some episodes can be very dynamic, some are slow, the main thing is that they advance the story and this season definitely does it very well. Each episode adds details to the overall picture and in the end it adds up to a single whole, like the character arcs
The prostitute Gia made a particular gesture to Havelock: She touched to fingers to her lips, then to his chest. Two fingers to the lips is Belter sign language for a kiss. Notice that in the video where Julie knocks down the dock worker, that dock worker gives her the same gesture as she walks away. The ship knew Naomi was an engineer and automatically presented the engineering information to her. It can read their neck chips, and it has the intel on them that Lopez had. Artificial intelligence is there, just understated, because the story is not about AI. I'd watched this a couple of times before I noticed that the faux Bizi Bitiko's space Tinder tagline was "I'll be your sherpa." So, we know now that "sherpa" is gang slang for "data broker." I'd watched this three times before I saw the Belter taking the video of Havelock being spiked on his hand terminal.
Mysteries and answers, along with new mysteries. And yet the show is SO SATISFYING to watch. I do wonder what Naomi's plan was, she's smart as F, so she knew they had very limited options. My theory is that Amos was able to convince her that Tycho Station was the best option because after her initial reaction, she reconsidered. Again, super smart, but had an almost visceral reaction to Fred because of his past. I wonder what made her feel that way? Oh, and after all the rewatches, the Anderson Station sequence is still hard to watch.
Honestly I think they should have put the Anderson Station bit as part of the opening episode because it’s such an important part of the world building. It really sets the tone of the grim reality of Belter life.
There is a whole lot of foreshadowing in The Expanse. The result of that intricate plotting is that when something eventually happens, the event seems entirely likely and in line with what has happened previously and in line with the motivations and previous behavior of the characters involved. It is important that events be "predictable" in that sense, even if viewers almost certainly do not want to easily figure out in advance the happenings of the entire show. A good example of horrible writing and shockingly goofy events presented to viewers woud be the final two seasons of Game of Thrones when the show ran out of carefully written book material and handed over the scipt writing to hack morons. Nothing that happened made any sense and beloved characters began acting contrary to what we had seen in prior seasons. The book series upon which The Expanse was based were extraordinary. The producers, directors, and actors could all see that and loved working with such great raw material, and everybody gave their all, right down to the sound and lighting guys, and the people who built the sets. I think its the best thing ever presented on TV, and have never understood people who decided s.1 was "too slow" and gave up on the show. Then, again, I don't understand people who think the Transformer movies are the epitome of human creativity. I'm just happy that we can all find movies or TV shows to amaze us. I'm happy you've decided to binge the rest of Season 1, but as previously noted, the actual "season" doesn't really end until the story told in the first book gets wrapped up in most excellent fashion in s.2 e.5.
There is this difference between novels and the screen these days: Stories written specifically for the screen present extended action sequences and limited dialog and exposition. Novels give us limited action sequences and extended dialog and exposition. Some shows, like The Expanse and Andor, are novels put to the screen in that respect (and, yes, I know Andor was not originally a novel, but the screenplay was written as though it were).
some episodes can be very dynamic, some are slow, the main thing is that they advance the story and this season definitely does it very well. Each episode adds details to the overall picture and in the end it adds up to a single whole, like the character arcs
Everyone says to give it until episode 4 to see if you like it, my man got to episode 4 and said I gotta finish this right now 😂
and it did not disappoint
The prostitute Gia made a particular gesture to Havelock: She touched to fingers to her lips, then to his chest. Two fingers to the lips is Belter sign language for a kiss. Notice that in the video where Julie knocks down the dock worker, that dock worker gives her the same gesture as she walks away.
The ship knew Naomi was an engineer and automatically presented the engineering information to her. It can read their neck chips, and it has the intel on them that Lopez had. Artificial intelligence is there, just understated, because the story is not about AI.
I'd watched this a couple of times before I noticed that the faux Bizi Bitiko's space Tinder tagline was "I'll be your sherpa." So, we know now that "sherpa" is gang slang for "data broker." I'd watched this three times before I saw the Belter taking the video of Havelock being spiked on his hand terminal.
There are little things about the world building that you will miss for sure
Mysteries and answers, along with new mysteries. And yet the show is SO SATISFYING to watch.
I do wonder what Naomi's plan was, she's smart as F, so she knew they had very limited options. My theory is that Amos was able to convince her that Tycho Station was the best option because after her initial reaction, she reconsidered. Again, super smart, but had an almost visceral reaction to Fred because of his past. I wonder what made her feel that way?
Oh, and after all the rewatches, the Anderson Station sequence is still hard to watch.
Thanks for taking the show seriously. So many people want another Marvel product and this isn't that kind of thing.
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Honestly I think they should have put the Anderson Station bit as part of the opening episode because it’s such an important part of the world building.
It really sets the tone of the grim reality of Belter life.
I agree
There is a whole lot of foreshadowing in The Expanse. The result of that intricate plotting is that when something eventually happens, the event seems entirely likely and in line with what has happened previously and in line with the motivations and previous behavior of the characters involved. It is important that events be "predictable" in that sense, even if viewers almost certainly do not want to easily figure out in advance the happenings of the entire show. A good example of horrible writing and shockingly goofy events presented to viewers woud be the final two seasons of Game of Thrones when the show ran out of carefully written book material and handed over the scipt writing to hack morons. Nothing that happened made any sense and beloved characters began acting contrary to what we had seen in prior seasons. The book series upon which The Expanse was based were extraordinary. The producers, directors, and actors could all see that and loved working with such great raw material, and everybody gave their all, right down to the sound and lighting guys, and the people who built the sets.
I think its the best thing ever presented on TV, and have never understood people who decided s.1 was "too slow" and gave up on the show. Then, again, I don't understand people who think the Transformer movies are the epitome of human creativity. I'm just happy that we can all find movies or TV shows to amaze us. I'm happy you've decided to binge the rest of Season 1, but as previously noted, the actual "season" doesn't really end until the story told in the first book gets wrapped up in most excellent fashion in s.2 e.5.
There is this difference between novels and the screen these days: Stories written specifically for the screen present extended action sequences and limited dialog and exposition. Novels give us limited action sequences and extended dialog and exposition. Some shows, like The Expanse and Andor, are novels put to the screen in that respect (and, yes, I know Andor was not originally a novel, but the screenplay was written as though it were).