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Jeff Bezos announces The Expanse is officially being picked up by Amazon
- Thread starter Quinton
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They will probably adjust it per season. Book 1 is all 13 S1 eps plus a few in S2, Book 2 is the rest of S2 and 6 in S3, Book 3 is the back 7 of S3.
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I can never blame folks for stopping around that point. I can't say I've known anyone personally, or pulled any fans into the fold, who have been enamored with The Expanse until several episodes into the first season -- if not season two. The mixed reception to the opening act did a show that premiered on a brow-beaten cable network in 2015 absolutely zero favors, heh.
But I'm confident there's a good chance you'll come around if you stick with it. Almost everybody does.
I'd be surprised as hell if we saw more than 13 episodes a season going forward! Streamers like slimmer episode orders even more than cable networks. 13 is probably the max, and it won't disappoint me if I hear that season four will be more like 8 or 10. I think we should brace for that possibility, really. But episode length is far more open-ended! We could start seeing 55-minute eps or so, which would be wonderful.
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Aye, I think so! The only Amazon original I've gotten into so far (that's gonna change now, mark my words, kopeng) is Man in the High Castle, and only just a couple of months ago. But I think so.
I didn't really click with S1 until halfway through and even at the end of that season, I wasn't exactly driven to jump right into S2. But S2 and 3 have been fantastic, due to all the pieces being in place and excellent pacing, and upon rewatching S1, it was way better and more well-paced than I had remembered
Depends on the show. I think most drop all at once. But the Grand Tour for example is weekly. I doubt the Expanse would go weekly, and I'm so happy. No more commercials, and no more waiting week to week.
Already using "seasons" hopefully means the show has a long future planned
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This may sound bizarre, and don't get me wrong, I am happier right now than I've been in months, like holy hell guys and gals, we did it... but I'm honestly gonna miss the weekly nature of the show. I really love getting to chat about it episodically while we're all on the same page. It's just a part of my entertainment culture, I guess!
But I am so, so, so willing to get it all in one fell swoop in exchange for getting more. Amazon, you crazy geniuses, thank you!
But I am so, so, so willing to get it all in one fell swoop in exchange for getting more. Amazon, you crazy geniuses, thank you!
Awesome. Glad someone picked it up. It gets really awesome (after a slow first couple of episodes)
Yeeeeeeeeeeeees. No more stupid censoring!
It didn't click with me until the second season. The first season kept me going because I wanted to know what the protomolecule was and I just love space sci-fi. If I hadn't watched it on Amazon Prime, I would have dropped it after season season. But once season 2 kicked in, it gripped me. The third season has been phenomenal so far especially the last few episodes.
it's kinda funny - I started watching it a couple of years ago, when it first premiered. Watched the first 2 episodes and thought something "this looks cool and the worldbuilding should be right up my alley BUT THE CHARACTERS ARE ALL A BUNCH OF UNLIKEABLE ASSHOLES WHO ARE AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS ALL THE TIME it just gets fucking tiring" so I dropped it and started watching other stuff instead.
So after the cancellation news (what a good time, huh?) I decided to give it another chance and rewatched those episodes and I got pretty much hooked without much trouble. Yes, they're a bit slow and they don't spoonfeed you shit and the characters are still assholish at this point but it still grabbed me and by the time episode 4 rolls by I was just completely on board.
I love the production design, too. I dunno how big is the budget for this series but except for a couple of really obvious greenscreens it looks amazing.
Oh, and also: "you guys look like shit". Fucking hell that made me literally laugh out loud.
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It's really that good! And it's got a lot of Firefly in its DNA, especially lately, what with the cast chemistry up the wazoo. But it's also deeply rooted in science (and it makes that science genuinely interesting) so it's got some Star Trek going on as well. It's got a bit of that sweeping, political Game of Thrones flavor in the mix (for lack of a better offhand nod, though it should be noted the writers do have ties to George RR Martin).
Amazon releases The Grand Tour in weekly installments so there might be a chance
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Hell yeah! The characters get better and better. I really wasn't sure about the cast at first except maybe Avasarala but it's beautiful seeing the Roci crew come together so organically and as a surrogate kid myself I always have a soft spot for surrogate families in fiction.
Once a certain Martian marine joins the fray things go to 11!
That was the point. They were work colleagues that barely knew each other thrown into this insane situation and suddenly have to be a team walking a tightrope in the middle of a powderkeg. The crew coming together and becoming allies and friends as the seasons progress was great to watch
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indeed! And I somehow missed that point when I first watched it and now it's like "duh, it's obvious". And I really don't find them as unlikeable as I did back then.
Even Miller, who I found frustratingly inscrutable at first, is now to me like this typical crooked noir detective that lost his faith in everything and has enormous trouble trying to actually express his feelings that ends up (only S1 spoilers, just using tag as a courtesy)
finding, somewhat desperately, the meaning he thought he'd lost... and he found it in a girl who winds up dead. At least up until the S2 opener, she's still dead. Don't spoil me plz :P
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Omg, love that mod-added poll.
I'm off to rewatch this week's episode as a victory lap! Once again, thank you to all my fellow fans!
I'm off to rewatch this week's episode as a victory lap! Once again, thank you to all my fellow fans!