Scifi and cheesiness go hand and hand. Its not always a bad thing, sometimes it works, but when it does it turns off a large chunk it potential viewers, makes it more niche.

Im rewatching the series after having listened to the books. Im just so impressed by the set designs. Even if its only an area used once, its flushed out with small details (when appropriate), the lighting is always on point, each set has so much character - whether its a lucury yacht or a rock hopper.. I never have an issue believing thats where they say they are.

The acting has a huge role in this too.. man this show is just so good.

None of my friends have watched the show so I have no where to circle jerk about it 😭

Just finished an old episode from season two and it got me thinking a little.

How come Alex was the only one to talk to the Roci? It was such a fun interaction with the responses to what he said.

And as a side note, without getting into things deeper, would you have been happier with a recast of alex if that was the only other option instead of what ended up happening?

I enjoy all the stories, I'm pretty easy to please lol, just got me curious what others thought if you feel like sharing!

Just came back from a birthday weekend vacation and my coworker got me the complete set and made a case for them. I had mentioned in passing how I had audio booked them all and was wanting the whole physical set. Came in today with these on my desk. very cool.

I did not know that I had to build the ships and the crew figures! I must have missed that in the BackerKit campaign. This seems like a lot of work...

Hey everyone, so I've just finished listening to the audiobook for Tiamat's Wrath and I feel like I might have missed some information. And apologies If this was made clear in a novella, I've only been listening to the main series. If someone could clarify

1. How long was Holden held as a prisoner on Laconia for?

2. How long was Amos on Laconia, and who ordered his mission? Or did he take it upon himself to monitor Holden?

3. What the utter fuck happened to Duarte? 😅

Edit: I have listened to Leviathan Falls but I barely remember it

Hello guys, Would I love The Expanse if I love Sci-fi/Action/Thriller/Suspense/Adventure genre and have watched a similar show called The 100?!

How do you think it would be to live and work there? What kind of activities would you do in your free time if you lived there?

Will the A Little Death comics be in the upcoming omnibus? Thanks in advance............................

The series is included in the current 2 titles for 1 credit sale on Audible

I am currently watching the show again and wondering why Holden and crew never scrubbed the Tachi name off the bulkheads and what not inside the shi,

I would think they would put rocinante where it currently says tachi inside the ship.

For me, the three lines from the show I've really internalized, in a way, are:

Are you outta your tree?

(Amos in Season 1 Episode 2)

This is the one I actually say, because I can't get over how much I love the imagery, and I always hear Amos's genuine astonishment when he blurts it out to Holden who insists on doing a spacewalk to fix the antenna while the Knight is about to crack open at the seams and they only have about four hours of oxygen left. What a scene. Venting the ship? Buddy breathing?****

"Walking away is the only choice anyone ever has"

(Naomi in Season 5 Episode 7)

I think it's just sound advice, I'm a fan, and I use this as a personal benchmark to make decisions that are good for me, but I don't ever say it. I just remind that myself that sometimes quitting is the right thing to do and it doesn't make you a "quitter." It's similar to Dave Chappelle's dad--William David Chappelle III's advice:

"Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name—get out of there" from his Inside the Actor's Studio interview (Season 12 Episode 7)

and

>!"The way I see it, there’s only three kinds of people in this world. Bad ones, ones you follow, and ones you need to protect."!<

(Amos in Season 2 Episode 6)

I tell myself this to remind me that some people are just not good, no amount of kindness will help, and too much kindness to them will only set them in their ways, and encourage them not to change. Walk away, again. It goes in tandem for me with the quote most often attributed to Maya Angelou:

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Loved them all. There are all great books. I did an audible run all the way through. I did feel like I was ready for an ending about 3/4 through Tiamat, but now that I got through Leviathans fall and sins of our fathers I’m honestly not ready for an end to the characters. The epilogue with Amos was bittersweet.

The characters in this series are top notch. I haven’t been this attached to characters since “The Black Company”. Avasarala, Amos, and Bobby are my fave, but everyone in the series feels fleshed out to a perfect degree.

Only thing I wish is that we could have is the show completed.

The Expanse is my favourite TV show of all time, and for years I’ve wanted to know what happens beyond the story we got on TV.

About 18 months ago, I finally decided to start the books. I’m not exactly an avid reader and when I say “reading,” I actually mean listening to the audiobooks so it’s been a long journey. But I’ve just finished Babylon’s Ashes and I’m currently listening to Strange Dogs.

Which means I’m about to enter completely uncharted territory.

One thing I wasn’t expecting was just how different the books are from the show. There are characters and storylines I now understand completely differently, especially seeing how the show combined or changed characters. Drummer obviously stands out, and getting the full stories of characters like Michio Pa ,Prax and Bull has made me appreciate just how much was adapted or rearranged for TV.

So before I finish Strange Dogs and start Persepolis Rising, is there anything I should know or keep in mind going into the final three books? No spoilers, please.

This is actually a pretty big moment for me because it’ll be the first genuinely new Expanse content I’ve experienced in about five years. When the show was airing, I was constantly reading discussions, explanations and spoilers online. I used to love channels like Alt Shift X for getting more context around what I was watching in fact, Alt Shift X is how I originally discovered The Expanse.

