Is anybody else watching The Expanse?

Just learned Wes Chatham and one of the two Expanse authors have a podcast: https://tyandthatguy.com/

Holy shit I thought this was me. https://t.co/I5HZ6RoP5N

— Cara Gee (@CaraGeeeee) April 26, 2021

I watched the first three episodes of this based on its seeming popularity around here. Does it get better?

Yes

Okay, thanks. Because right now it just seems under lit and underwritten.

It’s the 4th or 5th ep where it starts to improve iirc, and then it keeps getting better. The finale is v tense

The first episodes definitely suck

will probably remain under-lit tho

yep. adds necessary moodiness

besides the characters yet to appear “light up the screen all on their own” (robin leach voice)

Heh, lighting has actually improved, even whilst remaining somewhat twilit.

you’ll want underlighting on all your shows when you’re done: regular tv will require sunglasses

Heh

forgot about the hole in the cathode layer

S1E4&5 were good as you say and am now officially into this and on E6. Anderson Dawes has an accent like Hugh Masekela.

yeah once the SPOILER Martian warship that took them hostage gets wasted and they barely escape AGAIN, the story really gets going

it's different interesting in that they fool you into what the main narrative is going to be for the first season.

The scene where Nico shows Gunny how to walk like a human is so well done.

Guy Molinari?

Smack dab in the middle of S2, in the episode after the central crescendo, and loving the incredibly crap drawing of the martyr mural.

Just finished S1. My justification for not stopping at this point is I watched all of Battlestar Galactica.

Fair. Also this is way better than BSG

Thought people loved that BSG reboot. At least that's the impression I got over here during the discussion about his more recent show: I come in peace... three times a night -- FOR ALL MANKIND (Apple TV Plus)

people do love the BSG reboot, until the last third

sticking the landing is paramount+

Wait there is another, second reboot/third version?

the last third of the second reboot

do keep up, james

(jk)

BSG reboot's last third wouldn't have bothered me so much if every episode's intro to that point hadn't told us that THE CYLONS HAVE A PLAN. If you aren't expecting things to make sense, the last third is more enjoyable

Okay, vg, thanks, but I was talking about this

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wtf

do keep up, me

Maybe I was confused about Peacock vs. Paramount+.

There were rumors of a third reboot but I don’t think anything has come of it.

Was this ever posted on this thread? https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/12/nick-farmer-knows-dozens-of-languages-so-he-invented-one-for-the-expanse/

like the villain feels poorly phoned in by ep4-5 of s1- and I hope I’m wrong.

Who was it at that point? I feel like one of the better things about the show is that for a lot of it there isn’t a villain. Just different people with different goals clashing.

It was Avasarala's war-crazy rival at that point, no? He was pretty villainous.

Errinwright. Maybe that was S2. Sorry.

S1E4: Donnager gets attacked
S1E5: Roci goes to Tycho Station to meet Fred Johnson.

Only 6 episodes left in the whole series? :((((

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PJpkGPtAHE

did they go way over budget on special effects / set design and have to trim the number of episodes? or maybe we get 6 eps at 2 hours each?

you mean if we degrade to Superman 4 fx, we can get like 100 more eps?

lol probably could upgrade from superman 4 (1987) to maybe mid-2000s fx and still make a full season. or we could do Garth Marenghi's Expanse and have infinite episodes

Lol

iirc they used about half the content of book 6 in S5 already, which made me wonder what they were going to do to fill 10 episodes. I guess less episodes is one solution

Just wondering how they have a satisfying conclusion, unless it completely deviates from the books (which is entirely possible): the baddies of books 7 and 8 aren't really going to have time to establish themselves.

I don't think they've confirmed but it's very likely they won't touch anything after book 6

I don’t think they’re doing the time jump. Which is fine, they could always revisit it down the road and avoid spending money on aging effects, right?

is this gonna be like the final final season of Game of Thrones?

It's funny because I usually think less episodes results in higher average quality, but GoT disabused that notion. At least Expanse doesn't have its entire narrative resting on these six episodes

one thing about those last few episodes of game of thrones is that they were basically all feature film length

My only complaint about possibly ending it before the time jump that happened in the books is that Marcos might end up being the final villain. Marcos doesn’t deserve that! He’s such a shithead.