The Expanse

**Gaidin** · April 23, 2017, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Condottiere 40K

The mysticism only started creeping in later.

What show were you watching and I so totally saw the Arrow of Apollo, and the hallucinations creepily lining up with the prophecies. All in Season 1.

And that is why the protomolecule represents a massive game changer, that can allow that particular path to be followed.

It is a massive game changer. But no, not in that fashion.

**athanaric** · April 23, 2017, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Condottiere 40K

And that is why the protomolecule represents a massive game changer, that can allow that particular path to be followed.

Don't see how - as of book six, there isn't really any mysticism involved. The things surrounding the protomolecule are mysterious, sure, but "mystical", as in religion or spiritualism, or bull

TV series such as Lost? Hell no. As much as the authors said they wanted to create a space opera, this series is actually both that and true science fiction.

**Condottiere 40K** · April 23, 2017, 02:25 PM

I don't mind contained mysticism that you see in Star Wars, which is a space opera.

But BSG started out as pretty hard scifi, and then went off at a tangent.

I haven't read the books, but like Game of Thrones, the production team of the Expanse has a great deal of latitude as to how they'll present it to us. and as I stated clearly, DON'T DRINK THE BSG KOOLAID.

**Gaidin** · April 23, 2017, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Condottiere 40K

But BSG started out as pretty hard scifi, and then went off at a tangent.

Again what show were you watching?

**athanaric** · April 23, 2017, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by Condottiere 40K

I don't mind contained mysticism that you see in Star Wars, which is a space opera.

Well yeah, better that than a social agenda. Then again, the new SW movies have both...

I haven't read the books, but like Game of Thrones, the production team of the Expanse has a great deal of latitude as to how they'll present it to us.

The books are entertaining, but pretty hard sci fi as far as mainstream novels go.

WRT Game of Thrones, none of the changes in plot, story, or character line-up of the adaptation really change the underlying fantasy and literary themes, do they?

**ggsimmonds** · August 09, 2017, 07:10 AM

Sorry for the necro, but once again I am late to the party and just finished with season 2.

Absolutely love it, though last two episodes I found myself getting frustrated with the Rocci crew and not in a good way.

But I have a question to ask, does the show veer enough from the books to where reading them would not spoil the show? I don't mean major plot points, I mean if I read the books can the show still surprise me and leave me with that what's going to happen next feeling?

**Gaidin** · August 09, 2017, 07:55 AM

Originally Posted by ggsimmonds

But I have a question to ask, does the show veer enough from the books to where reading them would not spoil the show? I don't mean major plot points, I mean if I read the books can the show still surprise me and leave me with that what's going to happen next feeling?

What you get are presentation differences. There are certain scenes that would make for really good drama that never made it into the book(like say the martians landing on earth) as they were never a POV chapter. And other scenes make for boring tv action scenes, like when Bobby gets her awesome armor and retakes the ship in a gunfight she really just walks over people, so there really going monologue for someone which makes sense, as the more interesting part is how she gets to her armor as far as visual tv goes. The interesting tv sometimes is how they implement certain spacebattles and some of the betrayals that get put in there, and some of the politics that are in the tv show that aren't in the book but are in the tv show because characters are brought in a book early.