Thankfully we don’t live in that kind of world anymore, where wealthy people would have their own private islands on which to do ghastly things to vulnerable people! [Touches hand to earpiece] I’m being informed that---

While I can see why you would have that reading of the show, I’m not sure what we’ve seen entirely earns that benefit of the doubt. And it would have been nicer to see that character development chronologically, frankly.

I’ve enjoyed it personally, but I was just hoping for a Whedonesque somewhat disposable genre show with a bigger budget than Whedon’s previous endeavours. On that front, it doesn’t disappoint. But mind you I’ve been watching Manifest lately, so my quality control filter is clearly in need of replacement ;)

Yeah those kinda made sense if you assume Amelia is just from a more technologically advanced alien culture, but the most obvious explanation was always time travel.

Yeah, and Zephyr has the advantage of being an existing name that sounds pretty sci-fi, so that’s what I assumed despite watching sans subtitles.

There was a flash of the religious zealot villain guy during that voiceover, and they need a villain, so I’m guessing he came through at very least. I’d put good money on more than one though, classic genre schtick.

Which makes sense, Black’s North American accent is largely believable, and certainly feels natural, while Donnelly’s is uhh rather less so on both counts. (I blame the posh schools U.K. actors all seem to have gone to, maybe ruined by rigorous Received Pronunciation indoctrination; whatever the cause, Australians…

So, to all who had “Amalia is a time traveler, duh” on your The Nevers bingo board, congratulations!

I get where you’re coming from with the framing here, and in a vacuum I’d agree; it’s disheartening and unsettling how Rogen has handled things. But from someone who constantly talks about American politics (including here) and is writing here about sexual misconduct allegations, yet from my recollection has never…

I always reckoned Marti Noxon was a huge part of Buffy considering the huge tonal and thematic shifts in the second season, but it really drove it home when I watched the first season of UnREAL and it was like "damn this show depicting a fictional reality-TV show has a shockingly similar vibe to Buffy seasons 2 and 6…

He should just move to Canada, we’re on a full retreat from #MeToo after our Prime Minister’s gender-balanced cabinet turned out to include some women willing to actually go against the party line and thus were tossed out (in one case of the party entirely), and as we frantically try to downplay sexual misconduct by…

Well hey maybe the rights are tangled in that way they often are, and Warren Ellis wouldn't actually see any money from a Transmetropolitan adaptation? (Certainly in retrospect I'm glad I pirated the series, heh.)

Eh, worrying about spoilers is overrated.

They *have* to each have a different personality, right? Kinda leaving story and comedy money on the table otherwise.

I dunno, so much of what has made The Expanse great to look at has been the extensive practical sets. I can see that tech working for selling Laconia—you can build the palace interior sets and then use those screens for selling the cityscape around it—but it’s no replacement for ship interiors.

Was not expecting the solution to The Cas Anvar Problem to be them giving him Fred’s fate in the books, although I guess I should have seen that coming when they surprisingly killed Fred off so early in the season.

I really hope you’re right. They’ll have to eat the cost of keeping the Roci as a standing set while not actually in production, but with TV production wonky currently anyways maybe that’s more tenable . . .

More “I had strong feelings about it at the time, and those feelings were reinforced upon subsequent rewatches, but I now haven’t seen it in at least a decade so I can’t speak to specifics”, heh. I do hope that my reading of it somehow flips to yours when I eventually rewatch it.

Is David E. Kelley going to try to cast every great character actor on the planet? It’s like watching a show by

In many ways Into The Badlands meets this criteria; post-apocalyptic to the point at which a whole new society now exists, and we start out by following a wire-fu practicing, sword-wielding head of enforcing the laws of the regime, who rides a motorcycle rather than a horse.