Expanse was actually great until the aliens showed up. It's the most realistic, best case scenario for our species if we can't discover FTL tech. We're stuck in this solar system forever.
no we're not idiot we just got to get a point where out civ is comfy with it taking years to reach other star systems, at relativistic speeds a 10ly trip will only feel like 6 months for you so it aint that bad.
I can in fact confirm that not only do we have access to FTL travel but we managed to reverse engineer some of it. Im a complete normie but I've seen some shit and I'll leave it at that. Anything beyond that is either pure schzio grifting or disinformation
You do if you want to get there in "6 months". Using more realistic measurements it would take a generation to get there with no real hope of coming back and even then it's a 99.999999% chance the reachable systems are completely uninhabitable
If I remember right, Alpha Centauri could be reached in just a cpl of years at a constant 1g acceleration. The hard factor is engineering a solution to the fuel problem such a journey would entail.
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You're half right I think, should be 6-7 years with 1g acceleration half of the way and deceleration the rest of the way. Relativistic effects would reduce that by a bit, maybe 15-20% for the people on board
I don't know if the show ever got to the point where they explain the protomolocule, but it's not actually alien. It's human technology sent back into the past to try and accelerate human development enough to escape entropy, basically. There really are no aliens in the story at all.
>final season is about revealing Mars is building super powered spaceships and that there's weird red dimension aliens that are appearing as we go into the slow zone or whatever the frick and then............
what the frick was even the point. Like seriously what was the point. I get it happens in the book. But this is a television show. What the frick.
First season was pretty good. Then they decided a detective show starring Tom Jane reeeeaaallly needed to lose Tom Jane and the whole detective show thing.
Tom Jane's detective story ends in book 1. They already lengthened his plot by weaving the end of book 1 and the start of 2 together. Beyond that it'd be to ignore the books which would've most likely turned out terrible
This show reminds me of Black Sails where I like what the show is about and it could be cool but instead it's just a lot of boring ass characters talking about boring drama shit I do not give a frick about
I don't care about your minority lesbian drama, please tell an interesting story
but no
have to wait for the finale for something interesting to happen to hook you in for next season of propagandaslop
there are though, you haven't watched the later seasons. Don't though, among the reasons: a character gets killed with the most stupid reason because the actor was accused of sexual harassment, and the series spends half of its runtime in season 5 about a black woman (one of the protagonists) with her mutt latino child
kek I remember that shit. I watched it not knowing about the RL drama and was so fricking confused at his death I thought I missed something it was so out of left field
way too much focus on individual soap opera drama, not enough on the overworld which was great. guess normals just prefer this. many a show have been ruined by this but expanse probably more than any ive ever seen
can't think of a character that brings down a show to it's knees quite like her
Shit pay, poor living conditions, hazardous jobs, low lifespans. The solar equivalent to some african shithole or banana republic exploited by distant foreign corporations to mine lithium or farm bananas
I'm just a speed watcher. DS9 and B5 and stargate had charismatic cast but Exp did not and it was a torture to slog through all the talking of these awfuly boring people in dark rooms. So i uswed the FTL button a lot.
Thank you for answer.
anyone else enjoyed the show and then found it boring during/after the 3rd season ?
Never went back, already forgot everything and cba to watch it all back to remember.
what a shame, should've been a 2 seasons mini series.
You
Gundam did it for literal decades and Le Expanse is just a ripoff so it makes sense
Expanse was actually great until the aliens showed up. It's the most realistic, best case scenario for our species if we can't discover FTL tech. We're stuck in this solar system forever.
colony ships.
Will be fun living there for thousands of years.
we can't even make super reliable cars right now, colony ships require a level of reliability and engineering beyond us
Just have plenty of redundancies???!
ah yes i love it when the sci-fi show is just as miserable and hopeless as our real world
You already have dozens of silly star wars and star treks, dumbass. You can ignore one semi-realistic for others to enjoy.
>needing a cheatsheet
Do people really not know basic facts about the solar system?
no we're not idiot we just got to get a point where out civ is comfy with it taking years to reach other star systems, at relativistic speeds a 10ly trip will only feel like 6 months for you so it aint that bad.
Now calculate how long it takes to accelerate to relativistic speeds
It will take 10 years to reach 1 light year if we use nuke chamber where we constantly detonate.
Making 1 nuke is let alone tough already, but having a constant flow for 10 years we are probably 10-100 generations away from reaching FTL travel.
The "find alien tech" seems most believable, but we will probably never find anything which means we are stuck in solar system forever.
My last hope in believing aliens exist lies in Europa, not sure why the frick they still looking into Mars. Move the frick on
I can in fact confirm that not only do we have access to FTL travel but we managed to reverse engineer some of it. Im a complete normie but I've seen some shit and I'll leave it at that. Anything beyond that is either pure schzio grifting or disinformation
>we
who?
You don't actually have to reach relativistic speeds to travel to nearby stars.
You do if you want to get there in "6 months". Using more realistic measurements it would take a generation to get there with no real hope of coming back and even then it's a 99.999999% chance the reachable systems are completely uninhabitable
If I remember right, Alpha Centauri could be reached in just a cpl of years at a constant 1g acceleration. The hard factor is engineering a solution to the fuel problem such a journey would entail.
