The Expanse - 2.01: Safe

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Just as a note SyFy is ramping up the hype machine. I will try to keep the exposition into minimum, but you can assure that there is going to be a lot stuff in the media around this series.

 

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Just as a note SyFy is ramping up the hype machine. I will try to keep the exposition into minimum, but you can assure that there is going to be a lot stuff in the media around this series.

OMG! I saw the video when they first posted it. I love the way they did this scene! 15,000 views isn't great but Netflix has the rights to it, if it falters it has a great cushion. Future sci-fi directors are going to be looking to The Expanse as the best way to do sci-fi battles. This is stuff that's never been done before. I loved how she destroyed that gun in the end when all the missiles came out of her pack! That seems right out of Marvel, Stark technology right there. I also liked the tour of the ship in 360 that they did.

2016 was a pretty good year in science fiction television, to be honest. In my review of the best TV Shows of 2016 I called The Expanse "probably the best, most accurate, and realistic science fiction television show ever produced about space travel."

 

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OMG! I saw the video when they first posted it.

As a British resident I cannot subscribe to their channel, because it's geoblocked. But the video is still viewable around the word. It's one of those mysteries I'm never going to understand in their publicity campaign.

Why? I don't even want to know why, because a lot of stuff that SyFy does is so beyond explanations and when they do give them out, you start to think it would have been better wrapped in the secrecy. Which is the thing that they have done phenomenally well before this point, as it's all going to come out and a lot of things are first time to be seen in the small screen.

As you point you...

I loved how she destroyed that gun in the end when all the missiles came out of her pack! That seems right out of Marvel, Stark technology right there.

Concept for the micro-missiles has been shown a few years back with .50 cal flight-steerable bullets that were handmade and very expensive for being exotic items. But you're also right, a lot of stuff we've seen with the Iron Man is based on the reality. Just not as much as it is the in the case with the Expanse. They've taken technology to a very believable direction and made things like Bobby's possible in the small screen.

The only thing that's missing from Bobby's Power Armour is the main weapon

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, her gatling gun.

You don't think that at first hand when you look at the screen, but it's obvious when it works. And that is the direction, where we are heading at the moment, even if we haven't reached Mars yet. Things you'll see in the Expanse are more realistic than some of the things you'll see in the Star Trek. Although, there is as much fantasy in the this series as there is in Roddenberry's development.

It's just in the Expanse the fantasy bit comes with the protovirus (I don't have a name for the alien thing).

 

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Spoiler: S02E01 and E02 - Safe

It's good to have the Expanse back in the small screen. It's success after 2015 Christmas has been a phenomenal. I don't think that Syfy really knew what they had in their hands when they started broadcasting the Expanse in Full HD.

From very first moment onwards you see that Syfy's idea has grown out from the infancy and moved completely to battle in the league of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. There is not a moment wasted, when Mars and Gunnery Sergeant Bobby marches forward in her formidable power armour.

Thing is that hardware isn't an Iron Man suit or dug out from Fallout world Brotherhood of Steel armoury, even if some of the internal displays look as if they've stolen ideas out from one those shows. No, it is like it was in the first series and all the hardware has its roots down to a things in our reality.

Then you see the theme and surprise, it has resemblance to the Game of Thrones. In matter of fact, by the time Bobby's team reached Marianas Valley I was thinking that is like a group of knights, and their kingdom expanse out to the Kuiper Belt.

Not that you'll see the Outer Rim, because as always the business concentrates in the Inner Solar System. Place where everyone are in danger if the weird alien disease gets out from the Eros station. The truth is as former Detective Miller puts: "Nobody gives a sh*t if a hundred thousand Belters die in Eros."

The justice has got weird in the future and Bobby Draper aren't Lancelot. And UN deputy secretary Arasala aren't King Arthur or even a Queen Guinevere. There just aren't anything chivalrous left in this Utopistic future, instead it is just like it is with Lannisters and all other parties in the GoT world.

But when you look at the footage on the proto-molocule and especially people behaviour, after they've fallen under its influence and suddenly you got reflections from The Walking Dead. In fact the truth in the Expanse universe is the people are worst.

Not the situations. Not place. Not even the alien mutant threat. The people are the worst thing.

Just look at Juliana's father's place.

What is still controllable in the present day isn't in the future.

The Expanse universe isn't my ideal. It's a nightmare I wouldn't want to face, but I know it might very possibly happen, because everything in this series reflects our society's ideas so closely. Keeping the control on men like Julie's dad is wrong, just like it is on trusting mr t being a good president.

