The Expanse
Jan. 5th, 2020 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowscastHappy New Year, everyone!
So, Mr. Shadowscast and I have been loyal and happy Netflix subscribers for many years, and that's been our only TV-ish thing. We're not "cord-cutters," we're "cord-nevers"—we never had cable in the first place, because we always thought it was too expensive for what it was. Now that the streaming services are multiplying, we're cautious that we don't want to end up piling a bunch of them on top of each other and suddenly find ourselves paying as much every month as we would have if we'd ever had cable.
But we decided to subscribe to Amazon Prime Video for January and February so that we could watch The Expanse!
We watched the previous seasons on DVD, but man we were not ready to wait that long to watch the new season. We love it so much; it's our favourite thing of the things that we currently watch together!
Mr. Shadowscast has read the books, and I have not. (Which is a reversal of our usual trend.) So he knows some things that I don't. He's trying to convince me to read the books so that he can talk about the things that have happened in the books but not yet in the TV series. I'm not opposed, but I have quite a to-read pile in front of me already.
Anyway, we finished season 4 today.
Omg cliffhanger, yikes. I'm not at all confident that this show is committed to not destroying Earth. None of the main characters will be on Earth when the rock hits it, anyway.
But also: wow, I just love the show so much. The characters are all so rich and distinct, and I don't agree with a lot of their choices but all of their choices make sense in their context, which is a thing I really respect. And the universe they live in feels so textured and complex and gritty and lived in, and all the little background details just build it up and up.
It's not a show I'm really interested in fanfic-ing, since it's an open canon with a complicated plot still in progress. But I do confess that every time I finish watching a season, I go to AO3 and read one or two short Alex/Amos stories, because I just plain need to.
So, Mr. Shadowscast and I have been loyal and happy Netflix subscribers for many years, and that's been our only TV-ish thing. We're not "cord-cutters," we're "cord-nevers"—we never had cable in the first place, because we always thought it was too expensive for what it was. Now that the streaming services are multiplying, we're cautious that we don't want to end up piling a bunch of them on top of each other and suddenly find ourselves paying as much every month as we would have if we'd ever had cable.
But we decided to subscribe to Amazon Prime Video for January and February so that we could watch The Expanse!
We watched the previous seasons on DVD, but man we were not ready to wait that long to watch the new season. We love it so much; it's our favourite thing of the things that we currently watch together!
Mr. Shadowscast has read the books, and I have not. (Which is a reversal of our usual trend.) So he knows some things that I don't. He's trying to convince me to read the books so that he can talk about the things that have happened in the books but not yet in the TV series. I'm not opposed, but I have quite a to-read pile in front of me already.
Anyway, we finished season 4 today.
Omg cliffhanger, yikes. I'm not at all confident that this show is committed to not destroying Earth. None of the main characters will be on Earth when the rock hits it, anyway.
But also: wow, I just love the show so much. The characters are all so rich and distinct, and I don't agree with a lot of their choices but all of their choices make sense in their context, which is a thing I really respect. And the universe they live in feels so textured and complex and gritty and lived in, and all the little background details just build it up and up.
It's not a show I'm really interested in fanfic-ing, since it's an open canon with a complicated plot still in progress. But I do confess that every time I finish watching a season, I go to AO3 and read one or two short Alex/Amos stories, because I just plain need to.
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Date: 2020-01-06 01:20 pm (UTC)It is so *fucking good*!
I'm mid-season-three rewatching right now, since it's been ages (saw four already). I could not adore the cast/characters more, I don't think. One of those super-rare shows where you *actually like* everyone, and root for them, and enjoy them.
The women, especially, rock: Bobbie and Avasarala, Drummer and Naomi, Anna...all the different women Marines Belters and ship captains, *Julie*.....
I love the Belter creole, and how committed the show is to getting that in there in a natural way, and I love how good the science is.
The books *are* very awesome. I'm waiting on the last published book to come (Xmas pressie) in the mail so i can dig in, heh. They have done a *marvelous* job of compacting several huge books, with tons of story, into something very tight and consistent and true to the books.
I'm so pleased you're enjoying it! :D I won't spoil you for anything, if you comment about it, promise.
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Date: 2020-01-07 03:32 am (UTC)I mean, I definitely never liked Murtry, though by the end I did at least get where he was coming from.
But yeah, this show has a gift of making me like bunches of characters who are working completely in opposition to each other. The show never lets it get down to "the good guys" and "the bad guys" in any simple way.
The women, especially, rock: Bobbie and Avasarala, Drummer and Naomi, Anna...all the different women Marines Belters and ship captains, *Julie*.....
Oh my gosh, yes. All of them, so much, but especially Avasarala.
I love the Belter creole, and how committed the show is to getting that in there in a natural way, and I love how good the science is.
Yes! Mr. Shadowscast and I often go into gleeful rants about how faithfully this show respects physics—the difference between getting g's from spin and getting them from thrust, in terms of what's going to be the floor of your ship; the speed of light, and what it means for communications lag, and how that affects a back-and-forth conversation with the moon; the way that being injured in zero-g can absolutely suck.
The books *are* very awesome.
Gah! Must tackle my to-read pile! (But writing fanfic slows down my reading something awful, and writing fanfic is so fun...)
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Date: 2020-01-07 03:57 am (UTC)I love it when something I love makes other people squee, too. :D
*twirls you*