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I feel this way about everything. GoT took a nose dive when they stopped having source material to work off of. It became stupid, mindless drama. People talk
by celticmusic 7y ago
I feel this way about everything.
GoT took a nose dive when they stopped having source material to work off of. It became stupid, mindless drama. People talk about the ending as if that's where the problems started. No, the writing was crap for the last several seasons.
The latest season of The Expanse was disappointing. It went from a slow burning, character driven series to an action packed run-of-the-mill drama laden mess, like most of the television shows you see nowadays. I'm happy Amazon picked it up, but they basically butchered the show, it will never live up to its potential.
Everything just kind of becomes samey because they're all learning how to do it from the same sources, and the lessons they're learning is unnecessary drama pulls people in and keeps them there. Except it drives me nuts when an entire season's worth of plot points could literally evaporate if character A articulated why they were angry at character B, who would then explain it was a misunderstanding.
- goatlover 7y agoThe Expanse S4 was going off the fourth book, I believe. I didn’t like it as much as the last two seasons, but it’s supposed to be a setup season for what comes in the next couple books. Also, Chernobyl was fantastic and Watchmen was delightful, for the most part. And Evil is an interesting supernatural/cutting edge Tech mix. Then there’s the final season of Mr. Robot.
- leetcrew 7y agoI'm a little surprised that you would say this about the recent season of the expanse. I found it to be quite the opposite: mostly character development with not nearly as much plot movement as I had hoped for. I didn't like it as much as the third season, but that's a pretty high bar to meet. the main conflict with murtry was pretty contrived, I'll give you that. holden has been sent personally by chrisjen, literally has a warship parked outside of town, and the guy is going to push his buttons over a single person he wants to kill?
- wobbly_bush 7y agoI don't feel the same about expanse. Maybe it's just me, but I felt the show is progressing just liked in the books.
- xvector 7y agoExpanse Book 4 was absolutely terrible. The TV show is actually much better than the fourth book. Actually I am thinking that the Expanse in general is a series where the screenwriters are outperforming the original authors.
- hinkley 7y agoThe source material for Season 4 was not really a Space Opera anymore. There's a bit of similar material in book 5, and then it's back to Space Opera for the remainder of the series. Season 4 was always gonna be trouble, and I suspect that contributed to SyFy cancelling it.
- celticmusic 7y agofair enough, I haven't read the books. I purchased them as ebooks, but for whatever reason I can't seem to get into the first book. Love the series though.