The Expanse is cool, clinical and smart - and sometimes the wooden performances amplify that in ways that should be bad, but often feel good? In a universe that lacks warmth, dialed-back, minimalist performances make sense. The Expanse feels like how I think a Mass Effect show could feel, if that ever comes to fruition and is somehow decent. Not everyone enjoys its metallic, video-game-esque color scheme, but I like video games, so I'm a fan. The show's aesthetic plays a similar trick. It's a show that's stubbornly carried by its strengths, to levels of quality it has no right attaining. Ultimately, The Expanse is a show about all these things, but places its uniquely crafted universe at its core, giving it a through line that lesser sci-fi shows don't have. Then it becomes a show about exploring strange new planets. Later, it's a show about alien technology and the arms race associated with that. It's hard sci-fi at all times, but in its first couple of seasons, The Expanse plays out like a murder mystery. The magic of The Expanse is how effortlessly the show flits between genres. Sick of being trampled upon by the "Earthers," the Belters are threatening revolution, but lack the power or resources to truly strike back at their oppressors.Įverything that occurs in The Expanse stems from the tensions between these three discrete groups. The wild cards are the Belters, residents of outer planets and asteroid belts who have developed their own Creole-esque language and, alongside that, a culture completely separate from the humans on Earth and Mars.
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But requires persistence, well worth it - it pays off during the last 2 books, where all of the earlier storytelling comes together very well for a finale ! Back to the reading order … Take time to read the series, you will enjoy it. (I could cite examples, but that would be a spoiler) You will enjoy when it happens and you can correlate to something you read earlier in a novella.
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Am sad that the series is over (except for Book #9 sometime this year).What I realized is that the series is not a replacement for the book, you should definitely experience both ! An interesting Burn Gorman & Ty Franck dive deep into THE EXPANSE’s new (season 4) villain - What exactly does Murtry want?Īfter reading #0-#4, I watched the series and skipped forward to #10 Nemesis Games.So, read the books and watch the series or better yet interleave them breaking the monotonyīut definitely finish #0, #1, #2, #3, #4 & #6 below before watching the series. The characters follow the thematic in the books - you will recognize them, but they are not exactly same.Whenever the show leaves Earth, neither the viewer nor the characters are ever unaware of the razor’s edge they stand on every second they remain alive.”
An interesting review points out “One of the things that makes The Expanse such compelling television is the way it makes space tangibly dangerous.“brilliantly crafted, multilayered plot” says one review. The series (seasons 1–4) covers the books mainly Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War and Abaddon’s Gate.During this memorial weekend, I binge watched the Expanse series - all 4 seasons ! Good use to defuse the Covid-19 tensions.
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