I was very interested in this show, and gave Season 1 a try via Amazon streaming. Unfortunately I found it to be too dry and plodding to sustain my interest. The characters were underwritten, and the storylines the show wanted to put front and center were its least engaging, which is just fatal.
Maybe it got better in Season 2, I dunno; I wasn't interested enough to find out. And I haven't read the books, so I can't say if the problems stemmed from the adaptation or from the source material. But I'm the kind of person who should be in the core audience for a show like this, so it doesn't surprise me to hear it's having ratings problems.
What scifi TV shows do you watch? Sometimes I see people provide an opinion on a show - but I have no idea if we share the same tastes. It's hard to determine who to listen to if I have no idea what the rater actually enjoys.
I agree, and I also couldn't get into it at first. It does come together later on though and I'm happy I kept watching.
That said, there's a difficult to describe lack of something in the show that keeps it from being great, and it bothers me that I can't put my finger on it. I loved Firefly and BSG and have watched most episodes at least twice (possibly even ten times in the case of Firefly), and yet I can't see myself rewatching The Expanse.
Maybe it got better in Season 2, I dunno; I wasn't interested enough to find out. And I haven't read the books, so I can't say if the problems stemmed from the adaptation or from the source material. But I'm the kind of person who should be in the core audience for a show like this, so it doesn't surprise me to hear it's having ratings problems.