Ok that makes sense, were those the Martians who threw in with Marcos? I would love some Expanse movies, they could be badass. Maybe this is good that they ended there because it seems not enough stuff go boom was gonna happen any time soon. Which was already an undercurrent of this season. The space battles where always good that's why I think they could make movies.
Yep, those were the rogue Martians that sold to Marco. They got wind of the alien graveyard from the scientists and beelined for that colony. The space battles were a gem in this show. Their depiction in keeping the physics as real as possible was eye candy. Seeing the rounds tear through ships like cannonballs with minimal explosions was beautiful. I wish the show could go on.
The Dora stuff was from the Novella following the 6th book. They had included other stuff from the pst novellas as well such as the guy who figured out the Epstein drive.
Started watching Season 6 and haven't read this thread since the first page. I'm holding off reading more to avoid spoilers I'm through the first 4 episodes and so far pretty good and better than seasons 4 and 5. Having read the book that much of the events of this season deal with I'm looking forward how they tie a bunch of threads together in the remaining two episodes.
Final season was really good, those last two episodes are going to leave you wishing they would have just continued the series... Hopefully it comes back, TWD is on season like 12..... Its been dead for years and thou a totally different genre The Expanse deserves to continue...
So I stumbled across some of these videos by an astrophysicist going over some of the science in The Expanse. It makes me appreciate the show's realism even more. He has a few more videos on the show and they're all a fascinating watch.
Also thought the Camina ****ing Drummer arc was well done. It was like she retired, finally paid off a boat, livin free and wild with her orgy family, then her mentor gets capped and her trainwreck of a soulmate is knee deep in ***** creek. They really saddled her with the hard choices. Spoiler Was wrong on how Fillip turned out but still mostly skipped his scenes. Holden disabling the warhead is Holden-esque (to the point only Bobbie could laugh about it after hard drinking) but yeah, I think people would hate Holden more than respect him if half his moves didn't pan out...like the person we need but don't deserve, yada yada The end reminded me of a certain show where wormhole aliens saved the day and stopped an invading fleet. The villain commander goes nuts when his kid dies. Maybe they flip the last bit. Flip...get it?
Finished it last night and good ending. Having read the book Babylon's Ashes which most of this season is based off of I already anticipated the ending but wanted to see how they handled it. I'm glad to saw wasn't disappointed and visually one of the best space battles I've seen. I do have a couple of criticism though. One is that the B Story is interconnected from the main story. One of the great things about Season one of the Expanse are that the B and A story, Miller's investigation and James Holden's going from 2nd officer on an ice hauler to the most pivotal person in the system come together. The two stories are on parallel tracks that ultimately reinforce each other. The two stories in this season never come together or even relate. Spoiler The events on Laconia are interesting and become much more important in later events given how short this season was and this is technically the last season I found them distracting since there is no resolution, followup or even explanation of them. Having read some of the books the later books focus on what happens with Laconia and that story takes over. For this format they either should've found some way to tie what happens on Laconia even more back to the events in Sol or reduced it much more. Besides that enjoyed season 6 a lot and hope they come back. Spoiler In the books there is big time jump after the end of the events shown in Season 6 to the next book. It gives an easy break to reboot the series and if they wanted to bring it back with different actors. The later feel of the series changes from the hard science to more speculative and fantastical as the technology of the Ring Builders and the aliens that destroyed them plays more of a role.
I think they did the Laconia bit with an eye for continuing the series, I don't know if I would like it as much if the took out the space battles, those have been one of the biggest highlights for me. Now I could get into a show just showing the colonization but that would be a big difference from what I like about exspanse. The one thing I am going to miss is not getting a full explanation of what happened to the aliens who built the rings.
The Laconia storyline is actual essential to the leadup to season 6, hinted at in season 4 and a big part of season 5. Not spoilering since this is season 4 and 5. In season 4 when Bobbie finds out that members of the Martian military are selling equipment to the Belters that is the group under Duarte that eventually goes to Laconia. In season 5 Marco Inaros' group steals the Protomolecule sample form Fred Johnson on behalf of the Duarte's renegade Martians. They trade that along with the scientist from Season 2 who had been working on the Protomolecule to Duarte for Martian ships and technology. As shown at the end of Season 5 Duarte intends to activate and learn to use the technology left on Laconia by the Ring Builders for his own benefit. Following the events on Illus they know that Ring Builder technology can be activated by Protomolecule even if it is billions of years old. I'll spoiler his part since it's in season 6 Spoiler Duarte gives Inaros the rail guns on the Ring Station but then abandons Inaros telling him he is not going to get any further help. This is because Duarte needed Inaros to tie up the UN and MCRN while he was getting established at Laconia. At Xan's funeral the scientist tells him that that they've gotten a response back which means that they've got the Ring Builder tech working. At that point Duarte doesn't need Inaros anymore. For the Cara and Xan storyline that part isn't directly related to events happening back at Sol so while I think it was necessary to talk some about Laconia I'm not sure they needed to spend so much time on the kids. In the books though it is stated that the "dogs" that Cara talks about are actually biomechanical repair robots activated by the protomolecule.
Great write up, I need to go back and watch it, was a little confusing what all was going on in those last 2 episodes. Don't know if I would like the bringing things back to life angle, but it would be interesting to know some of how it was accomplished. But like I said, that would be a bit of a different show from what I liked.
I guess that's spoilers in case the show gets picked up again. Didn't watch but zombie boy is a lot like Julie Mao. Not sure what the dogs are but don't have real interest until word of a revival to do the last three books come along
What happens in the last 3 books that makes it so interesting? I really need to read the books, but I have not read an actual book in a long time.
