JZL

I'm not sure what to think of Sarah Sherman's WU bits. I guess they're OK. She has this 60's thing channeling Shirley Partridge and Judy Carne. I just don't know why. Are the ratings numbers out for this yet? I bet this might be the season nadir, and they haven't been so good this year.

Måneskin oughta be a trip.

I really liked the CO even though it went on a bit much. The studio audience seemed to be loving it. Someone stifled a shriek of laughter. Can Kate sing? Have people already forgotten this? However, the monologue duet wasn't very good to me. They weren't trying to be funny-- just a mugging musical circle-jerk. WU is so much better when Che doesn't laugh at his own jokes. Was it me or does the Bleachers lead singer look like the comedian Mark Normand? Where was the fist pump?

I guess I can peak at the book wiki now, but I wonder if Laconia was some sort of stay-true-to-the-books thingamajig. I just can't see them using those little segments as some sort of trailer for a spin-off or movie that may never happen. What the hell is it with these six episode seasons? et tu, South Park?

TBH, me, too, and that one is Delany's break-out novel. Go figure. He won a Hugo for Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones, a short story, which was very good, but it's been decades since I read it. I also read Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, which was good, and The Einstein Intersection, which wasn't. Regarding the above mention of Martian Time-slip, iirc that would be hard to put on the screen, but in the hand of the right sfx guru, it might be pretty interesting. Or maybe they could cell-animate it like A Scanner Darkly.

This is a head-scratcher to me, too. The rings are dangerous, but let's go to great lengths to create the Transport Authority. Maybe they're safe if you send in just the tip? Er, I mean, low amounts of mass/energy? Seconded. Also, if like Michael Dorman from that show, you might try a little known off-beat dark comedy called Patriot, in which he stars, also on Prime. It's "double-great." I'm curious, what suggestion was that? Me, too, but it would have been too easy from a plot point of view. Plus it needed to be either Filip, Naomi, or Drummer. I also thought for a second Filip might shoot TBS right between the eyes, but that would have also been too easy.

Same here. The first actual book book I ever read was Have Spacesuit, Will Travel, and I watched every episode of Star Trek TOS the night they aired. I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up. One of the appeals of this show to me was its basis in old-timey sci-fi-- rockets, space stations, ray guns. Abraham and Franck once said Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (1956) was one of their inspirations for the show (e.g., the book starts with a lone person trapped aboard a disabled spaceship). Also, I liked that the story was apparently confined to the Solar System as was much of early sci-fi. That's why the end of season three blew my mind. At the end of s3e13, I said aloud, "So that's why they called it 'The Expanse!'" Triton by Samuel R. Delany features, as a thematic backdrop, a war between the moons of the outer planets and Earth, and it was one of my favorites as a teen. (FWIW, it's themes on gender identity and sexual mores were waaaay ahead of its time for a book written in 1976). Admittedly, Delany can be a tough read but I still strongly recommend this one. So it's little wonder that The Expanse is my favorite show of all time. I guess I'm lucky I'm one of these people who can watch loved shows and movies over and over, plus I've only finished the first book. I'm also lucky this show has one of the best fanbases ever, what with this forum, to a lesser extent the Discord channel, and of course, we saved The Expanse! 🚀 Jeebus, I sure was wrong about that fackin' Laconia storyline. 🤪 They could have done the relevant parts of that with two minutes of Duarte-TBS communiques spread across all six eps, right?

Welp, it's over. There's no reason left to watch any more TV. I guess I'll have to take up the cello or something.

Why the Expanse is ending after six seasons. Not a lot we don't already know. There is some discussion that a spin-off may be possible sometime but it's up to Alcon. It also has a brief video interview of Tipper and Strait which I quit watching as it was mildly spoilery.

You should watch the e5 X-Ray video if you haven't. It's entitled "Remember the Cant." Again a weird notion, but maybe the ring space is involved with the disposition of this nearly-forgotten nuke? FTFY = fixed that for you.

That's been true all along, and is another reason to love the show, as is the ethnic cultural diversity. For some reason this reminds of what a bad-ass the captain of the Donnager was, as she calmly said to her XO-- also a woman-- "I didn't think we could lose," right before they keyed its self-destruct.

I swear I read one of the show-runners say the last episode would be longer, but I can't find it. Unlike previous seasons, which included 10 to 13 episodes apiece, Season 6 features only six episodes, only one of which extends past 45 minutes. [From a story by The Ringer site] Actually, three of the episodes have already been a little over 45 minutes, so hopefully e6 will be a chunk longer. Now I don't know why, but I thought it would be a half hour longer. I guess we'll find out. One of the other themes from that story is that the show-runners were patently aware they had to cram a lot of story into a smaller time allotment, that they knew audiences expect shows to stick the landing at the end, and that they felt they'd met the challenges. I feel better about this after e5 than I did after e4. Episode 5 rocked. I guess we'll find out.

