Redundant and unnecessary.

People are voting emotionally.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

As typical with quality original sci fi series, a little slow to start first couple of episodes. Also as usual, SyFy Channel tanked this series. Poor marketing/advertising, little clue as to what it was about before it aired. I did not get to see it originally, as I was working when it aired, but once I finally watched it, I would have been hooked.It is a shame that they do not give quality shows a chance to get off the ground. SyFy was in the WWE, flying shark mode. They never gave the good stuff a chance. This is one they missed on.

There is an old saying about an elephant looking like an animal that was designed by a committee. This mini-series, while well-acted by a great cast of veteran and newcomer actors, was clearly written and directed by a committee. There are so many plot holes, unanswered questions and technological anomalies that what had the potential to be a truly great story comes off as an awkward pachyderm of mismatched story arcs that wind up being stairways to nowhere. I found it very disappointing that questions that were asked by the characters apparently have to be answered by the audience because no effort was made to answer them by the writer(s). That the director(s) tried to pull a Hitchcock is laughable, because it just looks like they ran out of material, imagination or energy. I have to respect the actors' skill with 5 stars but the other 5 are left blank, like the expression on my face at the end of this mini-series.

I agree with reviewers critical of the abrupt and incomplete ending, but the production is still interesting. Cast and acting are fine.Yes, it reminds me of PanAm, stuck in the 1960's. While interesting, I doubt even a small society would fail to progress and develop, though the rigid class structure, prostitution and birth regulation shown may be exactly such an unpleasant social development, utopia gone bad?SPOILERS FOLLOW: My initial opinion of the plot PRIOR to viewing was that the ship was an ark sent out on a 100 year mission not to another planet, but in a giant loop returning to earth, to ensure survival of mankind from an assumed inevitable circa 1963 nuclear war. Wrong.During viewing, I considered that the ship might be some attempt to secret away the best and brightest of society in a space ship utopia. Wrong. Well, partly wrong.The story line kept throwing curves, the ultimate being the actual scripted mission. OK, surprised. But, disappointed, not so good as could have been.Science of a non-rotating one "G" ship is constant acceleration, half way out and then deceleration slowing down for the end half (i.e. ion drive, nuclear rocket...not bombs, and yes, these were designed in the 1950's). A very large ship would indeed have huge interior spaces, not bulkheads and padded walls like a navy ship or ISS. The high multi-story sets built were very impressive and realistic to such a type of giant ship. I definitely noticed how the "beach" starts off looking rather realistic, and large, but as the show progressed, smaller and more clearly, just painted seascapes on the walls of big round tanks, with access doors labeled "water reclamation". Despite an awkward plot, I believe production was well done.A second season would have been useful. Story lines could have been tied up. A better ending could have been to have had the ship end up actually in space to everyone's surprise, expect the passengers.I doubt another season or episode will be produced. But, if it were there are plenty of strings to tie and potential possible conclusions. Think of my first considered plot, a generational century ship "ark" returning to earth NOT ravaged by war? ..or maybe blown to bits? My second considered plot, a utopian space borne mankind actually finding a new world with the myriad problems of trying to terraform? ..or colonize? ..or invade? ..or Oh, well.

In the late fifties and early sixties there really was a project to develop a seriously large space rocket (around 50 times larger than a Saturn V) which was powered by Nuclear Pulse Propulsion. The real-world rocket, "Project Orion", never flew - killed by the nuclear test ban treaty, but the premise of this mini-series is that the project continued in secret. A substantial crew have lived in isolation on the ship to the present day caught in a time warp without any external stimuli for their microcosm of society. Despite its sound basis in real facts, the series accumulates many plot flaws. These become increasingly annoying as things progress. The real problem, though is that it builds as though it will run for several seasons with many characters and complex plot threads - and then - after six 43-minute episodes it just stops, the casualty, apparently, of politics and policy shifts at the SyFi channel. Clearly the writing team knew something was afoot as the plot becomes increasingly far-fetched in the last couple of episodes and then changes direction completely in the last 2 minutes of the last show leaving us all wondering why we ever bothered to watch in the first place.