SyFy The Expanse

[Thebobo]

Good news. He I'm rewatching the series on Amazon now and reading the book ~

 

[Puffnstuff]

Good news. He I'm rewatching the series on Amazon now and reading the book ~

I'm also streaming it from Amazon to drive up the watched count for them.

 

[Ken g6]

Sometimes the depressing and bleakness is beautiful though! It was one of my favorite aspects about the SciFi version of Battlestar Galactica, probably the last great hard science TV show before The Expanse.

And that's why I stopped watching the new BSG after a season or two.

@Midwayman, I don't like how things are going today. I want to believe!

 

[Puffnstuff]

Sometimes the depressing and bleakness is beautiful though! It was one of my favorite aspects about the SciFi version of Battlestar Galactica, probably the last great hard science TV show before The Expanse.

IDK when I saw their mechanical FTL drive I immediately thought of the alien ship in Galaxy Quest.

 

[destrekor]

Did anyone else miss last night's episode because their DVR didn't record it?

UGH!

No clue why it didn't, may have had no tuner available (3 tuners, 3 or 4 shows air on Wed that I record). BUT, the expanse has top priority dammit! So now I have to wait until Friday at 12am for it to record.

Some shows go back to back and I have to edit my recording settings, like force recording 10min after or doing "10 min later, if possible" so tuners can get freed up.

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[Puffnstuff]

The thing I noticed about last night's episode is that everything seemed to be rushed forward like the writers knew they didn't have a lot of time left to convey their story so they started leaving things out. Did you notice how the news chick is the same actress who played Larson on the Agatha King?

 

[destrekor]

The thing I noticed about last night's episode is that everything seemed to be rushed forward like the writers knew they didn't have a lot of time left to convey their story so they started leaving things out. Did you notice how the news chick is the same actress who played Larson on the Agatha King?

I don't think the series ending on Syfy really factored into the writing - that would have been done way ahead of time. Perhaps there was a feeling that perhaps any given season could be the last to air, but twice now the show has had a major plot line kind of end halfway in the season and the plotting pace changes then hits warp speed. It's actually highly satisfying and refreshing! But perhaps there is just a certain amount of story they want to wrap up for season 3 regardless of the future because they just want to round out the season to leave a great spot for the next season to begin, but perhaps still reach a satisfying conclusion that is both a cliff-hanger as well as a decent stopping point for you to imagine the rest on your own (any good series should end with a little ambiguity, whether it's the series ending the writers wanted or, as is often the case, it's a premature end).

 

[Skel]

The thing I noticed about last night's episode is that everything seemed to be rushed forward like the writers knew they didn't have a lot of time left to convey their story so they started leaving things out. Did you notice how the news chick is the same actress who played Larson on the Agatha King?

I did see someone rushed forward..

 

[Puffnstuff]

I did see someone rushed forward..

Famous last acts or did he just stop in the name of love?

 

[Midwayman]

The thing I noticed about last night's episode is that everything seemed to be rushed forward like the writers knew they didn't have a lot of time left to convey their story so they started leaving things out.

I double checked I hadn't accidently missed a few episodes. I think they jumped forward like half a book of content.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I double checked I hadn't accidently missed a few episodes. I think they jumped forward like half a book of content.

It seemed to me more like the division between books. Like, it's implied that they all got safely back to their respective homes (for some, anyhow), things have been stitched up a bit between Earth and Mars, the OPA/belt has a more established military... they even had a '3 months later!' or something on the screen at one point, when it was following that goofy belter dude.

Basically, all the non-important stuff during that timeframe wasn't shown, the important bits were.

 

[Thebobo]

It's pretty cool I'm listening to the book to and from work and rewatching the series they are pretty close but some major gaps, like the spy.

 

[Midwayman]

It seemed to me more like the division between books. Like, it's implied that they all got safely back to their respective homes (for some, anyhow), things have been stitched up a bit between Earth and Mars, the OPA/belt has a more established military... they even had a '3 months later!' or something on the screen at one point, when it was following that goofy belter dude.

