The Expanse
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Sci-fi is supposed to be about technology, and how it affects and influences society... or in some cases actually doesn't (for one example of many - https://interestingengineering.com/10-most-useless-gadgets-of-2017).
Personally I find stories like these are pretty damn awesome, right up to the point where aliens appear as any kind of plot vehicle, at which point the humans always seem to take a back seat.
I haven't seen the latest season yet as I'm queueing it up for a binge... but given how the books went, I'm expecting the latter - Trying to avoid spoilers, this situation kinda gets resolved and then there's a fair few years of societal development and political progress, so when they do the next season(s) everyone is a little older and some things have changed quite a lot.... and I do hope they jump forward to that point, else it'll be years of quite boring, samey-samey tales about various peoples struggling to recover from their current adversities.
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Reckon we'll get a big battle and a conclusion to Marcos plot, and then a setup/cliffhanger to leave the door open for more seasons/a movie. Can't help but feel it'll be a massive disappointment if they try to sum up everything with around 65mins left.
Still not really aligned with the books, especially the Laconia prologue
Amos is just wasted this season, we know he likes booze and brothels but as the entire contribution to the penultimate episode of an already short season???
At least we got a few pointers as to how they may bring the season to a close and kind of match the books with
I can't recall any mentions of indigenous creatures that can Lazarus a dead body.
Amos is just wasted this season, we know he likes booze and brothels but as the entire contribution to the penultimate episode of an already short season???
At least we got a few pointers as to how they may bring the season to a close and kind of match the books with
the reveal about the mass capacity of the ring gates as a tool to digest the Pallas and Fillip now further conflicted will get off the ship, somehow.
It's literally the only plot this season that isn't being done in massive broadstrokes, it's Strange dogs straight from the page to the screen. And if you didn't read that short story, they're
the same repair drones that bring back Amos
Ah now that makes sense.
They have to be hedging their bets on this getting renewed either within Amazon if they fix the licensing issues or elsewhere. The whole build up of the Cara and Xan storyline at the start of each episode which even with the best will in the world can't be resolved in the final episode.
While i'm certain we'll get a decent conclusion to the Inaros arc, there is so much protomolecule related stuff in the final 3 books that hasn't even had the surface scratched yet. Don't worry, i'm not going to post anything about the final books.
Also this final season is really hurting without Alex on the crew, he was a big part of the heart of this show and his absence is really noticed.
While i'm certain we'll get a decent conclusion to the Inaros arc, there is so much protomolecule related stuff in the final 3 books that hasn't even had the surface scratched yet. Don't worry, i'm not going to post anything about the final books.
Also this final season is really hurting without Alex on the crew, he was a big part of the heart of this show and his absence is really noticed.
which seems kinda dumb... probably be another show that never gets finished.
they could still have made another expanse series just set it somewhere else on the time line with no need to stretch it out on the "what if, we can keep out jobs"
it may as well end up being just another series that got canned without an ending "because we didn't want to finish it even though we had a set number of episodes to conclude the story in"
instead they wasted pretty much a whole season
It's just clickbait supposition in the articles, there is a licensing issue which has been alluded to in a few podcasts with the writers.
As much as I love The Expanse, this season has left me wanting.
It may seems strange but, why would you start a story about an alien planet with an interesting storyline with only 6 episode left. That's not wrapping up anything. I'm baffled what the hell those lizard/dog aliens who fix people had anything to do with the rest of the story at all.
Why would you also start a story about the ring being dangerous and some people going missing if your not explaining why.
This last episode has a hell of a lot of explaining to do
Why would you also start a story about the ring being dangerous and some people going missing if your not explaining why.
This last episode has a hell of a lot of explaining to do
Nice quote, yes there is decent action but it's normally short and punctuated, not drawn out, the main strength of this show is it's characters and continuing to act in a manner consistent to what we've seen all along.
Interesting. TBH would have thought the authors (James S Corey is a pseudonym for the two guys who actually write the books) would have been horrified at how the adaptation has been handled. Unfortunately the public responses following seem to come down heavily on the fanbois/rose tinted spec side of things too.