{"id":4724,"date":"2018-05-12T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T09:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2018-05-16T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:37:12","slug":"expanse-axed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2018\/05\/12\/expanse-axed\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPANSE Axed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw online that SyFy has cancelled THE EXPANSE.\u00a0\u00a0 Season three is now running, and after that, they are pulling the plug.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a damn shame, especially for fans of space science fiction&#8230; of which I count myself one.<\/p>\n<p>THE EXPANSE was a terrific show in all regards.\u00a0\u00a0 It<strong><em> looked<\/em><\/strong> magnificent, but that&#8217;s true of a lot of big budget space shows these days.\u00a0\u00a0 It was also really well written and well directed, with an amazing and talented cast.\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> always true for some of the other SF shows out there.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a lot of great science fiction on TV right now&#8230; WESTWORLD comes to mind&#8230; but for hardcore SF geeks like me, there&#8217;s nothing quite like a space show.\u00a0\u00a0 Weird worlds, alien protomolecules, gritty asteroid miners, cool spaceships, that&#8217;s the stuff I was weaned on.\u00a0 (Rocky Jones, anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>THE EXPANSE was the best space show on television, far and away.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing else even comes close.<\/p>\n<p>I hope its producers can find another home for it.<\/p>\n<p>If not, then this is a sad day for science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4727\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2017_5_19_e1ec8754-37fb-425b-a536-42bc43571f91_png_1600x900_1600x900_Thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2017_5_19_e1ec8754-37fb-425b-a536-42bc43571f91_png_1600x900_1600x900_Thumbnail.jpg 688w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/2017_5_19_e1ec8754-37fb-425b-a536-42bc43571f91_png_1600x900_1600x900_Thumbnail-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saw online that SyFy has cancelled THE EXPANSE.\u00a0\u00a0 Season three is now running, and after that, they are pulling the plug. It&#8217;s a damn shame, especially for fans of space science fiction&#8230; of which I count myself one. THE EXPANSE was a terrific show in all regards.\u00a0\u00a0 It looked magnificent, but that&#8217;s true of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4735,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}