The Expanse Catch-All

When you cry in space. Love the detail of that scene.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

When you cry in space. Love the detail of that scene.

The tears, the blood, the fire all behaving properly in space. beautiful.

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NO! DRUMMER! I'm not crying, your crying!

I started watching this a couple of weeks ago. Season 1 was muddled at first but all of the pieces came together masterfully. By the end I was hooked. I just finished watching Season 2 Episode 5 (Home) last night...

Holy crap am I glad I'm able to binge this. I now know why a lot of you turned to the books because I keep wanting more NOW. I may turn to them as well once I'm caught up.

thrawn82 wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

When you cry in space. Love the detail of that scene.

The tears, the blood, the fire all behaving properly in space. beautiful.

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NO! DRUMMER! I'm not crying, your crying!

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I think that was about Tilly, but Ashford had better only be temporarily taking command.

4 days later...

I've caught up. Hrm. Maybe I can do a rewatch with Kaycee to fill some time. There are quite a few episodes which I'm interested in seeing again anyway.

I really like the effects they are using to show that there is an "in between" as ships pass through a gate.

thrawn82 wrote:

I really like the effects they are using to show that there is an "in between" as ships pass through a gate.

Holden's the new Daniel Jackson.

OG_slinger wrote:
thrawn82 wrote:

I really like the effects they are using to show that there is an "in between" as ships pass through a gate.

Holden's the new Daniel Jackson.

I honestly can't decide if I find Daniel Jackson or James Holden more insufferable.

I’m of course glad it’s coming back but I feel this would have been a good series ending if Amazon hadn’t picked it up.

Finally caught up, and yes, that was awesome. And it would have been a perfectly fine stopping point, if that's how things had worked out. There's one more major story I'd like to see (Miller's continued investigation), but most of the rest of it isn't that important, overall.

They handled things well, this year. It's still super-abbreviated, and would benefit so much from longer seasons, but it was a damn fine show in 2018.

On the official podcast a couple weeks ago one of the producers said the next season is already in production so we may be lucky and the cancellation kerfuffle hasn’t significantly delayed anything.

ruhk wrote:

On the official podcast a couple weeks ago one of the producers said the next season is already in production so we may be lucky and the cancellation kerfuffle hasn’t significantly delayed anything.

The most recent Churn (i can;t recall who here turned me into it, but it is amazing) couldn't include Ty and Daniel like it usually does because they were too busy in the writers room to get away for an hours podcast, so i think that speaks a lot about what high gear they are in to get it out in a timely manner.

thrawn82 wrote:
ruhk wrote:

On the official podcast a couple weeks ago one of the producers said the next season is already in production so we may be lucky and the cancellation kerfuffle hasn’t significantly delayed anything.

The most recent Churn (i can;t recall who here turned me into it, but it is amazing) couldn't include Ty and Daniel like it usually does because they were too busy in the writers room to get away for an hours podcast, so i think that speaks a lot about what high gear they are in to get it out in a timely manner.

I CLAIM THE GLORY!! TWAS I WHO RECOMMENDED THE GREATEST PODCAST IN EXISTENCE!

Also yeah, super stoked for how the season ended. In the podcast they talked about the stuff that happened earlier in the season and I was like.. holy crap, that was this season, it feels like it was last season! Sooooo much happened.

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD ASTERITH.

Yea it's crazy to think Io was this season. They really crammed a lot into 13 episodes. It left it a bit rushed in the end but i think they pulled it off. And that Drummer emotional roller coaster was a hell of a ride.

Read most of the books, new to the series at least on the tube and new to the thread. Gotten through the first and much of the second season. There are things I like about the feel and there are some minor things in terms of casting that were a little disappointing, but overall I was okay and pleased.

The further I've gone along the more I kind of don't like much of the direction, especially the departures from the book narratives. It really feels like the show runners are creating angst just to ramp up the amount of conflict in every direction. From

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the Martian squad infighting to Naomi hiding the sample

, they seem not content to have any relationship exist without some kind of fraught. It's a little wearing.

