Soldato
Only 24 more sleeps.
The Expanse
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Caporegime
Pretty sure theres gonna be no characters left after this final series 
Soldato
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cept Amos and peaches
he'll survive
he'll survive
Without spoilers based on my memory of the book, I think they can just about finish off the belter/inaros arc if the story telling is as tight and concise as they say it is.
With regards the protomolecule/builders - Not. A. Chance.
Soldato
Sad to see it end but looking forward to it none the less. Wonder if we'll get all episodes on the 10th or if they'll drop them weekly
Caporegime
6 episodes?
/Swears in belter Creole
/Swears in belter Creole
The TV series is going to end at a natural stopping point in the writing of the books though. IIRC almost 30 years passes from the end of the current "arc" to the new books. Most of the original cast aren't even in the new books, they just disappear / get written out in a few lines. A bigger issue is that the TV series never really goes into detail about the protomolecule and the story behind it, but focuses instead on the political drama. I agree though, best sci-fi we've had in a long time on TV.
Cas Anvar behaviour really hasn't helped though, as he was one of the few crew that would have made it into the next story arc and the story writers had to remove him from the show (I personally believe his departure from the show is the reason that the remaining episodes are condensed too - the story is too difficult to unpick without him in it)
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TBH, I'm quite happy with that.
I find a lot of sci-fi/set-in-space stories tend to go downhill once aliens and alien technology are introduced, as it takes focus away from the characters themselves. Freelancer is a classic example of that.
I quite like 'hard' sci-fi, in that it's about technology and how its advancement affects people - With The Expanse, they already had the tech and it's about how the widely differing different cultures have sprung up around that. Adding magic alien plot devices always seems a bit of a cop-out, especially when you can instead achieve some monumental plot direction just by hurling a big rock through space.
I have a 4 month trip to a small island in the South Atlantic coming up early next year
I need more info on this
I need more info on this
Its not as fun as it sounds unfortunately. I'm deploying to the Falkland Islands again for 4 months.
Ah ok, I had visions of a long boat ride followed by solitude on a remote island.
Commissario
Definitely buy them if you've not read them already, the last full book is out in a week so I suspect there will be offers on the previous books on Kindle etc, and there is a book collecting all the short stories (some of which explain bits that happened between or before the main books) coming out in March.I have a 4 month trip to a small island in the South Atlantic coming up early next year
I'm tempted to buy the books to help pass some of the time.
If you're more an audio person the audio books are quite well done as well.
Caporegime
Going to grab them on kindle as they go on sale myself
Got so much back log of books to get through as it is so no rush.