The Expanse (Amazon) [** Spoilers **]

Thats the beginning of the plot of the last 3 books

You won't be completely lost but some characters particularly Drummer are nothing like the TV show.

TV show Drummer is mostly book Michio Pa mixed with book Drummer and book Baca

I wonder does making a movie change the funding model. Often in movies now you see it's a co-production between about 10 different companies and countries. Might be easier than doing it through Amazon or whoever

I was rewatching all the important protomolecule episodes and had completely forget Miller existed.

Ya but he seemed so integral a character and looking back now on the books and TV show its odd how little influence he had on anything

Ya true. The episode where Eros get infected is really good and they few episodes after where you dont know whats going on

My favourite bit of the whole thing is still that scene with the the Agatha King ship and the mutiny within the Earth Navy and Martians watching it unfold.

I can watch S1-3 on repeat ahaha, Miller (Thomas Jane) was the main character to me for protomolecule story (i guess that would be expanse's origin part) - basically he is what i remember when i think of The Expanse ha (we binged S1-4 in one go). He directed 1 or few episodes in S4 iirc.

Thinking back S1-3, the main crew was ok, I thought other characters outside of the crew (even the villains) were carrying the show hard back then heh - they were building the characters and story and world setting anyhow while it was so enjoyable and refreshing to see all the details they put into this show.

After 6 seasons, my favourite characters would be:

(Miller no1 actually ha) Avasarala, Drummer, Amos, Alex, Holden, Ashford, Bobbie - and actually the preacher girl and the asian scientist stood out so much to me i remember (and of course actually Jared harris ha). The characters truly are alive in this show.

I would have loved more Dawes.

ahah, i can fully understand that. Technically she is the miller of the 2nd part of the show (S4-6), she already has strong presence in S4 and then her character going through hell (growth) especially after fred johnson was killed. Honestly Belters faction was rather annoying in early seasons, Drummer kinda bring the balance to the show on all factions. Hell yeah a very critical character and damn I hope she will get some cool roles in TV/movies.

Yes yes fully agreed too that he is rather disposable aha. But ya I just like him being there, his interactions with the crew give me 'feels good team' warmy moments - these 'feels' actually felt genuine and in turn it helps to make the show 'real' to me. Ya technically he is kind of like a filler guy to the audience, i like that part ha.

Alex's arc (if there is one) is honestly worth the screen time as well (linking us to Mars), and those fighting moments while he piloting are some of the best in the show (well of course the battle scenes are mostly good to begin with ha).

And his death was actually beautiful - we were reminded on the high risk being in high G - this setting basically was non-existent since the beginning and then bam, oh sh!t we forgot about this super dangerous science huh, reminding that all the flights are actually at high stakes.

SA: Any time, if they give me a call and tell me they’d like to do another series or a movie. There are still the final three books and I think the idea is to turn it into a movie, like two and a half or three hours maybe. There are millions of people out there who would like to hear the rest of the saga."

I can't be the only one who heard that with her voice?

I wondered about the zombie child that showed up on Laconia & then we never heard about again. A friend who's read the all the books gave me the same answer as above.

It might be poison not cancer but either way it's caused by her implants which are causing something that it said will kill her. Holden has to take meds for the rest of his life which won't work on Peaches because she can't take out the implants.

I might have been reading too much into the Bobbi one. I also think not killing anyone in the last episode is weird unless you are holding out hope for more.

Ironically when they got cancelled the first time Cas Anvar was one of the main sources of energy behind the campaign to get it back

A small spoiler for the main plotline of the next book in the series (book 7) for those who are interested

Nah the stuff we are talking about needs a lot more than the 3 or 4 episodes that may have been cut.

Amazon wanted 8 episodes in the final series but the producers reduced it to 6. The stuff that 'went nowhere' is setting the stage for the later material in the later books.

I could watch them on the Sky box version of the app.

I've only just got a chance to watch the last episode. Really enjoyed the series, but my overarching feeling is that I've left the books for too long (must be 3 or 4 years now).

Think the last one I listened to was 5 or 6. No idea who Duarte is or the whole story about the healing dogs.

For me, The Expanse is my favourite TV series since Star Trek the Next Generation. The books are the best I've read/listened to since The Magician and that Raymond E. Feist series of books.

I will no doubt rewatch and relisten to everything. Bravo to Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham, top class Science Fiction. And kudos to everyone else involved in both the books and visual shows. Please, please let there be more......

There's a Youtube channel that summarises every chapter in each of the books. I read book 8 when it was released and needed a refresher for book 9.

Very handy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx7glhHPkyg