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Ethe expanse books12/27/2023 ![]() ![]() To be noted: Syfy is adapting the books as a TV show. And despite all my niggles, I've enjoyed reading them and I will read the next ones. From the fifth, a new plot begins that will be solved along the next four volumes which are already planned. The first four volumes constitute a complete story. And in that case, The Expanse fills really well that need. But sometimes you just want to read a story with big space ships that shoot at each other. The plots are decent, the characters manage to evade the Firefly aftertaste as the series progress and the whole is cohesive. It could be food for thought for a teenager but if you're an adult it's a bit of a light weight.īut that's the point of the series: it's just an entertaining space opera with a strong hint of scifi noir in the first volume. There's a vague theme about freedom of information, how big bad corporations are big and bad. It doesn't always work.īut at least is there a larger significance to the series, some sort of ethical or political theme? No. But from the second volume, you can feel the authors are really trying to include characters who aren't white heterosexual males and to avoid stereotypes. The first volume can't pass the Bechdel test. There is also an awful lot of stereotypes. I always have trouble imagining that in 4 or 5 centuries society as we know it will be identical. I've had trouble with that because this far away future is exactly the same than ours, apart from some changes in the political instances. The series takes place in a far future when humanity has colonised Mars and some asteroids. Nonetheless, in the latest published volume, the technique makes much more sense. Ok, why not? But it doesn't always serve a purpose, particularly in the first volume when the characters start to share the same events. But most get better as the books progress. The Expanse airs Wednesdays on Amazon Prime Video.Let's face it: I've found many awkward things in this series. "It's a translation, it's not the same thing," he says, "but it's an aesthetic and a dedication to the process." Besides, if fans get a top-tier show out of it and it makes the novels even better? Everybody wins. "He has made me more aware of how important it is for me to pay attention to the sentences, and the paragraph brick, and the sounds of the words, and all of the minutia in the writing."Ībraham is quick to point out that writing a novel and scripting a TV show are two different disciplines. " made me more aware and self-conscious of the places that maybe I was slacking off a little bit that maybe I shouldn't slack off," he tells Looper. And then they accrete over the process of making it to a thing that's just amazing to watch."įor Abraham, that was a wake up call. " watching him go through and spend the time in color correction, and spend the time in the sound mix, and do all of these tiny, almost invisible little things that improve the show, maybe one percent, maybe two percent. "The thing that has informed my process most from this is watching Naren care about minutia," Abraham says. As Abraham notes, "We got to have his experience with psychosurgery and having his contents physically removed."Ībraham also highlights some of the memorable scenes between Cortázar and the Rocinante's heavy, Amos Burton, as places where the show improved on the text: "I think those two characters have a lot to say to each other, and they just didn't wind up in the same place at the same time in the books. Introducing Cortázar into the story earlier let viewers experience his story from a new angle, and allowed him to interact with characters he didn't get to meet in the books. "The thing that really stuck out to me was in the second season, when we got to include Paolo Cortázar, who's from a novella called The Vital Abyss and doesn't really come into his own in the series until pretty late in the game."įor those of you who need a quick refresher, Cortázar was the character played by Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, who studied The Expanse's mysterious protomolecule and had his empathy surgically removed. "There were a bunch of things that the retelling allowed that were fascinating," Abraham shares. In fact, Abraham thinks there are a few things that worked even better in the TV series than they did in the books, thanks to both the show's tweaks to the timeline as well as the unique opportunity to tell a story for a second time.
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