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Killjoys Season 1: Discussion and Spoilers

I will add this, regardless of which one I prefer more, I think it's great that we have two new SF series with female leads without any big deal being made of the fact. (Or the fact that neither of them is white.)

Tiny steps, but good ones.
 
spinnerlys said:
Christopher said:
Jolaris said:
In that context, I'd actually prefer them to stick with a human-only universe.


Hm. I'm trying to think -- how many space-based SFTV series have there been set in universes where humans have spread across space but never met aliens? There's Red Dwarf (where all the nonhuman species were genetic constructs created by humans, or descended from an Earthly species in the case of the Cat), Firefly (although that's borderline since humanity had only traveled to one system post-Earth), the Battlestar Galactica/Caprica universe (where "life here began out there" but humans and their Cylon creations were the only sophonts), and now Killjoys and Dark Matter, apparently. I would've thought there were more, but TV Tropes's index for the trope lists no other television examples, although there are surprisingly many prose examples.
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I haven't read Leviathan Wakes to the end yet, which is the base for the SciFy (cannot remember the name of that channel that well) series The Expanse, as far as I know.
It seems to be human orientated, unless there will be aliens in the future of this book (have only read till the Eros part yet, where they are trying to get back to the Roc), and quite solar system orientated, which I like very much.
Will see how that goes, in book and then TV form, especially the gravity and Belter parts.
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I haven't read the books yet, but based off of the back cover blurbs for some of the later books,
the overall arc does involve an alien artifact, so it sounds there at least were aliens in the past. Don't know if there are any during the actual time of the series.
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^FYI, your quote tags are a bit messed up -- the bit credited to Jolaris is mine, and the bit credited to me is from spinnerlys.
 
Sorry, about that. I would fix that, but it's to late for me to edit it.
 
I just wish we could get some kind of new board software that would automatically associate quote tags with the quotes, so that we wouldn't have to rely on cutting and pasting and sometimes deleting too few or too many tags.
 
Hopefully that means it will be on one of the streaming services around that time too. Usually they pop up there about the same time they come out on discs.
 
StCoop said:
I will add this, regardless of which one I prefer more, I think it's great that we have two new SF series with female leads without any big deal being made of the fact. (Or the fact that neither of them is white.)

Tiny steps, but good ones.
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The show is currently being shown in the UK on Sy Fy channel and I am really enjoying it. When advertised, it looked a bit sexist, with a lot of boob shots, and that nearly put me off. However, I would say that this is by far the least sexist of the sci fi shows out there, although the 100 is pretty good too.

I look past whether there is a female lead, and in any case, this is a reasonably balanced trio that just happens to have the woman first in the cast list, but I've been very impressed with the wider casting of support characters and villains with an impressive mix of both genders. It makes shows and movies of the Star Trek franchise look very dated with their seriously heavy male bias.
 
It's on the who for whatnow? :lol:

This stuff is starting to sound like Trekkish technobabble.
 
You'd better watch it quickly, since season 2 premieres tomorrow night. I managed to binge-rewatch season 1 in a single day, though, since it's only 10 episodes (which, at about 42 minutes per episode, is only about 7 hours of content).
 
Hey I just found this show in one of the local stores I haunt. It looks like something I could possibly like but I wanted to know what you guys think of it. It's being sold as a box set of two dvds per season.

How long is each episode and what are the production values like?
 
Tetragrammaton Invictus said:
Hey I just found this show in one of the local stores I haunt. It looks like something I could possibly like but I wanted to know what you guys think of it. It's being sold as a box set of two dvds per season.

How long is each episode and what are the production values like?
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Episode length is typical for a weekly cable series, about 40-odd minutes per episode. Production values are those of a middling-budget Toronto-made TV series, but the writing and worldbuilding are good, the cast is appealing and very good-looking, there's an interesting sci-fi saga developing, and it's a lot of fun. It's from the creator of Lost Girl, if that matters to you, although it's not as heavy on the sexual themes as that show was.
 
Christopher said:
Episode length is typical for a weekly cable series, about 40-odd minutes per episode. Production values are those of a middling-budget Toronto-made TV series, but the writing and worldbuilding are good, the cast is appealing and very good-looking, there's an interesting sci-fi saga developing, and it's a lot of fun. It's from the creator of Lost Girl, if that matters to you, although it's not as heavy on the sexual themes as that show was.
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OK that sounds interesting.
I might just look into this. I've read bits and pieces and it sounds kind of fun.
 
I really enjoy Killjoys and highly recommend it.
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S2 was pretty good, IMO, having some very strong developments. Also, S2E1 is one of my personal favorites. I'm looking forward to S3. :)
 
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