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While I’m enjoying the realism of The Expanse, I’ll admit I miss “shields down to 60%” and “warp core offline” campytech.
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People with mixed-race looks have strong acting career prospects right now in near-future sci-fi. When the story is written for such a cast, it really works well. This main cast is a soup of interestingly ambiguous looks and names. Identifiable race people look awkward.
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Weirdly, this has ruined Firefly for me. That show has a similar aesthetic but is much shallower and weaker... it’s the middle of the barbell. Either go full camp like Star Trek or full drama like The Expanse. Post-Civil war re-enactment cowboys in space doesn’t endure.
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the hamfisted use of chinese language and imagery is bad enough, but then confederacy apologia becomes impossible to unsee. It really hasn’t aged well.
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Yeah once I saw that, it kinda ruined it for me, though apologia is a bit of an exaggeration. It’s at least sympathetically inspired. Kinda like Gone With the Wind.
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Yeah, that’s fair. Overall I do think its legacy was served really well by having so few episodes in which to really show its ass.