The Expanse (Sy Fy) (1 Viewer)

[pete]

finished it today and thought it was very good BUT i had the same problem with it that I had with S1 of GOT - everything was cool beans with the politics and shit then BAM oh hello, magic dragons.

 

[Cormcolash]

The guys who wrote it used to be George Martin's assistants or something, haha.
It's much better thought out than the last bunch of GOT seasons though, I love how the expanse makes all the focus on the human interrelations in the middle of the stuff happening around them.

 

[pete]

series 4 on december 13th

 

[Cormcolash]

This has to be where it starts to get really alieny and shit

 

[pete]

Amazon announced at the Television Critics Association that the series is being renewed for a fifth season – the early order said to be inspired by the show’s overall high quality and audience excitement for it.

 

[pete]

 

[Cormcolash]

Can I just say that Thomas Jane and David Strathairn are both totally amazing in this show. Especially Strathairn, he's some fuckin legend

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Just started watching this. Only two episodes in but I loike it so far

 

[pete]

 

[egg_]

FWIW I watched the first series, then read the first 3 books. When the second series started I watched a couple of episodes, but couldn't continue - every is so grouchy and macho and FUCKING ANNOYING in that peculiar American tv-sci-fi way. Books were better

 

[Cormcolash]

Books are better, whatcha gonna do

 

[pete]

 

[hugh]

Most of the way through S4 now. It's really terrific. Very focused in that there are very local and gripping stories driving it but also has the geopolitics (stellarpolitics?) going on too.

 

[Cormcolash]

Season 4 was fucking classsssss, the Murtry character was spot on and again Strathairn as Ashford was fucking amazing

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I've been watching from the start, but having difficulty getting into SE04

I love the offshoot stories, like the guy that invented super fast space travel - and then we never see him again

Gonna give it another shot tonight

 

[Cormcolash]

Yeah they need to do those again, that's the one thing missing from S04 I reckon

 

[Cormcolash]

The little offshoot things were the one thing really missing from the later seasons, they were such great little interludes

 

[Scientician 0.8]

The little offshoot things were the one thing really missing from the later seasons, they were such great little interludes

One thing I loved about the show was that pop culture exists in the universe, music and viral videos etc based on what has happened. It's so rich.

 

[MacDara]

Finally just finished season 5 here (we’d put it off over the Cas Anvar scandal) and we’re starting on season 6. Season 4 feels like an aberration in comparison, possibly a symptom of the changeover from Syfy to Amazon? Anyway, things pick up.