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nebkelly t1_j1jzd4z wrote

Reply to comment by xevizero in Excited to start "The Expanse" and hit play without checking the episode. by icedrift

It is very corny at times, the casting was very different to the books, some of the main actors are not great. While the overall plot is cool (Earth v Mars v Belters), what actually happens each season is fairly silly and disjointed.

An example of a much better modern SF show is For All Mankind and... that show is maybe a 7 or an 8/10 compared to The Wire or whatever TV benchmark you want to use.

Unfortunately there is not a huge amount of spaceflight SF so people lap up what content we can get.

Edit - strongly ecommend reading the series before watching, or even just the first book.

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Traece t1_j1mcbpo wrote

Wow. I never thought I'd see For All Mankind compared to The Wire but here we are.

I don't mean that in a good way, FAM had a good first season and then committed one of the biggest trainwrecks into a B-tier soap opera I've ever seen. It's genuinely so bad I wouldn't even recommend someone watch the first season for fear that a person might suffer the fate of watching the other two. That's not something I'd want to inflict on anybody.

If you had compared The Expanse to The Wire, I'd say you might be overreaching a little, but only a little bit.

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nebkelly t1_j1ovkbo wrote

I didn't compare them favourably. I referenced The Wire as a benchmark neither of them come close to.

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Traece t1_j1oxgy6 wrote

>An example of a much better modern SF show is For All Mankind and... that show is maybe a 7 or an 8/10 compared to The Wire or whatever TV benchmark you want to use.

I don't see any universe in which this is neither a favorable comparison, nor a close one. Being 7 or 8/10 compared to The Wire is a high accolade by any metric, and quite close on a scale of 10. You even went so far as to say FAM is "a much better modern SF show."

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