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The Expanse Season 5 |OT| Last Man Standing
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i actually don't think it'll be that hard to wrap up, personally, but it seems like they're going to leave it open ended for movies etc.
So did Amazon (or somebody else) confirm that season 6 will be the last season for The Expanse?
Yeah the belter accents always feel like they're just being made up on the spot lol. I still love the show though.
What happened to the 'skinnies' from that opening episode? The belters born in zero g who were basically long and thin? Are they supposed to be very rare in the world of the expanse, or just too expensive to feature?
What happened to the 'skinnies' from that opening episode? The belters born in zero g who were basically long and thin? Are they supposed to be very rare in the world of the expanse, or just too expensive to feature?
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A while ago yes.
As far we know it was Alcon's (the production studio) decision ultimately.
Season 6 will be book 6, with possible deviations according to the writers.
Too expensive. In the books, Miller and and Naomi are also very tall and lanky, for example.
Interesting, I didn't know they'd changed that for the TV series.
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He's an Earther in the TV series, isn't he? Don't we meet his 'parents' on Earth, where he was raised, when Avasarala visits them? And they're hippies of some sort?
It's been a few days but I can't stop thinking about how fantastic that last episode was. The way they framed that final sequence to be her committing suicide with the airlock was just so intense and heartbreaking. This show has had the occasional heartfelt moments in the past but I don't think any of the previous seasons compare to what we've seen of Naomi in season 5.
Up to 15-20sec is survivable. It happened in books also, TV version was a bit cinematic.
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It's been touched upon on the previous page that it could well be feasible taking into account what we know about how the human body deals with the vaccum of space in real life and the potentialities of Belter physiology and 24th century technological advancements.
Avoiding posts in this topic actively, but wanted to say that I just finished season 2 of this show, and it's fucking AMAZING. Was bored out of my mind the recent week or so, and a good friend of mine recommended me to give this show a shot. I tend to dislike pretty much any sci-fi shows I've seen, mainly because they often skew towards being absurdly cheesy and badly made. This one turns all of that upside down and runs with it; it's quality throughout and I feel like it's hitting all of its beats very nicely. I'm hooked like a druggie on heroin.
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If you go back over the last few pages you'll see there's been lots of discussion of it. It's surprisingly doable actually, the authors did their research before including it in the books.
I listen to Bald Move's Expanse podcast (as I imagine others in this thread might), and they seemed to be of the impression that, given what happened to the Zmeya in the last episode, the protomolecule sample is now a goner. I must confess I wasn't paying enough attention to what the ship had been up to, but surely that can't be right? It would be such a narrative letdown, given that it takes a lot of the stakes out of Marco's whole insurrection. Surely, if his Free Navy no longer has the deterrent of the protomolecule available to them, Earth and Mars can just overpower them with sheer force of numbers? And sure, we are still invested in the conflict because Naomi and the rest of the gang's lives are at stake, but it would take away much of the epic scale political interest of all this, wouldn't it?
EDIT: Should also add that I've really been enjoying this season, it does feel like it has more of an emotional punch to it, these last couple of episodes have been intense as fuck and I bet there's more to come.
EDIT: Should also add that I've really been enjoying this season, it does feel like it has more of an emotional punch to it, these last couple of episodes have been intense as fuck and I bet there's more to come.
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Unfortunately there is only one Doug Jones and he's busy.
Edit: Also I really wish Jared Harris would come back, it feels a bit odd to never see Dawes in this conflict. I know he's busy with Foundations, but Giancarlo Esposito manages to be the villain in multiple shows at the same time. If only Harris can spare a few days.
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The last torpedo has a blue light and it immediately flickers out.
E: Which I'm pretty sure represents the blue flame of the Epstein drive like ships have.
See above regarding the protomolecule, but just to address this part - even completely ignoring the protomolecule, Marco is in a much better military position than it might seem just from the political perspective.
There's three reasons for that.
Firstly, in purely numerical terms, the advantage isn't necessarily with Earth and Mars. The majority of ships in the system are Belter-run or majority-Belter-crewed (regardless of who nominally runs/owns them). If forced to pick a side, those ships are more likely to pick Marco's side than to side with Earth and Mars (though many will also want to stay neutral). The bulk of those ships won't be armed initially, but arming them would not be difficult, and even a civilian ship with a few gunnery arrays can be combat-effective.
