The Expanse

Book spoilers re: dogs

If they were gonna announce any further plans I feel they would have done so during the live-tweet this evening.

All the comments from the various actors / producers / writers makes it sound like this is indeed the end... They just made sure to put all their toys away so they could bring them back out again later if need be.

Maybe they will wait to let the actors age a bit? Since people live longer in the future they could probably make a good case for them being 30 years older in 5-10 years.

yeah i deleted seasons 5-6 from my NAS, i'll rewatch 1-3 anytime. They are fucking fantastic and ironically all from SyFy. 1-2 episodes of 4 are ok near the end. 5 & 6 are extremely mediocre where nothing important happens.

Season 6 is at least short. Well, I fast forwarded every time Filip, Naomi, or Marcos were on screen so that shaved like 2 hours from a 5 hour run time lol It was basically a movie! A boring movie.

The showrunner said the only reason the Laconia scenes were in season 6 was to keep the protomolecule link around. Jesus, what a stupid reason.

Cybsled said:

Book spoilers re: dogs

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They come into play in book 7. Basically, the dogs are some type of protomolecule repair drones. They repair living and non-living things. Xan (and eventually Cara) become resurrected by them, which gives Duarte/Corisar the idea to use it to basically grant immortality so Duarte can become a god emperor IRL.

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Deathwing said:

I wouldn't call them insane. Laconia isn't cartoonishly evil. I would highly recommend reading the books if you want to see the continuation of this story.

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I second that. The Marco Inaros part is mostly a huge filler episode in a series of otherwise very interesting sci-fi, and Laconia is the main antagonist of the entire series so it'd be a shame to stop yourself at the series' apparent ending when it's so much better afterwards (though I still think the first couple books at the best of the series but that's because I really liked the investigation aspect with Miller).

I've subscribed to Audible and just began Persepolis Rising. If you're an Amazon Prime member you'll get 2 free credits.

Was a huge fan of the giant rail gun this episode. Sucks this is the last of the series for the foreseeable future if Im understanding you guys correctly.

Rewatching all before the final season. Damn this is the best sci-fi series ever.

stop at season 4 lol

nah its fine to finish but one huge recommendation season 4-6: skip any scene where you see Naomi, her stupid kid, or Marcos Inaros. you'll shave like 30% of time and not miss a thing

And here I was thinking I was the only person who fast forwarded through even Marcos' scenes. What a cliche caricature of an antagonist.

The dialogue and the characters got worse and worse as the series went on other than Bobbie and Amos. Avasarala is probably the worst of all of them in that regard. It was a complete flanderization. Going from swearing here and there to make the character feel more authentic and "down to earth" to just always swearing at everything.

I'm still sad they killed Holden's blonde girlfriend in S1E1. Clearly it drove him crazy

I finished season 6 in one night, and I was ok with it. The nuke thing was so fucking dumb though. Please tell me that isn't in the books.

The disarmed warhead? Pretty sure that was in the books

Wouldn't it be Marcos baby mama? For Filip it would just be mama...