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The Expanse |S2| You guys look like shit - Wednesdays on Syfy

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Cornballer

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CopperPuppy said:
With the Prime deal, will the first episode be up on Amazon the next day or be included with Prime or anything?

Trying to figure out how I can stream this as I'll miss the premiere.
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If you're in the US, afaik, the system will be the same as last year where Syfy will have streaming on their website with your cable login.
 
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Paganmoon

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Since we're only a day away now, and Netflix hasn't mentioned anything, I'm guessing we aren't getting the episodes as they air in the US. :(
 
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Shanlei91

Sonic handles my blue balls
Was at a screener of the first two episodes last night - watching the show on a big screen really shows off how cinematically the show is shot. I thought the two episodes were better than all of season 1, has me legitimately excited.
 
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Funky Papa

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Kanik said:
Was at a screener of the first two episodes last night - watching the show on a big screen really shows off how cinematically the show is shot. I thought the two episodes were better than all of season 1, has me legitimately excited.
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Good, good.
 
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Somnia

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Kanik said:
Was at a screener of the first two episodes last night - watching the show on a big screen really shows off how cinematically the show is shot. I thought the two episodes were better than all of season 1, has me legitimately excited.
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Stop getting me hyped!
 
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Cornballer

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- Sepinwall's review
But then, towards the end of season one, all the unconnected story threads began tying together in very satisfactory fashion. And, with that, The Expanse got a whole lot better.

Those episodes from the end of season one, coupled with the first four episodes of season two (it premieres Wednesday night at 10), serve as a reminder not only that TV shows are usually more interesting when characters come together than when they’re kept apart, but that they’re usually more interesting when the characters (and the audience) actually know what’s happening and can do something about it than when they’re fumbling around in the dark, searching for clues to some vague mystery.
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GavinUK86

GavinUK86

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I'm interested to see how fast they whip through the remainder of Leviathan Wakes and how much of Caliban's War they manage to cram in.
 
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lt519

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ABOVEtheRIM said:
Suprisingly never heard of this show. Glad I came into this thread though it looks great. Going to watch a few episodes tonight
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Definitely easy to binge watch, I actually think it plays out better when you can do that too. 40 minute episodes versus your Netflix/HBO 55 minute episodes. I took down 3 last night really quick to re-watch Season 1's ending. There's a Season 1 OT in the Off-Topic Community Forum that could answer some questions you may have if you are worried about spoilers here.
 
GavinUK86

GavinUK86

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ABOVEtheRIM said:
Suprisingly never heard of this show. Glad I came into this thread though it looks great. Going to watch a few episodes tonight
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lt519 said:
Definitely easy to binge watch, I actually think it plays out better when you can do that too. 40 minute episodes versus your Netflix/HBO 55 minute episodes. I took down 3 last night really quick to re-watch Season 1's ending. There's a Season 1 OT in the Off-Topic Community Forum that could answer some questions you may have if you are worried about spoilers here.
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Make sure you turn subtitles on.
 
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Cornballer

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Double episode season premiere tonight:
Safe; Doors & Corners

Miller (Thomas Jane), Holden (Steven Strait) and the crew of the Roci deal with the aftermath of their narrow escape from Eros. We meet Martian Marine Gunnery Sergeant Bobbie Draper (Frankie Adams) and her platoon when the "Cuban Missile Crisis" between Earth and Mars heats up.
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Limited commercials for this tonight, so it's set to air from 10:00-11:35pm. Enjoy!
 
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Cornballer

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- YahooTV itnerview with Fergus & Chatham: How ‘The Expanse’ Rewrites the Book on Bringing Books to TV
One of the benefits of that kind of unfettered access to the source material (i.e. the brains of Abraham and Franck) is they’re not tied down to doing a book a season (which was their original pitch) or even every two seasons. As they developed the show, Fergus says they realized that “it’s okay to split in the middle of a book or split three-quarters of the way,” and that it wasn’t necessary to be held to the structure of the stories on the page.

