Okay, maybe I am projecting… but projecting might be what Ascension is all about! I’ll bet you five bucks that if Ascension returns for another mini-series, we’ll learn that some kind of magical observer effect is at work here, with Enzmann affecting reality inside the ship simply by watching it, by projecting his wants and wishes upon his “space heroes.” Of course, I once theorized something similar about Lost, and in fact, I dare say this revelation that Enzmann was trying to cultivate a super-powered savior inside his spaceship Skinner Box is basically my Evil Aaron theory of The Dharma Initiative. (Will Enzmann cover up his absence from the ship by replacing him with a robot doppelganger, just like the movie?) Gault got The Last Starfighter’s arc, graduating from (unwitting) space hero gameplay to becoming the real deal. That line about “the star child must be born” (uttered by the treacherous faux troublemaker Eve, revealed to be an Ascension fangirl running a honeypot to snare haters) came during the same scene in which Stokes was playing Moon-Watcher.
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I’ll update this Thursday morning after checking out the PST telecast.) We definitely got a coded nod to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Those who’ve seen the aired version are saying he saw ALF. (Or that’s what he was watching on my Syfy-supplied screener. Boudousque) catching flickers of Fraggle Rock on Ascension monitors. There was James Toback (the name, a reference itself the actor, P.J. There was Stokes (Brad Carter) watching space opera on a motel telly, ogling the space princesses. More mind-expanding space odysseys, less self-absorbed geeking… like this review.Īscension was a stir of sci-fi (and Syfy) echoes. More big new ideas, fewer hyperlinks trapping us in old ones.
A charitable read: Ascension was challenging a genre to dream better.
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It is something very post-modern, a self-aware sci-fi saga born from an accumulation of sci-fi sagas over the past 50 years, and perhaps full of pining for better, more hopeful, more serious-minded sci-fi: I found something meaningful and provocative in the last image: Gault, a “space hero” with the Right Stuff, rising to his feet amid that trendiest, most dismal of things, a dystopian wasteland. Bell) from a baddie’s beat-down by instantaneously teleporting him to… a distant, dark planet? Another Enzmann simulation? The only thing we know for sure is that Ascension is perhaps best understood not as a response to the myth of the ’60, as I argued pretentiously on Monday (sorry). In the final moments, she used her abilities to channel the energies of a Glowglobe to produce a Holtzman effect and save Aaron Gault (Brandon P.
Enzmann found success in the form of young Christa (Ellie O’Brien), part Marvel Girl, part Firestarter, part Space Guild navigator from Dune.
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