"The Expanse is back" Topic
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Tango01 | 02 Feb 2017 12:16 p.m. PST |
"There's an incomprehensible coldness to space. It's frigid, yes, but it is also a place of profound emptiness, a void full of nothing but the awareness that the overwhelming majority of all existence is indifferent to humanity and its struggles. It can be easy to forget, here on this comfortable rock, how alone we are in the abyss, but that apathy is vital to understanding The Expanse. Based on a series of novels by James S. A. Corey (pen name of writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), The Expanse is often positioned as the second coming of Battlestar Galactica. And while that comparison is often tied to the fact that it signals Syfy's return to cultural prominence, it's also true in that the show shares BSG's political-allegory DNA. Like all sci-fi in the Star Trek tradition, The Expanse is about more than it's about—and it wears the finery of a prescient, near-future dystopia well. It doesn't set a stage, it begs you to look ahead. It wants you to ponder what the income inequality and political posturing of today might look like in 200 years…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Dentatus | 02 Feb 2017 12:58 p.m. PST |
Watched Ep 1 during lunch. I'm glad it's back. It's good. And for me, a rare case of 'I like the show more than the books.' |
Shagnasty | 02 Feb 2017 7:00 p.m. PST |
An excellent series. I am glad for it's return and the introduction of Bobbi Draper. The space battle was very cool. |
Mako11 | 02 Feb 2017 7:54 p.m. PST |
I've been looking for it. What night is it on? |
cloudcaptain | 03 Feb 2017 6:27 a.m. PST |
Loved it. So glad it's back. As they say "Dems mah stories". |
Mobius | 03 Feb 2017 11:52 a.m. PST |
Pretty impressive graphics and ships motions look realistic. |
Tango01 | 04 Feb 2017 11:24 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed the news boys!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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Balthazar Marduk | 05 Feb 2017 11:28 p.m. PST |
I ditched the Space network after the second episode aired, couldn't justify the price of the package it was in… I've been reading the books recently and I'm hooked. I have been playing on nationstates.net sporadically since 2003 and the group I fell in with at the start ran a similar setting. I get nostalgic reading it. |
Mobius | 09 Feb 2017 6:38 p.m. PST |
What I've seen of the Expanse so far this season blows away all other SF. |
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