This show has some commendable acting, and the writers have a sufficient understanding of how human relationships work to make it not entirely unwatchable. However, for a show that is trying to fall closer to the "hard" end of the hard / fantastical science fiction spectrum, with limitations such as slower than light travel that conforms to relativistic physics, the writers struggle with simple concepts such as how propulsion works in the vacuum of space, why (and in particular when) comets express tails, and the basics of local star location and visibility of classes of stars from earth. Sometimes the writers do get the physics right, but the sometimes it is in violation of the established laws of the show's universe. All fiction requires some suspension of disbelief, but when writing science fiction or for other fantastical genera, inconsistencies at the level displayed in this show quickly dissolves into incomprehensible muck leaving the viewer with a limited ability to anticipate story outcomes, thus ruining many interesting plot twists. Anything, apparently, can happen on this show, depending on the whims of the writers, and that's a problem.
Review of The Ark