You're half right I think, should be 6-7 years with 1g acceleration half of the way and deceleration the rest of the way. Relativistic effects would reduce that by a bit, maybe 15-20% for the people on board
nuclear detonation based propolsion alone can deliver cargo ship sized craft to smaller light years distance doomer
>name something gayer
when the sci-fi setting is just a backdrop for soap opera drama.
there's no aliens in blade runner either
I think they're mentioned in the book briefly aren't they?
not the same title so it doesn't count
Doesn't chucklefrick mention that he's engaged in space warfare against aliens at the end of the movie in his famous monologue?
>no aliens
but there are?
I don't know if the show ever got to the point where they explain the protomolocule, but it's not actually alien. It's human technology sent back into the past to try and accelerate human development enough to escape entropy, basically. There really are no aliens in the story at all.
You're shitting me
why do you outright lie on the internet?
They literally go to a planet with alien life on it.
>It's human technology sent back into the past
This is so fricking stupid.
Nothing more stupid than time travel.
Thankfully anon is just making shit up.
The protomolecule was made by an insectoid hive mind species
Firefly probably could have been post-apocalyptic instead of space without changing much.
you mean space setting not scifi
TFW Amazon ruined the show in the last 2 seasons then stops it right before the best novel content and major plot events. Amazon needs to die
if it makes you feel any better the books also kinda sucked after the protomolecule was discovered. it just wasn't as good as the beginning anymore.
Wut? Protomolecule is in the books literally from the first fricking pages.
>final season is about revealing Mars is building super powered spaceships and that there's weird red dimension aliens that are appearing as we go into the slow zone or whatever the frick and then............
what the frick was even the point. Like seriously what was the point. I get it happens in the book. But this is a television show. What the frick.
I finally finished the last Expanse book. It feels fricking weird to actually have a series that has an ending. And it's a decent one at that.
Which was the best season?
Season 3 and it's not even close
3
2 and 3 are indisputably the best. 4 is kinda meh despite having some good moments, and then you might as well stop after that.
Well I think we know which season is Kek's favorite.
Cinemaphile told me to stop after 3 and I did, so 3.
What are some other good sci-fi shows?
Killjoys and Dark Matter don't come even remotely close. Passengers was okay. Firefly was a bit too "fun".
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica
Unless you're willing to get into star trek or very niche, probably not very good stuff, fin.
babylon 5 is good, a little janky and slow at times but it's got a real cool sci fi story that actually goes somewhere
>Pic
Add Firefly too.
Btw, Dark matter dropped the guy protagonist and the cute.. I mean strong woman became the lead
First season was pretty good. Then they decided a detective show starring Tom Jane reeeeaaallly needed to lose Tom Jane and the whole detective show thing.
hes still in the later seasons he just a force ghost
Stories evolve and change. They don't just stay the same for years on end or else what's the point.
Sure, just like filet mignon evolves and changes into sticky brown shit.
my feelings exactly
Tom Jane's detective story ends in book 1. They already lengthened his plot by weaving the end of book 1 and the start of 2 together. Beyond that it'd be to ignore the books which would've most likely turned out terrible
This show reminds me of Black Sails where I like what the show is about and it could be cool but instead it's just a lot of boring ass characters talking about boring drama shit I do not give a frick about
I don't care about your minority lesbian drama, please tell an interesting story
but no
have to wait for the finale for something interesting to happen to hook you in for next season of propagandaslop
sigh
there are though, you haven't watched the later seasons. Don't though, among the reasons: a character gets killed with the most stupid reason because the actor was accused of sexual harassment, and the series spends half of its runtime in season 5 about a black woman (one of the protagonists) with her mutt latino child
kek I remember that shit. I watched it not knowing about the RL drama and was so fricking confused at his death I thought I missed something it was so out of left field
There are literally two separate flavors of aliens, what are you on about?
The aliums are kinda spooky. They get cranky if you fly in their space and make you disappear
Space docking
you just blow in from stupid town?
Camina is cute!
Cute!
CUTE!
C-U-T-E!
way too much focus on individual soap opera drama, not enough on the overworld which was great. guess normals just prefer this. many a show have been ruined by this but expanse probably more than any ive ever seen
can't think of a character that brings down a show to it's knees quite like her
>A Challenger Appears!
Can't this is the worst thing TV talked me into.
There's aliens, they just never get EXPANDED upon.
>name something gayer
all the non-whites in the show
How's that not looking realistic to you? Asia, Afrika already more populated and fertility rate is bigger than white countries’
Non-whites will never reach for the stars
Expanse peaked with the ring space, everything before and after was meh.
So satisfying watching that annoying shit get splated.
BERATNAS
BELTALOWDA!
>name something gayer
grey drama in space
>name something gayer
disney villains. they talk a lot, and never do anything evil on camera.
that makes them slightly annoying, not an antagonist
Can someone expalin to me how belters were "oppressed" by earth?
Shit pay, poor living conditions, hazardous jobs, low lifespans. The solar equivalent to some african shithole or banana republic exploited by distant foreign corporations to mine lithium or farm bananas
You're probably /misc/-baiting though
I'm just a speed watcher. DS9 and B5 and stargate had charismatic cast but Exp did not and it was a torture to slog through all the talking of these awfuly boring people in dark rooms. So i uswed the FTL button a lot.
Thank you for answer.
anyone else enjoyed the show and then found it boring during/after the 3rd season ?
Never went back, already forgot everything and cba to watch it all back to remember.
what a shame, should've been a 2 seasons mini series.
Here you go:
>sci-fi setting
>aliens