Better watch out. What if you get lung cancer from all that exposure. Nearly every character in the series is smoking all the time.

I want to believe they will finish the Expanse.

At least they ended up on a fairly logical point if not. But I still wonder why they included the Strange Dogs novella if they knew that's the last season.

I’m 60% through the last book, it’s so good!

Oh please oh please oh please‽

There was a reason they killed off Alex...

I enjoyed it myself, but I remember people thought the Cibola Burn weak. It really picks up after that though. The next two books are peak.

I had similar thoughts. I was able to read the books through the parts that I liked less, and I really liked the story as a whole. I was not able to continue with the series. It's not even bad, but episode after episode there was no meaningful progress, and I just stopped

You sound a lot like my son except:

I think it's better now in the age of streaming.

He believes that a LOT of series, especially on Netflix, were originally intended to be a 2 hour movie, but Netflix wants "engagement," so they insist that it be spread out over 10 episodes to increase engagement. That leads to storylines where they just create useless meandering plot tangents just to drag it out. Once he pointed it out to me, I'm seeing it a lot.

I just recently decided to start Him & Her because I saw that it was the current top rated show, and I quit halfway through the second episode, because I realized they were complicating the plot for no other reason than to drag it out. It wasn't compelling, or mysterious, it was annoying.

Netflix is ruining cinematic storytelling, and the rest are going to follow.

The BSG 2000s remake is a masterpiece of a show. It brings together politics, religion, spirituality, and more and how that all ties into mankind and their robot creations is so good

I also disagree. I think they had a good idea of where it was going for the first few seasons. I do think that once the Cylons join them they don't really have an idea of what to do with it though. The ending is a bit of a mess. I'd also agree that a lot of the B plots are not the best, and are just filler, and clearly didn't have a big plan, but what show doesn't have this? The main plot is pretty cohesive and consistent at least up to season 3, and I'd argue a lot of that was solid too.

I think, if you want to argue they didn't have a plan, you have to reconcile that with the fact that they had secret characters working against the fleet that were hinted at for quite a long time before they were confirmed. They clearly had a long and carefully designed plan. There's just an issue that they have to fill time, so they also have some stupid filler plots that don't go anywhere. I think most of these are fine though. They still add character and depth.

I kinda have to disagree. I know they dis make things up as they went along, but I think they did it pretty well. The writing and acting are pretty good — though you're right it would've benefited from being cohesively written.

The problem I have is the ending. I hate it, but unlike Game of Thrones I don't hate it in a way I can never watch it again despite the amazing highs.

The drama and situations they put the characters through in BSG are mostly intense and well done. Some of the things feel a bit random without foreshadowing, but life can be that way. Anyway I think the series is well worth watching I just... I wanted the last few episodes to be something very different from what the show runners had in mind.

I agree on lost it got stupid. Battlestar had a full over arching story line though.

I'm in the middle of a BSG rewatch right now, and I still love it.

I can see how someone would say that they weren't sure what they were going to do when they hit season 3. But the first season felt very tight. The miniseries had the cliffhanger that one of the main cast was a cylon. It's hard to argue that the first few episodes didn't build on that cliffhanger.

If you're saying that at the start of the series they didn't know how they were going to end it, sure. There aren't a lot of shows that have a multi-season arc all planned out in advance. Babylon 5 is one of the few I know of that did. The problem is that they never know when they're going to be cancelled, so there's no point in trying to make a huge story arc when they will probably have to end the story early.

As for movies being better, it's true that they can tell a longer story than a TV series. But a 2 hour movie is basically only 3 episodes of a TV show (at 45 minutes + commercials each). Movies suffer because everything has to be introduced and resolved so quickly. The "creative bullshit happening for no reason" is often foreshadowing of something that will only be resolved many episodes later.

i assume you bsg reimagined, he became directionless like the last 2 seasons.

Its lo-fi scifi. Great character development story though

Just as I was reading this, I noticed that as a result of my headphones, I had a hot ear. IYKYK.

OK. It's a French animation studio that wanted to give their show a distinctively European feel. It makes sense that they would pull aesthetic inspiration from European graphic novels.

Disco Elysium is one of the greatest video games ever made, and its aesthetics pull heavily from European graphic novels. It'd be a shame to miss out one either because you feel their art style is inspired by previous works.

If you do decide to watch Arcane, do not binge it. It is meant to be consumed three episodes at a time. My recommendation to anyone reading this is to watch three episodes per day.

Season 2 is rushed jut Season 1 is perfect.

80's Shuiten and Peeter's graphic novels

Those seem to borrow Mœbius' earlier style, which was defining for French and Belgian comics since the seventies. So it's rather ironic of you to say that it's S&P who were ‘ripped off’.

Season 5 has some questionable plot lines though... McNulty's serial killer shenanigans are a little meh

I really wish I could have enjoyed it too. I watched it about 7 years ago maybe, and I don't know if it had just been built up too much (greatest show evarr!!) or if it just wasn't my jam, but I didn't enjoy it. Did watch the whole damn thing, though. Just meh. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It's almost a period piece now, a time capsule of the early 00s. I never could understand the "it's dated" argument, did she watch Chernobyl or Bridgerton or Gladiator?

Ah no! Season 2 is almost the best season and has some of the best acting. Chris Bauer as Frank Sobotka is one of the best performances ever.

It's almost a meme that season 2 is jarring on a first watch but you have to think about The Wire as more than about a gang and the cops but about America, and in some respects, it's about post-industrial western societies and nowhere is that theme more real and visceral as in the dock workers of season 2.

No I am alright. Scrubs Season 8 was the perfect ending. Bittersweet but fulfilling. It would have been a shame if they added another season after that. /s

Hmm, I was hooked from the first second. What did you not like in the first episodes?

Thanks, I'll have to check that one out.

Joss Whedon. The creator.

It came out years later that Joss Whedon was a horrendous, terrible person to Charisma Carpenter and created a toxic environment on Buffy and Angel. Because Whedon had created for himself a sort of nerd worship cult, he got away with it for years and it was only after Justice League that actors there said something, then Charisma Carpenter went public. It's some genuine family trauma-style stuff.

https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/buffy-joss-whedon-charisma-carpenter-sarah-michelle-gellar/