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Besides the fact that I'm getting use to over one hour episodes with series like GOAT, HOD and now The Last Of Us, so far I'm not really enjoying watching this TV series, obviously it's only the second chapter and we're starting to know how essential the crew is and why the ship was affected and everyone had to wake up suddenly. In a situation where everything is catastrophic, such as being locked in a spaceship with a substantial community of people and few resources with no hope or option for assistance, it is difficult for everything that happens not to seem negative and cause that feeling of stress, until To a certain extent, what this series is doing well is transmitting that feeling of confinement and despair in the absence of resources, the fact that there is someone sabotaging the ship or that a crew member has been killed so far is in the background.
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The second episode with the name "Like It Touched the Sun '' opens up with Scholnick, Lt. Brice and Lt. Lane taking a space walk, they decide to go outside to investigate what happened to the ship, the reason why it got damaged. During this scene the ship comes apart and Lt. Lane gets hit in the head by a piece of metal while Scholnick gets killed and sent away into space.
Lt. Lane is brought into the ship by Lt. Brice and at the moment the reason why the ship got damaged is still a mystery, it seems like every time they get closer to some clue something happens, this opens the door for many conspiracy theories.
Lt. Lane is brought to medical attention where Dr. Kabir examines him and tell him about the concussion he has after been hit by that piece of metal in the head, at the moment with them was Alicia.
Alicia this cute smart girl who is very annoying for the rest of the crew because she just talks too much, Alicia is confronted by one of the tripulants for distracting Dr. Kabir even mentions that there is a conspiracy where Alicia killed Jasper's Dade impostor to take his job, Alicia kept talking as always and makes Dr. Kabir snapped, anyone who is probably next to Alicia more than ten minutes would but in this case the crew haven't slept since they got out of hibernation so Lt. Lane gives the "order" to everyone take a rest. Hold that thought, "order".
After the ship is carrying now a few dead people they decide to provide them with a proper funeral, at the end we see Eva Markovic spit on Jasper Dade impostor dead body before the close his zip bag, this right away tells you there is some bad blood between them, on the first chapter seems "Jasper" knew that Eva's lover Harris Beckner, who died on episode one when the oxygen went out, was brought illegally into the ship, after the funeral was over Angus decided to propose to use the dead bodies as compost, it makes all the sense if we debate science but is that the right thing to do?
Lt. Lane, who I'm starting to dislike, tries to decline the request giving "the order" not to do it and throws the bodies into space as planned but Lt. Sharon Garnet suggests they submit it to council vote, Alicia says they must survive and AGAIN Lt. Lane tries to give and order but effectively on episode two seems that nobody has told him that he is not in charge, so the after they council vote all agree to use the dead bodies as compost.
Lane keeps asking himself why Sharon seems to be in charge so start to discuss this with Brice and a scene from the past comes up, before The Ark went to its space mission, in the background we see the earth, part of it is on fire, currently dead characters come up as Lt. Commander Susasn Ingram who gives a speech to the crew, a hologram of The Ark program creator William Trust comes up to welcome everyone to the ship, he mention they want to send out 20 other ships Arks to space missions, Ingram is the one who introduce Sharon to Lane and Brice, Lane ask Brice how Sharon came to be part of the crew without them even notice and seems the order came from higher ranks to put Sharon in the ship.
It wouldn't be strange if Sharon ends up being Trust's daughter or relatives, in this flashback scene we also discover that there was something going on between Baylor Trend and Susan Ingram that I'm sure will come up later in the season. This flashback scene was very informative to know some of the crew that we had no idea who they were, not that they have giving us the entire story but at least more and more characters of the crew are coming up, for example the blonde who ask for the captain on the first episode Cat Brandice, seems she is some sort of therapist not exactly a psychology.
During this hole time they still haven't figure out who kill Fake Jasper but it seems whoever did this threw the knife he use in the water tank that they were using to grow plants and it end up damaging the water line making one of then explode and Angus was there when it happen so everyone start running around trying to fix it, figure out how much water they lost and why this happen. During the cleanup of the dome where the plants are growing and water was spilled they find the knife.
After this events Lt. Brice again go out for a space walk to find out what happen to the ship without notifying Sharon, Lt. Brice was assisting him from the inside of the sip, but this time they did find some sort of material that looks like a crystal but when Brice gets it and try to squeeze it turn into liquid that start burning his suit until it burns most of his left hand.
He gets back on time into the ship and Dr. Kabir took care of him, minutes after that they got a call to council to discuss the water filtration system situation with Eva and out of nowhere Lt. Lane mentions the knife in the water tank, there is an ongoing investigation for Jasper Impostor dead and how did he know that if this was not disclosed to nobody yet.
I have to say the series is starting to get better although the stressful and confinement situation will go on but as long as the conspiracy theory gets more interesting then it will be worth it to continue watching, I would give a 7 out of 10 to this episode, but over all the series is getting a very bad review on IMDB a 3.6/10 but we know how harsh the internet can be, wasn't bad but still not a strong series, besides episodes are only 42 minutes long including intro and outro, let see what episode three bring us, hopefully the story gets better and I will continue covering for now.
