If you're going to have two straight episodes where basically nothing happens, you should probably not limit your season to ten episodes. I guess the part with Amos escaping under fire was kind of fun, but there's very little of galactic importance. Also, the bad guys are so cheesy, like whoever the evil Inaros lackey is on Drummer's ship - no nuance there.
Also Naomi's kid is a ####ing moron. Teenagers are dumb, but they're not this dumb.
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If you're going to have two straight episodes where basically nothing happens, you should probably not limit your season to ten episodes. I guess the part with Amos escaping under fire was kind of fun, but there's very little of galactic importance. Also, the bad guys are so cheesy, like whoever the evil Inaros lackey is on Drummer's ship - no nuance there.
Also Naomi's kid is a ####ing moron. Teenagers are dumb, but they're not this dumb.
Yes they are. See: Tide Pod Challenge.
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Touche... but I still don't buy that the kid is dense enough that the line "she left us, both of us, again" would actually work on him. First of all, he knows perfectly well that Naomi hates Inaros. She tried to kill Inaros several days prior. And as for leaving him, she was perfectly happy to stick around until you told her you were going to murder all of her friends. And you feel betrayed that she left after that and tried to do something about it? That's actually made you more angry than the assumption that she tried to kill herself?
If Phillip is that stupid, he should simply be euthanized regardless of the outcome of this whole adventure.
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I'm really wondering how they wrap this all up in one season.
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They appear to have set up the Duarte/Laconia storyline very heavily at the end there. I wonder if we get a time jump at some point in the last season? Unless they take the whole Laconia storyline a different way. 10 episode final season, we get maybe 3-4 dealing with Marco and the rings making ships go Dutchman to finish him off and then a time jump of maybe only 15 years (for TV) and Laconia being a beast. But wrapping that all up seems tough with only a 10 episode run. Come on Amazon, give us 15 episodes or something.
Alex going out like Fred in the books with the stroke out, I'd have to assume they filmed that after the allegations came out about Cas Anvar.
Loved the space combat, it had been a while since we saw a real "slobberknocker" on the show. That shot of the Donnager class battleship getting wrecked at the ring from the sneak attack torpedoes was epic.
I'm really wondering how they wrap this all up in one season.
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They appear to have set up the Duarte/Laconia storyline very heavily at the end there. I wonder if we get a time jump at some point in the last season? Unless they take the whole Laconia storyline a different way. 10 episode final season, we get maybe 3-4 dealing with Marco and the rings making ships go Dutchman to finish him off and then a time jump of maybe only 15 years (for TV) and Laconia being a beast. But wrapping that all up seems tough with only a 10 episode run. Come on Amazon, give us 15 episodes or something.
Alex going out like Fred in the books with the stroke out, I'd have to assume they filmed that after the allegations came out about Cas Anvar.
Loved the space combat, it had been a while since we saw a real "slobberknocker" on the show. That shot of the Donnager class battleship getting wrecked at the ring from the sneak attack torpedoes was epic.
Wow! Two great fights in one episode. They delivered on the space action after the so many were clamoring for it. At this point if I were Monica, I'd never set foot on the Roci again, guaranteed they're gonna go on a kamikaze run with her aboard.
The show runners have said they aren't going to be adapting the future content post book 6 content into season 6 so we don't have to worry about them cramming too much in. Ty Frank has been heavily implying on Twitter they're working on some post book 6 movies.
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For season 6, my guess is the Free Navy's gonna score more victories around the belt on Ceres, Michio taking command of Medina station, FN attacking Ganymede like in the books and wrap up mid/mid late season with Delgado making a push out for UNN/MCR and Marco finally getting defeated and ending off the season w/ some teasing of what's happening in Laconia when they retake Medina station. I wonder if Prax or Anderson Dawes shows up again or whether their parts will just get cut.
With Alex, you could totally tell Alex got offed by reshoot what with him just frozen there and the CGI blood. Real shame they had to do that cuz the character was so much better on screen than the books.
it was great to have all the slow moving chess pieces come together like that, for sure made the buildup worth it. perhaps the only downside to the approach is I'm not sure about the re-watch value of the season in general leading up to the finale but on the whole I think it had far more memorable scenes than S4.
the demise of Alex was done as well as could be expected given how late into post-production they must have been when the decision was made. I was expecting him to just disappear between seasons with some hand waving explanation that he went home or accidentally took a wrong turn out some random airlock. it's sad cause it's still not the type of send-off a core character would normally get, but it helps that they're having to jump straight into the next crisis right away, with no time for a funeral scene or grieving. a bit ironic that Naomi's attempt to save him by making the trajectory sync more difficult is what ended up killing him.
the way that Martian warship broke down into red mist sure didn't look right. I'm guessing the protomolecule murderers are waking up and are not happy. speaking of which, I don't know how the Martians knew that protomolecule could be used for terraforming. so far here's what we've seen it do:
- create monsters
- make an asteroid sentient
- build wormhole
- break the laws of momentum and nuclear physics
- make a giant burrowing machine move around
unless it spoke to that scientist and gave him clues, that doesn't seem like enough evidence to take up an agreement to betray your own planet and build a paradise elsewhere. regardless, I'm sure it's going to work out wonderfully for them.
I can't follow big battle scenes, whether it is spaceships, or superheroes, or WWII. I can never really tell what the hell is happening.
it's easier when it's x-wings, tie fighters and star destroyers with their distinctive sci-fantasy shapes. I find that in the Expanse most ships look very similar regardless of faction (because that's what works in a realistic setting), and they don't use much artificial camera lighting. we're actually lucky they aren't too crazy with the realism because then we'd get super long range space battles between ships nearly invisible against the blackness of space, and complete silence even when engines fire up or torpedoes explode.
I can't follow big battle scenes, whether it is spaceships, or superheroes, or WWII. I can never really tell what the hell is happening.
Its worse with the Expanse because of how they try to be as true to the universe as possible. You got them doing battles at extreme ranges and its gonna be hard keeping up with what would be specks of lights of enemy ships. Like the ranges for their weapons are 10,000km for missiles, 1,000k for rail guns, 1-5K for PDCs. Couple that with the speeds these things are moving at the battles aren't as easy to follow compared to the dogfighting close ups ppl are used to from other Hollywood Sci-Fi movies. But it's what you get when you put an Physics and Electrical Engineer grad in charge of the show demanding these things. lol
I had to slow things down a lot to catch what was happening when the Roci blew by the Koto and then the Serral Mal.
My Roci has landed! Totally thought my kickstarter would be vaporware, but it actually came through! Extremely impressed with the build quality and the drive even lights up.
Spacedock also released this breakdown for the final episode battle.
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