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0 pointslaurencei8y ago0 comments

Yes - personally I like it.

But I'm trying to be objective and note the lack of correlation between a shows percevied quality and how that does/not translate into ratings.

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wink8y ago· 2 in thread

I was missing the "wow, awesome!" effect. Only watched S1 so far and it was.. nice. solid. interesting. But it didn't spark joy or made me a fan. (Killjoys did, for example.)

laumars8y ago

Everyone is different but S1 of The Expanse gave me more joy than any other show I've watched in a long time.

While S1 did have its fair share of space battles, it was so nice watching something that wasn't all guns and fist fights and did so without having to resort to hours of dull pseudo-emotional monologues and barely relevant flashbacks.

Usually that kind of highbrow writing is reserved for "who done it" style crime dramas. It was refreshing to watch that same formula applied to the sci-fi genre given how cheesy or needlessly "emo" the genre has been of late.

TeMPOraL8y ago

S2 has more "wow, awesome" than S1, and then the few S3 episodes that aired so far beat the crap out of S2. VFX work got better and better as the show progressed.

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