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What TV series bungled a great concept that you'd like to see tried again? (piefed.social)
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Not necessarily a reimagining, but a premise. A concept.

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago (8 children)

The Expanse. Or at least an ending to the Expanse that we have. I loved those books so much and they did the series so dirty.

I do accept that the last (I think it was) 2 books don't translate to film very well but at least they could have tried!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (7 children)

    Dare I continue? I kind of switched off from it as the main female protagonist went from brilliant bad ass engineer to weak love struck teenager. It was galling. The story was so fun, but I was suffering through the teen drama.

    I made it when they went through the thing and made discoveries on the planet. (Vague but failed at spolier tag).

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Ya see that's how they did the books dirty.

    Without spoilers, the books are kinda written like GoT where they change perspective a lot and in the books she had kinda just seen like 9/11 x 30 and then a little first hand and her best friend react to it in a very unexpected way and say he wanted more... They turned her PTSD into teen drama and when it wasn't wildly decried the teen drama eventually took over everything.

    They really do the books pretty well up to that actual point though. And the events that happen do lead up to the main story points for the most part

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    You stopped in Season 4..

    No you should not continue. Seasons 1-3 of The Expanse the show was owned y SyFy. It was canceled and Amazon picked it up for Seasons 4-6 and the show turned to utter dogshit.

    Not only did the Naomi character turn to shit so did all the others, particularly the heart of the show Amos.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think what made that so annoying at the time was that by that point we knew the show was coming to an end but the story was moving at a snail's pace. There was less and less time to cover an enormous amount of content and it felt like Naomi's arc was taking way too much time.

    Re-watching it later was more enjoyable.

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