![]() The crew of the Rocinante, along with members of the OPA, attack the station responsible for the biohazard on Eros. The crew of the Rocinante, with Miller's help, investigates and eventually discovers a biohazard that kills off most of the humans on the asteroid Eros, including Julie. ![]() They rename the ship Rocinante, which becomes the main setting of the series. James Holden, Naomi Nagata, Alex Kamal and Amos Burton survive both attacks and escape in the Tachi, a Martian gunship. The space-freighter Canterbury and the Martian Navy flagship Donnager are destroyed by unknown stealth ships. ![]() Ceres police detective Joe Miller is sent to find a missing young woman, Julie Mao. The three largest powers are the United Nations of Earth and Luna, the Martian Congressional Republic on Mars, and the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), a loose confederation of the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.Ĭhrisjen Avasarala, a United Nations executive, works to prevent war between Earth and Mars. Hundreds of years in the future, humanity has colonized the Solar System. Main article: List of The Expanse episodes Season Ahead of the fifth season's release, Amazon renewed the series for a sixth and final season in November 2020, which premiered on December 10, 2021. It received a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and three Saturn Award nominations for Best Science Fiction Television Series. The Expanse has received critical acclaim, with particular praise for its visuals, character development and political narrative. It follows a disparate band of protagonists- United Nations Security Council member Chrisjen Avasarala ( Shohreh Aghdashloo), police detective Josephus Miller ( Thomas Jane), ship's officer James Holden ( Steven Strait) and his crew-as they unwittingly unravel and place themselves at the center of a conspiracy that threatens the system's fragile state of cold war, while dealing with existential crises brought forth by newly discovered alien technology. The series is set in a future where humanity has colonized the Solar System. Technically, the TV show is another draft and I am unsurprised to find that the work improved with more editing and/or the re-writes provided by experts in characterization.The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, based on the series of novels of the same name by James S. Every character on the TV show has a third dimension: the villains, in the books, might as well be cardboard cutouts with "bad guy" written in crayon on them. That character is a billion times more interesting on TV. One book character has the trait of "likes coffee" it is mentioned a half-dozen times per novel, it stands in for a catchphrase, it is a crutch that hides the character's blank-slateness. The books are, IMO, not particularly well written their main strength is the repetitive and simplistic characterizations. Flashbacks.įWIW, the characterizations of the TV show are vastly superior to the books. To do that on TV requires.many more steps. For example, in the midst of a tense situation, a book character can remember a similar situation, contemplate the similarities to the current situation, and then apply action based on information revealed 'in their own head'. It is easier to write characters than it is to show characters: internal monologues can show a book character's backstory. I guess I just think creating high stakes, building tension, and setting smart professionals against each other is interesting enough. Are we supposed to believe that people who have to live and work together in a confined bubble in space can't get along? Or that the fight won't be interesting unless someone makes an obvious error?ĭon't get me wrong, I think the show looks great and has built out the world in some interesting ways. It's indicative of how a lot of conflict is portrayed on TV. Which is why it irks me to see so much infighting, incompetence, and general freaking out on the show. Only specific characters get to be wild or hysterical: civilians, criminals, or weirdos. They authors' frequent descriptions of the forced calm that comes over their speech in battle is part of the voice of this world, which I tend to find pretty convincing. They are competent and professional, especially during violent confrontations. They love each other like family, respect each other's skills, and take care of each other. Nearly every character is part of a crew, and the crews are almost invariably tight-knit and professional. And while I find the story compelling, what really gets me to point of saying "I love these books" are the characters and their relationships.
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