- Author:
- Adam Frank
- Description:
- As we all await the premiere of the new Star Wars movie, I'd like to indulge in a wee bit of heresy. Maybe — just maybe — something far, far better than The Force Awakens is making its appearance Tuesday night.
- Author:
- Justin Landon
- Description:
- Risks exist, in that an adaptation must conquer not only the standard mountains of filmmaking (i.e. not sucking), but it must also bear the often burdensome weight of canon. This omnipresent threat from those same thousands of fans, waiting for reassurance that this new property will not betray the thing they love so much, cannot be ignored.
- Author:
- Stash Media
- Description:
- We suspect some of the praise SyFy is enjoying for their new space drama series “The Expanse” (based on the novels by James S. A. Corey, aka writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), is a direct result of how well the show’s tone is set by this sweeping and ominous title sequence by Australian studio Breeder.
- Author:
- Chad Orzel
- Description:
- The question of gravity is, of course, a tricky one for Earth-bound productions set in space. Weightlessness is one of the defining characteristics of space travel, and people are endlessly fascinated by astronauts floating in the International Space Station and so on.
- Author:
- David Latchman
- Description:
- A look into the physics of The Expanse.
- Author:
- Rafi Letzter
- Description:
- This snippet of dialogue sets up one of the most inventive scenes ever seen on screen in science fiction. Past movies and shows from "Star Trek" to "2001: A Space Odyssey" sidestepped the fundamental problems of space travel with imaginary physics or by skipping them entirely. "The Expanse," which aspires to be a sort of interplanetary "Game of Thrones," relishes them.
- Author:
- Jonathan M. Gitlin
- Description:
- As a TV show, it needs to establish the world and its characters much faster than the space of a novel permits. The accents and patois of the Belters does much to set them apart from those born in the gravity wells of Earth or Mars. A transit map quickly orients us to the geography of Ceres Station.
- Author:
- Craig Elvy
- Description:
- Billed as arguably the riskiest project ever produced for Syfy, the first season of The Expanse is a ten-episode mystery adventure based on the much-praised series of novels by James S. A. Corey.
- Author:
- Tasha Robinson
- Description:
- Genre TV is relying on increasingly gender-balanced, multicultural casts to populate its far-flung worlds
- Author:
- Adam Frank
- Description:
- The smoke has now cleared on the first season of SyFy's ambitious adaptation of The Expanse books. Just before the series aired, I wrote a post pleading to the gods of science fiction to please, please, please not let television destroy this thing of beauty I love so dearly.