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The Expanse does not get worse, it gets even better, watch it now!

we just started Fargo S5 and HOLY SHIT at that first episode, we are riveted now

xp Yeah, with Chris Hardwick... I've seen it coming up recently, I just assumed it never went off the air (or whatever). Didn't know it was a reboot.

yah new host is stand-up taylor tomlinson. jesus, i am watching a taylor sheridan show and a taylor tomlinson show and i listened to a taylor swift record last week. this country will be the death of me...

"The Expanse does not get worse, it gets even better, watch it now!"

okay! that's what i like to hear.

I made a thread: The @fter midnight & Rolling Taylor Tomlinson Thread

"The Expanse does not get worse, it gets even better, watch it now!"

okay! that's what i like to hear.

yeah, the fedora might have slowed me down as well. too b-level blade runner gumshoe. but i like him in general as an actor. and i can get beyond that part of it.

“B-level Bladerunner gumshoe” is a perfect description of what irritated me in the first episode or two.

Nothing has filled the Expanse gap in my viewing. It’s a terrible run for TV sci-fi aside from Strange New Worlds.

100% love the Expanse. First season started a bit tough with that neo-noir act but it gets over that pretty quick and then just gets better and better.

The Regime on the other hand...just finished first episode moments ago and not sure how I feel about it. Interesting people behind it and I can see it being good but...I feel like if you're going to do really absurd broad satire, the humor of it needs to hit, and I just didn't find this funny. I had one or two giggles but that's it. Like maybe if you're doing broad satire like that I want Duck Soup or something. Like Succession and Veep at least sort of take place in a real world and were funny.

Love and Other Details managing to get even worse in the finale

The Expanse is 100% awesome,I think a lot of the noir elements at the start are almost a red herring for what follows with that character, his arc is really interesting and winds up pretty funny and moving in equal shares. The cast is maybe intentionally prickly, but you grow to really like them. It's a shockingly high quality program, it makes most other TV sci-fi look cheap in its wake. It adds some phenomenally charismatic characters along the way, too.

everyone otm re: The Expanse. In terms of TV sci-fi competition, only For All Mankind has come close for me, but it's been flagging these past couple of seasons whereas The Expanse stayed good throughout

are you guys going to watch 3 body problem on netflix? maria wants to see it. she read the books. i didn't. not yet anyway.

i'm still going to finish Halo. which has some, uh, quality issues, but i have been enjoying it for what it is. evil lizards and stuff. i know nothing about the game. but i am lobbying maria to watch the expanse with me.

apple tv is like the one thing i don't have and a streaming bridge too far for me. i have to have SOME limits. so, no for all mankind or foundation for me and whatever else they have.

Foundation is terrible anyway

i'm curious about 3 body problem but i've terminated my netflix subscription and don't feel like re-upping for that. maybe if it gets decent reviews.

i've read the first book and it's okay - some interesting ideas and I enjoyed learning a bit about china's cultural revolution/aftermath, but found most of the characters and dialogue kinda flat/one-note.

We get into Three Body Problem a little here: We Are Bugs in this thread for The Three-Body Problem 三体 and its various adaptations

(in short: the Tencent series is long, b-movie-ish, but has an odd charm that kept me going. a serious, big-budget series may not do the story any favors)

Also, Is anybody else watching The Expanse? is a great thread to follow along with if you're watching for the first time.

the tencent version is behind a registration now, i noticed. first two episodes are freely viewable but nothing more.

Well goddamn. It's definitely available on the dark.net, if you know how to navigate it. You'll need 40GB of space.

People forgetting that Severance is sci fi?

The Netflix 3BP is by Benioff and Weiss, right? Are people OK giving them another chance to ruin some books (which i also found one-note)?

I've come across fan theories that "For All Mankind" is a prequel to "The Expanse," lol. I've heard so many "Expanse" recommendations from people I trust, but iirc we watched a couple of episodes and while they were OK we conceded we just did not have the energy to dedicate to an epic multi-season sci-fi opus. Kind of reminded/reminds me of all the recommendations of "Babylon 5," which a lot of people love and which I will never watch.

not even close!

as has been stated many times in these threads, Ep 4 is where it starts taking off and it just gets better and better

yeah as soon as the Martians show up it all kicks in

I think that's why people were connecting it to "For All Mankind."

Yes basically as soon as they've been seized by the Martian crew and everything rather quickly goes bad for both parties, it's really on. The only not great part about the show was it ended after six seasons, though I'm cautiously optimistic they might bring it back sometime in some form in the future.

Maybe in 20 years.

I think Expanse is a lot easier to get into than Babylon 5 fwiw (though I did like B5). Less episodes, more action, less complicated

i totally thought that babylon 5 was a star trek thing for the longest time. i don't really watch the star trek spin-offs. they always look so goofy.

there is an old show on netflix on a ship and there are monsters...is it canadian? i kinda liked it. always meant to go back and watch it all.

i went back and watched The 100 again during the pandemic for comfort. i liked the last season a lot. considered getting a 100-themed tattoo. i'm probably the only fan here. it's okay. i like the mix of fantasy + scifi. and combat. and cool women.

I liked it too. They went dark as fuck at times.

wait, i might be thinking of Farscape. i would watch that too. but the one i started had people waking up on a ship and they didn't know who they were or whatever.

yeah, i was strangely engrossed by The 100. well, not strangely. i just took it more seriously than i thought i would have. i didn't want them to die!

okay, it's Dark Matter.

Small thing but the Expanse makes space combat more exciting than any other show - any projectile is going to punch right through these tin cans and fuck everybody’s day up.

Dark Matter is a lot of fun! But it does get cancelled in the middle of an arc.

we watched all of The 100 as well

Clarke has the Flame!

that last season was soooo friggin' bonkers. even for that show! but it WAS an actual ending. which i appreciated.

We just started watching the 100 as well - weird, hasnt it been around for years? Maybe its new to netfux I dunno. Anyway, I feel like I could enjoy it in the same hammy scifi way I'd enjoyed stuff like Silo, but for the fact all the teenagers are annoying as piss and make me want to slap them. Maybe that gets better?

it totally gets better and more fucked up if you hang in there. its been on netflix forever.

part of the fun for me watching it again was seeing those sad babies at the beginning turn into what they turn into later on.

Nice, I shall press on then! My partner is relentless with TV and keeps pushing new shows on me. He just binge watched all howevermany seasons of a Touch of Frost, ffs. I never want to hear a saxaphone solo again.

oh i had my dalliance with a touch of frost during the pandemic. i can relate.

Speaking of sci fi shows have we talked about Constellation yet?

It’s about halfway through the season now. Latest episode moves the story forward a bit but overall it’s a little tedious. There’s not a whole lot to it beyond solving the mystery of it all. I’m also trying hard not to think too deeply about the parallel continuities because I think my head would fall off.

Small thing but the Expanse makes space combat more exciting than any other show - any projectile is going to punch right through these tin cans and fuck everybody’s day up.

― papal hotwife (milo z)

i think the first use of a rail gun and its "effect" was a good sign that the show was going in some unexpected directions.

i think the casting can't be underrated either, there are a lot of familiar faces put to extraordinarily good use, and the slow development of a minor walk-on character in season 2 into one of the most badass protagonists in tv history is a joy to watch.

despite a lot of really out there sci-fi stuff, there was a lot of really hard sci-fi things going on as well.