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kingdazy t1_jalebii wrote

Reply to comment by a4techkeyboard in The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer

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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