Official The Expanse Thread

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

In my head, the Ukraine Russia talks are gonna be full of tough talk, thinly veiled threats, and insults like the Mars Earth talks.

I just need one Ukrainian brehette with a Marlboro voice to say "wherever I god-damn please"

 

[SuburbanPimp]

Took me like 5 attempts to get into this show. I just couldn't get past the first few episodes as I didn't like the Belter scenes at first but, once I forced myself to watch, it became piff and the Belters became my favorite out of the factions on the show Cant believe I slept on this show for years. Only good thing is I just finished Season Two and got four seasons left to binge.

I’m on my second attempt now. Definitely seems like my type of show but just having a tough time getting through the first season. Gonna try to fight through it though

 

[Grand Conde]

I'm reading book 8 right now and I've no idea how it would work as a TV season. It's both extremely slow and extremely ambitious all at once - it would require a huge budget but also a lot of screen time with the main characters not doing much of anything.

As an aside I really enjoyed Book 7 - and Book 8 so far - but there is a lot of plot contrivance after entering into the stories; far more so than the earlier books.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

I'm reading book 8 right now and I've no idea how it would work as a TV season. It's both extremely slow and extremely ambitious all at once - it would require a huge budget but also a lot of screen time with the main characters not doing much of anything.

As an aside I really enjoyed Book 7 - and Book 8 so far - but there is a lot of plot contrivance after entering into the stories; far more so than the earlier books.

So is it a good story?

 

[Grand Conde]

Books 7-9? Yeah sure, just pretty contrived.

 

[Marks]

I’m on my second attempt now. Definitely seems like my type of show but just having a tough time getting through the first season. Gonna try to fight through it though

Suffers from the same thing as Black Sails. The first season pretty much all setup and build mode.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Suffers from the same thing as Black Sails. The first season pretty much all setup and build mode.

I think all great shows are like this to an extent. Thats how GOT was too.

It took me 6 or 7 months to get through the first episode of GOT cause every time I tried to watch it, I was bored. And I'm someone who LOVES medieval shows.

 

[Grand Conde]

Suffers from the same thing as Black Sails. The first season pretty much all setup and build mode.

Kind of, but in a lot of ways the first season isn't overly relevant to what happens later on, besides being a very slow intro into the protomolecule.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Kind of, but in a lot of ways the first season isn't overly relevant to what happens later on, besides being a very slow intro into the protomolecule.

S1 is relevant to the entire series, breh. It introduces the characters, lays out the factions, gives you backstory to why all the factions hate each other.

 

[Marks]

Zurik always snaps with these edits and finally did one for the whole series:


He's done a couple but this one he did after it was cancelled was

Spoiler

 

[Grand Conde]

Finally read book 9. Great ending but all in all I preferred books 7 and 8, particularly 8.

Shame we were robbed of TV Tanaka though, great character.

 

[Paper Boi]

rewatching and i don't think we're ever gonna get a sci-fi show on this level again.

for me it's

1. wire
2. breaking bad
3. expanse

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

rewatching and i don't think we're ever gonna get a sci-fi show on this level again.

for me it's

1. wire
2. breaking bad
3. expanse

The wire and breaking bad are sci fi shows

 

[Paper Boi]

The wire and breaking bad are sci fi shows

no all time

for a sci fi show to be on the same level is

 

[Marks]

It's gonna be awhile. Part of the problem is doing scifi/fantasy shows "right" is prohibitively expensive. By the end of GoT every episode was costing them an indie movie budget (like 7-10 mill an ep) and they were shooting on like 4 continents per season. When they cut corners you fukking felt it (all the dorne shyt for example). Scifi problem is you gotta actually build a lot of the sets/locations on top of all the CGI you probably gonna need.

Expanse probably tripled their budget just going to Amazon and you can tell almost immediately they had more to work with lol. Even subtle shyt like camera movement and lighting was way better.