Do you think that's a result of adding extra drama, or simply a side effect of not having the POV of the story locked to two individual sets of eyeballs? Remember, Leviathan Wakes takes place entirely from within the head space of either Holden or Miller, neither of which are reliable narrators.

Valid point and dunno from where it springs, but it's a little grating. Nitpicky, obviously, but I'm unable to shake it.

I find myself continually impressed with the set decorators and effects. The Roci is also very pleasing to see, but all of the sets are pretty amazing and "real".

Amos has not called Claire Peaches yet, 0/10 for the season.

drdoak wrote:

Amos has not called Claire Peaches yet, 0/10 for the season.

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I don't think he actually does that in Abadon's Gate does he? maybe in the epilogue? That seems like more of a Nemesis Games thing to me and we def aren't there yet.

thrawn82 wrote:
drdoak wrote:

Amos has not called Claire Peaches yet, 0/10 for the season.

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I don't think he actually does that in Abadon's Gate does he? maybe in the epilogue? That seems like more of a Nemesis Games thing to me and we def aren't there yet.

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It starts in the epilogue, yeah.

Sure it does peaches.

Holy sh*t. Maybe I'm tipsy, maybe I'm missing my family, but the scene with the

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selections for who goes in the Somnambulist

hit me good.

ColdForged wrote:

Valid point and dunno from where it springs, but it's a little grating. Nitpicky, obviously, but I'm unable to shake it.

I find myself continually impressed with the set decorators and effects. The Roci is also very pleasing to see, but all of the sets are pretty amazing and "real".

Yeah, I kind of agree with the "all conflict all the time" crap being unpleasant, one of the real joys of the books was just how thoroughly the crew meshed and how little conflict they had. They could drop that part. There's enough people that hate the Rocinante, they don't need to be sniping at each other, too.

Also agree strongly on the set design. The Roci in particular feels like a ship. It's a little too open-air to be a proper spaceship, too much wasted air volume, but I chalk that up to the necessities of needing a place for camera crews. The construction looks really solid, too, no wiggles on that set. They did a damn fine job.

Just finished season 2 and I think I'm finally pretty happy with where everything ended up. Pieces are approximately where my brain feels they should be within appropriate tolerances and more importantly I think much of the additional angst has resolved save perhaps that final little stab in the gut from Naomi. EDIT: first 10 minutes of season 3 and they're already at odds with each other. SMDH. EDIT EDIT: Razorback! Squee!

Is there really no way to watch season 3 episode 1 through 9 for free at this point? 10 through the finale are on demand from SyFy, but the earlier ones I can only rent from the usual suspects.

I finished it up the other day and enjoyed it very much!

ColdForged wrote:

Just finished season 2 and I think I'm finally pretty happy with where everything ended up. Pieces are approximately where my brain feels they should be within appropriate tolerances and more importantly I think much of the additional angst has resolved save perhaps that final little stab in the gut from Naomi. EDIT: first 10 minutes of season 3 and they're already at odds with each other. SMDH. EDIT EDIT: Razorback! Squee!

Is there really no way to watch season 3 episode 1 through 9 for free at this point? 10 through the finale are on demand from SyFy, but the earlier ones I can only rent from the usual suspects.

hopefully the full run will be on amazon prime soon. thats not quite free, but close?

Yeah it took several months, close to a year, for s2 to finally appear on Amazon. Don't hold your breath.

I just watched the season finale and I thought it wrapped things up on a high. A hell of a pace for that double episode.

Thinking about it after the fact I wonder if Holden narrating an explanation was a bit 'Blade Runner' rather than leaving you with something to mull on like 2001. While watching I thought it was a suitably personal and panoramic end and I agree with Malor it would have been a satisfying place to have a finale for the whole thing.

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I think it was actually superficially like 2001: aliens send space portals for humans to use once they've passed a progress test.

thrawn82 wrote:

hopefully the full run will be on amazon prime soon. thats not quite free, but close?

Heh, yeah, that's the brand of free I mean. I might have to pay. Bought the first, maybe I'll see how far I get before the missus comes home.