Why didn't you guys tell me how good this is?

Why didn't you guys tell me how good this is?

its alright, that faggot detective with his fedora annoyed me though.

better than STD for sure

Fedora boy is back next season.

because it's not good, dumbass

didnt he die couldve swore the protomolecule ate him

I did you fuck, I shill it shamelessly.
>the protomolecule ate him
Yeah it did
>didn't he die
You saw Julie again later, didn't you?

I found it pretty boring.
Is there a season 2? Is it fun?

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REMEMBER HE CANT

KEK

its not

its another leftist shit propaganda about MUH FREEDUMZ, niggers and mutts in space
with le evil corporations and ayy Imao stuck somewhere as a big macguffin ex machina

the only society regime that can really launch us in space colonisation is picrelated

Its also funny how the call it a """"realistic""" nu-sci fi while its basically just space western with hobos on rockets

Remembah da Caunt.

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I read up to the fourth or fifth book and then I stopped.
I dislike the way series like this one are done. They start with a strong first novel, then you hope the others are going to continue that narrative, but they never do. Instead, because they know you're hungry for more, they keep giving you these side stories that are vaguely connected with the main story or become connected at the end, milking it as much as possible.

REMEMBER THA CUNT

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>we need Jon Snow but we can't afford him
>Say no more senpai

PLANETARY GARBY GAR

>we need mutt but he will be implied as """white""" so more audiences groups will associate with him

>the only society regime that can really launch us in space colonisation is picrelated
The Martians are your picrelated and they're portrayed fairly, amazing for fascism to be on television these days in any sort of positive light.

as ayylium?

He's got like 9 parents so I think they're implying mutt.

>amazing for fascism
They are more like a mix of china and sparta with survivalistic utopia idology.
Its cringe me how they make superpower out of this
Mars is literally just a red rock without (ok - thin) atmosphere

They're a super power because it was a Martian that invented the engine used by everyone. They've kept that technological edge over earth since (up until the privatized alien tech at the beginning of the series).

Because the second season was real bad

First book - enjoyable.
TV show - unbearable. Not sure how they messed it up but the director and casting are much to blame.

I enjoy the political drama and the setting.

But the "adventurers" suuuuck. Terrible actors too.

the book writers make the show as well, tho..
the actors hopefully got acting lessons between the seasons

she's pretty cute though, r-right?

WHERE ARE THE SPEISHMARINE POWERARMORS?

WTF IS THIS PLASTIC NU-MASS EFFECT SHIT?

No

She takes me out of the show every time. Why would a born Martian 200 years in the future have a strong Kiwi accent?

I wish they had switched her with Athena Karkanis for main cast vs that small first season part.

The Expanse is ok
Made great by having no decent competition

Why is TV sci-fi almost always embarrassingly shit?

>Why is TV sci-fi almost always embarrassingly shit?

Because around a decade ago, executives decided to try to attract the female soapie market for all their shows so they hired soap opera writers for the alleged sci-fi shows and what we get are not real sci-fi but soap operas pretending to be sci-fi.

tfw she will never peg me and insult me with that gravelly accent

Narr its older than that from my memory

What have we had that's good. A couple of Star Trek series, Firefly, Babylon 5,Red Dwarf, the first series of the X-Files.

Maybe its a probability thing; most tv is shit and sci-fi just doesn't have the turnover of numbers (expensive to make) required to rinse out a few good shows

the expanse
in my pants

the expanse is the best sci-fi series yet.
dont listen to Sup Forums and bookcucks

anyone got a mega? lost the second season in a HD crash.

>Bobby Draper

Surely they knew there was just a character with this same name on a very famous show.