“That took a while to reconcile because our original plan had been to go at feature speed,” Fergus went on. “Then you realize the texture of the show is not going to work because you’ll be cruising through plot events and not really delving into character, which is what shows do so much better than films.” Once they slowed they pace, they were able to begin incorporating elements from the novellas, pulling the structure further away from the books.
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tearsintherain

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Jon Snow is back! Hype!

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don't forget its TWO episodes tonight, there are thirteen episodes total in season 2. Dunno if there will be any breaks, I don't think any big holidays are up over the next 11 weeks and usually the last two episodes air back to back too.
 
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neonvision

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God I'm so excited about this. I only just recently watched through season 1 since I just automatically associate anything with SyFy as garbage. I can only hope this show can build on its audience. Absolutely amazing stuff.
 
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Cornballer

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- Space.com: Season 2 of Syfy's 'The Expanse' Will Dive Deeper Into Characters
"I think the good thing about the show is that there's someone for everyone who's watching," Tipper said. She described that for every disagreement, different people will agree with different characters in the dispute. "It's real, and that's what life's like. It's a representation of society [and your understanding] depends on where you stand morally yourself as a viewer."

"And your interpretation, of course," said Shohreh Aghdashloo, who plays Avasarala.

Everyone's truthful and lying, confident and struggling, Fergus added — "Everybody's just fumbling through, even the so-called villains. They think they're doing something noble in their own perspectives," he said. "Nothing more boring than a character who's easily boiled down to a trait. We're not allowed to do that on this show."
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- Collider review
Get on board with The Expanse, because if you like immersive, unapologetically science-based science fiction, it’s too good to miss.
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AngmarsKing701

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kirblar said:
The premiere is a single 2-hour episode. It's seamless.
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Technically not true if I'm reading Cornballer's info above correctly. The premiere is the first two episodes presented tonight with limited commercial interruptions. It is, in effect, 2 42 minute episodes (84 minutes total) with about 10 minutes of commercials.

My DirecTV shows 10pm-11:35pm for the recording. It is also too stupid to realize that the replay of this on Saturday is a repeat, but I guess when they replay it on Saturday they're doing the full commercial thing, because I have an EP1 at the top of one hour followed by an EP2 at the top of the next.
 
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Cornballer

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AngmarsKing701 said:
It is also too stupid to realize that the replay of this on Saturday is a repeat, but I guess when they replay it on Saturday they're doing the full commercial thing, because I have an EP1 at the top of one hour followed by an EP2 at the top of the next.
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Heh, I noticed that, too, last night. I was wondering why it wanted to record new episodes then.
 
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kirblar

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AngmarsKing701 said:
Technically not true if I'm reading Cornballer's info above correctly. The premiere is the first two episodes presented tonight with limited commercial interruptions. It is, in effect, 2 42 minute episodes (84 minutes total) with about 10 minutes of commercials.

My DirecTV shows 10pm-11:35pm for the recording. It is also too stupid to realize that the replay of this on Saturday is a repeat, but I guess when they replay it on Saturday they're doing the full commercial thing, because I have an EP1 at the top of one hour followed by an EP2 at the top of the next.
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I have seen the premiere. There was no noticeable stop point or line of demarcation between the two eps.
 
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MrOogieBoogie

BioShock Infinite is like playing some homeless guy's vivid imagination
I'm a huge fan of Battlestar Galactica, so of course I'm interested in this show. Is it for me?
 
Ristifer

Ristifer

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Chris R said:
Wish this didn't air so late at night. Even more so with two episodes the first night.
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No kidding. I have to work really early, so this is a bit of a push for me. I don't sleep well enough as it is hah.

For those of you calling it a slow burn, is that because you read the novels beforehand? I haven't read the novels, so I went in fresh, and I didn't find it to be that much of a slow burn. It captured my interest fairly quickly. But I'm thinking maybe the perspectives are different.
 
