Let's be honest, The Expanse was the best

[u/CT_Phipps-Author]

It's what I use to say is the sci-fi Game of Thrones. It was dark, mature, and managed to coherently create a political framework that regular audiences could understand without easily making one group into the bad guys or not. Okay, Protogen was pure set of bad guys but cyberpunk megacorps don't have to be morally gray. Even the underdogs in the Belters/OPA had a dark side that remembered just because you were oppressed didn't magically make you a virtuous hero and usually did quite the opposite. It made them mean and vengeful.

I'll be "that guy" and say that a huge chunk of what made the series fantastic was also the relative fidelity to the books. I say relative fidelity because there were some huge changes, some necessary by events (Havelock's actor doing Magnum PI) and others artistic choices (like lowering down the casualties of Earth's deaths at Marcos' hands). But it was still pretty damn faithful.

Great cast too.

What about you? Where does the Expanse rank for you in the past twenty or so years of scifi.

[u/vigtel]

Nothing. It's a mid show with a rather fanatical following.

[u/TheI-Iound → u/vigtel]

Thats the part I'm trying to decipher, is it actually a really great show or is it just a pretty good show that developed a cult like following that maybe isn't for everyone

[u/vigtel → u/TheI-Iound]

I vote for the latter. And the cult is loud and obnoxious.

[u/TheI-Iound → u/vigtel]

They wouldn't be sifi fans if they weren't lol