Posted on 12/14/2015 1:31:06 PM PST by EveningStar
The new space-based adventure series "The Expanse" debuts on Syfy tonight, and it's packed with high-flying action, interplanetary politics and intriguing locations.
Based on the book by James S. A. Corey (a pen name for co-authors Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham), "The Expanse" takes place 200 years in the future, when humans have settled Mars and the asteroid belt. The two-night premiere event begins at 10 p.m. EST tonight (Dec. 14) and continues at the same time tomorrow (Dec. 15), but if you just can't wait, you can also watch the series' first episode online on Syfy's website, Hulu, YouTube, Amazon and other online providers, where it has been available for the past three weeks.
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We watched the pilot and they had to show the Statue of Liberty, surrounded by a wall to keep out the significally higher sea levels.
I am sure that 200 years from now Mars and the asteroid belt will be exclusively colonized by queers.
Thanks for the heads up! Just set to record. Certainly worth a look.
oops - wrong show
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“bangin’ good science fiction” - hardly - more like afternoon soap opera with special effects. Standard detective/cop show set in the future that has no future - they cannot go to the stars. Just dumb, mind-numbing pap for 12 year olds who have no imagination because they’ve watched TV all their lives.
Of all the good SciFi written why does this pathetic channel have to pick the worst or the least interesting of all the stories? I’m sure there are a gazillion possible stories anyone on FR could suggest which far surpass this author’s lame SciFi story telling.
So - what do you like?
Nothing currently on tv or recent movies - Ringworld; any of Bank’s Culture Series; anything from the Xeelee anthology; anything by Gene Wolfe - the Torturer series; Eon and so on
I’m on board with that list. Ringworld done right would be jaw dropping. As the late great Iain M Banks, well that’s too much to hope for. His Use of Weapons would be fantastic.
Oh now I find out - Banks has passed - and I was waiting for another book - too sad.
Bank’s ‘The Algebraist’ would also be spectacular.
Like I said above, if we've managed the colonize the asteroid belt but haven't changed that much or come up with that much new technology, humanity is a disappointment.
I wasn't that impressed by the first episode, but there are several different plot lines, and some of them may be more interesting than the tired cop story.
I’d love to see the Amber series on TV.
Ed
Been very pleased with the show.
Has a Heinlein/Niven/Clarke old-school element.
Don’t like the ‘soap opera’ aspects, but they’re not overwhelming.
Season 3 is now starting—and I highly recommend it.
This is a seven novel book series—and trust me—each book is better than the last.
Hopefully they go for all seven seasons.
Themes I love:
—Clueless scientists
—The map is _never_ the territory
—No battle plan survives contact with the enemy, if you can even figure out who the enemy is..
—The alien does not play by human rules (so good to see someone _gets_ that)
Great stuff.
Yeah, quality is holding up. My kind of sci-fi (though there are bows to SJW its low-key).
If they stay at all faithful to the books the SJW stuff gets irrelevant fast as the drama picks up steam....
Btw...I just saw on Amazon there will be a final volume eight of the book to be released at the end of the year—and Wikipedia is saying that sci-fi did not renew the contract for season 4 so if it continues it will have to be on another outlet.
A more personal note—Avasarala is a dead ringer for my late great aunt—same gravel voice, similar appearance, same toughness, sarcasm and gravitas—so cool....
Too bad if it’s not renewed.
I think the “noir investigator” aspect at the beginning lost many SF fans. Though it would work well in literature it didn’t on TV.
I have the hardest time undertanding Avasarala’s speech.
My Direct TV DVR messed up and missed a couple of episodes of Season 3. I just finished season 2 on Amazon and am hopelessly hooked. Absolutely the best science fiction I think I’ve seen on television.
The first book awaits me when I finish the tome I am currently reading.
I have the DVR set to grab Season 3 and so far it has episodes 9 through 12 (I think). Anyone know if SyFy will be doing maybe a marathon re-run of the whole thing? Haven’t been able to find any info on that so far.
Just LOVE this show.
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