Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Parker Lewis I remember this a long time back and one scene where some luck kid rescued was, thanks to Ark II, allowed to order any meal he wanted, and the Ark II microwave conjured it up!!! If I was that kid I'd be ordering a triple size burger and fries and then more to take with me because I know I wouldn't feature in the next episode as one-off characters only make single episode appearances per the TV trope.This episode deserves a reboot, and I'm thinking Spike Jonze should get his directorial hands on this. The stars from the series can make guest appearances, and the show can focus on contemporary issues such as the growing divide between the top 1% and the rest, the red state- blue state gulf, and sly references to how social media contributed to the collapse of modern society.

StuOz The world as we know it has come to an end and two duds, a young woman and a talking chimp are in a fancy space age bus attempting to re- start the human race.I watched all 15 episodes as a child in the 1970s and I re-watched all 15 episodes in 2014 (on YouTube). Made by the makers of Shazam! (1974), I still like this show after all these years.I almost view Ark II as a sister show to Shazam! as both shows deal with a large vehicle, with two or three people inside, driving around helping people in need. However, Shazam! is set in the 1970s and Ark II is set in earth's distant future.If you are a fan of the Planet Of The Apes TV series (1974), Star Trek (1966) and Lost In Space (1965) you will get a blast out of Ark II as the series has cross overs to those shows.Both Shazam! and Ark II also have very good music scores playing over the shows that are so good you end up playing the scores in your head days after watching the episodes.It is too bad Ark II has only 15 short 23 minute episodes as after watching the whole series back to back...the whole thing sort of comes and goes too fast.Also, during the whole 15 episodes we never find out anything about the three leads as they never make much small talk, they never talk much about earth's past, they never fall in love, they just follow the storyline of the scripts and never make personal comments. This is not a bad thing as many shows these days have too much characterization but this does give Ark II an empty feeling after watching the whole series.Ark II might not be perfect and the opening episode with Jonathan Harris is rather poor and empty, but the series has some treasures. My favourite episode is called - The Tank - which involves a lad driving around the countryside in a not so deadly tank.

cdkonline To many shows were never allowed to reach their potential even though some appealed to the masses beyond expectation. This show was one of them. Decision making at the time was based on pleasing the people in charge I think and not as much about what the people were watching .Sure, today we can look back and say it was a great show touching many areas of society but were we thinking the same thing when it first aired. I was! A remake or revamped version to be more in tune with today's world would go over well in my opinion. TRY IT! I'd watch it more often than some of the revamped crime shows we're flooded with. Can't anyone tell we're getting tired of cops and robbers, crime science and legal system shows? Everything is teaching kids to be better criminals and/or the rest of the shows teach someone else's version of morality which isn't always the way it really is. How about 'what can be' and less 'what is'? A little hope in the world would go a long way.

Chowdah I loved this show when I was a kid. Basically the premise was a group of scientists were driving around in the land rover vehicle from "Damnation Alley"(repainted white). They fended off bad guys and post apocalyptic disasters while helping people rebuild after a nuclear holocaust (at least I think it was nuclear).This show had to have been the inspiration for the Role Playing Game "The Morrow Project", which basically used the same premise.Filmation Trivia: This was one of many live action Saturday Morning TV shows put out by Filmation in the late 70s. Filmation made a name for itself by making both filmed and animated kid shows. Some of their more famous filmed shows included: Captain Marvel, Isis, Run Joe Run, Space Academy (whose spiffy Star Trek the Motion Picture like costumes were recycled from Ark II) and its spinoff, Jason of Star Command. Filmation is probably most famous for their He-Man & the Masters of the Universe cartoon from the 80s.