Decent show. Producers made a mistake releasing 4 episodes online? Ratings are in the tank and now their are rumors of cancelation
>>64125127
SyFy doesn't know know they have a good show on their hands even if Scorscese handed them his lifetime achievement oscar and said they made some good shit
SyFy would just be like 'eh, we dunno. let's renew HELIX instead'
I just finished watching the first four. I liked it. I hope it doesn't get cancelled.
>>64125127
so when will they release episode 5?
>>64125127
I told /tv/ but everyone was like "naw dude" and I was like "but the shows released weeks, up to a month BEFORE they aired on TV" and they are like "naw dude".
It is fucking bullshit. I've never seen such a convoluted release schedule. They even removed the dates the online stuff was released on the wiki to make it look less fucked up.
I swear, someone somewhere is doing this on purpose just to make it fail.
well the fact that /tv/ barely talks about it is very telling in itself. :/
>>64126439
It will take weeks before TFA shitstorm slows down. I posted this just to see if /tv could even pause for a second between jew posting.
Saw the first episode and it was typical syfy garbage. You have no taste whatsoever.
>>64125127
I watched it and didn't like it.
>>64125751
Jan 5. I think they really fucked the release dates trying to capitalize on TFA.
>>64125747
I think people that don't finish the first four would probably tune out.
>>64126973
The 1st episode is the worst I think. It, like 99% of pilot episodes tries to pander to everyone and really "hook" you. they are typically the most extensively planned out episode of an entire serious apart from the last episode. I too almost didn't watch anymore, but I did because well I don't have a life.
Thankfully, the rest of it outshines the pilot.
Only 600k people watched the 3rd episode. Without a miracle it's done.
>premiering a show when people are busy with the holidays
>premiering a space show around Star Wars
The ratings aren't terrible
Except for in the sense that ALL SyFy ratings are now terrible.
A few years ago Battlestar Galactica, Eureka and Warehouse 13 could regularly pull in three million viewers.
>>64127002
Supernatural's final episode is "January 20, 2016" and the second to last one that was last aired was released on "December 9, 2015" which is a crazy weird way of doing things.
>>64127282
They are counting online and TV viewing, but torrents were in the 400k mark for the 1st episode a month before it aired on TV. A MONTH
>>64127318
They should have just fucking released it on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP-MbfHFUqs
>>64127282
most shows end their seasons before the holidays for a reason, but not Syfy
>>64127327
Their online system is fucking shit, so despite it being viewable on their site people went elsewhere.
>>64125127
This show is easily one of the best shows of the year. I hope Scy fy doesn`t ruin it.
>>64127327
>Supernatural's final episode
>>64127419
I got it from KAT first, but at least I've check it out on their site a few times.
>>64127451
Of the season you dolt.
>>64127318
>pic
Damn, so much shit I tried hard to watch but couldn't. How does SyFy make such shitty stuff in my favorite god damn genre?
>>64127217
I read a few of the books before the show was announced. Poor schmuks like me probably make up the majority of those ratings. I do like the show for the most part. The casting is mostly hit instead of miss. Plot changes are not too rage inducing.
>>64125127
I hope the rumors are true. No one yet ITT has provided any reason to watch the show. All of the pro-Expanse posts are literally "I liked it because I'm better than you".
lol. Good luck, The Expanse. I hope you fucking get canceled immediately and I hope it makes the participants ITT cry.
>>64127282
Spot on.
>>64127625
>The casting is mostly hit instead of miss.
I was glad when that first ship blew up. It seems like just the right actors/actresses have been dying.
>>64127627
Is this copy-pasta?
>No one yet ITT has provided any reason to watch the show.
It is sci-fi, you either watch it or you don't. That is up to you.
>All of the pro-Expanse posts are literally "I liked it because I'm better than you".
I've never really seen that. Its been mostly arguing about the sex scenes plebbing out the 1st episode.
>Good luck, The Expanse. I hope you fucking get canceled immediately
I'm sure it will.
>I hope it makes the participants ITT cry.
I'm sure it won't, but whatever gets you through the day is okay I suppose.
