There are few things sadder than canceling a favorite show. However, there are few things more illogical than canceling a show that has 100 % Rotten Tomatoes rating from both critics and audience. I was shocked by the news, but after a while, when news started to flow, I understood the reasoning behind the decision. SyFy just wasn’t getting enough money to keep the “Expanse” on the air. They alone are to blame since they didn’t seem to be farsighted enough to buy streaming rights for the series and live revenue alone wasn’t enough to justify the expenses for the show that big. Alcon, the main producer of the series, is now in the tight spot. Finding a new home for the show such as “Expanse” isn’t an easy task. Their decision to sell streaming rights to both Amazon (US) and Netflix (international) doesn’t make it any easier. But, here are few reasons why the “Expanse” should be renewed and why some more ambitious streaming platform should pick it up.
Tag: SF
Potential and shortcomings of “Incorporated” (2016)
Since “Terminator”, I’ve watched a lot of material about the evilness of corporations. “Terminator” was the first and the scariest. Because of that, I must admit that I was skeptical when SyFy started “Incorporated”. It was a longshot since I expected just one more show about the food shortage and the apocalypse. More to that,…
Call for a change and tolerance in “Sense 8” (2015)
There are few authors with the visual excitement of the Wachowskis. Every movie they make will be, I’m sure of it, unique, at least as a visual treat. After “Matrix” and “Cloud Atlas” they failed with “Jupiter Ascending”, and I was skeptical about their cooperation with a legend of the SF genre – J. Michael…
“Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) reminded me why do I love movies.
I was skeptical about “Mad Max: Fury Road”. Sometimes, I thought, is the best to leave the classics where they belong. Mel Gibson was the man who WAS “Mad Max” and it seemed as blasphemy to think that anyone else could fill his shoes. Then again, the director of the new “Mad Max” is the…
What comes around, goes around in the scary road-trip of “Predestination” (2014)
There is something tricky about destiny. It can play you and you won’t even know that you’re played. Destiny can be vicious and in some dark SF movies like this one, even cruel. Be careful what you wish for was never more true than in “Predestination”. Heinlein wrote a story on which this film was…
How long can we have “Interstellar” in our heads… ?
I grew up on science fiction. Movies, literature and comics were part of my childhood and sometimes I just stood by the window in the kitchen and watched the stars. Stars were mystical beings, they had names, genders, lovers and enemies… They were something mythological, and above all – they talked. I listened their private…
Is it ethical to make such a “Transfer” (2010.) ?
While looking for SF movies on “Netflix” I found “The Transfer”, European production that seem to have interesting plot so I gave it a chance. I was surprised by the quality of the movie since it has only 6.8 rating on the IMDB. Furthermore, I was surprised by the fact that the director of the…
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