Just finished this.
Assessment:
>S1+2: Kino
>S3: Good
>S4: Eh. Good at what it's wants to do, but just too much of a slow-down at this point.
>S5 + 6: Close to kino again, though some of the Amazon rot is showing. Also annoying that they would introduce a new protomolecule plot in S6, one that had no real relevance to anything else in S6, and not finish it.
Best characters: Timmy + Camina.
Worst character: Marco Inaros (aka I exhale on every syllable)
All in all, glad I watched it. Felt different to most other sci-fi because I'd never seen anything that focused on intrastellar expansion like this. Are the books worth reading after the series? Do they offer more closure/exposition on the aayyys?
Any other shows in this vein you'd recommend?
>S5+6: close to kino again
OP have a nice day
*exhales* Not! *exhales* To-*exhales*-day!
>I MUST shit on the last season or two of show because of reasons!
The last 2 were enjoyable and interesting in their own way. People like you are sad, you can't just sit down and have fun watching something.
I stopped watching at the end of season 3.
I loved how the stakes went from "We must not only save earth, but all humanity" to "We must save this group of squatter's lithium haul"
Excellent webm, Monica was an annoying little shit that begged for a good hatefrick.
To be fair, S4 still had higher stakes than that with the structures etc. and throughout the series, small-scale altruism was always portrayed as an element of achieving good on a large scale. But yeah, the first three season built up to an intrastellar war and then all of a sudden we're focused on a planet, or rather a small settlement on this planet Western style. Weird.
The war was resolved. It was time to finally go through another ring to a new system and see what it'd be like for humans there. It's harder to make boring colonization and exploring a dead alien world interesting for an audience than it seems.
Yeah, that's a good point. I guess it was just too much of a slow-down for me, like that belter racer going through the ring. A side-effect of watching it all back-to-back.
I thought it was odd that after a war spawned by Mars stealth tech
-Earth only had a couple of satellites to detect that
-these satellites were all pointed towards Mars
-because somehow it was inconceivable that this stealth tech could ever get into anyone else's hands
-when this stealth tech was previously in the hands of a corrupt corporation?
The first 3 asteroids were coated in stealth tech, so the defense systems couldn't detect them. Once Earth realigned their stealth-detecting satellites, they pretty much killed everything until Inaros sent so many asteroids they couldn't cope anymore and some got through until they placed a whole bunch of ships that helped with defending.
and yet it's still the most improved season over the books, maybe only second to the first season
The Expanse looks boring as frick
there are some kino spaceship battle scenes
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Show peaked in season 2+3, you know it, I know it, everybody knows it. Season 5 and 6 are trash, with 6 only being marginally better because it had a decent finale and was a shorter season. They cut all the cool stuff out from the books, and focused on the boring shit. The show was better when they were working on a constraint at syfy because we got a little bit of everything. Also, frick them for removing Cas. They make it sound like he committed some grand sin.
Idk man. I agree with 2 being peak, 3 let me down a bit but it was still very high up there. I don't see how asteroids hurling at earth were boring in S5. I just thought it was a bit absurd that it was possible at all. And S6 was condensed and focused enough (except for that blunder with the dud torpedo) to be exciting. I actually felt they could've taken a bit more time with it.
What's absurd about the asteroids?
why didn't the UN railgun the asteroids? had mars destroyed earth's defenses by that point? it's been a while since i watched it.
>Also, frick them for removing Cas. They make it sound like he committed some grand sin.
His exit was strangely abrupt. Felt like it was a "I don't wanna do another season, just write me out."
What happened?
Cancelled for some sexual harassment thing. Unfortunate for the show. So many shows must dodge misbehaviors to save face AKA money.
I like that they included the Laconia parts in S6. It at least made me interested enough to want to see the rest of the story and get into the audiobooks and were indeed worthwhile. Most of the books are fairly close to the show except with some additional or merged characters. The last three have way more about the alien species. Both of them.
>Worst character: Marco Inaros
This. Dude was a total gay.
I can haz digits?
Shit...missed by a mile.
Of course, you do understand the cosmic implications of this post. Karma is apportioned by the cosmos, not by your wishes, desires, or commands.
Now, having said that, I imagine a 3-way between Drummer, Frankie, and me, where I am Anya or some other of the reader's choice.
