His quirk is that he has no quirk basically.
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His quirk is that he has no quirk basically.
Book Amos looks absolutely nothing like show Amos - he's fat and bald and described as looking like a giant baby. But Wes's interpretation of the character is incredible.
Except for being James "Fucking" Holden and doing the "right thing".
Except for being James "Fucking" Holden and doing the "right thing".
At first he reminded me of ‘one’ in Dark Matter, but as times gone on it’s been interesting watching a dude who basically wants to fuck off and be a trucker with his mates become increasingly angry that the universe basically won’t let him be. That’s his thing. Normal dude, who would likely really benefit from owning a shed, just keeps ending up knee deep in stuff because he basically refuses to look the other way for a quiet life.
So its Die Hard in space
I always enjoyed the space-battle sequences where they pay off that he's a (war-)college-boy. Like the one in the middle of this season, as soon as the Pella committed, I was all, "Who will win? The moron who gets by on good looks and a delusional lack of understanding of his own mortality, or the guy who has academy training in how-to-win-a-space-battle, with far more effective equipment than he expected to have, who's also horny for out-of-the-box tactics?"
Actually, it occurs to me that Holden is probably who Lee Adama would've turned into if the world hadn't ended on BSG.
Upthread I did say that I would place it above BSG. And I enjoyed BSG quite a bit!
I agree with you 100%. It was fully earned. She thought they had killed him. I also thought it was nice how they set it up just enough so when they revealed Filip escaping, it tied back to how we saw him behaving just before that--but yet it didn't give it away the outcome either. I thought it was very nicely done!
Also that he is a lucky idiot.
Hard to find fault with Amos. Reading the books I always pictured Jayne Cobb and it would have been very easy for someone to come in and play him as the dumb brute but Wes was ableto display so much with an emotionless face
Could definitely see Holden being the only one in the room wanting to ensure Baltar got a fair trial or Adama being desperate to be liked by Belters
The Expanse benefits from being based on a series of novels. There was a pretty solid blueprint to follow. B5 suffered from, essentially, being too ambitious and too much of a one-man show. Galactica was incredible... for a handful of episodes. And then it became too obvious that (a) they had no plan and (b) Ron Moore just couldn't stop himself from doing self-indulgent things that he hadn't been allowed to do on Star Trek. I can't think of another show that, for me, went so quickly from being one of the best things on TV to being a hate watch with any hope that it would start making sense going out the window. It took a lot longer to get that fed up with The X-Files, Lost, and The Walking Dead.
All that said, I'll have a better idea of where The Expanse sits among my fave shows when I do a rewatch in a few years.
Ive been rewatching for a few weeks now and I'm far less annoyed by the religion and going native this time round. But it's so obvious that the final 5 were hastily tacked on and the choice of the 5 pretty awful, the forgiveness for the genocidal maniacs was silly and the also clearly tacked on and nonsensical were the constant changes of jobs for Baltar and Apollo to try keep them relevant.
There’s a lot of stuff in the ‘people don’t like this’ pile that were in the original series. Starbucks being an Angel for example. You can even argue that at the end, NuBSG is a prequel to the original, given one of its themes is history repeating, and they do end up on Earth. Then in 1980ish, another cycle happens.
I started watching the original Galactica in 1978 with some enthusiasm, even buying some of the books and the Marvel comics and a Cylon Viper model. By the time the show was over I really didn't think much of it any more. I started watching the new Galactica in 2004 with some enthusiasm, even buying one of the books. By the time the show was over I really didn't think much of it any more. All of this has happened before... but the next time it happens I may just skip the whole thing.
And to bring this back to the topic of The Expanse, here's hoping we eventually get a continuation, not a reboot/reimagining.
And to bring this back to the topic of The Expanse, here's hoping we eventually get a continuation, not a reboot/reimagining.
I’m quietly hopeful that all the deliberately hanging threads are there because a one off Peacekeeper Wars style miniseries was already being mooted. The colony stuff is just pointless otherwise, and shouldn’t have been part of the series. If you need a shady backer for Inaros, well, at first I thought it was the MCRN dodgy admiral, so it may as well have been him.
There’s a lot still hanging.
The producers have basically done everything short of hiring their own plane to trail a banner in the sky to tell us that there's a continuation in the works, from Naren Shankar's tweets to James S.A. Corey (I don't remember which one) begging fans to please, seriously, don't bother anyone at Amazon trying to get the show revived this time, all the way down to the episode description and promo material consistently referring to the last episode as "the season finale."
Plus their might be some rejiggering needed to deal with the time skip anyway.
That’s very much the feeling I get. This isn’t like the crash cancellation of Dark Matter, or the proper end of show scenarios either on screen or behind the the camera. Somethings up, or something is weird. One or the other.
Maybe a title change and a different series following different characters that then slips back in the usual suspects? Following the colony?
Full theatrical movie? Amazon might be keen on that given their purchase of MGM, and looking to compete with Netflix and Apple. I can’t see Expanse: The Movie being good Oscar Bait mind you.
^ No way will there be a theatrical movie. Total pipe dream. There just aren't enough people who know about it. And a movie wouldn't be something newbies could casually slip into. They'd need to watch the entire series first.
If there's something coming, it'll be a miniseries, a set of streaming movies, or a continuation series. All of which are nearly synonymous except that continuation series would likely have more screen time than the other two options.
If there's something coming, it'll be a miniseries, a set of streaming movies, or a continuation series. All of which are nearly synonymous except that continuation series would likely have more screen time than the other two options.
Hey, if Serenity can follow up a show with a small but devoted fanbase as a big Hollywood movie series, breaking through to a larger mass audience, and following up on all the dangling plot threads, answering the unanswered questions, and keeping the whole original team together for a bunch of fun adventures, then surely The Expanse -- oh, sorry, wrong universe, never mind.
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