#Premise of ascension tv show series#
#Premise of ascension tv show tv#

Unfortunately, in 1963 the women would have been wives and mothers. All the crew should have been fighter pilot astronauts and the best and the brightest scientists. The premise is in the Kennedy Whitehouse era scientists feared the total destruction of the Earth by atomic war so they built a spaceship base on Project Orion. Workers live on the lower decks, and the elites live on the upper decks in luxury. Like several of the old pulp stories, Ascension breaks ship-board society into classes. The murder is related to a terrorist resenting their lack of future. In this miniseries, young people go through a psychological breakdown akin to a mid-life crisis in their teens when they realize what they missed from living on Earth, and learning they probably won’t live to see a new world. And like several of the stories we’ve read, the ship born crew resent being forced into a role they didn’t select. In Ascension, everyone knows about the mission. Of the stories we’ve read, some have the crew forgetting they are on a starship, and with other stories, they know, but they have been brainwashed for various reasons to adapt to the long voyage. I will give Ascension credit, it does go through many of the basic ideas we’ve been reading about in generation ship short stories. The plot starts out about the first murder after voyaging 50 years but quickly develops into standard soap-opera of powerplays and sex between beautiful Hollywood-humans.

#Premise of ascension tv show tv#

Unfortunately, except for very few tech items, such as a couple of 1950s TV sets showing old TV shows, the people dressed and acted like modern fantasy Americans. I sprang for Ascension because it promised to be about a spaceship built around 1963, so the original crew members were stuck in that pop-culture milieu. It could have been a great series, but they spoil it with a bunch of crappy conflicts and pitiful plot twists. It includes all the common issues of a generation ship story.

#Premise of ascension tv show series#

I don’t recommend buying it unless you’re like me and want to see how the series handles the generation ship concept.

The show is no longer being streamed anywhere I can find. I had to buy it on Amazon Prime for $7.99, where it’s sold/viewed in three double-episodes. on SyFy in 2014 and only lasted six 43-minute episodes. For links to our previous short story reviews, see: Because Ascension falls into this subgenre, I thought I’d discuss it too, comparing it to what we’ve been reading. I’m one of several bloggers who are reviewing science fiction short stories about generation ships. I am very late to this science fiction mini-series about a generation ship, but this isn’t a TV review.