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lnsru 3y ago
Exactly. It can become a masterpiece or get dragged into dirt. I am really curious about it and would even get Prime membership for this series.
- shiroiuma 3y ago
  It's not that bad, based on what I've seen of Amazon's track record. If it's like The Expanse, it'll be really great (though Expanse s4-6 wasn't quite as good as s1-3 IMO, with s4 being the weakest; it seemed like the budget was kinda low there). On the other hand, if it's like Rings of Power, it'll be visually fantastic but with an uninspired story and an overall bland, paint-by-numbers feeling. The place where something can be either a masterpiece, or utter trash, is the SyFy Channel. SyFy is where s1-3 of The Expanse came from. But it's also the company that recently gave us "The Ark", which is possibly the worst sci-fi TV show I have ever seen, and that includes some seriously ridiculous TV shows in the 1970s and 80s. And somehow, they've even ordered a second season for this vile excuse for sci-fi.
baq 3y ago
Amazon-sponsored The Expanse 606 won a Hugo recently https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ so there's hope!
- hef19898 3y ago
  With tze difference that The Expense had great writing and is based on great books. The LotR series was, well, not good. And video game adaptions are incredibly difficult to do well. But there is hope in deed, even it is going to be yet another post-apocalyptic setting.
  - NobodyNada 3y ago
    > The Exp[a]nse had great writing and is based on great books Also, the authors of the book were writers and producers of the show.
    - hef19898 3y ago
      Expanse, Expense, that's what you get from doing expansive expense reports in parallel!
      - volkadav 3y ago
        to be fair, a bleak dystopian corporate black comedy called The Expense might also have legs :)
        primax 3y ago
        And Amazon would be ideally placed to do that show. They've been working on that experience for years
        hef19898 3y ago
        This is so true!
  - acomjean 3y ago
    I Hope it turns out well. Generally I think Amazon does a good job with the prime original series. I liked the Expanse. The peripheral was interesting. Even the LotR “rings of power” I found enjoyable, and maybe better than expected after those hobit movies.. Not perfect but it had heart, some humor, good music (Bear Mccready, Fiona apple!) thought a bit too sentimental as LOTR tends to be.. HBO took the “last of us” and did something decent I fall into hope springs eternal camp. But I’d rather play the story than just watch it… I loved the uncharted games, but am never going to see an uncharted movie. In this case I watched my partner play fallout. It had a story, but you play you, not a specific character. But a settlement always needs your help.
  - BerislavLopac 3y ago
    Having recently watched Sentinel and Jack Ryan, and previously The Expanse and TRoP (it's most certainly not LotR), it looks like Amazon is trying to replicate the same formula over and over: 1. Cliffhangers at the end of each episode. 2. Multiple red herrings and 180 degree turns. 3. One *huge* reveal towards the end. 4. A mixture of grim realism and cynical humour. 5. Dramatic and often extreme action scenes. It works for some series, and combined with good writing/acting/directing can result in a solid product (see Jack Ryan, The Expanse); but in other cases it either fails with bad filmmaking (see Sentinel), or simply doesn't fit the underlying material (see TRoP).
imetatroll 3y ago
TLOR... TWOT. Lets see if they can actually make something watchable this time around.

Oh no…

Exactly. It can become a masterpiece or get dragged into dirt. I am really curious about it and would even get Prime membership for this series.

shiroiuma 3y ago
It's not that bad, based on what I've seen of Amazon's track record. If it's like The Expanse, it'll be really great (though Expanse s4-6 wasn't quite as good as s1-3 IMO, with s4 being the weakest; it seemed like the budget was kinda low there). On the other hand, if it's like Rings of Power, it'll be visually fantastic but with an uninspired story and an overall bland, paint-by-numbers feeling. The place where something can be either a masterpiece, or utter trash, is the SyFy Channel. SyFy is where s1-3 of The Expanse came from. But it's also the company that recently gave us "The Ark", which is possibly the worst sci-fi TV show I have ever seen, and that includes some seriously ridiculous TV shows in the 1970s and 80s. And somehow, they've even ordered a second season for this vile excuse for sci-fi.

baq 3y ago

Amazon-sponsored The Expanse 606 won a Hugo recently https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2023-hugo-awards/ so there's hope!

hef19898 3y ago
With tze difference that The Expense had great writing and is based on great books. The LotR series was, well, not good. And video game adaptions are incredibly difficult to do well. But there is hope in deed, even it is going to be yet another post-apocalyptic setting.
- NobodyNada 3y ago
  > The Exp[a]nse had great writing and is based on great books Also, the authors of the book were writers and producers of the show.
  - hef19898 3y ago
    Expanse, Expense, that's what you get from doing expansive expense reports in parallel!
    - volkadav 3y ago
      to be fair, a bleak dystopian corporate black comedy called The Expense might also have legs :)
      - primax 3y ago
        And Amazon would be ideally placed to do that show. They've been working on that experience for years
        hef19898 3y ago
        This is so true!
- acomjean 3y ago
  I Hope it turns out well. Generally I think Amazon does a good job with the prime original series. I liked the Expanse. The peripheral was interesting. Even the LotR “rings of power” I found enjoyable, and maybe better than expected after those hobit movies.. Not perfect but it had heart, some humor, good music (Bear Mccready, Fiona apple!) thought a bit too sentimental as LOTR tends to be.. HBO took the “last of us” and did something decent I fall into hope springs eternal camp. But I’d rather play the story than just watch it… I loved the uncharted games, but am never going to see an uncharted movie. In this case I watched my partner play fallout. It had a story, but you play you, not a specific character. But a settlement always needs your help.
- BerislavLopac 3y ago
  Having recently watched Sentinel and Jack Ryan, and previously The Expanse and TRoP (it's most certainly not LotR), it looks like Amazon is trying to replicate the same formula over and over: 1. Cliffhangers at the end of each episode. 2. Multiple red herrings and 180 degree turns. 3. One *huge* reveal towards the end. 4. A mixture of grim realism and cynical humour. 5. Dramatic and often extreme action scenes. It works for some series, and combined with good writing/acting/directing can result in a solid product (see Jack Ryan, The Expanse); but in other cases it either fails with bad filmmaking (see Sentinel), or simply doesn't fit the underlying material (see TRoP).

imetatroll 3y ago

TLOR... TWOT. Lets see if they can actually make something watchable this time around.