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TBH, The Expanse also suffers from a major drop in quality after season 3. It is so hard for series to maintain quality over time I now prefer miniseries as the
by ghssds 1y ago
TBH, The Expanse also suffers from a major drop in quality after season 3. It is so hard for series to maintain quality over time I now prefer miniseries as the quality is more uniform from the start to the end in my experience.
- gibagger 1y agoThe first book/season is such a banger because it's pretty great horror sci-fi at that point. Eventually the whole protomolecule thing settles down, and afterwards you have essentially politics and genocide in space, which can be good but almost feels like a different genre.
- robertlagrant 1y agoRight - the first season's gradual zooming out (expanse) from a very focused murder mystery into a solar system-spanning event was amazing. It did feel like that event then got sidelined, as you say, in favour of politics.
- unsnap_biceps 1y agoThe books really shift tone between books 3 and 4 and 6 and 7. I felt the show did really well with the tone shift, however, I do understand how people might not enjoy the results as much as I do.
- dleeftink 1y agoI found it pretty consistent! The improved CG in later seasons also clearly shows.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 1y agoThe expanse drop was entirely due to budget cuts from amazon, who were going to cancel it but didn't because Jeff Bezos liked the show. They did get a budget cut and had to make some decisions about how to execute the story with more limited resources. They still did a pretty good job imho, but would love to have seen what they could have done with full budget.
- opan 1y agoIf this is true, why couldn't Bezos bankroll the show to maintain its quality?
- chronophobe 1y agoBecause billionaires can't love anything more than they love money.
- philipallstar 1y agoSounds like you're more obsessed with money than he is. He spent a billion dollars on a terrible Tolkein show.
- xscott 1y agoBecause it was worth a little but not a lot to him? I'll pay $20 for an audiobook, but I won't pay $100 for one.
- Terretta 1y agoOne might be surprised by the proportion math of one's $20 as % of one's earnings or net worth versus his, and how far the same % could go.
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