>>64127627
What do you want to hear? The show has a good setting and a nice pool of characters. There's not much tension in the first 4 episodes as it was in BSG, but you can see some nice plots started to unfold.
I liked the three main characters, although they don't feel much real.
I'd say watch it for the universe and what it might become. Or go fuck yourself, that works too.
>>64127811
Judging by the books, plot and characters start to tighten up after ep4
>>64128487
Good to know. Now what to do for a week and a half....
>>64128744
Spend all day bitching about StarWars like everyone else.
>>64128914
I haven't seen it yet.
>>64127451
>that guy doing duckface
jesus...
>>64129075
I was suggesting /tv threads.
>>64125127
SyFy invested 50 million into this show, and all their credibility is relying on it. They're going to give it two seasons regardless of ratings
Did you guys know George R.R. Martin thinks this show is good? Probably means the show is good desu
>>64125127
only ep 4 was good
earth mother is great
belter shit is a chore
>>64130817
Belter's are fine, nice IRA vibes, what's your problem?
>>64125127
>nobody Ive talked to enjoys the show because some parts are silly (muh airlock) and because the dialog for some reason is excessively mumbly and difficult to understand unless you turn it up so loud that the background noise makes your ears bleed
Meh. Its good for something from syfy channel, but its not very great
>>64130982
no offense mate, but sounds like everyone you talk to is an ADHD moron
>>64130982
I've heard complaints about the audio from day one. Pretty shitty mistake with their budget.
>>64130914
Belters=IRA. Did not think of that one.
The books are pretty awesome scifi but I haven't watched the show
>>64130523
>50 mil
wat
Man they're really gunning for that next BSG
I liked Ascension tho, had potential
If there's one thing I like about this show is that there's no pointless drama. The characters have goals and clear motivations, no one is just being a cunt for the sake of it.
Compare this to fucking childhoods end, where 75% of the time was spent on cliche drama that had nothing to do with the plot at all.
It's a good show and they're doing a decent job of sticking to the source.
Four eps early may have been too many though.
>>64131927
>had potential
It got axed?
>>64125550
Figures. This is the first good show syfy has had ever had. I was really getting into it.
>>64127542it's a shit genre
>>64131797
Fucks sake. Go download the show from their site.
>>64131808
Probably referencing this.
http://geekritique.net/2015/10/09/the-expanse-pilot-episode-review/
10 episodes at $5 million per episode.
On one hand, that does sound pretty bad
On the other hand fucking Supergirl is $14 million per episode, WHAT is that money being spent on?
>>64132396
Well that is the end of Science Fiction. Thanks for the update. Sorry for the spoiler.
>>64125801
>I swear, someone somewhere is doing this on purpose just to make it fail.
Comcast released eps3 & 4 before ep2 was shown.
oh man, the books are fucking excellent. i really want to watch this but i want to wait until all the episodes are available. i'll be sad if it gets cancelled, even if it's not that great. it can't be worse than dark matter, right?
>>64132560
>WHAT is that money being spent on?
I never watched the show. Seriously, what is that being spent on?
>>64132653
Non-book pleb here.
I'm enjoying Holden's storyline with the space opera pew-pew "OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE" conspiracy story
I'm enjoying Miller's "fucking awful cop with a heart of gold" story
Every time this old Indian bitch starts talking politics my fucking eyes glaze over
>>64130914
its slow and it drags. most of the time is spent on painting the belters instead of going on with the story and letting the world paint itself
>>64132713
Producers are in this zone where they don't even know what people want...in terms of delivery, not content.
How would they know that some people want to watch the show when the season is finished, so you, and others can binge watch. Well that is their problem to deal with.
>>64132735
On this high quality CGI and choreography, obviously :^)
>tfw no belter whore 7 foot fall gf
>>64132802
I'm sure you might have heard this before. The old Indian bitch is one of the best characters, if the show was not meant for pg 13. She is a salty foul mouthed asshole..with a heart of gold.
>>64132560
>WHAT is that money being spent on?
Licensing rights.
