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Phi230 posted:They are all good except book 4 Ah poo poo, I just started that one :[ Is it bad bad bad or just bad in comparison?
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Honestly, the book 3 crazy supervision out of nowhere seems like it would be eh TV at best. The crew doesn't seem to have a lot of agency in that book and there's not enough good character conflict to continue the pattern of the show.
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Snuffman posted:"Abbadon's Gate"? I could see it making great TV akin to Battlestar's half-season arcs. I trust the show writers, they know what they're doing. I do, too. We will see how they manage.
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Apr 19, 2017 06:03
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BSG is baaaaaaaaaad. Real bad.
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Apr 19, 2017 15:07
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Baronjutter posted:Everyone in BSG was such a broken PTSD rage/drama machine that got stuck turned up to 11 I just couldn't enjoy it, and the series-wide plot was awful. There's some good episodes, the occupation stuff was pretty good but seems dated and post 9/11 as gently caress, and after that point it went unwatchably off the rails with characters managing to turn their single dimensional extreme caricatures of them selves up to 12. This. It's so horrifically dated and suffers really badly from being transparently FOR TV writing. The allegories are hamfisted and the characters are one-note walking taglines. And it became clear just a few episodes in that there wasn't any kind of decent plan, but that was par for the course for that era of TV, I think. The Expanse is clearly Going Somewhere. General Battuta posted:But it hasn't found a spark yet. It competently executes a good story. The characters have motives which they explain clearly, and conflicts between these motives drive the story. It is Fine. It hasn't achieved anything like Walter White screaming in the crawlspace, or Where The gently caress is Wallace, or the dream fish in The Sopranos, or BSG's first episode, or BSG's music, or any of the high points of BSG's first two seasons. It's a good product. It's not a star yet. This might be fair. The Expanse has TONS of little, awesome moments, but they mostly depend on context. The examples you give are something that you could show someone in a vacuum and they would realize pretty immediately they they are watching something really good. I dunno, though, Home might be flirting with it a little. But yeah, fair to say it's 99% entertaining but workmanlike, efficient television.
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Apr 19, 2017 18:29
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Crazycryodude posted:What a stupid place to end it. I know they're limited with how many episodes they get, but they could have cut and rearranged some stuff to end on something that's an actual climax/cliffhanger from the books. Super pissed it didn't end with (BOOK SPOILERS)the Investigator needing to talk. Yeah. That's going to be an awesome moment.
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Apr 20, 2017 04:35
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Good finale. Not great, but certainly good. Shirtless Amos will keep me motivated to go to the gym for at least a couple of months, geez. no homo
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Apr 20, 2017 15:13
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So how long is the wait? Start the clock.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:42
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Strategic Tea posted:With how the MCRN ship plummeted past with it's thrusters flat out off I figured it had already been taken over by the protomolecule to dissect first. For being a non-book thing, that ship was just generally a weird dud of a superfluous plot thread.
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Apr 21, 2017 23:14
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Zzulu posted:I liked the season and thought it was much better than S1, but the climax of the season for me was Miller/Julie. That was wonderfully weird and cool. Kinda feel it lost a bit of steam after that, no doubt because of no more Miller. Avasarala and Bobbi make up for it though but Bobbi only really had like one or two good scenes Yeah, the books kinda do this to. Each has a pretty severe tonal shift. Not necessarily bad, but it's going to make for some weird television. It MIGHT kind of be good. Broad-scale galaxy threatening stuff would get tired after a while. Smaller scale challenges are interesting.
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Apr 24, 2017 18:29
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Wait, did shirtless Amos have any tattoos on his chest?
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Apr 27, 2017 18:22
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Number Ten Cocks posted:I don't think so. It's hard to see how they'd even go about applying a photorealistic temporary tattoo. CG? It's just mentioned EVERYTIME someone sees him shirtless in the books. And yeah, you guys are kinda mean to Holden in this thread, but the books are kinda merciless.
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Apr 27, 2017 19:46
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Baronjutter posted:You guys have pretty much spoilered it, but I've always wanted Chrissie to finally meet the crew face to face, and watch them finally interact. I guess that's coming somehow. She's finally in space, I guess they rescue her or something? Caliban's War book stuff For sure, but it's not 100% like the books. They end up working together though to wrap up the overarching plot line of Book 2.
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Apr 27, 2017 20:57
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Is this gonna be the thread for a year?
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May 2, 2017 15:47
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Should we compile a list of plot hooks that have been setup but never resolved? - Fancy self-healing armor from S1 when the Donnager is under siege. Might have just been a throwaway.\ - I can't remember, wasn't the chip Fred Johnson took from Lopez's armor something to do with stealth tech?
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May 8, 2017 17:45
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Pander posted:Which I enjoyed and feel is worth reading. It is not at all required to enjoy the show, it just adds a wrinkle and is good on its own merits. I read it and thought it was terrrrruble. A total boring slog. They really salvaged the corn out of that turd for the show.
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May 14, 2017 05:09
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AirborneNinja posted:Will there be a new thread for the next season? If it hasn't already materialized, I will crank one out once we get an actual premiere date.
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Oct 29, 2017 03:37
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Iirc, seasons 3 and 4 are being shot consecutively.
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Nov 14, 2017 05:58
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Can I be a pedant and say that Amos is definitely not a sociopath? He’s got a very strong sense of right and wrong for example. He’s just got a very short flowchart with very few possible outcomes for dealing with things that is what he had to develop to survive.
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Feb 15, 2018 05:17
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Amos has just developed a way to fit every situation into a “Kill, Marry(or become incredibly loyal to), gently caress”
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Feb 16, 2018 05:54
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Link to a page that contains the trailer, if the Canuckistanis still can't see it, holler and we'll find another: http://deadline.com/2018/02/the-expanse-season-3-premiere-date-unveils-trailer-1202301438/ I'll start up a Season 3 thread this week sometime unless someone beats me to it, which is fine. edit: Also, the trailer shows basically nothing except the cast and Holden talking over it, so if you need an auditory sleep aid...
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OK, season 3 thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3851148
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