The Expanse is so packed, so tightly paced, that when I finished watching it and connecting lots of dots I wanted to go back and watch it again to pick up the stuff I missed the first time. I’m up to the third book and I’d rather be reading than writing about reading right now.
#The expanse books vs tv series
This is a masterclass in transforming a book series to screen. She visits Holden’s family on Earth, she meddles, she sees the prisoner, we follow her around. If Syfy are planning a Game of Thrones style series (more story, less fucking and no mutual masturbation to provide action during soliloquys) then it makes sense that the woman shows up in the series because it gives continuity and, the way they’ve written it, it gives context. Interestingly, the Indian woman in the series doesn’t show up until the second book, when she’s a key player in the plot. You kind of pick that up on the series with the guy being tortured Earthside in violation of the Geneva Convention. That is, the Belters who’ve lived outside of a planetary gravity well their whole life are really tall, skinny and have big heads. In the book people are still people and people are still racist dicks but on paper there are some visible differences to help explain how they know who’s what ‘race’ to be racist about. In the series, people are people and racism makes as little sense as racism everywhere.
#The expanse books vs tv tv
I enjoyed the TV series so much I burned through season 1 and I’m still waiting on season 2 because Netflix are dicks and don’t give all the shinies to Australians at the same time they give them to the rest of the world. I may be a little spacey: I may not be in space but I’m on painkillers and I’m in pain and I have 2 more weeks to wait (1 week by the time this is published) until surgery so why take shit seriously?Īnyhoo, the first book, Leviathan Wakes, covers about the first season and a half of The Expanse, according to ‘sources’. She appears occasionally in the TV series, making no sense and not fitting in with the other action until quite late in the series. The missing girl, Julie, is trapped in a space ship. (It looks a bit like a fedora for those who, like me, give no fucks about fashion.) He is devastated when his mining ship is blown up while he and a few friends are answering a distress call.Ī hard-boiled alcoholic detective, Miller, is on a space station trying to keep the peace, investigate a murder and find a missing girl. Holden is a bit of a dick but also a nice-ish guy. James Holden is XO on a dump that mines ice out near the gas giants to provide oxygen and water to colonies in the asteroid belt, where humans are called ‘Belters’. It’s so successful that Syfy turned it into a TV series called The Expanse. This story began as a book series, beginning with Leviathan Wakes. The story is set a few centuries in the future when Humanity has settled Mars and the asteroid belt but international politics is just as fucked as it is today. Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away…
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