>>64132993
>>64132802
>Every time this old Indian bitch starts talking politics my fucking eyes glaze over
I think she has the voice of an angel. If you don't like her, I'm pretty sure her storyline gets the least airtime overall.
>>64132993
>ywn break her weak belter pelvis during earth gravity sex
>>64132923
That was pretty decent for TV. Why didn't they spend like 3 grand on teaching the girl how to throw a punch?
>>64133155
That's why you only do it in the tank.
>>64133168
The joke is that Supergirl can't fight in-universe
>>64127419
Fucking this, I tried with every goddamned browser I could throw at it before just giving up and torrenting the damn thing.
I at least watched it on Youtube when they released ep 1 there. But still I don't think could have put up a shitty web player if they tried...wait no I'm sure somone still has an old RealMedia player around they could try and use.
if this gets canceled, how are the books?
>>64133446
Almost every channel is like this. I recall Showtime has a friggin atrocious web viewer, too
>>64133476
Books are solid up to 3. It flounders a bit at 4, but 5 is a step back in the right direction
>>64133556
>Books are solid up to 3. It flounders a bit at 4, but 5 is a step back in the right direction
What anon said. Books are solid if you want to get over fantasy sci fi. Writing skills are good. Story gets a bit wacky after book 4. 12 books r scheduled.
>>64133556
>>64133710
Book 4 should have almost stepped back and ran with a different crew for a bit. Otherwise it starts to seem like these guys are protected by some serious plot armor.
Haven't read book 5 yet (it's on my New Years pile) but hopefully the bad-ass Martian gunnery sergeant shows up again. She was fun.
>>64133082
OH GEWD THE FUCK IS THAT THING!!!
>>64127318
Renewing Dark matter and killjoys while canceling defiance. They are literately retarded as fuck, those shows are fucking terrible.
>>64133965
I fucked up my book numbers. Bobby does come back. That bitch be my favorite character these days.
>>64134100
I barely come to this fucking hell hole anymore and I know that skeltal bitch. Why u not image search?
>>64132560
>10 episodes at $5 million per episode.
How much does an episode of Dark Matter cost? Just for comparison purposes.Actually so we can point and laugh.
>>64135027
The showrunner is being quite tight-lipped
>>64133082
fucking kek
Quality fucking post anon
>>64132396
I charge you to name 1 good genre.
>>64127318
why did they cancel Warehouse 13? it was great for ratings and looked like it must have cost $100 per episode
>>64133114
>I think she has the voice of an angel
One that's been smoking cigarettes for 30+ years?
>>64135415
SyFy never lets anything go past season 5 anymore because television union rules mean mandatory pay raises for contracted actors
That's also why you see "Season 5.1" and "Season 5.2" shit like Breaking Bad did
>>64135189
i see he's still trying to hide the fact that he's paying for the whole thing with loose change he found in his sofa
>>64135482
Jodelle accepts payments in pie
>>64135189
Splain for plebs.
Do it!
>>64135482
I figured it was Canadian tyre money.
>Finally a good TV series
>never stood a chance
>Game of Eyebrows and The Walking Cucks continue to blown everything away
>>64125127
Should've found a home in Netflix or Amazon. Think about it. Any show with that stupid Syfy label on the screen, no one is going to watch it. Syfy has to be one of the biggest failure on cable television.
>>64125127
As long as Syfy plays it up to being politically correct for kids, and Moms with too many commercials Syfy remains a waste of time.
Syfy can't compete with the internet where there is less commercials, and less PG parenting control.
Why the fuck have HBO not done a proper sci-fi yet? Are people still plebbing out over GOT?
>this show will never get a hbo proper budget
>>64136326
>>64136326
>its coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8HNuRLIBI
>>64136326
HBO learned from Gen Kill.
People having sex makes money. Equipment and sets cost money.
>>64136156
SyFy were willing to offer the most money apparently.
>>64136377
tfw no Yul Brynner.
>>64136526
>Cant crew in the blew
>Martians in the Orange
>This was the last time they spoke as friends
>>64136377
That has an element of science fiction. It is also the 13th floor in a Western setting.