Secondly, Marco's got a lot more freedom to manoeuvre than Earth and Mars do. Most of the volume of the solar system is closer to an OPA (or former OPA) outpost than to Earth or Mars. Marco can go from anywhere to just about anywhere else, whenever he pleases. Earth and Mars, on the other hand, are currently stuck mounting operations from Earth and Mars, making them much more visible and placing heavy logistical restraints on what they can do.
Finally, the worlds that Earth and Mars are settling beyond the gates all needed resources to start up - including at least a few ships to get everything there and presumably at least one ship for each world to defend against piracy (and realistically, one would not be enough - each of those new colonies should have a small fleet to allow them to stay defensively ready). That means a lot of the firepower that Earth and Mars would have been able to call upon is now sitting two gate trips away, and in times of war, the gate stops being a convenient transport hub and instead becomes an easily-defensible killzone.
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Something I don't understand and maybe someone can help me. The proto-molecule built the gates, and the Proto-molecule itself was created by this super old (and now extinct species). This species had a bunch of these gates constructed that allowed them to span the Galaxy, and they used a hub space to connect all these gates. There's also some other alien entity that fought this alien species and wiped them out.
What I'm confused about is Holden stating that the second aliens could be mad that they (humans) are using their gates. The gates were formed by the Proto-molecule, so how can the gates belong to the eye of Sauron looking aliens they encountered last season?
What I'm confused about is Holden stating that the second aliens could be mad that they (humans) are using their gates. The gates were formed by the Proto-molecule, so how can the gates belong to the eye of Sauron looking aliens they encountered last season?
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The angry aliens seemingly don't like the technology of the gate builders or the upstart new species (us) using that technology.
I think maybe it's a little bit of bad grammar.
The 2nd Species might have gotten pissed at the 1st species intrusion into their "reality" with the gates, and proceeded to do whatever it was that killed the 1st species.
"now we're using their gates" is talking about the 1st species. We using the same gates that got the 1st species killed by the 2nd, and the 2nd species seems to be waking up, going by how Holden thinks is happening.
Holden states when he goes through a gate he sees/feel them... and they are getting more and more angry. So one can assume us using these gates make something happen to these entities.
I see. Yeah when he said "their gates" I was confused because I thought he was referring to the second aliens, and then was left wondering if the first species came across some gates and Proto-molecules and then used them like the species in Mass Effect kept discovering and then using the mass relays.
Thanks for clearing it up.
It's basically the equivelent of this
Alien 2 wiped out Alien 1... and now because nobody is around to contest their claim to Alien 1's Technology, Alien 2 has claimed it for themselves.
It's basically the equivelent of this
Alien 2 wiped out Alien 1... and now because nobody is around to contest their claim to Alien 1's Technology, Alien 2 has claimed it for themselves.
Wait.
Alien 1 - Created the rings
Alien 2 - Somehow killed alien 1 since they didn't like them entering their realm or something
Alien 3 (us) - Hurr durr let us use theeeeeese riiiiiiings
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Alien 1 - Almost godlike beings
Alien 2 - Even greater, but more volatile
Alien 3 (us) - Bipedal apes poking things with sticks.
Ha yeah. They seem to be pure energy or something like that. But it is insane how they could kill Alien 1, who, on their own, destroyed whole solar systems to stop Alien 2. How?
I live for that shit.
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That seems beyond the scale of The Expanse, and something more suited to Ty and Daniel's next science fiction book trilogy which will be more fantastical in nature.
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It'll be set in a different universe.
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The Expanse author James S.A. Corey is writing a new space opera trilogy
It’s separate from The Expanse
www.theverge.com
Seems like they're taking inspiration from the likes of Dune, Hyperion and The Left Hand of Darkness.
NiceIt'll be set in a different universe.
The Expanse author James S.A. Corey is writing a new space opera trilogy
It’s separate from The Expanse
Seems like they're taking inspiration from the likes of Dune, Hyperion and The Left Hand of Darkness.