After 51 Years Man Accidentally Gets Sucked Into Space & Finds Out That Everything Was a Simulation

A ship with hundreds of people is sent in a hundred-year journey to repopulate a distant planet, but when they pass the point of no return, mysterious incidents will reveal the truth behind the mission.

[bro_adway]

I've never been so mad at the end of a series. We need more.

[dfr]

"where her coffin is thrown into space"
*coffin gets launched at Mach 1 into the closest sun"

[tuberobotto]

Some viewers have noticed, to the disagreement of others, that the main goal of "The Ascension" according to the chief project manager, was to ultimately produce some form of "superbeings" which eventually manifested in one girl character with clairvoyant abilities. I think this was the subplot that future seasons and episodes were going to eventually turn into the main plot, somewhat similar to the story in "The Expanse" (although set in the future world of interplanetary turmoil). The Ascension had the potential to go further than it's initial "socio-political" soap opera that the first season majorly delved in, and the appearance of the "wunderkind" was I guess, supposed to lead the series into a new direction by adding a "superbeing" and some inexplicable metaphysical events into the mix of socio-political tensions which was slowly killing everyone on board.
Whatever it could be, I was left distraught at the fact that a series teeming with high ratings potential was unceremoniously canceled. With no announcements of whether a new season was coming up, not even a reason for it's cancellation (or none that I know of) it felt like I got thrown under the bus. In cases like this, the audience is always the loser. Sad.

[HitomiOokami]

Was super sad this only had one season. it had such a interesting premise, like it was so not without it's flaws and like some other sci-fi niche hits its only really gained more of a popularity well after it aired.

[the_omg]

If I remember right, the party wasn't the point of no return it was the half way point.
On a generation ship with constant thrust the point of no return is about 1/4 of the way there.
If your trip was intended to take 100 years, you'd normally start slowing after 50 years to be at a relative stop at your destination after 100 years.

If you started slowing to return to Earth after 25 years, it would take another 25 years to stop, then another 25 years of heading back to earth to get to your same velocity you were when you decided to go back, then another 25 years to slow back down for earth. So, after 25 years, your trip is going to take another 75 years whether you go back to earth or continue to your destination.

The one huge flaw I remember about that series is that with a ship where gravity is caused by acceleration, at some point you have to go zero G to turn the ship around to start decelerating. But zero G is really hard to fake on earth and a LOT of the crew would need to be in on the scam. (even if you put most of the ship to sleep)

The other flaw is that they pretty much HAVE to kill everyone on the ship at some point. At some point the end of the trip is supposed to happen and then what? They open the doors and let them out and tell the survivors, 'Sorry, we wasted your entire lives to gather data for our experiment." Nobody is going to just let that go. First they go to the press, then they get a lawyer, then they go on a witch hunt for everybody involved. The only solution is to kill them all to keep it quiet.

[DH-.]

Almost every sci-fi show concept has been an episode of Stargate

[Mparkho]

This was a limited miniseries that only had 6 planned episodes. The conclusion is there: Christa’s teleportation abilities were the real goal and Harris makes it clear that the project is a success.

It’s not a canceled show or a cliffhanger—just a small scene at the end conforming what the project was about.

[MikMoen]

I always have a problem when they use gritty concrete sets for spaceships.

[get_lucky]

Its such a crime this show was canceled. It has such a good premise and was really interesting.

[RecapJunkies]

This series def should not have ended!!!!

[NoNameAtAll]

so it was a cool story about isolation experiment
...that became a paranormal people + ghost story :/

[NobodyNose]

What kind of ending was that!? Talk about a cliffhanger.

[citrusbutter]

I completely forgot the title of this video and in watching thought it was highly unrealistic for some to live in excess while they somehow have disposable materials to make coffins to throw out into space, then it was announced that it's a simulation and it started to make more sense. Because i was about to say, living in a space colony would never allow for such It's like that series The 100, you'd have recycle and share everything.

[jmccrimmon]

Thank you for not having thirst trap thumbnails like some other channels do.

[JohnDoe-czyz]

I never heard of this before and now I'm sad it got cancelled.

[PrdDad]

Really mad they didn't keep this going. I loved this

[thegoodshrimp]

i love your recaps. especially of foreign movies cause its so much easier to appreciate the story when you can fully understand it

[robertcampbell]

This miniseries was so bad, Tricia Helfer's skinny dipping scene couldn't save it.

[YancieMomofmanyx]

The guy who was *sucked out* is actor Brad Carter. He is also the guy on Krafts mc n cheese theres gold commercials and was in True Detective and Black Mass

[saberzer]

It’s sad the series was left unfinished it was a very interesting concept