HBO doing a show like Star Trek Deep Space Nine/Expanse with tits and ass would be the best serialize sci-fi show of all time.
>>64136526
They should have taken it from SyFy then. Worst decision they made.
>>64135641
cream pie, the dirty slut.
>>64134217
defiance was shit tier. they ran out of story 2 seasons ago
>>64136635
The Song of Ice and Fire series was very popular in preftigious white collar circles when HBO decided to do the tv adaptation. Is there any science fiction series with enough prestige and social cachet to warrant that kind of attention?
>>64132143
Yeah, just when things got interesting. Shame
>>64135428
>One that's been smoking cigarettes for 30+ years?
A beautiful tar filled angel.
>>64136799
Honorverse or Bolo series?
>>64133246
isn't this misogyny? how is it allowed
>>64136721
Shut up
Jodelle is pure
PURE
>>64136799
Hammers' Slammers
>>64136834
it was matrix ending tier
>>64136156
>Syfy has to be one of the biggest failure on cable television.
So much truth in that. Syfy literally makes cheap shows they know will tank. Syfy is stuck in a loop lying to advertisers about the percentage of viewers, and their projected expected audience numbers for new shows that are DOA, out of the box.
Syfy remains decreasing in value but remains barely covering the cost of low production.
Imagine a prostitute with a physical deformity offering to give you a hand job below whatever every one else on the street charges - welcome to Syfy, the cheapest whore on the block.
>>64133114
>>64136908
Id fuck her and id love her to grovel like hell.
>>64137054
Who the fuck is that guy?
>>64137020
>So much truth in that. Syfy literally makes cheap shows they know will tank. Syfy is stuck in a loop lying to advertisers about the percentage of viewers, and their projected expected audience numbers for new shows that are DOA, out of the box.
Ascension and The Expanse are hardly cheap shows though.
Dark Matter was cheap as fuck and has been renewed.
>>64125127
>Good story
>nice sets
>looks expensive
>decent acting (not atrocious at least)
>almost everything that people like.
Yes It is going to get cancelled.
>>64137260
It seems weird that syfy develop both these kinds of shows and yet keeps them under the same brand.
>>64137355
They certainly have an image problem.
>>64137020
syfy/scifi has always been cheap. the biggest difference that i can see, without looking at the budget and viewership numbers, is a change in the tone of their shows. Scifi used to put out comfy shows that were cheap and sort of corny but had broad appeal and likable d-list actors. My uncle liked to watch the Stargate shows with his young sons. Syfy, by contrast, puts out dark edgy shows that are too cheap to pull of dark or edgy, or goofy totally unserious shows like Warehouse 13. It's like they ditched the show template that had broad appeal for two templates each of which had less than half the appeal of the old template.
>>64137020
>See Fee
>>64133168
>pretty decent for TV
>literally all her punches and every punch from anyone in that show never hits the target
>they're too lazy to edit it to make it look like it made contact with the opposing party
>everyone who is "punched" or "kicked" gets forceblasted away from their opponent
Arrow and Flash have better choreography -AND- CGI on a network with a fraction of the budget. And the views for both of those rival supergirls, and they have a fraction of the viewerbase.
Have you seen Red Tornado? The literal fucking robot? In the supergirl TV series he's a man in a plastic and cloth suit. They also shilled the fuck out of /co/ when the J'onn episode aired claiming that a horrid CGI Martian Manhunter suddenly undid all the wrongs of the series and that everyone should pick it up.
If the show was on literally any other network (except the CW who could have actually saved it) it would have been canceled after the third episode.
>>64137669
>>64137435
That is one way to look at it, but the important fact to remember is Syfy like any business, or hollywood movie production company goes by a strict code of numbers, and survey data which point for point determines what every show has to have a certain percentage of for whatever is popular in entertainment at the time.
Zombies? Check. Angry teens? Check.
Don't think that any of it is random. They supply numbers to everything they do, and like any broken machine when it has to offer imaginative innovation Syfy simply can't. They do not have the kind of talented group with vision to keep viewers interested.
