![]() ![]() Getting the Hang of Belter Slang - CS Peterson ![]() In other words, The Expanse is sci-fi at its best. We’re left with deeply disturbing evidence of our tiny, unimportant place in the Universe. What an interesting twist on the ancient-alien-influences idea. Isn’t the grass greener on the other side of the Ring? Who could have done this? What if they’re still out there? We must know! You can’t let the series die, Jeff! We bumble along the path for no reason other than that it is there, assuming a better place at the far end, but in actuality the wires and conduit were laid for a purpose that is so technologically advanced that we can’t begin to comprehend its purpose, much less that we shouldn’t poop in it, or try to bite through its protective layers.īy the end of Book and Season 3, fans are left as wildly curious as the Belters and Miller. ![]() The humans in The Expanse are as underdeveloped as gangs of territorial rats exploring a maze of electrical wiring conduit in a city billions of years stilled. Any civilization advanced enough to catch the probe could destroy us. The answer is that we’re the same civilization that opened Pandora’s Box, the same civilization that sent a probe out into the galaxy with a diagram showing exactly where we are. So the series asks, why must humans explore? Colonize? Even when it seems self-evident that the safest thing to do is be quiet in our own Solar System and hope that super-powerful aliens who have ignored us for two billion years will continue to do so? We’re naturals at this getting-in-over-our-heads business. But why aren’t They waking up? Why aren’t The Creators of the Ring answering Miller’s call? Miller worries there’s something even more powerful out there. By the end of Miller’s leading questions in Season 3, Holden and the Solar System realize that the aliens that made the ring billions of years ago and the pathways to whatever is beyond must be light-years more advanced than we. The Expanse plays with these same human traits and adds an interesting twist. The inescapable human characteristics examined in 2001 are curiosity, and its follow-through, the desire to explore and conquer new horizons. We’re practically begging them, “Hey, here we are! Come conquer us!” We just have to mess with the monolith, a Pandora’s Box, even though we know we might wake it up and alert the Beings Much More Advanced and Older than we. 2001: A Space Odyssey played with the idea that our civilization was deeply influenced by an alien presence millions of years old and not by God, but by the time we’re advanced enough to realize it, we still haven’t developed enough. What’s so different about The Expanse? Well, if I didn ’t convince you earlier, in science fiction certain storylines recur: the stranger in a strange land (main character’s assumptions are thrown off balance by some kind of travel: time or other), dystopias where various human flaws have finally done us (almost) in, battles for power in distant stars in the distant future, twists on gender roles and power, and so on. ![]() What about this series has so caught the hearts and minds of fans that they refuse to let it go the way of Firefly? It’s About Human Curiosity, its Dangers and Promise - Lisa Mahoney He invited the cast to a gala dinner for his new space-exploration venture, Blue Horizon, and laid out his vision for colonizing the solar system. Fans lobbied Amazon and Netflix to pick up the show.Īt the eleventh hour, Jeff Bezos came through, announcing that Amazon Prime would pick up the show. Another Twitter storm blew up, and an online petition to keep the show going gathered in excess of 100,000 signatures. Then, in early May of this year, Syfy declined to renew the series for a fourth season, effectively canceling the show before Season 3 was even half over. Syfy didn’t sign up for the third season until a Twitter storm erupted in fandom. Corey, completed Season 3 last week. That the show is still running is something of a fan-created miracle. The acclaimed TV series The Expanse, based on the sprawling novels by James S. ![]()
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