First off one thing I need to point out because I watch them all, is it's "Dark Matter" not "Black Matter", as in what 27% of our universe is made up of (68% dark energy, and less than 5% made up of conventional matter which is you and me and everything we can physically touch/see). I've read all 5 of The Expanse series and I'll tell you it has a great story line, I just hope the show does well enough to get to it all without messing it up. The first episode felt like an episode of Battlestar Galactica to me, which to me is not a great thing, I hope that it can really come into it's own in the future, so I guess we'll see
How are Dark Matter and Killjoys "hard sci-fi"? If that applied to them they wouldn't exist in the first place.
Anyways, I hope it's better than both those shows, the first one being bad and the other blandly milking GotG.
@vanilla_chief "the whole physics in this episode is bogus" could you provide some examples for that? It's not perfect but IMO it's much better than in (most) other shows/movies.
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It seems that hard sci-fi series are back in the game. Besides Black Matter and the Killjoys we have now the Expanse. Comparing the three pilot episodes, this one was the best. They did a decent job in building a large universe with clear rules and relationship (in Black Matter we know next to nothing about the bigger picture of the universe and in the Killjoys it is too complicated and bad explained). They had nice ideas with G-forces and general orbital mechanics, but in the end the whole physics in this episode is bogus. If they refine their character and really use their sci-fi setting it has the potential to become a really cool series. The risk is to do a story which could be told in any setting without science fiction, often caused by lazy writing.