So, they offer ideas always based on half niche, half open, never too solid, because if they sell a story that is too certain, too specific it makes for a hard product to sell.
Syfy is, stuck in a loop selling half-baked ideas to a "general" audiences that have outgrown that kind of entertainment.
Syfy starts out with low goals, to sell a marketable pleasing product that is doomed.
>>64137669
Those are shows on TV? I really need to stop reading books.
>>64137834
Yes. Arrow has fucking fantastic fight scenes, and if you can handle felicity, it's actually a really good show.
Flash is fucking fantastic and blows Arrow out of the water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwuu5dgwA4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSYgdHd0W8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwdz7ilaINY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXl2rqabsg
>>64138087
I've never watched Arrow but Felicity looks ultra super cute in the pics and webms
Why does everyone hate her
>>64138186
Because, I shit you not, Tumblr literally forced the show writers to pair her and Oliver together instead of him and Laurel. She's a mary sue of the highest caliber and always does stupid shit that gets everyone in trouble.
She's honestly not all that bad, but she has her moments of "Please just die already".
And spoilers,she gets shot up hardcore in the midseason finale of S4. If you've ever read batman and know that Babs becomes Oracle, she essentially is Oracle now. They're trying to hint that she's dead, but it's most likely going to be an asspull where she's just crippled and in hiding, and Oliver tells the city that she's been killed so Dhark fucks off, since literally everyone else on the team can take care of themselves.
>>64138087
>>64137834
>this is great
Jesus fuck. Arrow is terrible. Flash is terrible. Supergirl is....is...........FUCK. I can't even fathom why people like any of this headache inducing shit.
>>64138087
Why is Loki there?
>>64138392
Never said those things were great. I got tired of superhero shit long ago.
>>64138414
That's Vandal Savage. He's quite a big villain in the DCverse, up there next to Lex Luthor.
That video was more meant to show the special effects on flash than the actual fighting quality of Arrow.
>>64138392
To each his own. I can understand why you might not like it, but I really do enjoy it. Supergirl is flat out trash though. Fuck that shit.
>>64138588
My bad. Sorry.
>>64125127
>boot
Yes. It lacks waifus
>>64138588
Not used to seeing reasonable posts and apologies.
End is Nigh mother fuckers.
What's it like to still watch TV with 2016 literally days away?
>>64138643
I respectfully disagree.
>>64138725
Lonely T_T
>>64138643
Waifu is floatin in space right in front of you. Wut your problem?
>>64138725
If you aren't livewatching your favorite shows with 4chan, it's pretty shit. Talkback threads are some of the best threads on 4chan, unless the fanbase is so autistic that they last more than a night.
Best Sci-Fi of any channel in quite a while
Hope it lasts
>>64138643
>>64138840
Fuckin...yeah. She pretty good.
>>64138318
Fuck they really wanted to make a fucking batman show didn't they?
>>64139069
Yes, yes they did. Gotham isn't bad though.
Wait for Bobbie Waifu.
Objectively better series. Pic related.
>>64139101
>Gotham isn't bad though.B A L L O O N M A N
>>64139168
Sci-fi for thehomeless.
Who high test here?
>>64139321
>can tell shes an ex-fatty
makes me hard as diamonds
>>64139321
She was pretty chubby when she younger certainly. Don't see much wrong with her now though.
>>64139347
>can tell shes an ex-fatty
Well that's a specific fetish.
>>64139383
same thing as ex-tom boy. they know how to femme it up without going over slut cliff.
>>64139168
I'll try it out. I'm one of those book fags for expanse though.
>>64139383
File name is weirdly accurate.
>>64138725
I like watching things on TV because I enjoy it more knowing other people out there are watching it with me at the same time
>>64139347
>>64139356
>fat
>chubby
Pics?
>>64139551
>>64139551
There are videos of her on a Canadian x-factor style competition when she was younger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Bjn1unS2Y
>>64139638
Look at those biceps!
>>64139356
Damn...the actors need to hold the weapons like they were trained to.
Meh.
>>64139168
Shit no. Firefly without the charm.
>>64139764
Kek. Waah? Really?
