... will only be 6 episodes (WTF?!?!) As a fan of the series, this is tremendously disappointing, especially because Season 5 was such CRAP (see my comments here) and knowing that this is, most likely, the series' last season. Season 6 will begin on December 10th. Trailer:
I quit the books after book 5 (I think). Boring af. I need action in my fiction. I’ve only read one author ever who could write interesting political scenes, Joe Abercrombie (really good at writing women’s POVs too). The rest of them are snooze-feats.
Yeah, spending 4 hrs with Naomi last season without a resolution is not my idea of Must See TV. Did Bezos give the showrunner/authors a blank check and neuter all the TV execs who would've put a foot down on that boring mess?
The third trilogy (2 books in) is so interesting - obviously not going to be in this series. Time jump would be complicated anyway. Psyched for the new book coming out in 6 weeks. So this is legitimately "it" ?
I agree. Last season was such a snorefest. Killing off the sexual misconduct actor seems to be the highlight of the season. Nothing felt pressing or that any of our protagonists were in any real danger Naomi's storyline was sooooo eye rolling . . . . I guess because I kind of agree with the Belters Rocket River
I was bothered with how they killed off Alex. It just seemed cheap and rushed. I think they would've been better off letting him finish the season and give some other explanation at the start of the next season for why he wasn't there. That said I didn't mind last season. I liked how they did the meteor attack on Earth and Amos' story on Earth. I also liked Avasarala dealing with events from the outside of power on the Moon.
I've been trying to make The Expanse happen in my head since season 1. I've only really liked Season 3, the season before the move to Amazon. I still haven't finished season 4. The world building is great but the plot is so boring to me with all the stuff in the show. I know I was in trouble when they blew up millions of people in one of the syfy seasons and I felt nothing.
I am just now. catching up and the asteroid stuff was spectacular. Nedd to spoiler major plot points but I knew the possibilities when I clicked.
My problems with expanse are pacing issues and unnecessary plot fillers. They could've compacted the last two seasons with things people care about: Aliens+Holden and Amos (Avasarala+Bobby as palette cleaners for the Earth bits). Factions not trusting each other should drive those two things rather than take episodes to unravel. Aliens being the McGuffin for these three seasons is no bueno. Even this episode, I felt could've been in the last season rather than the 3 and a half hours of Naomi Time. No one likes the son. We all know that he'll either kill his father or will screw the pooch for the Rocinante to swoop in. I pretty much skip through his trash arcs now. Pacing and immediacy... Expanse don't got it. The style that they grab your attention is becoming predictable...
Yeah one of their slow showrunners is the co-author. He didn't learn his lesson when syfi shitcanned them. If they had the pressure of cancellation every season, it might've turned out as good as Babylon 5 with 1/2 or 1/3 the time
Pretty decent premier ep. I like it. Hopefully they get this **** going well because they got 5 more eps left.
I like the main characters. Along with the asteroid belt lady with the crazy/unusual accent. Along with the protomolecule/alien anything story. Otherwise as stated above the Naomi's son and all that is boring as hell to me.
I really enjoyed season 5, yeah they could have cut out some of the Mother/Son stuff and it was a bit too Naomi centric and not enough Bobby Draper. I really liked the throwing asteroids at earth stuff. I was really pumped to get into season 6 and then realized they were releasing them weekly. I will wait and binge I am glad Amos is back in the rotation the actor needs to be doing more stuff. I actually like how Julie Mao has integrated into the crew.
