science was at a 5fh grade level. Or less. It's certainly no Expanse.

For the moment, I'm finding it funny. We'll see how long that lasts, haha

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a4techkeyboard t1_jalemuy wrote

It would have served them better to not include any attempts at seeming like they're using any science at all and just technobabbled everything.

I had decided they have the magic artificial gravity but that the Steve Jobs type forced them to have spinning parts and domes and fake spin gravity. Because skeumorphism. A Steve Jobs type would totally add those.

I lasted until last week's hallucinations episode. Maybe I'll try again later.

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kingdazy t1_jalfmus wrote

I only smoke pot at night, when I'm watching a show like this, and getting ready to crash.

I'm pretty certain that's the only thing giving me the ability to "enjoy" it.

I especially love how the "engineers" in "engineering" are all in greasy clothes and looking like they just stepped out of a submarine movie.

Even the basic premise of a complete lack of crew redundancy, and putting all the important ones in the same area? Unbelievable as a basic concept.

But I could not stop laughing at the new twist they just threw in last week, that she's a clone. And her clone is murderous. Good god. The writers are high as fuck. I swear they're trolling us.

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a4techkeyboard t1_jalg9oq wrote

Oh I was wondering if it was a clone or a regular evil twin.

Everyone on this ship got in there either by fraud or nepotism. Of course all the important people think it's important to be in the important people room.

This show almost stumbles into being an amazing social commentary on corruption in governments and corporations.

Biggest surprise is that the sex therapist influencer is actually doing the job she got dragooned into and is actually good at it, and she hilariously set up her sessions to look like she's going to sex them better even if they're just going to talk. It's not even the bed, it's everything else she's doing. And then it's just a counseling session.

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kingdazy t1_jalhd7z wrote

All this talk about it got me excited enough to start watching tonight's episode.

Oh man. The "bad thing that happens" is fucking hilarious. It's like a Nickelodeon kids show skit.

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a4techkeyboard t1_jalhggg wrote

I imagine they got slimed or a temple guard jumps out and hugged them.

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kingdazy t1_jalicv8 wrote

The more I watch, the more I think that's a valid assessment. It's a "bad 90s scifi action drama" made with "Nickelodeon tween drama" production values.

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internetpointsaredum t1_jao9ihi wrote

I honestly want a spaceship show that's just the civilian portions of Macross/Megazone 23. A giant city in space you don't even realize is a colony ship until people go through a bulkhead door. Make it the setting of a police procedural or something.

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a4techkeyboard t1_jal89ic wrote

The worst thing is they pepper in attempts to show they pay attention to science like it's a hard science show only to completely disregard that point specifically.

"Oh what about solar sails to push us away from its path? What, we're too far from any suns!"

then later

"Oh, wait, the asteroid is a comet, you can tel by its tail!"

Comets only have tails if they're near a sun.

And nevermind all their inconsistent stuff about gravity.

Establishing the spinning is required for gravity and then... they have gravity on the bits that don't spin. And on the bit that spins, they walk where the ceiling should be and have domes implying they'd be bowl shaped if the gravity was working correctly.

Plus, they're under thrust! They're ignoring thrust gravity, too.

Also, where do they get their seemingly infinite supply of oxygen anyway? They have a leak and suddenly, the air gets refilled just by being to locate the leak, not by actually plugging the leak.

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Fallcious t1_jamqt2n wrote

I’ve given up watching it, but I did wonder if they were going to reveal something similar to the Hitchhikers plot line where the most useless to society where all bundled up on a colony ship and sent off world.

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