I got had.
>>64139801
Found the pleb.
>>64139638
Kek'd. Here you go
>>64136799
Dune (provided they a decent fucking writer/director)
The Uplift Wars
Transmetropolitan (Stanley Tucci as Spider Jerusalem?)
Beggars In Spain
The Quiet War
The Sprawl Trilogy
>>64140325
Would love to see an uplift trilogy (the second trilogy would be much harder to do) series. However, I can't imagine a world where it doesn't end up being trash.
>>64140724
When I firsted started reading Expanse...I could tell it was being written for TV. I got the same feeling when I read the Martian.
I think writers are shaping novels to film these days.
The old Sci Fi books are a hard slog, trying to adapt when the new ones are ready baked.
>>64140325
>Stanley Tucci as Spider Jerusalem?
That's... a damn fine idea. Now I'm bummed I didn't think of it first. Always thought it'd be a Sam Rockwell part.
>>64140947
>Spider Jerusalem
Googling
>>64139347
I remember seeing the lead singer of Evanescence described as "a woman who used to be fat and will be fat again in the future" and it's weird how you kind of can perceive that in somebody
>>64139215
>>64132050
>decent job
>indian UN chick is torturing people
>Miller's partner is spiked to wall
>Gay couple thrown in just for fun
>Characters that are in the far end of the book already introduced
>Wasted chance of making the Ceres rebellion have an actual impact by skipping the dude killing the martian chick in the middle of the street
>other stuff
That being said, show's great, I just hope they go the right path with the protomolecule cause I got the vibe that the ship boarders on the martian battleship were being hinted at as some sort of super-soldiers or something. Flight mechanics are good, ship design is good, Holden looks like a little kid, but whatever, and Jane could carry the show if they do it right.
Also Mormons. So glad they kept the Mormons.
>>64140947
Thank you. My first thought for the role was Steven Ogg after hearing his voice and the way he spoke on GTA V, but he doesn't have the right look for the role. Stanley Tucci, however, is the only person who I felt could find a way to pull off both with a little bit of work. Sam Rockwell never did come to mind for the role; his style's a little too...ce la ve in my eyes, but then again I haven't seen his entire catalogue of works.
>>64125127
>we've gone too far
Mom's gonna freak!!!
>>64140876
I always thought this read like a novelization of a movie that was never made
And like a really crazy retarded Keanu Reeves as Johnny Mnemonic tier movie at that
>supersonic cyborg dogs
>a psychotic Eskimo biker with a nuclear weapon armed motorcycle (holy shit that guy is LITERALLY Jason Momoa isn't he?)
>an aircraft carrier converted into a rich asshole's yacht/cult headquarters
>an exact prophetic vision of the game Second Life compete with the amount of custom made dick DLC
>the Sicilian Mafia running a pizza franchise with rocket powered delivery cars and a "30 minutes or we kill the delivery guy" guarantee
>Reason, the gun that makes Jesse Ventura's baby in Predator look like a pellet rifle
>>64127318
I'm so glad 12 Monkeys is still around. The main girl is cute as fuck.
>>64139274
Why Alex can't keep a southern drawl is beyond me. This guy can't figure out what accent he is trying to reproduce and when.
>>64127318
>demographic
>18-49
Good god, their statistics/marketing team trying a little too hard to convince their sponsors and shareholders that they still have relevance.
>>64141144
Not as funny as when he attaches a balloon to the cop.Who is literally carrying a gun. But he doesn't do anything.
>>64127318
Z Nation is the most underrated show on television because it objectively looks like a 0/10 flaming garbage pile
But in reality it's a straight up intentional comedy broken up by occasional moments with real heart in them
>stargate ded
>BSG ded
>firefly ded
>all new space scifi cancelled after 1 season
>>64141048
well their body lines are slightly flattened / kinda deflated fromt he wight loss. and they have husky musculature built up from carrying all that weight. extra weight messes with your body man. you can also tell when they are at max fat potential. the skin's nicely taught and supple and give off the packed sausage effect, effectively still "in shape". then you get the upper arm bulge then things get wobbly. its pretty much the point where white fat out masses the brown fat.
