The Expance (SYFY show)

[WillBrink]

Will, if you haven't at least watched through Season 1 Episode 10 (Hand of God), you should watch that far before giving up on the series.

It has some of the best character development in the first season and a real turning point in the show (it also has one of the better battle sequences of the first season). By stopping at Ep 4 you're missing nearly everything good about season one.

Hand of God is the episode that got me hooked on BSG, at a point when I was considering giving up on it.

I will try again some time!

[WillBrink]

To be fair, what exactly do you want from Sci Fi?

I for one don’t look for lessons on philosophy nor human betterment.

Great SF like the Expanse delivers that as well as:

I just wanna see gunfights, sexy chicks, cool space ships, some one liners, and weird stuff.

That's what I want from SF. Fun mindless stuff is fine too, but it's not great SF, just mindless fun. If can get all the above = great SF

Great SF for me explores bigger picture stuff and if well done, the more mind expanding the better.

Good SF, has "gunfights, sexy chicks, cool space ships, some one liners, and weird stuff"

I don’t want anything preachy or too far out. If it doesn’t resemble the Vietnam war or the Wild Bunch then it is lame. Star Trek is the worst show ever. It was too politically correct and dumb. Everybody wearing unisex clothes and bothering people. Lame.

Star Trek could deliver on the above and some episodes were damn good.

The best Sci Fi template was the movie Heavy Metal. It had rock music, chicks, gunplay, and didn’t care

Good animated SF some of the most underrated. Have you seen Love Death and Robots? F-ing awesome:

[Firefly]

Really, really good Sci-fi does none of those things.

Sci-Fi is essentially high tech and low life.

We’re always gonna have wars, racism, bigotry, petty differences, factionalism, greed, and plain ol A-Holery.

For all the far reaching optimism of Star Trek, all people wanted were flip phones, automatic doors, and Tasers. Nobody cared about the lesson or the moral.

If aliens landed today with altruistic intention; we’d trip over ourselves to figure out how to have sex with them, kill them, and steal their stuff

[WillBrink]

Really, really good Sci-fi does none of those things.

Sci-Fi is essentially high tech and low life.

We’re always gonna have wars, racism, bigotry, petty differences, factionalism, greed, and plain ol A-Holery.

For all the far reaching optimism of Star Trek, all people wanted were flip phones, automatic doors, and Tasers. Nobody cared about the lesson or the moral.

If aliens landed today with altruistic intention; we’d trip over ourselves to figure out how to have sex with them, kill them, and steal their stuff

I could not agree less.

[Det-Sog]

Season 4 starting off solid! Happy to see the crew back together.

Cool. I’m actually watching the first three seasons again. I’ll start the fourth just in time for Christmas.

[dobe]

One of my favorite. I’m watching the 4th season now.


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[Firefly]

Will...

Go watch Gundam 0080 in one sitting.

That show destroyed me.

[TexHill]

Adam Savage has been doing some good interviews with the cast and crew of the show.

[Grand58742]

Just got into this yesterday. Now I've got to download a bunch of episodes to my Fire in order to watch them on the plane tomorrow.

<sigh>

Binge watching and having to work is NOT easy.

[WillBrink]

Just got into this yesterday. Now I've got to download a bunch of episodes to my Fire in order to watch them on the plane tomorrow.

<sigh>

Binge watching and having to work is NOT easy.

First world problems!