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: 2020-01-19 08:13 pm (UTC)Oh my gosh, yes. Every time they were on the screen together I declared out loud to Mr. Shadowscast how much I loved them! They're both wonderful characters, and they had developed such a great dynamic. Alas indeed.
all the suspense was EARNED, not just pulled out of nowhere
So much this!