Is anybody else watching The Expanse?

Well, what am I supposed to do with my life now?

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― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal),

I’d prefer something with believable characters.

Can't remember the last time I was this bummed a show was ending. Sucks so hard this season couldn't have been twice as long.

i'm told that d. idaho and e. ripley were among the members of the assault team

When you're done watching The Expanse series finale pic.twitter.com/i9QLGtN4Vq

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 15, 2022

ok so where does the zombie kid story arc go now? it was boring and i dont actually care but it feels like a loose end or was i out of the room for something

I assume those were protomolecule-infused 'dogs' doing the zombification and the planet would be a major storyline if the show got picked up elsewhere.

I think it was obliquely referenced in Holden's "we still don't know what happened to that missing protomolecule sample" and maybe the blue glimmering ship we saw? and the guy cutting Marco off?

all sorta handled by Naomi's "can we just worry about this later" (when there is a sequel?)

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Short of an Expanse continuation, I'd like some kind of comedy series starring the actors who played Amos and Bobbie with Avasarala as a wacky neighbor.

RIP the many science fiction franchises that meet their end when their leads die during the assault on Medina Station. pic.twitter.com/jYfOEMbP7S

— Chris Barrus (@quartzcity) January 15, 2022

The zombie kids are on Laconia, the planet colonized by the Mars navy defectors led by Duarte. The blue glowing ship thing was briefly mentioned as a dormant orbital platform left there by a prior civilization.

That prior civilization had some protomolecule stuff going on, and Duarte was given the sample in exchange for a lot of armaments and ships he traded to Marco.

I’m fine with having set that stuff up, not because it leaves the door open for more tv episodes, but due to the fact it leaves the world open. Holden and company aren’t creating some utopia, just addressing the challenges that continually pop up given the world the show’s created. Whether we see those stories as not, the universe is going to keep changing.

ok sure but why was it so boring

it's worse than the blue wizards (also ptoro-molecule-related iirc)

fair

it’s the protomolecule curse, the more reasonable people use it to advance their material science a little and make new armor for ships and some gradual advances, the opportunistic and narcissistic will try to grab the golden ring and boast about how they’re going to fight gods (whoever nuked the prior protomolecule civilization)

ok sure but why was it so boring

Because it was centered around annoying children (redundant, I know).

got to agree with both of you here, zombie kids was tedious

i was carefully *not* reading the thread bcz i was coming to lots of it way late and i see everyone else already thought this many times

tbh i need to go back and rewatch the last 3 series with my legendary "metaphysics of scale" thesis in mind once more

the entire zombie kids arc would have been redeemed if zombie bro entered the house and started zapping them all with his eyes

real monkey's paw shit

or started talking to the revived orbiting station, yeah anything

I didn't mind the zombie kid thing because I did see it as an opportunity for the series to perhaps be spun off in another direction, which would be nice. Not many shows have captivated my attention the way this one has over the past few months.

people who have read the books: is there enough material left for another season/series/final movie?

There's enough left for three seasons.

:O

Extremely much so.

Technically, the last couple of pages of the last book could be turned into a 10-season spin-off with a central character that would make most people round here extremely happy.

it was a pretty exciting/moving finale, lots of nice moments w everyone

i’m kinda glad now that it wasn’t a bloodbath - i thought it was just going to be kamikaze full out w bobby & amos & was like oh no wait wait i dont want everyone to die noooo - i was v relieved!!!

loved all those easter eggs in the assault team names, we had fun figuring some of them out (missed a lot tho!)

my friend told me that in the post-credits there wasn't a 'scene' (obviously), but a "hint" of something. anybody know what he's talking about? I'm afraid to ask him and seem like dummy.

no idea?

Shockingly satisfying finale given the shortened season and wasting 15% of each episode on the zombification dogs.

Glad Bobbie and Amos didn’t go out like Gordo and Tracey

Neanderthal, at the very end of the credits sequence with the ring gate image, you see it start to fleck red and then a big fucking Laconian protomolecule-tech ship starts to emerge.

if they're going with zombies as plot then based on all TV shows i've ever watched abt zombies there's enough for an infinite number of new series which i will not be watching

Got into this show very late and pretty much binged all six seasons in the past couple of months. Very sad it’s done - very few series have lasted this long and still remained enjoyable to watch.

Liked the callback to the Cant (the Roci is travelling with an ice hauler carrying the assault team) and the quiet moments among the team.

It is a little unsatisfying though that after opening up all those portals, we only got to see two new planets, both of which were frankly pretty boring. If there are spinoffs, I hope they’ll get a chance to do those better. and of course, would love it if Drummer got her own show.

There's a final trilogy of books so plenty of material left for a future season(s) xps

For those who've only watched the show, you could just read those final three books if you wanted to see how the story finishes (and how zombie dogs fit in) as the show has been pretty faithful to the books, especially in terms of main plot (one character death aside).

i think sic posted a videogame starring Cara Gee as Drummer?

Ah thanks, I must have missed that, haven’t read through the whole thread

here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c27FGhsT7kI

Not only enough material for more seasons, but books 7 and 8 stand up with the best of the books imo. If any show-only fans are interested, I think it's quite easy to just start reading from book 7 - the show has revealed everything you need to know

Oops I see groovypanda made that point already

Mark S, they're not zombies, if that's putting you off the books. Those resurrected by the "dogs" retain their memories and rationality and sentience and have continuity of personality and are not infectious or violent (any more than they used to be); they DO have altered physiology and perceptions.

yeah dont worry JM i was just making a dumb and hostile joek abt a very little going a very long way in zombie-based dramas

which are bad not good btw

i want the drummer spin-off

thery can call it "SAME drummer"

funky drummer

Camina Drummer get some?

This guy is not how I imagined the character in my head AT ALL, but I did laugh at this.

That moment alone when you first look in the mirror after getting a coherent reply pattern from the protomolecule. #TheExpanse #TheExpanseFinale #TheExpanse606 @ExpanseOnPrime pic.twitter.com/5kgGLpFtRg

— Dylan Taylor (@DylanTaylorEh) January 20, 2022

I appreciate how much they tried to make Duarte look like Ted Cruise.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJ4bOJaXMAEEJ5b?format=jpg&name=small

loll

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Can we have some more please.
I guess it ends on something of a high but still not happy that there won't be more.
Hope some of the folks go onto further good stuff.
I need to read some of this, but am reading about 20 different books at the same time right now.