For All Mankind [Drama, Sci-Fi] (Page 1 of 2)

I like it myself, an interesting take on what could have happened in an alternative earth if things had gone a little different in the space race.

Just watch 3x01 and was bored.  There was just no sense of suspense at all.

03x04 was one of the best episodes yet.

Just watched it and damn you're right, can't wait for the next one that episode left me on the edge of my seat.

I liked this show and with the ending of e10 it will be interesting to see how S4 picks up the threads. Not too worried about the things that @Moze mentions I just liked it for entertainment without reading too much into it.

Guess the whole post should be a spoiler, but if you are reading on a show and have not watched the latest episodes, you are bound to get burned sooner than later. Common internet sense to not look up info about a series you have not watched the newest episode.

Ouch, didnt know this either. Man he has some great titles behind him, but then again seems it went downhill after BSG. I guess some may even argue it went downhill after the first few seasons of BSG.

Originally posted by Celleron:

Not wrong.  I come from an age where we had 24 episodes per season, and they started every year in September.
Now its 10 episodes every 24 months.  Whisky Tango Foxtrot.

Seems like all this new technology for greater special effects is REALLY REALLY inefficient.  Less than half the episodes with 4x the time to make them.  Makes you wish they went back to the tech from Star Trek The Next Generation: Funny how they got all those shows out on time every year.

I was in complete agreement with you right up to the last line:

• It's just all around better for the industry this way.
No.  Its better for the actor's wallet.  Instead of a million a year they can make three.  "The industry" on the other hand... You'd have to show me something really convincing for that metric.  Because the work crews don't have as stable of income trying to be on 3 shows of 10 eps as they were when the carpenters et.al. were attached to a single show all year every year.  Now its mostly "Short attention-span theater" for the TikTok generation.

• we do also get a lot more different things to watch in return.
But most them aren't anywhere near as great to watch. More variety of "so-so" shows and less "can't wait" shows.  I'd rather have half as many shows that are much better.  Compare Star Trek TNG or DS9 with its richer stories, longer plot arcs... hell they HAVE plot arcs... to something like Star Trek Strange New Worlds with its anthology format of 1 comedy, 1 musical, 1 fantasy, 1 action {...} but zero story arc.  We'll never see something akin to the DS9 arc of the Jem Hadar war in any of these 10 episode shorts. Or a Battlestar Galactica, or a Babylon 5.  Now they are all just Black Mirror type shows that happen to have all 10 episodes in the same place but otherwise almost no connection.

Not just drama, drama that sucks. I dropped this abomination in S01.

Not counting a steaming pile of other stuff, in this show is one more hilarious American interpretation of USSR. The show authors managed to portray USSR bs propaganda as the holy grail

aye... Sesa ka.  Bossmang speak truth.

We'll probably never see another Expanse grade show again.  Hollywood isn't geared for making good shows anymore.  Or shows with a story arc.  Everything now is 8-10 episodes every 24-48 months.  And there's no arc: Its 10 episode anthology like Strange New Worlds where its 1 musical, 1 fantasy, 1 comedy and so on.

The days of a Firefly... Battlestar... Babylon 5... The Expanse... are all behind us.  That's why its important to have that all on hard media at home because one day it won't be on any of the streamers, because they don't want it making the current crop of 2037 shows looking bad.