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My lady and I watched it all but there were times we considered looking for something else. (we are pretty picky) It was way better than most of the shows made these days but I am really divided on the expanse. On the one hand it was good hard scifi setting and plot.
On the other the writing felt childish. The romantic relationships were really bad and the characters feel really shallow. They each have a neatly prepared backstory but their motivations seem arbitrary.
i think it comes through pretty strongly that it's based on books that were based on a tabletop campaign. the characters are very archetypal, individual and often one-dimensional.
There is definitely that TTRPG vibe to it. DM goes into hours of effort to build a entire society history and a interesting plot. Then the player characters all just want to bone each other and min-max their way through it all. The DM should just kill them all but he's invested so much time in making the game so he just drags them through it and fudges the numbers to tell his story.