State of the Game

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Do the Expanse writers for the TV series ever learn? Apparently you have an extra 25 minutes of stories that can only be accessed via X Ray, but this only works via tablets and PC (and not TV Amazon Video).

Why not cut the crap and just.....put it in the actual show guys.

I didn't know this either - what a bunch of spanners.


Edit - thanks for sharing
 
Merry Boxing Day.
Yesterday I received the world's biggest and heaviest book.
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For comparison, here it is next to a copy of the game and an iPad Air (4th gen).
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I also received £100 of Bezos vouchers which I have used to fund a new 2TB SSD to replace my aging, fragmented, and full games HDD.
Also got chocolate too.
 
Its just annoying. Imagine if Kubrick had this where in 2001 you had to pause and read up on Bowmans pre mission training or something.
Like the article you linked said, none of them are plot-essential, but they do add context and there's certainly no reason they couldn't have been included as part of the episode structure - they are each basically 'deleted scenes' from the episode they're shown with, with an overarching theme.

In general I despise 'hidden' and 'premium' content of any kind, I have the same sort of disdain for it as I do for endless DLCs and season passes for computer games. FOMO is a terrible way to market anything and only serves to breed resentment.
 
Like the article you linked said, none of them are plot-essential, but they do add context and there's certainly no reason they couldn't have been included as part of the episode structure - they are each basically 'deleted scenes' from the episode they're shown with, with an overarching theme.

In general I despise 'hidden' and 'premium' content of any kind, I have the same sort of disdain for it as I do for endless DLCs and season passes for computer games. FOMO is a terrible way to market anything and only serves to breed resentment.
What rubs my jimmies is that the actual TV show includes all sorts of meandering that wastes time, when they could have shunted Filip and the crews irritation to these things and kept the 'real' show razor sharp.
 
What rubs my jimmies is that the actual TV show includes all sorts of meandering that wastes time, when they could have shunted Filip and the crews irritation to these things and kept the 'real' show razor sharp.
Yeah that whole 'wastes time' thing is the problem with this season though - it's so ridiculously short that we're looking at the sort of stuff that gives a good tv series its 'feel' as being time wasting here because the whole season, such as it is, feels like we're against the clock. All in all, a pretty poor legacy for Amazon to give us. I'd have rather they dropped it at the end of S5 if they could only commit to doing a half-arsed job of S6.

And I'm saying that as someone who is enjoying it, just with that faint air of what could have been always in the background.
 
Yeah that whole 'wastes time' thing is the problem with this season though - it's so ridiculously short that we're looking at the sort of stuff that gives a good tv series its 'feel' as being time wasting here because the whole season, such as it is, feels like we're against the clock. All in all, a pretty poor legacy for Amazon to give us. I'd have rather they dropped it at the end of S5 if they could only commit to doing a half-arsed job of S6.

And I'm saying that as someone who is enjoying it, just with that faint air of what could have been always in the background.
IMO at least, they should have been more intelligent with it- for example the Strange Dogs B story- its going to go totally nowhere given the fate of the show, and could be popped into an X Ray. Or having Dawes killed. The main story in S6 is going to be Inaros and the Free Navy War, and how charismatic nutters can be the most dangerous of people.

Anyway, I think I'm screaming at clouds right now, driven by liqueur chocolates. Soon my anger will give way to sadness.
 
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