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The Ark - First Five
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Syfy have released the first five minutes of upcoming space ship disaster survival series The Ark. Their trailer struck us as disappointingly B-grade with a possible hint of tween drama.

This first five minutes doesn't involve any substantial character interactions so we're still in the dark on that one.

We watched this segment a few times and it looks like the blockage clearing is a bit janky.

This is a spinning wheel spaceship design and an obstruction has stopped one wheel.

Bye bye gravity.

A young woman who seems to be in charge instructs a "release" which we see in big print on the computer screen.

The wheel then jacks into reverse slightly and spins back at the obstruction, which rockets free, and the wheel continues to spin.

Then she instructs a "restart" and we see all her floating compatriots fall to the floor.

But the wheel had already been spinning.

We might have been willing to overlook the wheel jacking into reverse without any apparent instruction but gravity should already have returned without a need to "restart".

Well, we didn't have especially high hopes of this one following the trailer so nothing lost.

The Ark is releasing in the US on Syfy on February 1 and we haven't heard that it's coming to Australia.

[ Main Image: The Ark sneak peak. Credit: Syfy via Rotten Tomatoes. ]

References

Rotten Tomatoes TV (January 26, 2023). The Ark S01 E01 Sneak Peek | 'The First Five Minutes'. YouTube.