Basically, all the non-important stuff during that timeframe wasn't shown, the important bits were.

Sure, but Claire Mao's story got a complete handwave. They could have spend an episode on post IO stuff with the appearance of the ring. It was just a little jarring coming from the books.

 

[Newbian]

I double checked I hadn't accidently missed a few episodes. I think they jumped forward like half a book of content.

Yea it was a confusing episode as they just jumped ahead after never doing it really and none of the information about what happened was shown very well.

As others have said it was probably a result in the cancellation thus they had to rush things sadly.

 

[crashtech]

And that's why I stopped watching the new BSG after a season or two.

@Midwayman, I don't like how things are going today. I want to believe!

It might be unrealistic to imagine space travel as anything else, in fact, shows like this are likely greatly downplaying the interminable boredom and bleakness that such endeavors will certainly entail.

 

[Ken g6]

It might be unrealistic to imagine space travel as anything else, in fact, shows like this are likely greatly downplaying the interminable boredom and bleakness that such endeavors will certainly entail.

Boredom is one thing.

Spoiler: nastiness from season two

Spacing a bunch of innocent people because their people attacked your friends with a bio weapon

is another level of dark.

 

[crashtech]

Boredom is one thing.

Spoiler: nastiness from season two

Spacing a bunch of innocent people because their people attacked your friends with a bio weapon

is another level of dark.

Yeah, I admit that I am a die-hard Trek fan just for the fact that the narrative encompasses mysterious past events that changed our nature as humans, something that inexplicably made us better. The Expanse is a far grittier take on our near future, though perhaps it presages some pivotal event that will make us better as a race, more eventually Trek-like.

 

[Charmonium]

I find the spaceflight aspect of the show to be believable. I haven't attempted to do the calculations involved with the speeds you achieve doing a 1g burn all of the time but I can easily imagine that they get you moving pretty quickly. What I do find hard to believe is that they don't get shredded from whatever interplanetary detritus must exist even in empty space.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Great news everybody. Amazon Studios has picked up the show for season 4 and multiple seasons so our beloved Expanse isn't going anywhere except to Amazon Prime!!!
http://deadline.com/2018/05/the-exp...series-season-4-syfy-cancellation-1202398511/

 

[AdamK47]

The best news of the day.

 

[destrekor]

When I woke up, groggily and not ready yet to face the world and fully prepared to snooze more, I looked at my phone and I saw that bit of news. My day was made in that moment!

 

[Puffnstuff]

For me the Expanse is the ultimate scifi show who's story combining real world issues with future tech brought forth through a great cast of actors really puts them over the top. When I saw the video of Jeff Bezos announcing to the cast that they'd finalized the negotiations with Alcon to bring the show to Amazon it put a tear in my eyes.

 

[postmortemIA]

I was contemplating leaving Prime after price hike, but this way we get something out of it... and IMO this is better than show staying with SyFy. Mostly because it would have uncertain future, or SyFy would try to f it up some other way (like they did to 12 monkeys schedule)

 

[ImpulsE69]

I'm about 2/3 the way through season 2...and I gotta say...there's about 2-3 really good episodes, and the rest is....either boring or stupidity. "We need to communicate to fix things!", next second "screw talking about the important thing you should probably know and get off my ship and never come back", 10 minutes later "hello dear friend"......Just likes sons of anarchy, a little more use of that tele-thingy would prevent so much.

That being said, everything on it in terms of the population rings true to exactly how I see space colonization being. Rich making rich decisions on the backs of everyone else, and let's kill anyone who disagrees.

 

[destrekor]

IDK when I saw their mechanical FTL drive I immediately thought of the alien ship in Galaxy Quest.

What mechanical FTL drive?

Do you have a scene in mind from BSG? I can't remember, having watched it long ago.

If we're talking about The Expanse, there are no FTL drives in this story. Quite realistic I say, as the show is set some 200+ years in the future and we appear no closer to it then than we do now.