The Expanse
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Fadaar
That guy
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Not a whole lot of ex-military guys in acting but the few I can think of are like that. Adam Driver, Drew Carey, and Rob Riggle.
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I'm With HER ♀
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Had never seen this, but watched season 1, and I've gotta say that it's not bad, not bad at all. It might be that everything else is so terrible these days, a show from 2016 with relatively mild SJWism was such a relief. Anyways, going into season 2 feeling somewhat hopeful.
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Well just be prepared to be very disappointed with the last two seasons. Warning you now. It's a great show but man does it really fall off at the end, especially if you read the novels.
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I'm With HER ♀
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Intrinsic
Person of Whiteness
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It isn’t Lost or Game of Thrones bad, just a noticeable change in overall quality. Could be exacerbated by watching them all back-to-back though versus the gaps we had when watching live. It is still good and better than 90% of everything else, just doesn’t live up to the first seasons.
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I just read all the books and the changes in the show specifically dealing with certain pivotal characters really annoyed me. The first few seasons are still wonderful, and probably some of the better science fiction television you'll ever see, it's worth your time just be prepared that the last of it is going to crap out. It just would have been so awesome that they just follow the books which originally they were doing a pretty phenomenal job of being as true to the source material as possible.
At the end of the day still a good show, they just didn't stick the landing, and I'm assuming it has something to do with budgets and Amazon and whatever the hell. I think they were talks that they were going to try to do a couple of movies or something or a longer mini series to wrap everything up, but I think that's dead in the water at this point.
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I mean stuff with Miller that happens in the show if I remember was pretty accurate to the books, and it's some of the better stuff within the series. Apart from Amos, he's probably the other best character. I don't necessarily think it was bad the way any of that was handled.
The belter leader no specifically with such a talented actor was kind of surprising he just evaporates. I only remember what the hell happened or what they said they did off screen to justify his absence.
spronk
FPS noob
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i haven't rewatched the show in a long time but if I ever do I'd just watch seasons 1-3 and read the books for the rest. its just not very good after season 3 and every season is worse than the last, like game of thrones.
the belter leader stays a bit more consistent in the books, he wasn't in the shows because the guy they got playing him - Jared Harris - became huge in shows like Mad Men, Chernobyl, etc. Sadly he's been wasting his talents in Foundation although I imagine Apple threw big bucks at him for a lead role that barely is in the show - he plays Hari Seldon in that show.
the belter leader stays a bit more consistent in the books, he wasn't in the shows because the guy they got playing him - Jared Harris - became huge in shows like Mad Men, Chernobyl, etc. Sadly he's been wasting his talents in Foundation although I imagine Apple threw big bucks at him for a lead role that barely is in the show - he plays Hari Seldon in that show.
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Burns
Avatar of War Slayer
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This is what I have (sorta) done on my two most recent re-watches, but I stop after season 4.
I don't regret watching season 5 or 6, but due to casting choices and to keep them close-ish to the source books, they couldn't come close to the first 3 seasons (which was the best Scifi made in the last 20 years). Season 4 is still decent enough, just not the epicness of the first three seasons (I know some people were frustrated at it's limited "scope").
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Penance
Silver Baronet of the Realm
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I don't think they did anything wrong either in him "leaving" either. He was just such a great actor and it was a great character and added a certain feel. Gave it a sort of noire vibe too. That's the great thing about the first 3 seasons is how they do the scope and perspective. Reminded me a bit of how they did seasons in The Wire.
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Sterling
El Presidente
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First 3 seasons are awesome. Legit excellent. Season 4 was still good, and then it definitely doesn't maintain quality afterwards. It's still worth watching the whole way through and even the last couple seasons have some awesome stuff but the consistency just isn't there.
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Bald Brah
Trakanon Raider
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Agree 100 percent. When it goes from alien secret tech and espionage, to dumb Indian and black lady famiy drama the show is over. The crew isn't even together at that point.
