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Haven't watched it yet, hopefully this weekend. I try not to look at reviews but critics are not being very kind to this one. 

Then again I know people who don't like BSG 2003-09, so to each their own. 

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  On 7/31/2019 at 6:08 PM, derex3592 said:

Anyone tried this yet?  Trailer looks kinda interesting. 

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Yeah, I finished my long weekend marathon on Monday.

It was certainly interesting. I'm not sure if I can say it was good--perhaps more of a middling sci-fi series. It does start off with a strong hook. The issue I had with the show was that it couldn't maintain its focus or its energy. I think some of that has to do with the fact that there are two competing plot lines which are squished together. These two plots could have probably been embellished some to create two seasons from the start and give us more characterization. For me, there was also a couple very obvious scenes that obliterated my suspension of disbelief. Of course, this may all be a your mileage may vary thing.

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I think I'm about half way through it. 

It feels long and drawn out with a "spaceship crisis of the week" in each episode while muddling along with some sort of plot about aliens and a probe that landed on earth. Meanwhile exploiting seemingly every Star Trek trope.  At the point I'm at, I'm betting the writers haven't even figured out the backstory for the aliens yet.  Hell, they even used the Wrath-of-Khan-Spock-sacrifices-himself-to-save-the-ship situation.  They had already done alien-virus-puts-the-crew-in-jeopardy and ship-falling-into-the-sun.  We're getting very unoriginal material unfortunately.  It should have been a movie with a single plot.


Watch Prospect on Amazon Prime instead, better flick.

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  On 8/1/2019 at 7:31 PM, easnoddy said:

I think I'm about half way through it. 

It feels long and drawn out with a "spaceship crisis of the week" in each episode while muddling along with some sort of plot about aliens and a probe that landed on earth. Meanwhile exploiting seemingly every Star Trek trope.  At the point I'm at, I'm betting the writers haven't even figured out the backstory for the aliens yet.  Hell, they even used the Wrath-of-Khan-Spock-sacrifices-himself-to-save-the-ship situation.  They had already done alien-virus-puts-the-crew-in-jeopardy and ship-falling-into-the-sun.  We're getting very unoriginal material unfortunately.  It should have been a movie with a single plot.  A rip off of Annihilation.

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All good points with a fair summary that does well to avoid specific spoilers.

I agree that a hard edit would have gone a long way to improve things--better direction would have helped it too. I think the writers were trying to be clever with the aliens at first, but then got trapped by their reliance on the trope soup. The final act was a disappointment for me in this regard.

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I may get around to it. It seems like a lot of drama from the trailer. Why can’t a mission just have the crew actually stay focused and on task. And work as a unit? (Oh right, because it looks like a civilian gig? ) Well I haven’t seen it , so I don’t know . But that’s what it looks like..

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My wife watches it.  She doesn’t like the casting that much but she’s still into it.  I keep asking her why she doesn’t watch STTNG or another Star Trek series instead.

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  On 8/5/2019 at 3:22 PM, easnoddy said:

I hope everyone enjoys the trans/Hurley relationship. O_o

BSG and The Expanse are currently my top 2 favorite live-action sci-fi epics.

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BSG for sure, I only watched season 1 of The Expanse but I really liked it, I seriously need to catch up on that one. B))

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  On 8/5/2019 at 3:22 PM, easnoddy said:

I hope everyone enjoys the trans/Hurley relationship. O_o

BSG and The Expanse are currently my top 2 favorite live-action sci-fi epics.

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Aw...The Zayne and Bernie romance was one of the few refreshing things that this show brought to the table. It felt more natural than that thing with the AI. 

  On 8/5/2019 at 7:41 PM, derex3592 said:

I've heard good things about The Expanse...sounds like I should give that a try and not this series...:blink:

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The Expanse is fantastic. I got into it without reading the books, but will probably get to both eventually.

Regardless, I'm very happy Amazon picked it up after SyFy dropped it.

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It was okay. Spoilers from here...
 

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