* In the show Bobbie is played by Frankie Adams, a New Zealand actor. Bobbie Draper doesn’t have a Texas drawl at all*ĥ) More Chrisjen Avasarala is always better, though the show does her a disservice by toning down her swearing.Ħ) The mole didn’t leave much an impression on me, maybe because I read the books first.ħ) It’s less that the Mormons are the only religion, and more that they’re the only religion with a big presence off Earth, and that’s mostly because they want to travel to another star, and hired Tycho Station to build the Nauvoo.Ĩ) Yeah, I guess TV casting has its limits on diversity.ĩ) This is one of the great things about the Expanse, its not shy about showing the strengths and weaknesses of the different groups. ![]() I think this really helped with Holden and Naomi’s relationship.Ĥ) The Texas accent is one of my favourite setting details in the Expanse, although it’s only part of Mars (The Mariner Valley) that has that accent. Amos isn’t a dopey mechanic, that just the normal human being suit he wears.ģ) Books have an easier time of showing you what’s in the character’s heads than a TV series does. I’m a big fan of the Expanse too, a few thoughts on your thoughts:ġ) Holden was less of a leader in the first book IIRC, it’s more something he grew into.Ģ) What the show is doing is front-loading some of what we find out about Amos. Looking forward to trucking through the books. And seeing what happens on Venus (Earth and Mars vs Venus, maybe?). I’m looking forward to getting to know Mars more, which I expect will come. But there’s a “they are what they are, and they deserve rights like anyone else” that really works.Īnyway, that’s all I have. There must have been a temptation to give them all hearts of gold or whatever. In both: The ability of the writers to make the Belters objectively sympathetic but kind of obnoxious is cool.I guess they felt like for commercial reason there had to be limits. Interesting in part because was not an especially white cast on the whole. It’s really interesting the characters that were recast as white in the TV show.Though the book makes a reference to Buddha, I guess. I found it interesting that Mormons were pretty much the only remaining religion.Without Chrisjen he had no place in the book, but maybe now with Chrisjen there will be an equivalent character. I really liked the mole character from the TV show and was disappointed that he didn’t appear in the book.I’m on the second book now and am glad she is making an appearance. Without that, their actions were just as mysterious as Mars. She was our window into what Earth was doing and why. There is a gaping hole in the first book where I kept expecting Chrisjen Avasarala to be.I get a kick out of the fact that Martians have a Texas drawl, even when they’re of South Asian descent.In the book it’s much more organic and I find myself actually caring about them. He’s the leader, she’s the #2, so of course they have to get it on. The pro forma feel of the TV show is kind of annoying. The Holden/Naomi affair is so much better in the book.On the TV show he’s just a mechanically skilled oaf, for the most part. The Amos character is way better on the TV show.It seems like a subtle difference, maybe, but it’s abundantly clear how he became the second in command of the Canterbury. In the books, he’s a leader and he’s the protagonist because he’s the leader. ![]() On the TV show, he is basically the leader because he’s the protagonist and the protagonist needed to be a leader.
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