First season was slow, second season is pure kino once it gets going

Fucking spoilers you twat belter

I was just making a quick mental calculation when I said a decade ago. Not sure when the soapie incursion in other genres started but I'm certain it was at least around a decade ago. It could be more than a decade ago but I picked on a decade to be safe. When was Titanic released? I think that was when execs started to realize how big and profitable a market the female audience is. I haven't seen ALL sci-fi shows but I noticed soapie-style writing started creeping in sci-fi with Smallville season 3, Lost season 2, new BSG and SGU.

it was literally spammed daily while it was airing that you should watch this show

s2 episode 5 was absolutely god tier

Watched all of season 1 on Amazon and thought that it was dogshit.

The crew consists of every race under the sun with no two of the same, and the accent is what boggles you?

it's almost like they need something more for the characters you love to do, without being too contrived

ever seen that leaf-tier cop show 19-2, has another sheboon in it with fucked up hair that's worse than this ones

>for the characters you love to do
But they're not the characters I love, that's the problem. The further you go into series like these, the more they keep heaping up characters you have zero interest in.

Exactly my sentiment.

I stopped reading after the book where they go to the alien planet that some colonists try to settle. So after all the books of the protomolecule fucking around, it's revealed that it makes a gate. Then we figure out the gate leads to a portal hub. Okay, so the portals all lead to worlds that the aliens colonized, and the aliens are dead. So something even more badass than the protomolecule aliens killed them, and we don't what that is.

I knew that I'd have to read another 3 fucking books to see that plotline resolved just for another one to take its place. No thanks.

>syfy

Did they cancel it yet?

protomolecule can do some weird shit, just wait and see

>The crew consists of every race under the sun with no two of the same, and the accent is what boggles you?
Yes. I can get past the post-race 'utopia' they want to sketch, although in that context it would make more sense to have races sort of blend together. It's a matter of practicality because you have to use current-day actors to convey a certain image.
>but muh racemixing propaganda
Yeah I don't really care about that. It's a part of the fictional world the writers created.

What makes no sense however is a colony that has had its own cultural development for centuries where these accents still survive. Accents disappear very quickly. Especially considering the effort they put into the belters having their own mangled English dialect, I would have expected the show to pay more attention to something like this.

So it's like the new Startrek?

Cause I can't stand that show, like at least try to be subtle with your shitty political shoehorning.

When will this era of cancer be over.

Yep. It's kind of amazing how little happens in most sci-fi/fantasy books nowadays. A friend forced me to try a Sanderson novel recently, and after hundreds of pages all I could think was, "This should've been page fifty at max." They have no sense of pacing, and no ability to cut the fat whatsoever. They just look for a way to hook you and then drag you on for countless pages until the eventual disappointment sets in when you realize that they had no idea what th ending would be either, and their main talent is at swindling you along.
I used to be happy when epic fantasy and non-episodic TV shows took off. Now I realize just what a mistake it was. In the wrong hands, it's disastrous. People that can't write a single short story deciding they're going to pen down a a series of ten doorstoppers. Fuck. And now with a lot of stuff like Netflix you can tell that not even the episodes have any structure anymore. They're just put together to fill an hour, because they know people will just binge-watch and go on to the next. Absolutely disgusting.

Show is good. Books are great.

I wouldn't say it goes that far. The point in the Expanse is that you have these guys called Belters that got fucked up by living under much different gravitational conditions for generations. But to my eyes, it was never going for any SJW angle. Those people had legitimate grievances and were largely assholes fighting for their independence too. It certainly wasn't preachy. And I've got to say, the female characters in the Expanse are generally likable.
Yes, the new Star Trek is fucking cancer.

What did you think of the one that came out a few weeks ago? I'm trying to get back into Babylon's Ashes but this shit is so stretched out with 20 different character perspectives and nothing happens, it's like the entire entry was planned from the ground up as filler.

>the one that came out a few weeks ago
The what now? It came out? Shiiiiiiieeeeet.

We did.

No, you did not.

They actually do space better in this than in Star Trek, the ships are very vulnerable and the gravity effects are done well, all G forces are used and it adds to the immersion.

The physics in this are on another level compared to Star Trek. It's not even close.

