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Have you watched it? It’s not bad... but not really good either. Much better shows were cancelled in the past.

laurencei 8y ago
Yes - personally I like it. But I'm trying to be objective and note the lack of correlation between a shows percevied quality and how that does/not translate into ratings.
- wink 8y ago
  I was missing the "wow, awesome!" effect. Only watched S1 so far and it was.. nice. solid. interesting. But it didn't spark joy or made me a fan. (Killjoys did, for example.)
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    S2 has more "wow, awesome" than S1, and then the few S3 episodes that aired so far beat the crap out of S2. VFX work got better and better as the show progressed.
  - laumars 8y ago
    Everyone is different but S1 of The Expanse gave me more joy than any other show I've watched in a long time. While S1 did have its fair share of space battles, it was so nice watching something that wasn't all guns and fist fights and did so without having to resort to hours of dull pseudo-emotional monologues and barely relevant flashbacks. Usually that kind of highbrow writing is reserved for "who done it" style crime dramas. It was refreshing to watch that same formula applied to the sci-fi genre given how cheesy or needlessly "emo" the genre has been of late.
sigi45 8y ago
Like? I really like the show. It is quite dense.
kochthesecond 8y ago
I watched the first season a few years ago. It is good, solid, hard sci-fi. But like said below, it didn't 'wow' me. Considering the current lack of good sci-fi series, I really appreciated the show.
baxtr 8y ago
Yeah, I stopped watching once the paranormal stuff started. Why can’t we have just realistic SciFi?
- nootropicat 8y ago
  What paranormal stuff? Are you calling aliens paranormal?
  - baxtr 8y ago
    I was referring to the protomolcule stuff, clearly to explainable by our current understanding of science Citing Wikipedia: Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.
    - laumars 8y ago
      In that case 99% of sci-fi would be classed as "paranormal". Be it warp drives, replicators, holodecks, teleporters, deep space communication platforms, shapeshifting lifeforms / changelings (DS9), ascended lifeforms (SG1) / the Q (TNG), aliens that drink lifeforce (Atlantis), artificial lifeforms, cold fusion bombs / red matter (or pretty much anything from those shitty Star Trek reboots). And lets not forget time travel. I think it's also worth remembering that the "fi" part of "sci-fi" actually stands for "fiction" and not "factual information" :P
      - baxtr 8y ago
        True :-) I just liked that about the expanse that everything else was really realistic. Achievable by humans within the next couple of hundred years
    - aaron695 8y ago
      You are right in that the Expanse is far far from Hard SciFi, but it's probably in the top 1% since people really don't get FTL is just a plan nut job level idea. Protomolcule does go nutty (FTL, disrespecting inertia, gravity and stuff)but I didn't mind personally, I also like magic shows. But the human stuff is not bad, which is why a lot of people love it. There's a huge section of it that kinda has some respect for science. But it's not Paranormal IMO because everyone can see it happening, hence it's normal (In this universe) I would not say a movie where ghosts are everywhere in society and everyone sees them a paranormal movie.

Yes - personally I like it. But I'm trying to be objective and note the lack of correlation between a shows percevied quality and how that does/not translate into ratings.

wink 8y ago
I was missing the "wow, awesome!" effect. Only watched S1 so far and it was.. nice. solid. interesting. But it didn't spark joy or made me a fan. (Killjoys did, for example.)
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  S2 has more "wow, awesome" than S1, and then the few S3 episodes that aired so far beat the crap out of S2. VFX work got better and better as the show progressed.
- laumars 8y ago
  Everyone is different but S1 of The Expanse gave me more joy than any other show I've watched in a long time. While S1 did have its fair share of space battles, it was so nice watching something that wasn't all guns and fist fights and did so without having to resort to hours of dull pseudo-emotional monologues and barely relevant flashbacks. Usually that kind of highbrow writing is reserved for "who done it" style crime dramas. It was refreshing to watch that same formula applied to the sci-fi genre given how cheesy or needlessly "emo" the genre has been of late.

sigi45 8y ago

Like? I really like the show. It is quite dense.

kochthesecond 8y ago

I watched the first season a few years ago. It is good, solid, hard sci-fi. But like said below, it didn't 'wow' me. Considering the current lack of good sci-fi series, I really appreciated the show.

baxtr 8y ago

Yeah, I stopped watching once the paranormal stuff started. Why can’t we have just realistic SciFi?

nootropicat 8y ago
What paranormal stuff? Are you calling aliens paranormal?
- baxtr 8y ago
  I was referring to the protomolcule stuff, clearly to explainable by our current understanding of science Citing Wikipedia: Paranormal events are phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described to lie beyond normal experience or scientific explanation.
  - laumars 8y ago
    In that case 99% of sci-fi would be classed as "paranormal". Be it warp drives, replicators, holodecks, teleporters, deep space communication platforms, shapeshifting lifeforms / changelings (DS9), ascended lifeforms (SG1) / the Q (TNG), aliens that drink lifeforce (Atlantis), artificial lifeforms, cold fusion bombs / red matter (or pretty much anything from those shitty Star Trek reboots). And lets not forget time travel. I think it's also worth remembering that the "fi" part of "sci-fi" actually stands for "fiction" and not "factual information" :P
    - baxtr 8y ago
      True :-) I just liked that about the expanse that everything else was really realistic. Achievable by humans within the next couple of hundred years
  - aaron695 8y ago
    You are right in that the Expanse is far far from Hard SciFi, but it's probably in the top 1% since people really don't get FTL is just a plan nut job level idea. Protomolcule does go nutty (FTL, disrespecting inertia, gravity and stuff)but I didn't mind personally, I also like magic shows. But the human stuff is not bad, which is why a lot of people love it. There's a huge section of it that kinda has some respect for science. But it's not Paranormal IMO because everyone can see it happening, hence it's normal (In this universe) I would not say a movie where ghosts are everywhere in society and everyone sees them a paranormal movie.