The Expanse

The SyFy method of promotion is as follows:


I am a fan of most of their original shows and if it wasn't for the actors themselves retweeting promos I would never know when the damn things were even airing.

I don't really blame SyFy, they had a terrible deal they made back in 2014 or whenever they picked it up. They bought only the live, upfront airing rights and not the streaming rights which Alcon (BladeRunner, Dune) sold to Netflix for international and Amazon for domestic. In the past 2-3 years streaming has been the big $$ maker and advertising on live TV is shrinking hard, its hard to justify this kind of TV budget if you can't keep it on a ever increasing digital back catalog library. Amazon is desperate to build out a quality library, especially now with EVERYONE jumping into the new content streaming market.

I'm just glad there was no big monkey wrench like SyFy being able to keep the first 3 seasons which would make it difficult for amazon to pick it up or Netflix blocking because it had perpetual international rights or something. Hopefully the shows stays on the air for a while although honestly the books start going a bit downhill in quality from here on out, imo. Maybe the authors and showrunners recognize that and will fix it up a bit.

So, I'm half-way through S2 and still loving it. The only complaint that comes to mind is the 'diversity' casting for several of the characters. The biggest offenders being the women in the platoon of Mars Marines. I really dislike the lip-curled, snarling, tough woman trope. Maybe it's just personal preference, but for me it's so cringe and forced. I could never bring myself to watch more than a few episodes of Jessica Jones for the same reasons.

Grabbit Allworth said:

So, I'm half-way through S2 and still loving it. The only complaint that comes to mind is the 'diversity' casting for several of the characters. The biggest offenders being the women in the platoon of Mars Marines. I really dislike the lip-curled, snarling, tough woman trope. Maybe it's just personal preference, but for me it's so cringe and forced. I could never bring myself to watch more than a few episodes of Jessica Jones for the same reasons.

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Bobby is amazing, let her grow on you. She gets great.

This show makes me want to play Mass Effect.

You also have to view it through the lens of the cultures in the show. While original Earth cultures help drive some of the character of the non-Earth cultures (Mars and the Belt), they are also products of their environment. Mars has a perpetual drive towards greatness and military superiority, kind of like a space age Sparta.

Don't misunderstand me. I get it, I just don't like it. I'm a veteran who was in a fairly high-speed job so I identify with these characters on a very loose and abstract level. I think that's why I have such a problem with women in these roles. I've seen women tested and they NEVER measure up. Even the best failed to perform. Average men perform better than well-above average women, so it's a little hard for me to embrace the fantasy of how a woman managed to elbow past men into a senior leadership role over what a appears to be a spear-tip combat unit.

And the scene where the Black dude got completely punked out by Bobbie and that White bitch....Oh lord, (puts on internet tough guy shirt) I would have swept the floor with the heads of those two bitches.

its also 250 years in the future, in the Soy Wars of 2114 all men were forced to start drinking soy milk and cut their testosterone in half. Thats why everyone is in awe of Amos, his secret backstory is that he ate a lot of burgers as a kid

spronk said:

its also 250 years in the future, in the Soy Wars of 2114 all men were forced to start drinking soy milk and cut their testosterone in half. Thats why everyone is in awe of Amos, his secret backstory is that he ate a lot of burgers as a kid

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And definitely not beef burgers. If that guy ate a burger it would be from rats he killed with his bare hands.

Jorren said:

Mars Military is all about their tech. They step foot on Earth and get all fucked up just trying to walk around.

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Mars Marines train in 1G environments because they foresee attacking Earth directly as the end game.

They also stayed true to the book in casting though. There is no "We need a black woman and a pacific islander and lets recast that super soldier dude into a woman".

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It isn't the gravity, it is the sky. There was a whole episode about it.

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Eh, they train with both but Bobbie had a bit when she left the embassy on earth the first time where she couldn't mentally process a domeless sky.