Apple TV+ has eclipsed other streamers’ science fiction offerings
Admittedly, For All Mankind is pretty much worth it by itself.
I love this show so much
We’ve watched Severance, Mythic Quest, and a few others. But not that. Good to know, thanks!
Not sci-fi but The After Party season 2 is just airing on atv+ right now and the first season is a tour de force
Apple TV+ started rather slow, but the quality of the shows is just insane, and not just when it comes to scifi. So far, the only show that I didn’t like from TV+ was Hello Tomorrow, which had a lot of style and potential, but just never went anywhere.
Oof, I’m sorry, but perhaps it was a matter of expectations. I feel that the problem that I had with the show was that it started off on the premise of some Fallout-style retro futurism, with what I guess one could call “dangerous techno optimism” of the 50’s and 60’s.
However, beyond the first episode where the woman gets killed by the automated postal car, this never really gets explored much further than some occasional background elements. The story could just as well have been set in the actual 50’s and it wouldn’t have changed much.
Now normally, I don’t generally have issues with character driven stories where the setting comes secondary (e.g. Ted Lasso is a character driven comedy set on the backdrop of football), but in this case it was the setting that actually interested me to begin with.
It’s a shame, because all the individual pieces, from acting, to scenery and atmosphere were great, it’s just that the show never clicked with me in the end, because it wasn’t what I thought it would be.
If it’s any consolation, I’ve been raving about the show since it came out. Been calling it a “realistic fallout prequel that does its own thing”.
I felt like that expectation was there for me for the first episode or two, but then you could see how it was doing its own thing and building its own world. It felt familiar to step into and then was a comfortable transition to the rest of the world you all created.
Thank you for your work; it’s cool to talk to someone who worked on it. Can you say if you know how likely the show is to continue on? I haven’t heard anything about a season 2, but I’m hoping.
Yeah, that probably is gonna delay things a bit… Hopefully you get to continue(with fair pay of course :) )
What was your role? Just curious … :)
Ooh - my hero! :)
I finished hello tomorrow and if you look past the lens of retro futurism it is a quality character piece
I’m just hoping they pick up the Expanse baton from SyFy and Amazon and finish the series.
The only reason I haven’t watched the Expanse yet, is because I know there is no ending (yet). I’m done with watching shows that just stop due to some management decision. If the confirm the ending is in the works, then I will start watching
@Ronno Watch it.
The show ends in a completely logical place and wraps up that entire timeline near perfectly. It doesn’t feel like anything’s missing.
The next three books are set 30 years later in another system. Same crew, wildly different everything else. That’s why they chose not to film them. It wasn’t just ‘ended early’Ehhhh, they left several loose threads dangling in the wind…
There is a whole book about the planet with the fauna that brings organic tissue back to life. They just shut the door and called it a day.
Also, they barely touched the storyline of mass being lost with gate use.@McBinary
the resurrection fauna planet is in the +30 year timeline. The books didn’t explore the mass loss much more than the show did (other than explaining how they gathered the data), but it was used as the core mechanic of the grand finale - exactly as it was in Babylon’s Ashes.
To be fair the books end leaving you wanting more too! The show has an ending that’s good, it’s just … Missing decades of content that’s in the books!
The show is definitely worth watching and was incredibly enjoyable, fwiw.
They also killed a main character for real life legal troubles. So that might be difficult to continue the cannon.
TBF that character isn’t used for any key moments in the last books that couldn’t be removed or swapped to another character.
Pretty sure they just bought their way in and didn’t create shit. Doesn’t count as being better…
Aren’t all of the above mentioned works all Apple Originals? I am not very Apple ecosystem friendly however on this one Apple seems like did good.
