Anyone gotten to the end of season 3 of The Expanse?
POSTED BY: Wishimay
UPDATED: Monday, August 31, 2026 14:51
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Your idea of a conversation, like too many people, is to tell us all about yourself.
So, tell me about yourself Sec.
What do YOU like about Expanse?
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Season 4 coming out in a couple weeks, squee! I need something to watch...
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December 13th
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Done. It was a decent season, but from what I've seen on comment sections a lot of people said Cibola Burn was a slow, hard, mostly transitional book...and I would agree. There were two episodes that were pretty sluggish, but still mildly interesting. I did hit the fast forward a couple times though.
They look to be setting up for the interesting bits for a season 5.
1. Hated Naomi's hair.
2. Glad they didn't kill off Amos, he reminds me of Hubby 
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Apparently, the next books are set 30 years in the future. Wonder if they will keep to that. Maybe in the future with all the tech they age slower. Just throw in some grey hairs and call it a day??
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Originally posted by WISHIMAY:
Done. It was a decent season, but from what I've seen on comment sections a lot of people said Cibola Burn was a slow, hard, mostly transitional book...and I would agree. There were two episodes that were pretty sluggish, but still mildly interesting. I did hit the fast forward a couple times though.
They look to be setting up for the interesting bits for a season 5.
1. Hated Naomi's hair.
2. Glad they didn't kill off Amos, he reminds me of Hubby
One ep left in Season 4 - been binge watching from mid season 2 over the last week. It is a great piece of work imho, the production design and execution alone are worth every minute. I read the books first, long ago, but have not read past Babylon's Ashes. SyFy scum made it hard to keep current with the eps if you missed any and I missed a few (didn't have it on series - my fault) - and others were re-aired out of sequence. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah...
Thank gawd for Amazon. Season 4 has been a seamless match to the others. Disappointed in where they took Bobbie's character but will always enjoy her beating the crap out of men (or women) who deserve it.
The sets on New Terra were perfect. While I read Cibola I wondered how they would handle so many elements of the story visually - they were all A+ imo. The proto molecule creator sets were amazing. Remember, we're dealing with budgets that have killed other scifi shows. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah...
There's so much new science in these that I love just picking those out and enjoying. The computer graphics, 3-D modeling, Daddy wants now. Accurate long distance space travel - mwaa!
Amos - I did not like the show's Amos at first after reading the books and getting use to that one, but now he's my favorite. Wes Chatham has a great talent for the dry, dark, deadpan comment, lol all the time.
"Who desecrated the Martian flag!"
"I did."
"Did you think it was funny?!?"
"Well, not right now."
Naomi - yeah - her hair! F*cksake, they have made her too normal.
I can't wait for season 5. I think I will read the remaining books first though - can't not. Looks like there will be 9 of them. I have 2 more to go to catch up to the last one:
7. Persepolis Rising - December 5, 2017
8. Tiamat's Wrath - March 26, 2019
9. Unnamed final novel - TBA 2020
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Originally posted by captaincrunch:
Amos - I did not like the show's Amos at first after reading the books and getting use to that one, but now he's my favorite. Wes Chatham has a great talent for the dry, dark, deadpan comment, lol all the time.
He was in the last season of The Unit -which if you haven't seen- was a damn fine show too. We actually bought all the seasons but the last one. They were supposed to finish it up with a movie and never did. It had a killer intro song.
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So with season 4 having dropped on Amazon Prime, I took it upon myself to go back to the start and binge the hell out of this series.
I started watching it, as it was out a few years ago, but got distracted and never picked it up again.
I like it more than I love it. And I do really like it. But save for a few spots here and there, it's been mostly solid viewing, while lacking a really WOW factor.
I keep waiting for Amos to explain how he's so street wise yet there's little to no history of him - officially. He's kinda like Shepard Book. Lots more to his back story than being a mob boss, a petty king on a petty hill with delusions of grandeur. Lived ( worked ?) in a brothel in his youth - guess like those Boy-whores in Heart of Gold. He acts more like a Madam, with inside knowledge of the business... Was he sly? He tends to favor the women folk, at least so far.
But to the point, there's a few ( very ) things which I've yet to understand.
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Where'd the designer of the Epstein drive end up? Did I miss it? Because last I saw, he was testing it and blasted himself away, never to be heard from again.
How are the belters so beleaguered and put upon? There's far more than enough mining material in the asteroid belts for all to be wealthy. This permenant worker class stuff just doesn't sit well w/ me.
Also, alien tech opens up a gigantic Star Gate of sorts, and instead of going where it's KNOWN folks can find work, they high tail it into the unknown? If that ring closes up, then where are they? Stuck on the other side of the galaxy, or maybe entire different galaxies. This makes no sense. Our solar system can't be SOOO full and crowded as to drive folks into the great abyss , just for a chance at fiding work. No way.
A door opens up like that, by parties unknown, it's taking DECADES of probes and studying before anyone is allowed to go set up camp.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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So with season 4 having dropped on Amazon Prime, I took it upon myself to go back to the start and binge the hell out of this series.
I started watching it, as it was out a few years ago, but got distracted and never picked it up again.
I like it more than I love it. And I do really like it. But save for a few spots here and there, it's been mostly solid viewing, while lacking a really WOW factor.
I recently did the same - I'd agree, no particular WOW factor, more of a bunch of things that add up to really liking it, glad we have more. Also: did you ever watch Andromeda? That was tv scifi for a while, so just in terms of how far we've come in sophisticated sets and visuals and tech you can believe it's impressive as hell. Remember how the cost of FF's sets gave Fox a reason to not renew? Maybe it was an excuse, but glad for whatever reason the production is top shelf on this one. I am enjoying it a great deal for the escapism factor.
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I keep waiting for Amos to explain how he's so street wise yet there's little to no history of him - officially. He's kinda like Shepard Book. Lots more to his back story than being a mob boss, a petty king on a petty hill with delusions of grandeur. Lived ( worked ?) in a brothel in his youth - guess like those Boy-whores in Heart of Gold. He acts more like a Madam, with inside knowledge of the business... Was he sly? He tends to favor the women folk, at least so far.
That should be the next season, and o-boy, the effects department will be greatly tested as well. I am looking forward again to how they solve some really big questions from the story in the books.
ETA: there are a few novellas for the series, and one of them centers on Amos’ background, appropriately titled The Churn. At Amazon and probably “free” online somewhere as well.
As for your spoilers:
1. dunno
2. Gotta have miners and gotta have class warfare plot lines.
3. See great land rush of 1889 - who wants to be an employee when you can be a Bossman, sassa? Also: reckless adventure is a human trait.
4. Stuck
5. Allowed? How would you police that much space? Season 4 has an Oklahoma scenario that addresses that.
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5. Allowed? How would you police that much space? Season 4 has an Oklahoma scenario that addresses that space?
So the same alien 'intelligence ' which ghosted 100,000 men, women and children on Eros before it impacted onto Venus opens a stargate of sorts to a bunch of new system
Didn't seem like much time had passed, to do a thorough investigation into things like will the gate stay open, where do all the portals lead, and are humans just flying into a galactic buffet table, while being the main course?
Mining chances or not, I'd like to know. At least early settlers had some idea about Indians, and the help of the US Calvary to come to their aid, maybe, if things got too dicey. Oh well.
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