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Wife and I have mostly been watching Gachiakuta, also known as the trash anime. It's about a guy who gets exiled to what he thinks is an endless dump, but it's just the real world, and also the dumping ground of a floating island he's from. Trash, and discarded things play a major role in the story, and the magic system is interesting: the more love you give a thing, the more it can do for you. The story is kinda meh, but the world building is outstanding.
We're also watching The Expanse, a sort of dystopian sci-fi series where people living on Earth, as well as Earth colonists from Mars and other places (typically the asteroid belt or some moon or another) vie for control of... I'm really not sure what they're fighting over, exactly, but nobody is happy with what they have and they're all dicks to each other. Also, a hard-boiled detective is searching for some oligarch's missing daughter, and some guys whose ship was destroyed are trying to track down the people responsible, for some reason bullying the guy from Deus Ex 3 who never asked for this and he's letting them, but he also has secrets. And this is just the first season. It's cool, but it's hard to tell where it's going and what it's all for.
I literally love hearing somebody talk about watching The Expanse for the first time. Glad you’re enjoying it, and stick with it. It’s probably the best space sci-fi series of the last 20 years, and I’m saying that trying not to exaggerate.
No, I know, and I hope you realise I wasn't shitting on it. I like it, but it seems a bit aimless? But I like the setting and it's not too slow for me. It's not as fast as Star Trek or Battlestar, but it doesn't need to be.
I am also aware that each season adapted a different book in the series.
Wife and I are committed to finishing the series.
No worries. I actually liked seeing a take with fresh eyes. The co-authors were deeply involved with writing the show, and frankly they wrote the books with an eye towards suitability for TV, so the threads that you’re trying to follow now will come together in a pretty satisfying way, I think.
When they do eventually indulge in ship combat, that too comes off surprisingly solid as a spectacle.
The Expanse is so darn good! Only sad they cut it short. Fantastic believe this was funded and so unknown!