What I miss in the Expanse is Detective Miller's hat, because even less people in the future are going to wear headpieces. It is almost like a forgotten relic from bygone era, but a crucial piece of him in the books. Without it, he has nothing. Not even his shield.

All that he has left is the memory of Julie.

A ghost that started all of this by being a rebellious daughter to richest person in the solar system. Person, who has invested so much of his fortune in the proto-molecule that its existence is threatening peace. Instead there is only war in the future of Expanse.

A solar-system wide war over something alien. Ain't that ironic?

 

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Spoiler: S02E01 and E02 - Safe

It's good to have the Expanse back in the small screen. It's success after 2015 Christmas has been a phenomenal. I don't think that Syfy really knew what they had in their hands when they started broadcasting the Expanse in Full HD.

From very first moment onwards you see that Syfy's idea has grown out from the infancy and moved completely to battle in the league of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. There is not a moment wasted, when Mars and Gunnery Sergeant Bobby marches forward in her formidable power armour.

Thing is that hardware isn't an Iron Man suit or dug out from Fallout world Brotherhood of Steel armoury, even if some of the internal displays look as if they've stolen ideas out from one those shows. No, it is like it was in the first series and all the hardware has its roots down to a things in our reality.

Then you see the theme and surprise, it has resemblance to the Game of Thrones. In matter of fact, by the time Bobby's team reached Marianas Valley I was thinking that is like a group of knights, and their kingdom expanse out to the Kuiper Belt.

Not that you'll see the Outer Rim, because as always the business concentrates in the Inner Solar System. Place where everyone are in danger if the weird alien disease gets out from the Eros station. The truth is as former Detective Miller puts: "Nobody gives a sh*t if a hundred thousand Belters die in Eros."

The justice has got weird in the future and Bobby Draper aren't Lancelot. And UN deputy secretary Arasala aren't King Arthur or even a Queen Guinevere. There just aren't anything chivalrous left in this Utopistic future, instead it is just like it is with Lannisters and all other parties in the GoT world.

But when you look at the footage on the proto-molocule and especially people behaviour, after they've fallen under its influence and suddenly you got reflections from The Walking Dead. In fact the truth in the Expanse universe is the people are worst.

Not the situations. Not place. Not even the alien mutant threat. The people are the worst thing.

Just look at Juliana's father's place.

What is still controllable in the present day isn't in the future.

The Expanse universe isn't my ideal. It's a nightmare I wouldn't want to face, but I know it might very possibly happen, because everything in this series reflects our society's ideas so closely. Keeping the control on men like Julie's dad is wrong, just like it is on trusting mr t being a good president.

What I miss in the Expanse is Detective Miller's hat, because even less people in the future are going to wear headpieces. It is almost like a forgotten relic from bygone era, but a crucial piece of him in the books. Without it, he has nothing. Not even his shield.

All that he has left is the memory of Julie.

A ghost that started all of this by being a rebellious daughter to richest person in the solar system. Person, who has invested so much of his fortune in the proto-molecule that its existence is threatening peace. Instead there is only war in the future of Expanse.

A solar-system wide war over something alien. Ain't that ironic?

Good review ctg. Let me just add that I think that Mr. Mao has something to do with mining or water perhaps? I have not read the books, so I have no idea. I knew his house seemed big but that's a great picture to highlight it's scope. They only showed it for like a second.

It was interesting what they did with Julie

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because I know the books start with her like how she is supposed to be a main character or something. I read the first few pages of Leviathan Wakes but that's it and it was from her perspective

My biggest takeaway from the premiere was that they

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destroyed Phoebe!!!!! A freaking moon in the Solar System!!!

Here is the rest of my review: The Expanse Returns in all it’s Glory – JohnJFalco.com

 

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It was interesting what they did with Julie, because I know the books start with her like how she is supposed to be a main character or something. I read the first few pages of Leviathan Wakes but that's it and it was from her perspective

What you saw in the small screen was a mix of book 1, 2 and 3 The assault in the research station is after halfway point in book 1 and the book itself ends with a death a certain detective. Julie's thing goes on for a length and there are bits reflected about her fate in Eros at book 2.

My biggest takeaway from the premiere was that they

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destroyed Phoebe!!!!! A freaking moon in the Solar System!!!

Yeah. They did that. I don't know if it's possible, but if it would a solid icy block then maybe. The destruction of Phoebe station is mentioned in the books. Moon survived [/SPOILER]