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[deleted] t1_j1hxk4c wrote

I felt season 1-3 are really solid sci-fi with excellent worldbuilding and fun mystery plots. Season 4-6 have peaks but overall I felt it lacked what made 1-3 interesting. YMMV, of course, some people think it was good all the way through.

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xevizero t1_j1hy0fw wrote

What genre of scifi is it? Soft, down to earth? Star wars space magic? Grim and dark?

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Iannelli t1_j1hzu5r wrote

Not the person you asked, but I've seen The Expanse described as "hard" sci-fi. It's heavy on space technology, warfare, flight mechanics, things like that. A bit grim and dark at times.

Overall, The Expanse is the single greatest piece of sci-fi that I've ever personally seen. The show is so. Fucking. Good. It's hard to even explain it. The writing, the filming, the pacing, the way they shoot scenes... it's just a marvel to witness.

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[deleted] t1_j1i884k wrote

I'd say it is 'hard-ish' and grim, the setting at the start explores the social, labour, and warfare effects based on the premise of a hyper-efficient space ship drive. So it takes travel times, gravity, economics, etc, serious, there's some heart-rending stuff in there.

I think people tend to call it hard sci-fi mostly because it is pretty rare for tv sci-fi to really explore the mechanics of space travel to this type of degree but there's also a lot of stuff it omits. I think the show is really good at taking a slightly fanciful premise and exploring it in quite a thorough way. Maybe I'm cooled on it now that it's been a while since I watched it but I remember when it came out it was just amazing to have a ship dock with a spinning space station and realise it thought it through more than I had.

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nataliechaco t1_j1ig0v4 wrote

very politcal. Ive only read the book but it is probably the most 'realistic' depiction of humanity in space. I know some described the book as Game of Thrones in space but id argue its half that and half its own amazing thing.

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Delicious-Tachyons t1_j1iwc7h wrote

no space magic. no warp drives, transporters. if you want to land on something you flip the craft around via RCS and hit the rockets while also strapped into chairs that keep you from stroking out from the g-forces kind of sci-fi.

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