A thousand times this. I used to be happy that longer form storytelling was taking off but it's become apparent it's just a test to see how long they can keep you watching rather than an attempt to actually tell a story of the length and complexity to take advantage of a whole season. Like it or not, Sup Forums seems to be better at this kind of thing than western television. They're more used to the idea of a show running one or two seasons and telling a story rather than going until it peters out and dies a sad death.

Ping Pong the Animation is the best drama made since the older HBO shows.

They gave him a fedora in the show. Miller in the books wears a porkpie hat. I read somewhere they changed it because of Breaking Bad.

I just started it, it's good so far. There's a 30 year timeskip so I'm trying to wrap my head around that. Alex being 70ish is odd.

Who will be cast for /ourguy/ Winston Duarte?

Laconia System is best system

Accents have survived just fine here for centuries, why would a Mars colonized by Kiwis and Texans lose them when they're in constant use?

>wants one story stretched out over several episodes like soap operas
it's females like you that's the cancer ruining television

>the Typhoon didn't even fire the first shot. And still managed to obliterate the solar fleet, the ring station battery, and killed Tycho so hard that it gave everyone in the galaxy a seizure.

Trejo is bossmang!

I'm more leaning Planetes but you get what I mean. Shows using their length to their advantage but not overstaying their welcome.
Literally the opposite of what I said.

Found the pleb. Miller was the best character of the show.

They survive in relative isolation and with constant reinforcement. Move a kiwi to Texas and his kids will just speak Texan. A wide variety of accents wouldn't survive for centuries if you all group them together. It's like current day Americans still having German, Irish, Dutch and London accents.

>I'm more leaning Planetes but you get what I mean
Still haven't seen that. Is it that good? I remember hearing some bad stuff about it. But I know what you mean. The last show I could get excited for was HxH, and the quality was probably due to the manga itself being good. It was comfy to have a thing to go to every week.
I hope I die before I see whatever Netflix will do with Witcher and Amazon will do with LotR.

Planetes is probably my single favorite piece of TV sci-fi. It has some issues but the overall package is excellent. The manga is also great, though very different. I'd probably watch the series first if I were you.
Personally, I want the HBO that made Band of Brothers and Generation Kill back. I don't want GoT to define their output from now on.

nice try, FBI

OI MATE! YOU FANCY SOME FISH AND CHIPS?

>Why didn't you guys tell me how good this is?

It's garbage. The books are utter trash as well. And if you honestly like this stuff, you are probably garbage too.

>She takes me out of the show every time

Same but only because she played a whiny cunt on Wentworth

Trejo is truly a worthy servant of the new Philosopher God King of Humanity. Praise be to Duarte.

Avasarala > Bobby >>>>>> Naomi

Avasarala is my Grandmafu

Main character literally gets redpilled over the course of the show. It's amazing watching him turn into a cunt.

I love Amos because at some point he just became Jack Donovan. His whole mentality is not my tribe, not my problem.

MARTIAN PRIDE SYSTEMWIDE
GAS THE BELTERS
SPACE WAR NOW

Thanks, user, I'll do that.
>I don't want GoT to define their output from now on
Me neither, but... they've already confirmed other GoT shows. We're in for a long ride. And everyone copying them with these sub-par history shows gives me cancer. I'm a /his/fag and I still can't enjoy them.

>latest book has a timejump of 30 years

dunno how i feel about this lads

hahahahhahahaahahahaa orbit my sides

>Personally, I want the HBO that made Band of Brothers and Generation Kill back. I don't want GoT to define their output from now on.
You're in for a rough decade pal.

Best woman.

shes got much smaller boobs than in the show

well son that's what we call some of that movie magic

attack on the spin station is my favorite part

truly an underrated show

>Muh melting pot
My country was ancient before yours was discovered and every city has its own distinct accent. There's no reason to think that would change, especially since it's explicitly stated that different areas where colonised largely by separate groups.

>My country was ancient before yours was discovered
Oh really? Where am I from you fucking faggot?

Agreed, so is she space slav or space Boer

Unironically this. The Miller/Julie arc is the best thing about the show.