>>64141230
>ce la ve
C'est la vie. Also, it means "that's (or it's) life", how does that apply as an adjective to an actor?
As for Jerusalem, you need equal parts wit, crazy and bite and Rockwell's got it. Check out Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Matchstick Men/Seven Psychopats.
>>64141540
I assume he meant Jenny Say Kwah
>>64141414
nice triple 14s
>>64141442
when ever i watch it i think of dead rising. then suddenly out of nowhere things get a little too intense for such a goofy show.
>>64141540
Anon might have meant "Joie de vivre" or "je ne sais quoi"
>>64141540
Shit I thought I misspelled that phrase. My bad.
To me, at least some of the films with the exception of two, he seems to have this air of aloofness and chill radiate from him. Moon and The Green Mile are the two exceptions from what I've seen of his range. I'm just not sure if he can play that tense, focused, and surreal rage that emanates from every waking moment of SJ's existence. Plus I don't know if he could pull off the bald maniacal eye'd look.
>>64141587
Great, now I'm gonna start using that ironically. Somebody shoot me please.
>>64141647
>>64141587
Yes I am a dumbass.
>>64141714
say lovey
>>64141589
Shit nigger. You had that loaded and ready to go.
I is impressed
I hope it doesn't get the ax.
>>64141696
Yeah, Moon and Hitchhiker, his 2 best known big roles aren't the best examples. He's also played a ton of low-lifes (lives? kek) for some reason. Confessions tho proves it afaic.
Wasn't it SyFy that showed its hand of how desperate they were for viewers and free intellectual property to exploit by announcing they were greenlighting a user-submitted anthology series? Was supposed to be user-submitted prompts and creepy pasta, which would enter into a voting phase, and end product would be two-three episode arcs or something.
Whatever happened to that?
>>64141793
That scene was the shit!
>>64141831
Hmm. So it's down to Stanley Tucci and Sam Rockwell for SJ. What about the supporting cast? And who would the writer and director be? Taylor sheridan and Terry Gilliam?
>>64141852
it has precedence
>>64140325
>Transmetropolitan
So happy that Warren Ellis, for the next decade or two, will never be hard up for money enough to sell this IP off to be butchered by HBO or receive the Jodo treatment by SyFy.
Still bummed that nothing came of the Global Frequency pilot, had a pretty fair treatment and a fantastic handler. John Rogers definitely gave TNT a lot of bang for their buck with Leverage.
>will never get to coat my walls with twenty coats of jizz from a good visual medium portrayal of a memetic attack
Pontypool was nice and all, but higher concept zombie is nowhere near as fun as intellect without consciousness or some other form of intellect alien to our understanding.
>>64141852
Wouldn't have surprised me that they did something like that. Way back in the day they used to have a show that was nothing but short films. Some of that shit was amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk
>>64142270
Cable companies in the US have been a fucking joke for many years. They all scramble around looking for dollars. ESPN is in a nose dive and they don't have poker fans to rely on anymore.
I don't know why SyFy took the risk to spend money on new shows. I tried watching a few and lost interest. I like this one though. I hope it sticks. If not, we can start a show on the channel about professional long distance gamers.
>>64142414
I don't think the mainstream media is ready for shows and films that deal with memetic hazards and warfare like the B.L.I.T. Crazy considering shit like that could in fact be made today with just a little ingenuity and financial backing.
What we need is a tried and true writer of Hard Sci-Fi and graphic novels to contract out to HBO or AMC and create an original work.
>>64141358
in the books most of the time he doesn't really have a draw, but he hams it up to make a point or fuck around
>>64141269
I never got the television vibe from that book, but it was very satirical pop cult.
Would love to see a miniseries adaptation of The Diamond Age, however. HBO would have to do it because of theNECESSARY underwater fuck bubble computation
>>64125127
Some friends recommended the series to me, so I powered through Leviathan Wakes last week and caught up on the show.
I enjoyed the first half of the book. The world is really interesting with some neat situations and politics that make a good use of the setting. And the characters where fun, and had really good bants with each other. A good bunch of people to fly around the solar system with.
