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Fantastic show!

posted 8 years ago by Mahrez99 (236)
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This show deserves a LOT more viewers. Just a great story, production and execution. With an even better second season going on now, I'm thinking this could be the very best real sci-fi tv-series ever made.

I love to death shows like Star Trek TNG, Firefly and Farscape. But where TNG and Farscape is more spaceopera and with now outdated effects, and Firefly was more like space-cowboys and cut short, The Expanse seems complete with very few minor flaws dwarfed by the strengths.

Would recommend this even to non sci-fi nerds as it has just great casting, acting, sets and story that deserves and have the potential to reach a much wider audience.

[–] Volley (3433) 8 years ago

It's a pretty good show, especially the last quarter of the first season, and so far this entire season,--where things start to really pick up, my only qualm is the episodes feel so short. In the days of 50-60 minute Game of Thrones episodes, settling for 41 minutes per episode sucks. That would be fine with a 20-24 episode season, but only 10 episodes? Yikes.

This is where Syfy's reimagined Battlestar Galactica is still tops, combining lengthy episodes with lengthy seasons, while still having fantastic special effects.

[–] Mahrez99 (236) 8 years ago

Well, it's really good special effects and sets, so it's probably very expensive for a niche channel like SyFY to produce. GoT must have x10 the budget.
Would love for it to be a bit longer too, but very happy with what we get anyway. Can't wait till the series is finished so I can binge watch it all :)

[–] Volley (3433) 8 years ago

Agreed, The Expanse has amazing special effects, and I'm glad I found this show too!

[–] Apis (1624) 8 years ago

The Expanse is one of my favorite shows as well. I've been avoiding coming to this board cause I haven't watched the last episode (afraid of spoilers), but I'll watch today and come back to comment.

[–] Mahrez99 (236) 8 years ago

Yeah, will watch the last episode tonight too. So nice to have such a great sci-fi series to look forward to new episodes of these days!

[–] PrivateBozz (156) 8 years ago

Hello,
I'm thinking about watching this show, but I'd like to know what kind of philsosophy it has, meaning is this a cynical everyone-is-frakked-up-and-the-world-will-go-to-hell kind of show or more like things-are-complicated-but everyone-tries-their-best or something like that (BSG, even though dark at times, falls into the latter category because people grow and overcome, which makes it more empowering than depressing imo). I'm fed up with cynical worldviews.

[–] Apis (1624) 8 years ago

One of the main characters (Miller, the cop) starts out as cynical, but as the show progresses he becomes less and less cynical, even though he occasionally relapses back into a cynical mode.

Other characters are not cynical, except maybe one or two United Nations officials. So, you don't need to worry about that. The show is great.

[–] PrivateBozz (156) 8 years ago

Sounds good, thank you.