Is anybody else watching The Expanse?

It was Avasarala's war-crazy rival at that point, no? He was pretty villainous.

Errinwright. Maybe that was S2. Sorry.

S1E4: Donnager gets attacked
S1E5: Roci goes to Tycho Station to meet Fred Johnson.

Only 6 episodes left in the whole series? :((((

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PJpkGPtAHE

did they go way over budget on special effects / set design and have to trim the number of episodes? or maybe we get 6 eps at 2 hours each?

you mean if we degrade to Superman 4 fx, we can get like 100 more eps?

lol probably could upgrade from superman 4 (1987) to maybe mid-2000s fx and still make a full season. or we could do Garth Marenghi's Expanse and have infinite episodes

Lol

iirc they used about half the content of book 6 in S5 already, which made me wonder what they were going to do to fill 10 episodes. I guess less episodes is one solution

Just wondering how they have a satisfying conclusion, unless it completely deviates from the books (which is entirely possible): the baddies of books 7 and 8 aren't really going to have time to establish themselves.

I don't think they've confirmed but it's very likely they won't touch anything after book 6

I don’t think they’re doing the time jump. Which is fine, they could always revisit it down the road and avoid spending money on aging effects, right?

is this gonna be like the final final season of Game of Thrones?

It's funny because I usually think less episodes results in higher average quality, but GoT disabused that notion. At least Expanse doesn't have its entire narrative resting on these six episodes

one thing about those last few episodes of game of thrones is that they were basically all feature film length

My only complaint about possibly ending it before the time jump that happened in the books is that Marcos might end up being the final villain. Marcos doesn’t deserve that! He’s such a shithead.

i couldn't finish the most recent season, largely because there was a lot of belter dialogue and man sometimes that accent sounds right and sometimes it's just so, so cringey

you could even say sometimes…. it sucks the big felota

careful saying that around the beltalowda

i chalk up the cringiness to belter culture tbh - i mean, tribal tatts? come on man

Just got to Amos's "I'm that guy" moment, incredible that it works instead of being a cheesy action movie line because of the work they've done on Amos's character and the look on the actor's face when Prax calls him his best friend.

My favorite group of characters (except for the Secretary-General/Errinwright who are too one-dimensional) since Deadwood.

That TY and that Guy Podcast is quite interesting. Th9ough I haven't got very far with it. Listened to episode 4 a few days ago.

Paul Krugman today in column about Dune & Foundation: "For example, quite a few experts on international relations who I know are fanatics about the TV version of “The Expanse.” I think it’s because good science fiction involves building imaginary worlds that are different from the world we know, but in interesting ways that relate to the attempt to understand why society is the way it is."

Indeed the final season:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb01ds-4IC4

The final series and the final book coming out at about the same time so I can really confuse continuities in my head.

Other than season 1 I haven't really been enthralled by this, having said that I somehow managed to watch it all so far so I will most likely be up for the finale.

(to clarify I wasn't enthralled much by season 1 either but for me it's the most interesting out of all of it)

We were looking for a new show a while ago, and like everyone, found the first 5-6 episodes compelling enough but kind of awful. The friend who recommended it said, "trust me, it gets better, it's the best sci-fi show in years, you'll love it," and so we kept on, mostly because we both think Amos is just unstoppably hot.

And then in 1.5 months, we finished all five seasons. Super excited for the next, though am admittedly sad about it being the finale.

amos is unimpeachable <3

hard agree, the best

with Bobbi a close second

Don't forget Drummer!

Amos
Drummer
Bobbi

Shout out to the Avasarala & Bobbi story in the The Expanse tie-in comic (the Corinna Bechko one)

For me its
Amos
Drummer
Avasarala
Bobbi

(I really love Shohreh Aghdashloo, I just think she's the best)

Her voice is great but her line reading is pretty stilted.

I think that's...part of her character? Sort of halting, calculating, imperious?

I mean, she's one of the greatest Iranian actresses of all time lol

she's in the not great new blade runner cartoon.

Yeah, she’s great, I lov3 her.

I’m still stuck on Ganymede trying to finish Season Two, but I think she’s great in that role. I could easily imagine a less skilled actress turning in a kind of soap opera level performance.

Having finished book 9, genuinely cannot imagine how they'll wrap up the TV series without doing the last 3 books.

The nature of the ring gate, uh glitch, that’s been alluded to in the show could be executed differently

Hopefully that was vague enough

Also re book 9, it's a shame we won't get to see the very final scene done on TV, I think it would be a crowd-pleaser with the audience here.

the coda? yeah, it made me smile

Season 6 drops on Friday

Can't fuckin wait.

yesssssssssss