Wake me up when I can fly into space dressed like a hatless cowboy, and my copilot is naked except for an ammo belt.

More than the specific story and characters, which are great, what stands out to me about The Expanse above all its recent sci-fi peers is the world-building. This feels like a living universe that has a thousand stories to tell. Most recent space shows have little of that, they seem to only need to choose what to…

Yes. Indeed they did!

Ah, the good old days. When Nazis hid, and needed to be hunted. Instead of, you know, being readily accessible via their YouTUBE channels.

Thing is that they did. From the link that you linked:

Your idea: guaranteed way better than whatever the hell Amazon is planning.

Fan Wank was the monkey-faced guy with the crazy eyebrows, right?

I can’t wait for this! It looks like a team-up between The Joker, Professor X, King Kong and Cheetara!

Called it. :-(

They made a big show of throwing out the EU, but have gone to dip in that well many many times since. They just wanted the option of taking what they needed without the burden of sticking to the whole canon. Given how fast they want to be churning out Star Wars content, it’s not surprising that most of what we’ve seen…

See also “last”.

Yep. I miss Manhattan.

I guess he won’t be performing any honorary surgery in a while!

I’d been wracking my brains trying to figure out if that Flash character was Katee Sackhoff. Obviously not hard enough to look it up but still, I figured it was either her or someone from another planet who’d read about what an English accent sounded like, but never heard one.

That twist was one of the better ideas. But this is a Star Wars movie that literally ends with a kid playing with action figures. That’s pretty much the equivalent of a runner doing a twerking victory dance ten yards from the end while everyone else crosses the finish line.

I mostly enjoyed TLJ on first viewing but on reflection, it seems sort of a smug, lecturing movie - more invested in meta-commentary about Star Wars as a phenomenon than any story it had to tell. Far from expanding the Star Wars universe, it felt like everything had shrunk down to a few main characters, isolated from…

Yeah I don’t really regard canon as being... canon.

Not at all. But if you’re an asshole and want to make art, you should be made to suffer for it. Win-win.

I remember BSG, great show! What ever happened to that?

There’s a phrase by the great Dorothy Dunnett that always stuck with me to describe a certain type of self-righteous person: “he’s innocent to all things, including kindness”