The Ark

I actually like it. Not stop problems happening on the ship and possibly Aliens attacking them. I really think this will only get better as well by the second season. Like most Series. I'm not just why it has such a low rating overall, because when you look at the Episodes individually, they all have a really high score. Such as the series finale. It's an 8/10 and it's bloody good. So ignore these neigh sayers and make you own minds up. The basic story is the World is in its way out. Hence the Ark. I can certainly see this becoming a Sci-Fi Classic for sure. I'm now just waiting on season Two.

I honestly thought Season 1 wasnt very good, but I kept watching, and somehow it sucked me in. Season 2 is where this show grows to something really interesting at times but still keeps its overly dramatic young adult stuff, it could've been so much better.

This show has some decent Star Trek-like episodic stories. Captain Garnet even has a classic Captain Janeway's "What the hell is going on?!" moment.

I like the difference yet similarity of the spaceships, establishing their own distinct style for the show.

Maddox vs. Trust was a decent plot with some good backstory.

The augmented superhuman Kelly with nanites was a decent subplot because it has some obvious holes.

The GSA vs. EF subplot was also pretty good.

Pavle Jerinic as Felix and Paul Murray as William Trust were great casting choices, they did a great job.

I liked it because it felt like a cheesy '90s sci-fi show with no budget, like using Reece Ritchie to play both Spencer and Ian was a clever way to cut costs.

With that ending? I would love to find out what happened with the other Arks and the colonists at Ross-128B. Higher life?

Its clearly setting up a Season 3 right?

It feels a bit like they are building toward a Star Fleet kind of thing and im all for that!

Hope for Season 3 and a movie!

Yes, it is a cheaply produced show, but all the culture snobs who write reviews after 15 minutes watching the pilot are simply that: unreliable snobs who have no clue about anything and you shouldn't listen to.

The show's characters are loveble enough to keep watching the first few episodes.

At latest in the 5th episode it starts getting interesting and at the 7th episode the mytery is pretty exciting to wait eagerly for the next episode.

This show at least doesn't try to pretend being an oscar winning drama by getting into politics and intrigues "in medias res", making you just turning your head around, wondering who is with whom. You also don't need 3 seasons to watch for finally learning to distinguish the two asian women from eachother, like so many shows do nowadays, like Star Trek Discovery or Star Wars Andor, just to name a few from the sci-fi genre.

This is a show for relaxing. It doesn't want to change the world nor tries to win anything, it just wants to entertain you and it does the job well.

It's hard to get through this show. The pilot runs through a basic story background and the crew introduction so fast along with a constant crisis mode that it is actually stressful to watch.

The following episodes include more personal drama and it sometimes feels they bought a crisis pack at a bargain. A lot of cringy moments that made me think: Really? Yes, really. The acting is ok I guess considering how the characters were created.

Special effects and setting are on the lighter side. Meaning, it's usually bright. They don't try to scare you. However rhe look is somewhat "to clean". Elements of the setting look 3D printed.

Don't expect any science. There rarely is any. And if there is science one character explains the most basic things to another so that really every member of the audience gets it. The core audience seems to be people without any technical background. Sci-Fi first timers I guess. If you seen science fiction before: disable the memory of that in your brain.

There is some hope though. Episode 7 is the first that uses the potential of that universe. Still some cringy moments and personal drama but at least the storyline is set in the right way and you get additional context (way to late in my opinion but this seems to be a choice by the makers of this show.

Hope that helps. The ratings of each episode is going partly up, because a lot of critical people just give up. But there is actually improvement, albeit very very slow.

Is it reinventing the wheel? No. Is it deep thinking or brilliant? No not really.

As someone who watched BSG and the expense, but fully enjoyed the likes of the 100, it's worth a shot.

Easy downtime tv series that generates enough intrigue and interest to watch. But also isn't so in depth that it requires 100% of your attention.

Easy watch, low budget, and the show runners clearly see that. The show knows its audience, writing isn't the A** of previous sifi shows, but it is such a chill fun watch. I'd compare it to SNOWPIECER standard.

Overall a fun easy watch and I'd recommend it to any sifi geek who's looking for a fun binge.