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So on the basis of a blog post written by Howard Tayler (of Writing Excuses), I took the leap and bought S1 of SyFy's The Expanse series last night on Amazon, and I am loving it so far. Made it through 5 episodes before I had to get to sleep, but wanted to keep going. I'll finish it tonight.
It's a very cool premise. Set 200 years in the future, humanity has colonized Mars and Ceres, with various posts and stations scattered throughout the solar system on/around asteroids and moons. Mars and Earth are often at odds, even on the brink of war, whereas "Belters" who live and work in the asteroid belt form a third player, and their primary base is Ceres. The "OPA," or "Outer Planets Alliance" is a part-civil rights and part-terrorist organization within the Belter society.
The episodes start out a little slow as the scene and principle players are set, but they gradually build from episode to episode. It's not an episodic serial format so much as a unified story drawn out over eight episodes that takes time to tell. The special effects are very good for a Syfy (or any) television series, and the tech is for the most part very believable. (A ship suffering malfunctions in the outer solar system is likely to end in tragedy, because of the precarious nature of travel in the .... expanse.)
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