The Ark

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!

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.

Like a lot of reviews listed here, I was not impressed with the first couple of episodes (bad acting, bad plot, bad f/x, etc.), but I stuck it out, and am glad I did. The characters have developed nicely, not every episode is "disaster of the week," and subplots are intriguing. I've begun to care about the characters, which is a 180 flip from when I first started watching.

It's always tough to figure out how good/bad a show is going to be after the first episode; especially with a large cast. But the writers have done a good job with creating depth, and some surprises along the way.

As a sci-fi show, the f/x are minimal and middle of the road CG; just enough to let you know it's a show in space.

The Ark is not great, but is getting better with each episode.

Hoping for better and expecting worse. The premise is good though hardly original but there the good part ends. I have to wonder if after watching the finished product the creators looked at each other and said " Hey this is some good stuff ". They must have because somehow this is now a tv show.. the sets look like they were filmed at a high school, the acting and CGI are subpar but not awful. Where the show truly fails is the characters. Remember the pilot of Lost and TWD where you were quickly invested in the characters? Definitely not here. Nobody stands out . I guarantee that after this you'll never hear from 80% of these actors again. A couple veteran actors would have gone a long way but nope; just a bunch of uninteresting faces. A strong lead would have helped too. The characters are not particularly whiny and a couple worked well together but I don't remember a single name. Will be flabbergasted if this gets a second season.

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.