Impact (miniseries)

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Impact
Mike Rohl
Starring
Theme music composerMichael Richard Plowman
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • Greece
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes2
Production
Producers
  • Jonas Bauer
  • Rola Bauer
  • Howard Braunstein
  • Michael Prupas
  • Tim Halkin
  • Greg Gugliotta
  • Irene Litinsky
  • Ted Bauman
  • Jesse Prupas
Production location
Super Channel and was also shown on ABC on June 21 and 28, 2009 and on Alpha TV in September 2011. The mini-series was released to DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
.

Plot

During a

astronauts
must construct a device to magnetize the Moon's core, causing it to disgorge the embedded brown dwarf fragment, eliminating the magnetic effects and restoring the Moon to a stable orbit. Because of their unique expertise, Alex and Roland must join an American astronaut, Flight Commander Courtney Batterton, and a Russian cosmonaut, Lunar Module Pilot Sergei Pitinkov on the mission, which is expected to be a one-way trip.

Roland's pregnant fiancée, Martina Altmann, was travelling across Germany on a train that levitated and derailed. She and an American, Bob Pierce, are able to lead the survivors to a military convoy, and Bob convinces the soldiers to allow Martina to ride to Roland's location. She and Roland are immediately married. Alex's children are left in the care of their late mother's father, Lloyd. When they attempt to drive cross-country to reunite with Alex, their car levitates and crashes. After a confrontation with a man named Derek who is hoarding resources at a convenience store, the children's grandfather suffers a fatal heart attack and later passes away. Derek originally plans to leave alone, but reconsiders and brings the children to Washington, DC. Alex is already in space, but he had asked Maddie, with whom he once had a romantic relationship with back then, to make sure his children remained safe. He is able to tell his children "goodbye" over a video feed.

On the Moon, the electromagnetic machine is assembled. Roland and Courtney, travel in a hovercraft to locate a fissure in the lunar surface. The hovercraft is struck by some debris and crashes deep inside the fissure and Courtney falls deep into the fissure. Roland is unharmed but is stuck inside the fissure and is unable to rejoin the spacecraft. He demands that Sergei, launch the module so that he and Alex can be saved. The device is activated and the missile is launched, causing a large explosion on the Moon, which incinerates Roland. The Moon splits in two as the brown dwarf fragment flies into the Sun. The orbit of the 2 halves of the lunar debris is stable. Sergei and Alex make radio contact, revealing that they managed to escape the Moon before the explosion. Back on Earth, Alex is reunited with his children and with Maddie whom they all decide to go back home to Canada, right as Alex and Maddie look up into the sky and check out the 2 halves of the moon in its new orbit right before they get inside the car.

Main cast

Filming locations

Scientific reaction

The Impact mini-series received little comment from the scientific community due to its lack of realism, incorrect use of terminology, and basic misunderstanding of the law of gravity.[1]

References

  1. ^ Plait, Phil (June 15, 2009). "If I watch this I hope the Moon *will* hit the Earth" Archived 2011-12-21 at the Wayback Machine. "Bad Astronomy". Discovery Magazine.

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