The Expanse || SyFy

4th season was excellent. This show never should've been on the chopping block at Syfy. It's gotten a new lease on life at Amazon. Easily some of the best quality TV I've seen this year.

Imagine being so rich that when your favorite show gets cancelled you can get your company to pick it up instead. This show's existence is more damning to capitalism than any of the show's portrayal of corporations in it.

Not that I mind, happy it's still around.

Never took you for an anti-capitalist BC, what has changed?

I'm as leftist as it gets but i'm still thankful to Bezos for saving this show.

I'm not a leftist by any means, just noting that if it hadn't been because Bezos was a fan then this show wouldn't be around and that's kinda sad.

I think Bezos saving the show for his own entertainment would only be truly greedy if he chose to charge us, the consumers, more money to watch it than what we already pay for Amazon Prime in order to recoup the costs for saving the show. He didn't do that when perhaps others may have. That's not exactly benevolent, but it certainly isn't malevolent either.

Him buying a show to make it continue is the best thing he could do. The inherent problem with billionaires and capitalism is their hoarding of wealth.

If this show was only for his own enjoyment you’d imagine it would be a losing purchase. And nothing is better for society than a billionaire spending money without making money.

Freeza wrote:Him buying a show to make it continue is the best thing he could do. The inherent problem with billionaires and capitalism is their hoarding of wealth.

Not the politics section, but... the inherent problem with billionaires and capitalism is that they use that capital to purchase the political system and rig everything in their favor. Hoarding of wealth is actually good, as that money makes it into banks/markets/angel investments/etc and it decreases the cost of borrowing for all sorts of companies, making it easier to get funding as a small business or a startup, or to run a company more efficiently. Every society should promote savings.


and again I'm happy the show is still around, not criticizing Bezos, just the system in which this would happen.

Amazing show.

I see we all agree S2 E5 was a goat moment. Unfortunately this is also where the show took a wrong turn for me, Miller was a brilliant main character and even though he was a brilliant protomolecule as well, that meant we were now stuck with Holden and his stupid face as the lead, as well as his relationship with Naomi who became annoying as fuck after season 1.

Fortunately we had Amos on the Roci, Prax was decent as well.

My favorite was Gunny though. Just wish that Holden became the protomolecule instead.

Chrisjen was a great character as well before she became Secretary General.

New season is out, will be released in episodic manner.

Episode 1:

Finally

Will wait for all episodes to come out so I can binge

Yup, me too.

Eh
thought it was finished