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[–] loobkoob@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The Expanse is the first thing that came to mind for me as a counter-example when I read your first comment so I'm glad to see you mention it! It even plays on the exceptionalism idea in book/season 3 and 4 where Holden seems special because >!Miller is appearing to him!< and because >!he isn't affected by the eye parasites!< only to explain those things away with reasoning stemming from events that already happened in previous books. And any exceptionalism that comes after that is largely due to the reputation or skills characters have built for themselves rather than because they're "chosen ones".

If you haven't read the books, I really recommend them!

[–] j4k3@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] kinetic_donor@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Just very quickly: the books are so much better than the show! I had to stop watching the show somewhere I think in season 2 - everything started digressing/simplifying too much from the books (the characters became flat and uninteresting etc.) So yeah, I found the books much more enjoyable.