Great effin' show, drummer and Frankie stiffed me up right proper, sorrows the guy was an ass who got hisself canceled.
That's all I have to say about that.
My brother in Stiff, Drummer and her fricking eyeshadow Epstein'd (drive!!!! not pedo!!!! I swear!!!!) me to heights of desire unknown. Frankie was a bit of a weird one at first, but then I looked at her bikini photos online and I was sold on that Samoan puss.
We're both into the dominant type, aren't we?
>Frankie was a bit of a weird one at first, but then I looked at her bikini photos online and I was sold on that Samoan puss.
it's all about the lips, her and that chick from that recent Predator movie AKA the swordswoman from Legion, would make a sweet huge-lipped lover set.
There's still hope someone else will pick up the show and finish the last three seasons. There is a large time skip in the story, so no problem if they look older.
I see, so the books do offer more. I might honestly just read those then instead of waiting for someone to pick up the show.
What I also liked about the show was that they made the effects of different gravitational strengths visible. Seeing a Martian vomit because of Earth's 1G or getting instructions not to be disoriented because of the blue sky or the sea meeting the horizon, and some belters being outright unable to exist on proper planets added a lot to the show. Or the effects of internal bleeding in zero G.
>What I also liked about the show
What I liked about the show was imagining Frankie clamping her large fake lips around Cara Gee's tongue.
Cara: I understand you have lots of implants and chemical and genetic modifications giving you super strength and coordination. Take me. Take me with the authority of ownership!
Frankie: Gladly!
I lay there, incapable of my own initiative, as Frankie held me, nude and insensate, as she explored my body. If I didn't want that, it was foreign emotion to myself. My big fake lips were fake, but fully sensate. Her even bigger fake lips wetly mashed against mine and we loved with the deep love of all eternity.
I don't get this, neither of them had big lips, Anon. If you're gonna be an autistic pervert, at least focus on things that are there.
Cara may be imaginings, but Frankie is world class in big lips.
yessir, bring it
Eh, I guess, yeah. For natural lips, they're quite supple. I'm just not a lips guy I suppose. What I like about Frankie is the way she can look very strict. Same with Cara, that tied-down hair-do and her strained pronunciation...Christ.
HK-47: "Huge fake lips have many wrinkles as the injected fat, stretching out the skin, fades away, making the wrinkles absorb spit like gravy in a Thai dish, gooshing all over your own lips and down your throat..."
And that's all I have to say about that.
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The only big one lacking is the crazy physical differences of Belter bodies compared to all other humans. Every Belter should look like the tall guy in the first episode. But of course, it'd be too cumbersome to do that
Hmm not sure I remember the tall guy in the first episode. I did think that if the slur for Belters is "Skinnies", and they need drugs to improve bone density, muscle strength and cardiovascular capability, most Belters should be physically inferior to Earthers and even Martians. And I think they actually realized that in the show, IIRC. Big, burly Belters should still be a possibility, because you can still do weight-lifting and cardio etc.
This guy. Avasarala has him brought down to Earth as torture since they can't stand Earth gravity. They're tall and elongated because they spend they're entire life in zero or low G. Naomi in the books is much taller than Holden as are all Belters. The show would be much different seeing these lengthy freaks everywhere
Aaah yeah I remember now. I think the average lankiness of Belters was kinda maintained from what I remember, but yeah, probably too costly to have done it like in the books. Too bad, would've made the whole Belter/Inners identity thing more intense. You read the books then? Before or after the show?
I got into the books after the show since I wanted to see what happened next in the story.
Ah, so I'm in exactly the same position as you were then. Did you read all the books from the start? Some Anon mentioned that up to a certain point, the show pretty much covers the books, so I'm wondering whether it's worth reading all of it.
it becomes shit as soon as it is about the stupid blue goo
First minute of the first episode
Horrible take. You'd be right if blue goo was suddenly all it was about, but it's not. It's always just an element and it takes a backseat soon enough.
Isn't there supposed to be at least one movie in the near future?
Never heard anything about that. The company that made all the series said they'd be open for more, but beyond that, idk.
Seems like it would be in production by now. Oh well
Gotta talk about that ride kid, next clue to the case.
Sad that he had to go. Not sure how I feel about him going out as a metal crab. Kind of fitting, kind of absurd, but I guess that's his style.