Then the second half of the book happened and dumped that all down the drain for some hollywood action nonsense. Incredibly disappointing.
Unfortunately, the show's writers decided to add some drama between the crew members that wasn't in the book. In the novel,they all know each other quite well from the start, and immediately elect Holden as leader after the Cant is destroyed.I think the new drama is to try and flush out the characters to the audience more, seeing as there is no internal monologue. I also am not a fan of Miller's style in the show, but that might just be a personal thing. I imagined him as an older, no-time-for-bullshit cop. Instead we get some self-righteous prick in a fedora and vest.
Luckily the visuals have been really strong. They've cut a lot of the zero-G scenes for obvious reasons, and I'm okay with that. I wish they had pushed the absolute shock of hi-G maneuvers more though. No-one feels like their testes are being pushed up their throat like in the book.
7/10 It's okay.
>>64142878
I agree with you on the majority. I've read the books and I know Millers story line. I kinda like what Jane is doing with the character. It will only make sense later on.
Book fag here, and I've been following the show for a while before it started.
I don't think they'll ax it after this season. Syfy is banking on this turning into GoT in space. They can't do that unless they're willing to invest some time into developing the show beyond 1 season.
And while ratings might be in the garbage, critically it's doing well. I'd give it another season.Did anyone else notice that 'Earth getting fucked by asteroid' foreshadowing they did with Chrisjen Avasarala's kid?
>>64138643
>Yes. It lacks waifus
He obviously hasn't seen Captain /Shaddid/
>>64138643
Just wait for Bobbi
New strongfu coming through
>>64143414>Did anyone else notice that 'Earth getting fucked by asteroid' foreshadowing they did with Chrisjen Avasarala's kid?
I think that dialogue would have gone over most people's heads, unless you're familiar with the concept of kinetic bombing. In which case it was painfully obvious.
I've only read LW, but I can assume earth gets dropped at some point.
>>64143591Yeah, in Nemesis Games. They also alluded to Naomi's kid in the show, who is also introduced in Nemesis Games.
>>64143637Are the further books worth reading? Are they more action or politics?
3 posts blacked out in a row? Are you summoning spiderman?
>>64143719They're all pretty good. Fun popcorn entertainment in book form. Each book has a huge OH SHIT moment in them, save Cibola Burn. They keep building the moments of catastrophic events to the point where I wonder what they can do next. Cibola Burn is kind of annoying cause the crew starts acting all self-righteous when they don't get their way, but Nemesis Games breaks that all down and makes them have flaws, which I love.
>>64143414
>>64143591>unless you're familiar with the concept of kinetic bombing
>>64143789
>Are you summoning spiderman?
Spiderman thread?
>>64143850The epilogue of Nemesis Games is more alien oriented, so I don't think we'll have OPA terrorist attacks like in the last book.
>>64143886
I started this thread. I am now summoning spiderman. It is my responsability
>>64143975
If you're sure...
I haven't read the books and this show is great. stoked for later episodes.
also the chick who plays missing rich girl looks she would be great for chell from portal if they make an adaptation.
>>64131974
>The characters have goals and clear motivations, no one is just being a cunt for the sake of it.
Not to derail this thread (I've never seen the show, but I do have the opening credits of episode 1 paused right now as I type this, I'll start watching it in a moment) but I've never understood the criticism of fiction. If there's one thing I've learned in life it's that people do things that make no sense to others or even to themselves all the time. Not everyone has motivations that can be expressed to or determined by another person. Oftentimes people are just assholes for no real reason other than the fact that they can be without immediate consequence. Sometimes people who are always doing dumb things will even surprise you by making clear well reasoned and well communicated rational decisions every once in a while and vice-a-versa.
Now, I realize that reality and good storytelling can be orthogonal, so having characters start drama and/or do dumb things, while potentially realistic, isn't necessarily good for the enjoyment of the audience. But unless the illogical drama characters cause has zero effect on the plot then it just doesn't make sense to me to complain about it. If people always did what made the most sense then interesting things would rarely happen.
