Ludendorkk
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This season has been fantastic but I do think it's a bummer that the gang has been split up the entire season
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The Expanse - sasa ke Beltalowda!?
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I don't disagree, but it's also been really powerful to see Naomi and Amos doing things in their own worlds on their own terms.
Aight. Season finale is up and I watched it. It was both really good, and also really really weird.
As anticipated, they wrote Alex off the show. Which I guess had to happen, but the way they did it was just sub-optimal and kinda bad. They made Alex stroke-out from too much juice while saving Naomi. Which was fine and makes sense, but it also was executed in a way that you could just tell they were doing hasty edits and reshoots after production finished wrapping. Like, they took a still of Alex and then photoshopped blood coming from his nose. Very weird. At the end of the episode where everyone was celebrating and sitting on couches, there was an obvious space open left where Alex was obviously intended to be seated, and the camera kept that seat in frame in. And it just made the whole scene feel weird. Because it's this obvious reminder that Alex is gone kind of like a tribute to the character, but it's also very clearly a photoshop job where they edited him out of that scene and everyone is happy and full of joy but he's gone. It's just WEIRD. The show runners should have just given the character an out between seasons where he went back home to be a family-man instead of this. Because it was just a very distracting thing that pulled me out of an otherwise pretty good season finale. Felt borderline Poochie in nature.
Very glad Drummer finally did what she had to do. I was almost screaming at my TV though in the aftermath where main-squeeze-lady was trying to guilt trip her. She's a terrible character and a terrible person and I hate her and I hope she dies a miserable death for being such a shitty person.
I'm looking forward to Season 6: the "final" season. I really hope though that the show continues on after the time-skip
As anticipated, they wrote Alex off the show. Which I guess had to happen, but the way they did it was just sub-optimal and kinda bad. They made Alex stroke-out from too much juice while saving Naomi. Which was fine and makes sense, but it also was executed in a way that you could just tell they were doing hasty edits and reshoots after production finished wrapping. Like, they took a still of Alex and then photoshopped blood coming from his nose. Very weird. At the end of the episode where everyone was celebrating and sitting on couches, there was an obvious space open left where Alex was obviously intended to be seated, and the camera kept that seat in frame in. And it just made the whole scene feel weird. Because it's this obvious reminder that Alex is gone kind of like a tribute to the character, but it's also very clearly a photoshop job where they edited him out of that scene and everyone is happy and full of joy but he's gone. It's just WEIRD. The show runners should have just given the character an out between seasons where he went back home to be a family-man instead of this. Because it was just a very distracting thing that pulled me out of an otherwise pretty good season finale. Felt borderline Poochie in nature.
Very glad Drummer finally did what she had to do. I was almost screaming at my TV though in the aftermath where main-squeeze-lady was trying to guilt trip her. She's a terrible character and a terrible person and I hate her and I hope she dies a miserable death for being such a shitty person.
I'm looking forward to Season 6: the "final" season. I really hope though that the show continues on after the time-skip
Telltale is making a game based on The Expanse! It’s set before any protomolecule shenanigans, and it stars Camina Drummer. They even got Cara Gee to do voice work! Have a trailer!
IIRC it was originally conceived of as a game setting.
I'm watching Season 3 now. I had this on the watch list backburner but with the announcement that the first three seasons are leaving Amazon I started pushing through them. I've read the books up to Persepolis Rising (book 7). As someone who is coming from the books first I think they've done a pretty good job. I think Holden and Naomi are both less likeable in the show than they are in the books. Holden is really played up as a naive do-gooder throughout. He can't help himself. It took me much longer to figure out that Amos is a sociopath in the books than it does in the show.
This has been on my "I should maybe probably watch this someday" list forever, so I did a little searching about the de-listing and it looks like it may not actually be happening? At least according to the latest updates in this reddit thread.
Anyway this also brought to my attention that it ended after season 6, which is a respectable run for a sci fi show but evidently three books short of the novel version. So I'm kinda wondering how satisfying it is given there's presumably still several books' worth of plot hooks necessarily left up in the air.
Anyway this also brought to my attention that it ended after season 6, which is a respectable run for a sci fi show but evidently three books short of the novel version. So I'm kinda wondering how satisfying it is given there's presumably still several books' worth of plot hooks necessarily left up in the air.
The nine books are grouped into three trilogies. The last trilogy takes a big jump forward in time and setting.So, while it would be nice to see the show go that long as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to end it at a good spot as well.
I guess I will find out when I get to the end of the show!
The show's ending is done very well. All the main storylines are effectively wrapped up, but there is a series of scenes that are obviously meant to prime the pump for picking up the later parts of the story. So those don't really go anywhere. But you aren't left hanging when it comes to the main plot threads and characters you've been following throughout.
Ive loved the books so far. If you liked the show, I'd recommend picking them up. The audiobooks are quite good too!
I've read the first couple.
Seconding the notion that the final season of Expanse leaves off at a sufficiently acceptable place.