MEA similarities with Netflix's "The Expanse" and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

That's a good point. I don't know how Netflix works in other countries, but in the US some of the shows that pop up as Netlix "originals" I've watched prior to it being released on Netflix - chiefly shows produced overseas.  Maybe they just pay for the rights during production to call it their own work.

I thought ME1 was memorable for how it had Samesh Bhatia and I liked that James was a hispanic in ME3. I'm thinking ME:A will have more of an ethnic diversity in no small part due to Manveer probably having a say in things, which isn't really a bad thing. I'd like to see more europeans as well like people with scandinavian accents or german accents... or Russians. I can't remember much of that being in the trilogy.

...As long as it isn't tokenism. It's not believable to have a different ethnicity in a group of 3 people per every member in that group and then spread that out to the entire nexus so you never see any segregation IMO.

I thought there was a fair bit of ethnic diversity in ME1 now that I think about it. I mentioned Samesh but it also had those japanese guards at Port Hanshan, Matsuo for one, it had the Mihalkovitch guy which is a russian fellow I believe. ME1 just had the sense of humanity being spread out and scattered across the galaxy after leaving earth for a life in space. I didn't get this quite as much in the latter entries and going to Earth in ME3 just felt like "MURICA" and London was just a heavyhanded WW2-reference. It should've felt much more like a "Mass Effect version of Earth in the future" but it felt too generic somehow.

Nice to see Expanse fans here. Can't wait for the season 2 premiere. Gonna soften the wait for ME:A for me.

It is really good, have you read any of the books?

2nd the recommendation on the books. They are good fun, even if I have some complaints (I always do!).

Not sure what's there in the series, but books are nothing like htat. It's hard to identify the genre one way or the other, someties it's more of the politics, sometimes it's more of the novel or social dramma.  First book is  the awesome combo of a 'space detective with politics flavored with horror (while not being a 'resident evil'-like zombie-shooter). It's always about the characters. And those characters are really something.

I'd say that the novels are must-read for anyone who's into good sci-fi - it reminded me of Babylon 5 and ME a lot. Sometimes with the heavy 'Firefly' notes. A nice effort to put some 'science' into 'fiction' too. The 5th book, however...well, some people love it this way, but I don't. Not to spoil anything, but they've changed their storytelling a lot in this one. It's full of stupid forced drama and 'WTF' moments. I'd highly recommend 1-4, though. Each has a complete and unique plot, and they are tied by the solid setting.


As I've mentioned - 3&4 have lots of themes I'd love to see in Andromeda. People facing the alien worlds, people looking for better life, people fighting for power even when it does not make sense. The best thing? There's no 'Big Bad Evil' and 'White Knights saving the Galaxy'. James Holden is the farthest possible thing from Commander Shepard, and humanity does not really need Reapers to ruin their lives.