All Creatures Great & Small (S03)

Clearly, I remembered to toss a post up for series/season 3.

(This year I'm just adding episode remarks in the comments on this one post, especially with the season nearly being over. Contextual note: For the first two seasons on PF, I tried to have a separate post for each episode as my family watched the show each week. In this archival process, I might follow suit with season 3 and have a bunch of comments on just one post per season.)

Originally posted on Pillowfort on 15 February 2023.

The Ark (Season 1)

My family sort of stumbled across a new show on Syfy called The Ark.

Episode 1: Everyone Wanted to Be on This Ship

We knew that the premise didn't lend itself to a totally 100% conflict free show, but there's almost this feeling of not trusting that the incident that starts the show will be enough tension. Ark One is a spaceship in the future, and an unknown event damaging the ship triggers people waking up from their cryo-pods before they were supposed to [one year from their destination instead of two weeks]. Cue escaping the damaged cryo-pod bay, not everyone is un-cryo-ed, and there's serious questions about how they're supposed to make it for a year without the supplies for that amount of time.

This should sound stressful enough to tide us over for a season, or whatever, but so much happens:

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