The Expanse (Books / SyFySeries)

[BurtReynolds]

Does anyone watch this show without having read the books?

I was watching the battle between the Roci and the Pella, and my family was in the room. They didn't say anything, but I was wondering if they understood at all what was happening.

Torpedos fire. PDCs shoot them down. Ship spins and takes a shot with the rail gun. More torpedos. More PDCs.

Does any of this make sense to someone who hasn't read through a battle scene in the book?

I haven’t read the books. For me, it’s the visual aspect. All the ships look too samey, like Transformers do in the live action movies. I wouldn’t be able to pick the Roci out of a lineup.

A big problem Ive had since the beginning is the design of the Roci.

[B]

Does anyone watch this show without having read the books?

I was watching the battle between the Roci and the Pella, and my family was in the room. They didn't say anything, but I was wondering if they understood at all what was happening.

Torpedos fire. PDCs shoot them down. Ship spins and takes a shot with the rail gun. More torpedos. More PDCs.

Does any of this make sense to someone who hasn't read through a battle scene in the book?

I haven’t read the books. For me, it’s the visual aspect. All the ships look too samey, like Transformers do in the live action movies. I wouldn’t be able to pick the Roci out of a lineup.

I don't know if reading the books helps that. I don't know what the Roci looks like either, and I've read, like, 5000 pages about it.

[Ensign9]

I’ve always found most of the space battles confusing. Too few establishing shots setting up context. During the final battle in the finale, I didn’t realize they had entered the ring space until the Roci was making its run on the outer edge of it. I attribute this to their limited budget (with which they still do an admirable job).

[spike]

Ensign gets it.

[B]

Torpedos fire. PDCs shoot them down. Ship spins and takes a shot with the rail gun. More torpedos. More PDCs.

Also, in the book, I seem to remember spinning the ship to take a shot with the rail gun was a major thing, never done before, has to be flawlessly timed, will the physics work?, will it break our necks and make us pass out?, etc.

In the show, it just seemed like a normal part of fighting.

[Simple Torture]

The AltShiftX podcast has a 2-hour interview out with the writers of The Expanse. I've listened to the first hour so far, which covers the last season of the show--I'm not a show watcher, but it was still interesting. The second hour is all about the end of the book series, really looking forward to that.

[Simple Torture]

Final novella (along with a novella compendium) is out there. Takes place in a non-earth system after Leviathan Falls. Gonna give it a go tonight!

[Ensign9]

I got Memory's Legion yesterday and got through Drive and Butcher of Anderson Station (have never read any of the novellas). Great stuff but I have to resist the urge to go straight to Sins of our Fathers and rip through it.

[Simple Torture]

I got Memory's Legion yesterday and got through Drive and Butcher of Anderson Station (have never read any of the novellas). Great stuff but I have to resist the urge to go straight to Sins of our Fathers and rip through it.

I had a friend make sure to tell me to read the novellas as I was going through the novels, I am glad I did. I read the new story in 2 sittings. It was good!

[B]

What's the one about Amos? The Purge or something like that.

[Simple Torture]

What's the one about Amos? The Purge or something like that.

The Churn

[B]

What's the one about Amos? The Purge or something like that.

The Churn

Yeah, that was a good one.

[Ensign9]

Finished. The novellas were all really great. Bittersweet to be done. I hope they get to do the final three books onscreen and knock it out of the park. I'm not ready to be done with this universe yet.

[CopperTom]

Telltale is making an Expanse game!

[CopperTom]

The entire series on BluRay is on sale for $44 on Amazon. The final 2 seasons were finally released, but it's cheaper to buy the entire series.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I miss this show

[B]

If you're looking for a good book series about big space travel. I enjoyed We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor.

Very different tone, but it's all humanity spreading out into the stars sci-fi.

[Simple Torture]

I tried to get into the show, but it looked real cheap to me, and I just couldn't get over that. But the books were just great start to finish. They have a new book series starting in August of this year, and I'll certainly give it a shot: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/title ... cy-of-gods

[Ensign9]

I tried to get into the show, but it looked real cheap to me, and I just couldn't get over that.

You could tell they had a limited budget but I think they did pretty well with what they had. It never looked cheap to me.

[E.H. Ruddock]

This show did ship battles in space better than probably anything I’ve seen