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Chris R

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Ristifer said:
No kidding. I have to work really early, so this is a bit of a push for me. I don't sleep well enough as it is hah.

For those of you calling it a slow burn, is that because you read the novels beforehand? I haven't read the novels, so I went in fresh, and I didn't find it to be that much of a slow burn. It captured my interest fairly quickly. But I'm thinking maybe the perspectives are different.
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I just watch it on my DVR the next day, but it sucks having to avoid some sites because they like typing out long articles discussing the episode
 
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Dubbedinenglish

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Ristifer said:
No kidding. I have to work really early, so this is a bit of a push for me. I don't sleep well enough as it is hah.

For those of you calling it a slow burn, is that because you read the novels beforehand? I haven't read the novels, so I went in fresh, and I didn't find it to be that much of a slow burn. It captured my interest fairly quickly. But I'm thinking maybe the perspectives are different.
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Went in pretty much blind for me. First 3eps were really dry for me, I liked the world building and ships but those initial eps were definitely on the slow side.
 
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Donos

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Not yet sold on B. Drapper from the little snippets/trailer they showed.

Still looking forward to it although the last book Babylon's Ashes didn't grab me like the other books.
 
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Shanlei91

Sonic handles my blue balls
Ristifer said:
For those of you calling it a slow burn, is that because you read the novels beforehand? I haven't read the novels, so I went in fresh, and I didn't find it to be that much of a slow burn. It captured my interest fairly quickly. But I'm thinking maybe the perspectives are different.
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I went in without knowing anything about the series and binged the first season this past Saturday.

I appreciated the world building but it didn't really hook me until the last three episodes. My issue was that is suffered from a trope many shows do where several story lines are covered and you don't really get a sense of how it's all connected until there's a moment where they intertwine, only then is there a sense of "ok, lets get things started!" I agree with the review that was posted earlier, season 2's opener comes off as much stronger now that we're past that moment in the story.
 
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parrotbeak

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Oh, it's today! For some reason I thought it was later this month.

Just heard about it randomly from some podcast and checked it out on the basis of it being scientifically realistic with travel time and gravity. I never would have thought to watch it because I just assumed everything on Syfy was trash. Ended up marathoning all of S1 over a weekend.
 
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lt519

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I haven't been this hyped for a premiere in a while, even GoT doesn't do it for me anymore.

Agreed, having the 'mystery' solved and independent storylines converging will make the show flow a lot better and faster.

parrotbeak said:
I never would have thought to watch it because I just assumed everything on Syfy was trash.
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It's a massive hurdle to the shows success; I'm hopeful that Netflix and Amazon exposure brought some more people in. Wish Amazon have it a little more front page action, but they have their own shows to tout.
 
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basefree

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I think I'm gonna re-watch all of s1 before I start s2. That'll give me at least a few episodes to binge. So excited though! Undoubtedly the best sci fi show to air in a long time.
 
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Jeevesmeister

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Expanse writer says the ending of Mass Effect 3 was 'f***ing terrible'

http://www.pcgamer.com/expanse-writer-says-the-ending-of-mass-effect-3-was-fing-terrible/

"The first two and a half games promised so much and set up such a fantastic universe, and then the end of the third one, it just... It made everything that had come before irrelevant. It was just a fucking terrible ending," Franck said. "It really felt like there was a fantastic ending that I had been promised, and then when I got to it... You know what? The ending of Mass Effect for me was like the ending of Lost, where [you] became aware that they really didn't know where they were going the whole time and they'd kind of just been making things up."

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"When we hit book nine of The Expanse, that will be the last book—and we've known the ending from the beginning. That's because I like endings," he continued. "I think great media, great art, whatever, is all about the edges of the canvas, and anything that you try to string on too long gets a little threadbare. I also think that because of that—because endings are so important—you better know what your ending is and you better be setting that ending up right from the beginning. Otherwise it just feels muddy and unsatisfying."
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My hero!
 
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