I give both authors a pass, though, because of [my interpretation of] the context of it all. In The Expanse, the UN is a small group of meddling bureaucrats playing with the lives of billions while taking personal payouts from unhinged globalist corporate hacks, while the "dole" on Earth is a preponderance of pathetic, drugged bums on UBI. Sexuality is, of course, a disastrous spectrum. It actually sounds a lot like a plausible What Happens If We Lose situation to me, and neither the books nor the show throw their lot in support or endorsement of this arrangement.
I don't know if either author is based, but at least one of them probably is. As for the showrunners, I can't tell if they were dodging controversy or patting themselves on the back for featuring so many gay characters without realizing their own setting condemns it as the result of decades of disastrous social policy and cultural degradation. As for the current showrunner (Naren Shankar), who knows. Four was the worst book (let's take our space opera and reset it on a single shitty planet; same problem Scalzi had eventually with Old Man's War book 3), but the season was still pretty watchable, so they did a decent job with it.
They are not. They are both famously liberal. Its evident if you listen to the Expanse podcast.
I don’t know if they’re full on leftist, but I suspect they are.
That said, they’re both fantastic writers and I love the world they’ve created. I can separate the art from the artist, same as other writers I love, like Stephen King.
I hate to admit the same with regards to King. The man has truly gone off the deep end but he has a cadence that works so bloody well that even his scary lamp monster books are great reads.
Not surprised about the Expanse authors, nor would I be surprised to hear the same about the showrunners. I know folks in the industry and as you might expect they're all insanely far left, with the expected amount of political knowledge we've come to associate with liberal ideas (read: virtually none, with The Atlantic and NPR as primary sources for everything.
I give both authors a pass, though, because of [my interpretation of] the context of it all. In The Expanse, the UN is a small group of meddling bureaucrats playing with the lives of billions while taking personal payouts from unhinged globalist corporate hacks, while the "dole" on Earth is a preponderance of pathetic, drugged bums on UBI. Sexuality is, of course, a disastrous spectrum. It actually sounds a lot like a plausible What Happens If We Lose situation to me, and neither the books nor the show throw their lot in support or endorsement of this arrangement.
I don't know if either author is based, but at least one of them probably is. As for the showrunners, I can't tell if they were dodging controversy or patting themselves on the back for featuring so many gay characters without realizing their own setting condemns it as the result of decades of disastrous social policy and cultural degradation. As for the current showrunner (Naren Shankar), who knows. Four was the worst book (let's take our space opera and reset it on a single shitty planet; same problem Scalzi had eventually with Old Man's War book 3), but the season was still pretty watchable, so they did a decent job with it.
They are not. They are both famously liberal. Its evident if you listen to the Expanse podcast.
I don’t know if they’re full on leftist, but I suspect they are.
That said, they’re both fantastic writers and I love the world they’ve created. I can separate the art from the artist, same as other writers I love, like Stephen King.
I hate to admit the same with regards to King. The man has truly gone off the deep end but he has a cadence that works so bloody well that even his scary lamp monster books are great reads.
Not surprised about the Expanse authors, nor would I be surprised to hear the same about the showrunners. I know folks in the industry and as you might expect they're all insanely far left, with the expected amount of political knowledge we've come to associate with liberal ideas (read: virtually none, with The Atlantic and NPR as primary sources for everything.