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Traece t1_j6hfv9i wrote

Reply to comment by Takseen in Anyone watching "The Three Body Problem" on Tencent's Youtube channel? by ISayISayISay

I haven't read the books, but I've been mostly enjoying the Tencent series. It definitely suffers a bit from its slower pacing, and can even feel a tad repetitive at times, but I respect what they're trying to do here. It's an interesting story, and there have been some good moments and emotional scenes that help break up some of the monotony.

I suspect that when I reach the end I'll say it probably should have been 20 episodes instead of 30 or something, but I also plan to watch all 30 regardless. Butchering it with an 8-episode series would've been much worse than going all-in on a full-sized adaptation. I definitely prefer too many episodes to too few.

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Traece t1_j1oxgy6 wrote

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

>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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Traece t1_j1mcbpo wrote

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

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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Traece t1_ixklvzo wrote

Reply to comment by nurdboy42 in Andor - Episode 12 Finale - Discussion Thread! by PhoOhThree

Local Redditor surprised that people were cynical about a new project in a well-known IP and expecting it to be bad.

Not sure what RLM has to do with any of that, unless RLM somehow invented the idea of milking franchises and often doing so poorly. Especially strange to try and shoehorn them into this as if they're not likely to say positive things about Andor for the same reason they said positive things about Mandalorian.

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