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The Expanse (SyFy series)
March 29, 2017 at 7:48 pm
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Is anyone here watching The Expanse, and can you recommend it? I just stumbled across the trailers and wasn't aware that it's a thing. Apparently it just got renewed for a third season, too. Looks intriguing, not the usual shallow SyFy shlock..
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
March 29, 2017 at 9:49 pm
I can absolutely recommend it - easily the most grounded and thoughtful take on "space opera" that I've seen in the film/TV medium. It has an intriguing plot that gradually develops and begins to touch on some fascinating concepts. Can't really give away much more.
I'd say it takes about 5-6 episodes to really get going as it lays a lot of groundwork first, but once it does it's a fantastic show and has maintained a high level up to the latest episode.
The Expanse is basically the spearhead for SyFy getting their shit back together, and it's a damn good one at that.
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 2, 2017 at 2:23 pm
Just binge watched the first season. I'll have to recommend it as well. Not only is it pretty well written and directed, they spent a bundle making the effects realistic.
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 2, 2017 at 2:33 pm
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(April 2, 2017 at 2:23 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Just binge watched the first season. I'll have to recommend it as well. Not only is it pretty well written and directed, they spent a bundle making the effects realistic.
From the snippets I've seen and reviews I've read, I was afraid that they are making the "protomolecule" thingy a bit tacky, unrealistic and deus ex machinay. Is that fear unfounded?
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 2, 2017 at 2:56 pm
Now you've got me sitting here trying to remember what the "protomolecule" thing was even about. Yeah, in ten episodes, watched back-to-back-to-back-to... I only remember it even being mentioned once or twice. It's certainly not used as a duex ex machina. I've not read any reviews, but it sound like someone got a bug up their butt about something they didn't like about the supporting science. The thing I try to keep in mind is that writers, no matter how well prepared and researched, are not scientists. If they were, no one would ever have dreamed up the warp drive. 
As a guy who knows little but the basics about science, I found it to be a very realistic show, both in its science and in its human motivations.
As a sci-fi geek I found it to be among the best sci-fi shows produced in the last 20 years.
Give it a go. At worst, your out an hour or two for giving it a chance, and even then I doubt it'll be time you beg to have back.
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 2, 2017 at 5:53 pm
Ugh my husband watches that. Not my thing. He'd recommend it though.
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 2, 2017 at 6:12 pm
It doesn't look like my thing either, but I might give it a try. I need something to watch.
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 2, 2017 at 6:13 pm
I just watched the first three while doing menial work. Looks like Film Noir in space meets Total Recall meets Battlestar Galactica, pretty awesome all around.
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 2, 2017 at 11:41 pm
It strikes me as being very cyber-punk, not that there's anything wrong with that. Some of the best recent sci-fi has been in that sub-genre.
If you liked "The Expanse," keep an eye out for "Altered Carbon" coming to Netflix. It's based on the first book of the Takeshi Kovacs series of books by Richard K. Morgan. Very, very good cyber-punk.
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RE: The Expanse (SyFy series)
April 3, 2017 at 7:48 am
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Also, a wonderful touch which I just *love* is that the population of the Asteroid belt all have a very distinct accent. But what on earth (pun intended) is that? It sounds to me like vaguely African, Irish, Caribbean, Pacific, or a mix of all of those. Can a native speaker enlighten me?
(to be heard from the narrator/activist speaking in the intro I posted in the OP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RLkaJS1...e=youtu.be)
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