The Expanse Series! All of the characters are extremely well written. The plot and setting are also amazing. (personally: I would watch the show and THEN read the books.)

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I agree about how good The Expanse books are, but I’m on the other side of coin about the tv series. I had a hard time getting into the series the first time I tried to watch it. I don’t think I quite what they were doing at first but now having read the first four books I started rewatching the first season and it totally clicked this time I’m tearing through the TV series this time.

[–] generic_rock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first couple episodes are kinda a slog; they give a lot of background info for the setting so it's a bit of an info-dump. The book writers did state that the tv series has their ideal setting appearance and ship design, so it made visualizing the books easy for me.

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah and I had some problems with the concept at first. Everyone was selling it as the hard science fiction show and yet it focused the proto molecule and that’s not hard science fiction. Plus I got annoyed with them spending so much time on the float but using mag-boots but not looking like they’re still in zero G. I know you can’t shoot the show on the vomit comet but really just spend more time under thrust, I’ll be happier.

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