FTFY. 🙃 I think I need to re-watch the end of Season Four to refresh on what the Angry Burnt Sienna Mist Stuff did then. I guess I'm befuddled that the ring space nearly blew up the solar system when it was being attacked and it didn't like the ships' reactor cores, but it's OK with the ring core being strapped down with six mega rail guns. 🤔 TBS's plan all along was to control the ring space so he could be a galactic emperor type dude and also level up and reign more havoc on the Solar System. I have this weird idea that the rings get locked and TBS ends up being trapped inside the ring space, but that would gum up other plotlines, like Laconia and the Chrissy-Camina alliance, so probably not. They also probably won't let Holden become a second-stringer for the grand finale, either. 🤔🤔 Damn I love this show. 🚀

This is why The Expanse is my favorite show of all time. That and the rocket ships, space stations, rail guns, space battles, the proto-molecule, the ring, the ring-builder killers, space-racers who splatter their heads trying to get into the ring while Highway Star blasts in the background, little space dogs that bring birds and little kids back to life (sorta?), etc, etc. Of course the Avasarala-Drummer scene is epic and great, but it was short and slightly predictable. We finally got what we wanted. To me the real show-stealer was Alex and Bobbie's drunken tour de horizon where they deconstruct Holden, war, good and bad, and what really matters. Then we're left with this little mini-cliffhanger with the best line of the show, "With you? Or with you?" Alex, stupidly, is too drunk to care. Bobbie's bottle is pretty damned near empty; she may be too drunk to care either, so who knows? Lastly, Cara Gee as Drummer, the spin-off surprise smash hit of 2023! Come on, Prime Video-- you know ya wanna!!

One can only hope for more content later, but that's very rare once cast and crew disperse and sets and props are stricken. That said, it probably happens more often these days than it use to. BSG, Breaking Bad, and Deadwood are examples off the top of my head, and soon GoT. It'll be interesting to see where the people in this production go after, but that's for another topic.

Yes, it'll be over. There is a remote chance for more content later, but this is almost surely the end. You may or not be aware of the Save the Expanse campaign that helped get Amazon to pick up the show after the Sci-Fi Network cancelled it after the third season. I also understand that this season takes us up to the end of the sixth book, Babylon's Ashes, and there is a 30-year gap between its events and those of the seventh book, Persepolis Rising, so it's a natural place to end the series. Having not read beyond ~ a fourth of the second book, I don't even know if Persepolis even has the same characters as the show and first six books.

Can't we just have Drummer push Marco and his evil man-bun* into that burnt sienna swirly proto-plasm stuff and be done with him? Isn't the real pay-off solving the problem of who killed the off the ring-builders and then our gang doing something about it?** Are we then done with Miller after the Season 4 finale? Didn't he need a ride from Holden because he wanted to find out, too? Harrummph. *or evil man-boy-son? ** Do we need the Robinsons and the Robot from Lost in Space here? DANGER, JIM HOLDEN!

It's already on Hulu, as well. It sure doesn't seem like it's been over ten years already. FWIW, her segment on the William Shatner roast was epic.

I'd hoped the Marco storyline would be resolved by now. I'd wager that Babylon's Ashes spent more time with the Laconia/protomolecule storyline than the series has. Had Clarissa told Bobbie what Holden had done, she would have been obligated to relay that to Avasarala, One can easily imagine her reaction-- she'd probably space Holden herself. Holden should pass fire-control to Bobbie at this point. I still have high hopes about the series ending in epic fashion; more at the level of Breaking Bad than GoT*. I know they have to follow the books, but if the series ends with a turd, I'm probably less likely to read the books. * As Breaking Bad neared its finale, you just sort of knew it was going to kick ass. As GoT came to a finish, you had a pretty good idea that it wasn't. Unfortunately, this feels more like GoT's ending. We'll know soon enough. It's sooo tempting to peak at the book.

To whoever asked, one of the higher-ups has said that at least the finale will be longer, iirc closer to 90 minutes. I can't recall if he/she mentioned ep5 (or where I read or saw that). You know, the belters are always low on air, food and water. I wonder if the Tynan crew will cook up a little arm roast.

I'm sorry, it didn't occur to me that X-Ray isn't on smart TV's. I just happened to be on my computer. Anyway, looks like the webisodes are only Season 6, but I may go back and watch the Aftershow videos from S4 and S5. imo, the two with Avasarala and Bobbie + Amos are great, the other two so-so. I wonder what the source for these is; from the books, cut scenes, or whatnot. It looks as if the actors really got behind them.

Is anyone looking at the extra content available via the X-Ray controls in the upper left of the screen? In Particular (at least in Season 6) there are little five minute webisodes for each episode. Additionally, also in the extra content secion, each scene is separated so you can jump to each scene in an ep, there are stills from within the scenes and behind the scenes, and little trivia tidbits. E.g., Dummer's eye tattoo takes five minutes to apply, but her smokey eye make-up takes 45 minutes. Apparently, getting the castmembers in and out of the vac-suits is a major undertaking.

It's probably in Jeff Bezos's garage. 🚀

If anyone commented on the last scene where Medina station reports to TBS that one of their ships is approaching Laconia and is about to commence "operational testing," I missed it. The report also referenced earlier similar missions. FWIW, that SG6 ship or whatever it was looked somewhat aerodynamic, which implies it can land. This likely involves some proto-molecule bad-assery. This part would also explain why they've been parsing the Laconia storyline-- it's only now starting to converge with the main one. It's also interesting to imagine the interplay of the strange dogs' powers with the powers of the proto-molecule. The result could be something god-like.

He was interviewed in relation to his induction and said he's obligated to run the show through season 50 and said that might be a good time to get out. It may be old news but it's the first time I'd heard that. I always thought Tina Fey would be the natural successor.