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This is one I really didn't like. It's just too weird for me. It thrns my stomach to even think about it. Really dusgusting somehow. I say this as a big fan of horror and sci-fi and Alien* in particular.
The first season was excellent, and then in the 2nd season they did ruin lots of the story lines with just lame choices, and then the ending went completely downhill for me. It pissed me off, just like GoT. There was this other series called Murderbot which had some similarities in the setting of the story. It was not that great compared to the 1st season of Raised by Wolves, but it was consistent throughout the whol…
The first season of The Expanse was great. Then it got progressively more meh with each season. (obviously my personal opinion eh?) For a really nerdy-oriented SF series try Three Body i.e. the 2023 Tencent version of The Three Body Problem. Again in my opinion the 2024 Netflix version, was one of the boringest things I've ever watched. I'm pretty sure if that had been my introduction to the Rememberance of Earth Pas…
My goto for showing the difference between the Netflix and Tencent shows is the Shi speech about bugs. It's an important moment, but the Tencent version does a much better job of conveying that.
on S2: a total disaster.
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TBH, The Expanse also suffers from a major drop in quality after season 3. It is so hard for series to maintain quality over time I now prefer miniseries as the quality is more uniform from the start to the end in my experience.
The first book/season is such a banger because it's pretty great horror sci-fi at that point. Eventually the whole protomolecule thing settles down, and afterwards you have essentially politics and genocide in space, which can be good but almost feels like a different genre.
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I’ve been listening to the audiobooks of the expanse via our local library. Absolutely fantastic series — you are spot on! Also, remember to support your local library.
I watched and read the entire series. Much of it is boring and poorly written both from a style perspective as well as character development. It’s famous but doesn’t live up to many scifi masterpieces imo.
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The first season of The Expanse was great. Then it got progressively more meh with each season. (obviously my personal opinion eh?) For a really nerdy-oriented SF series try Three Body i.e. the 2023 Tencent version of The Three Body Problem. Again in my opinion the 2024 Netflix version, was one of the boringest things I've ever watched. I'm pretty sure if that had been my introduction to the Rememberance of Earth Pas…
Have you compared the 26-episode (Director's Cut / Anniversary Edition) and 30-episode versions of the Tencent series? There's also a 6h fan edit, https://disembiggened.com .