![]() ![]() That twist no doubt hit some viewers with all the impact of Stokes hitting the mat. But then we reached the end of Ascension’s first night, and the revelation that it was all a ruse - an incredibly elaborate, Truman Show-style experiment that has hundreds of people living and dying inside a mock starship, oblivious to the fact that they were being closely watched by their puppetmasters, and that they were probably no more than a few miles away from the nearest Starbucks. The notion of a murder on a so-called “generation ship,” halfway through it’s 100-year journey to Proxima Centauri, was a compelling one, and for the most part, that mystery and its resolutions were well handled in Ascension, wrapped in intriguing speculations about the sort of society that might evolve on such a voyage. That’s a field that’s been sorely neglected in the years since Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Farscape departed the airwaves. One of the things everybody was so excited about when it came to Ascension - us at GFR included - was that it would be a return to science fiction actually set in outer space. ![]() If you haven’t finished watching Ascension yet, click away - If you haven’t finished watching Ascension yet, click away - there be spoilers here! Over the course of its three-night run, Ascension enthralled, frustrated, jumped the shark, recovered its footing, and then slammed headfirst into an abrupt climax that simultaneously has us eager to see the story continued and also kind of miffed at how little actual closure it provided. ![]()
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