"The Expanse" - New near-future sci-fi TV

[David Clapson]

Series 2 is so terrible I might give up. I'm on ep 3. The plotting and dialogue are pathetic and the new characters are an embarrassment.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Season 4 was pants but season 5 is much improved so far.

Love it! Have watched four seasons in about two weeks.

 

[Crispy]

That was a BAD ASS ending, after some really good character drama

(and that last scene was really well done from a science POV)

Spoiler

How to survive in vacuum: Breath in, get some air, then breath out as you open the door so your lungs don't rupture with the decompression. You've got about 30s of decent consciousness, but a shot of adrenaline will give you enough of en edge to open the door at the other side.

 

[Cloo]

Ah thanks, I was wondering exactly what she was doing there!

 

[BigTom]

Ah thanks, I was wondering exactly what she was doing there!

yep

Spoiler

I thought it was an injection of hyper-oxygenated blood that we'd been introduced to in a previous episode when holden saved the reporter in the cargo container. Was a fantastic ending to the episode, feels like the end of the middle act of this season and now we head towards a climax. Suprisingly little of the protomolecule and the builders etc in this season so far[/quote]

 

[Cloo]

I did like Marco Inaros' rather Trumpesque fixation on people knowing his name and how his manner changed when Filip dared to talk about people knowing his name.

Nb, still impressed they found an actor for Filip who looks so precisely like a cross between the actors playing his parents!

 

[Signal 11]

Spoiler: episode 7, just nitpicking

Did Bobbie really throw that bullet down loose in the cabin, after they've done a whole scene on why you shouldn't do that?

 

[Crispy]

A very clever detail you probably missed:

Spoiler

When the Zmeya fires missiles, the very last one looks a bit different,
Blue drive plume instead of yellow.

It's got to have the protomolecule on board

 

[Nivag]

Spoiler: episode 7, just nitpicking

Did Bobbie really throw that bullet down loose in the cabin, after they've done a whole scene on why you shouldn't do that?

Ha that crossed my mind too

 

[Sunray]

Critical Drinker on youtube has recommended this so I will watch it. Critical drinker on the Expanse

I'm waiting for the final book of the nine(!) book series which I now see is coming out in late October before I do.

 

[Crispy]

Critical Drinker on youtube has recommended this so I will watch it. Critical drinker on the Expanse

I'm waiting for the final book of the nine(!) book series which I now see is coming out in late October before I do.

The TV show will only go up to the end of book 6, so you've got no reason to wait really.
(They're being vague about plans for adapting books 7-9)

 

[Sunray]

The TV show will only go up to the end of book 6, so you've got no reason to wait really.
(They're being vague about plans for adapting books 7-9)

I am quite phobic about watching something I am currently reading.

 

[cybershot]

Season 5 finale is fantastic.

 

[DotCommunist]

Yes a roaring finish. I like the way they got the space battle finale bit in and the set up for season 6 as well.

 

[han]

I am quite phobic about watching something I am currently reading.

Do you recommend the book?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Season 5 is Naomi goes through the fucking wringer.

Do you recommend the book?

Very much so

 

[Supine]

Do you recommend the book?

books are almost all great

 

[Sunray]

Do you recommend the book?

If you're into a melange of hard and not hard sci-fi yes, they are a good page-turning read. I'm waiting for him to finish it with book nine, so he must be doing something ok.

If you've not read it, Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos is still the most outstanding sci-fi books I've ever read. The 1st book of the 4 is a retelling of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

 

[Cloo]

Season 5 finale is fantastic.

I liked the smaller scale, on some senses, of the series - it's easier to try and make each series have a bigger bang, but they let this one play out about people rather than protomolecule.

 

[Dandred]

Alex died from a burn that didn't happen?

Writing him our rather than cast another character after his dodgy fan stuff?

 

[Crispy]

Alex died from a burn that didn't happen?

Writing him our rather than cast another character after his dodgy fan stuff?

Stroke from too much Juice, and yeah written out rather than recast. They had to do some reshoots eg. the scene with the Rocci crew and Avasarala on Luna at the end.

 

[fishfinger]

... I'm waiting for him to finish it with book nine, so he must be doing something ok.

Them. James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

 

[han]

If you're into a melange of hard and not hard sci-fi yes, they are a good page-turning read. I'm waiting for him to finish it with book nine, so he must be doing something ok.

If you've not read it, Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos is still the most outstanding sci-fi books I've ever read. The 1st book of the 4 is a retelling of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Cheers! Very interesting. I do like some Sci Fi books. Like, The Stars My Destination. And....I downloaded The Expanse years ago but never watched it. Will check it out.

 

[krtek a houby]

Alex died from a burn that didn't happen?

Writing him our rather than cast another character after his dodgy fan stuff?

Is it bad? Too scared to Google ...

 

[Supine]

Loved the finale. So good.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Alex died from a burn that didn't happen?

Writing him our rather than cast another character after his dodgy fan stuff?

They'd already been burning hard to get to Naomi before the wrong 'uns did. They didn't have to do the docking bit but that wouldn't have been a high-G maneuvere just a very risky one.

 

[Graymalkin]

They'd already been burning hard to get to Naomi before the wrong 'uns did. They didn't have to do the docking bit but that wouldn't have been a high-G maneuvere just a very risky one.

Bobby made a point of saying that they were both "juiced to the gills" in a no doubt re-shot scene. Since we don't know what the 'juice' is we can speculate away the specific cause. It was a clumsey way to write him out but, oh well.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Bobby made a point of saying that they were both "juiced to the gills" in a no doubt re-shot scene. Since we don't know what the 'juice' is we can speculate away the specific cause. It was a clumsey way to write him out but, oh well.

Juice is the stuff they inject themselves with during high-g flight to prevent strokes. There have been many references to the risk of stroke throughout the series and even though it was probably cobbled together at the last minute Alex's death did at least pay that off, and reinforce the fact that the risks are real.

What was interesting about Alex's arc this season was him talking to his ex wife, who completely cunted him off. Felt like a weirdly prescient scene given the actor's behaviour in real life.

 

[krtek a houby]

Bobby made a point of saying that they were both "juiced to the gills" in a no doubt re-shot scene. Since we don't know what the 'juice' is we can speculate away the specific cause. It was a clumsey way to write him out but, oh well.

Dunno, a big heroic death like in Star Trek would maybe not suit The Expanse. Whereas in Discovery, the characters would be crying about it for the next ten eps...

Liked that it was subtle.

 

[Chz]

A bit I hadn't noticed throughout the season was pointed out to me today. Spoilered because it's relevant to the last episode:
If you watch the credits from the whole season you have been seeing Martians sneak to Laconia the whole time, (AS WELL as a ship vanishing in each credits btw)