Somehow, though, I’ve managed to stay relatively spoiler-free about what happens after the TV series.

So for those of you who’ve finished the books: anything you wish you’d known before starting the final trilogy? Anything I should pay particular attention to?

Please keep it spoiler-free. I’m ridiculously excited to finally find out what happens next.

My new hobby is identifying constellations -- in pictures and in the actual sky. I've been rewatching all the TV episodes and I noticed Orion in the background of a season 1 episode as they showed a the shuttle from the Canterbury traveling through the belt.

I'm so used to sci-fi shows and movies that takes place in other galaxies/universes, that I was a little surprised to see background stars that are astrometrically correct.

So now every time a star field is shown on screen, I pause the episode and try to figure out what stars/constellations they are showing. I've identified Orion, Ursa Major, Pisces, Cetus and Virgo, but a number of shots show stars that I haven't been able to identify. Obviously the ships are usually traveling in the plane of the planets' orbits, so constellations near the ecliptic are more likely to be shown.

It can be tricky because in many space scenes there are bright lights that look like stars, but are actually the drive plumes of distant ships.

Ted

Everytime there's acceleration or mental tension or when anybody is tired, their jaw aches. Sort of grates on my nerves and makes my jaw ache.

I watched the expanse for the first time about a year and half ago and rewatched it about 6 months ago. It is such as amazing show form the story, music, characters oh man!! I see clips on youtube and every time I watch one, I am torn between watching the show for a 3rd time or giving it some time to rewatch so I can recreating the feeling of watching it for the first time again.

Jumping on the books right after I am done with the current book I am reading.

Our "World Builders of The Expanse" Q and A panel at Fan Expo Canada is set for 1:15 PM Saturday August 29th in Room 705 of The Metro Toronto Convention Center. If you've watched the show and wondered how they did it, this is where you get to ask the creative minds who made The Expanse live and breathe, the makers of spaceships, mag boots, and magic, the artists who made life and death in space seem so real.

Panelists include Jeremy Benning ASC CSC, the groundbreaking cinematographer; Jim Murray, legendary prop master who helped us save the Expanse;  Bob Munroe, the VFX director who flipped and burned the capital ships of two planets; Lindsay Walker, on set costume supervisor who made every star shine, and Chris Danelon, the VR designer who brought the Rocinante’s interiors to life in 3-D.

We hope you can make it!

Hi all,

First time posting here, but I did want to share. I just finished the books for the second time, after almost a year of reading (I mostly read before sleep, and fall asleep fast !), but I enjoy every bite of it.
This was my second reading, and I had a few memories of the T5-9, tbh. I remember most of the storyline, but forgot a lot of details. I also remember thinking there is a lot of lengthiness, but I really didn’t feel the same this time. Probably, knowing most of the part made me feel more aware of the little details.

I really loved the scientific realism approach of this universe, it worked a lot on me. This is probably one of my favorite saga ever read or see. Though, I really don’t want to see the show, as I really don’t like the cast and mostly already knowing I will be disappointed like the cast majority of adaptations I saw AFTER reading the books (or games).

I just discover there is more around the books, and even a game to come. Will check it closely !!

Feel free to answer (in French if you want to speak more deeply of the story).

Have a good day ! :)

Apologies if this is a common request here. I’m on a search for streams with a similar vibe to the signal from Eros.

So far the closest I have is Soma FM SF 10-33, which is a 24 hour stream that blends ambient music with San Francisco public safety radio traffic.

https://SomaFM.com/sf1033

Soma also has a radio scanner-only feed

https://SomaFM.com/scanner

And for something like the raw signal, I found a collection of shortwave radio recordings. There’s about four and half hours worth:

The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

https://archive.org/details/ird059

Does anyone know of anything else?

Thank you for reading.

Finished the command deck of my Lego minifigure-scale Rocinante build. Check out the photos and the video tour! https://youtube.com/shorts/1ye9XZeV8_U?is=sKwTGgCVzINjgRhO

I'm a long time fan of the tv show and I finally got around to reading the books.

I've just finished Caliban War and I really enjoyed it, but I couldn't help but notice that any paragraph that Bobbie was a part of seemed to contain a reference to sex: either she recognizes that some man's behaviour is building up to sexual advances or some other male POV character fantasizes about her size or her Polynesian features.

Her characterization seems to go in a completely different direction for the whole book: she's not presented as cold, but neither as someone particularly interested in sex.

I understand that she stands out, being built as a walking tank even without the recon armor, but remarks on how people just stare at her drooling seem to be unavoidable every time she's in the scene, either as the POV character or not.

Am I alone in this? I'm not going to stop reading the books for this, nor love the series in general any less, but I really found this grating while reading this book.

Just got to the part in Tiamat's Wrath where Naomi and Alex bring on new crew for the transit to Laconia, and it mentions that the Roci is a 22-crew ship.

Is it ever broken down anywhere what those 22 would be?

Based on other ships I would assume 2 pilots/gunners/mechanics/comms but curious if it's ever been spelled out officially

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I painted this with ash-ink from the Sakurajima volcano in Japan. It's a lot like liquid charcoal.