#Kickstarter ascension tv show series
The series speculates on what might happen if people from our most stereotypically repressed, insular, and conservative era were whisked away just as it tipped towards civil rights reform and the sexual revolution, then allowed to develop a new society isolated from (almost) any outside influences. We're fascinated by visions of the future from the past, and Ascension was marketed with vintage-inspired subway posters and sneak peeks into its ‘60s-style beach parties in space. Officer Aaron Gault, one of few people to rise between decks and classes, is tasked with finding the first killer in the ship's 50-year history without upsetting the myriad shipboard romances, rivalries, and power plays. There's still a right and wrong side of the tracks, and as the miniseries begins, the murder of a woman from the safe, suburban upper decks threatens to pit them against the blue-collar lower ones.
Women work as ship "stewardesses," and food is served out of Automats. Hundreds of people can live in an entirely artificial environment for decades, but their TVs still use vacuum tubes in 2014, and their fashion is untouched by generations of change on Earth. The Ascension is a time capsule reminiscent of the vaults in Fallout, where sci-fi idealism runs headlong into present-day complications and cynicism. Meanwhile, they're living in a ship that's supposed to be powered as much by distilled retro-futurism as nuclear explosions. The future-past of Ascension look a lot like our present, with more tasteful lingerie and a stifling sense of ennui. The guy in the middle? Who gives a shit." "The captain who launched and the captain who lands, that's who history will remember. "If you and I weren't born on this ship, we could have accomplished great things," the ship's captain laments. 50 years into the journey, the first generation has died out, and their descendants are the unloved middle children of the space program - conscripted from birth into a mission they didn't choose and will never see succeed.
In Ascension's 1963, 350 people were launched on a century-long journey into another solar system, unknown to anyone except the program administrators and some nosy conspiracy theorists. What if Project Orion, a ‘50s research program bent on launching interplanetary nuclear-powered spaceships, had secretly succeeded? SyFy is known for spinning off popular movies, or beating viewers into submission with Dadaist pulp like Sharknado, but its new miniseries Ascension starts with a brilliant premise.
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