The Expanse Season 3
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I watched a couple of "sneak peek" features that featured the show being compared to Game of Thrones, but I'm just not seeing the comparison there. If anything, the show has more in common with the Alien and Blade Runner franchises than it does with GoT, especially in terms of structure.
Every show that wants to promote itself as a sprawling saga with complex, flawed characters and lots of action and political intrigue compares itself to Game of Thrones. They don't care about the strict accuracy of the comparison, they just want to attract viewers by grabbing onto the coattails of something hugely successful.
I could see the Blade Runner comparison in the early going with Thomas Jane but as the show stands now GoT isn’t the worse comparison for reasons @Christopher mentions.
The language censorship has gotten freaking worse. I think dipping the audio was better than overdubbing Chrisjen with “freaking” which just sounds weak.
The language censorship has gotten freaking worse. I think dipping the audio was better than overdubbing Chrisjen with “freaking” which just sounds weak.
It goes back to the books, each of which is meant to be a hybrid between sci-fi and something else:
Leviathan Wakes - Noir
Caliban's War - Political thriller
Abbadon's Gate - Ghost story
Cibola Burn - Western
etc...
I find that to be silly and lazy; as good as GoT is as a TV series, it's not a one-of-a-kind thing.
I wasn't endorsing it, just observing that if you expect advertisers to provide strictly accurate information about anything, you'd better not hold your breath.
^ It's not really advertisers making the GoT comparisons, though, at least not directly.
It's fans of The Expanse making said comparisons, and I find it silly and lazy, even as a fan of both shows myself, because there are other, more apt comparisons that could be floated out there with only minimal consideration.
But that's ultimately neither here nor there and is just me venting.
It's fans of The Expanse making said comparisons, and I find it silly and lazy, even as a fan of both shows myself, because there are other, more apt comparisons that could be floated out there with only minimal consideration.
But that's ultimately neither here nor there and is just me venting.
I certainly got the impression that he was on Errinwright's payroll. I suppose it's possible he's just gung-ho about his sincere belief that Avasarala is a traitor, but Byron Mann played him with a skeevy subtext that made me think he's a bad guy rather than a misguided guy.
Oh, by the way, it took me a while (and an IMDb search) to recognize that the junior officer under Adm. Souther -- the guy who shut down the surveillance on the medical deck for him -- was Alvis from Killjoys. I recognized the name Morgan Kelly in the credits, but I had to look it up to remember where I'd seen it before.
I think Nguyen's been working for Errinwright for a while. Back last season he came in to replace Souther, the Angela King's CO, after he disagreed with the decision to destroy Deimos. Even there I kind of got the impression Nguyen was pretty much just Errinwright's yes man.
I have to admit, I was a bit surprised to see that Mao actually has a bit of decency to him.
They kind of seem to be setting up Errinwright and Anna Volovodov as the Angel and Devil on the shoulders of the Secretary General.
I was a bit surprised that they were still so determined to go to Io after they picked up Avaserala and Bobbi.
I have to admit, I was a bit surprised to see that Mao actually has a bit of decency to him.
They kind of seem to be setting up Errinwright and Anna Volovodov as the Angel and Devil on the shoulders of the Secretary General.
I was a bit surprised that they were still so determined to go to Io after they picked up Avaserala and Bobbi.
Agreed, the dipping audio was less distracting, the replacement dialogue just sounds cheesy.
I use to think of the show as B5 meets GoT. Now it's just The Expanse. If people don't want to watch it, they are missing out on what is described by many people as the best science fiction show in production at the moment.
Found this link also - on why it is lapping other science fiction shows.
Found this link also - on why it is lapping other science fiction shows.
With very high production values. Not sure how many of the sets are physlcal and how many are green screen but there's nothing that really jumps out as being done cheaply.
As to this weeks episode, with Errinwright involved I wonder if rail gun 5 really did have a technical problem or whether there was more to it.
He looked pretty sincerely devastated when the missile hit South America. I think he's just an overconfident warmonger. That's why he blamed the casualties on the secretary-general's hesitation.
I suppose it's conceivable that he could've arranged something like that to make the S-G look bad and maybe take over his job, but how could he have remotely sabotaged the weapon platform? And how could he be sure the missile wouldn't hit, say, the city he was in at the time?
I thought it was a little too obvious this week that the bridge of the Agatha King was the control center of Tycho Station with the lights turned up, but, hey, maybe they were built by the same company in-universe or something.
Can't recall that set (seems to be season 1) but I would have be surprised if there wasn't some set redressing which many shows do and make sense if you've got an expensive set that can be re-utilsed rather than building from scratch
It stands to reason that a lot of ship and facility designs would be pretty much the same everywhere in the system. I mean, you can find cars and trucks of the same basic design (other than which side the driver is on) in every country on Earth, and the same goes for planes, ships, computers, etc. Rather than reinventing the wheel, most countries just buy their stuff from the same finite number of suppliers who sell their products globally. Which allows the makers of globetrotting TV shows to use the same sets, vehicles, equipment, etc. for episodes set in different countries, just changing up the signage and graphics and such to localize them. So it follows that the same would be true for the various planets and habitats of a human-settled Sol System.
Whoops, looks like I was wrong. Flipping through season two episodes and the season three premiere, it looks like the Tycho command room is horseshoe-shaped, not circular. There are some broad-strokes similarities, including the raised table in the center, the two-level design (though on Tycho, the upper level doesn't go all the way around, it's just in the back for Fred Johnson's office), and the glass room at one end (Johnson's office versus the elevator), which is probably what made me think they were the same.
It also looks like it was replaced with a virtual set when we saw it in the premiere (there was only one shot where we could see it through the windows of Fred Johnson's office).
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