Oh, how annoyed we would have been for this to be the ending of the Series. SO excited for the next season, this was just awesome on so many levels.
Great ending to the best season of hard sci-fi TV we've had in years. The show is only getting better, I'm sure its new home at Amazon will help make it more visible to wide audiences too.
Finally that stupid annoying "pampa" kid is dead, good riddance and I'm so glad that Drummer is alive, she's so badass!
This show is like a good wine!! Its just keep getting better and better.
Im glad Bobbie is ok
Best sci-fi series in ages I think almost all of us can agree, but I would go as far as saying this is one of the best TV series I have watched in recent times. I am so happy that it's been picked up by Amazon. It would have been a shame if it ended here.
Oh, and before I forget... FANTASTIC season finale!
This show just keeps getting better and better. A great season finale, and I'm so glad that there will be more to come.
Best sci-fi since bsg period
I'm glad the Series won't end with Season 3. Now time to read the books before season 4.
A great season finale. Would've been a shame if this show ended here even though it was already quite a ride!
At least Clarissa Mao did the right thing in the end.
It's nice to have the original crew of the Rocinante back together and to also have Bobbie and Anna on board (I hope that at least Bobbie will stay with them while Clarissa will hopefully remain back on Earth). We kinda even have Miller back. The next season could be awesome!
PS: I love Amos' "straightforward" statements and answers, e.g.:
Anna: "Why do you guys have guns?"
Amos: "The armory was on the way"
Way to kick the door open for season 4. So many questions!
Holden and his team managed to save everyone and the rin by following his destiny, by being the hero who has to make the hard choices, by trusting his instincts even when it may lead to resistance and possibly his death. Holden's heroics even manage to make a believer out of Mao, who had been trying to get vengence for her father's demise, blaming Holden as sole cause of it. Wasn't expecting that from her.
As Holden is the only one the ring/protomolecule is communicating with, he didn't tell everything he saw in his mind meld with the ringstation. Jim knows that Ring-Miller wasn't leading them for the sake of saving humanity, or because it was worthy of expanding into the universe.... no, Jim knows that Ring-Miller is a surroagate for the protomolecule. He knows that there is something it needs from him, from humanity.... and that thing is to figure out who destroyed the ancient civilization that made the protomolecule, made the ring, and made the wormhole/portal system that the rin belongs to. But the question is, when they find the answer to the mystery, will humanity be able to handle what it finds? will it survive its journey to the unknown? or will it follow the ancients, and perish at the hands of a force it could never imagine?
Best scene: Bobbi being sent to stop the broadcast and unknowingly firing on Alex and Amos, then being like "you freaking idiot" when she realizes who she is firing upon.
Great season finale for a great series, it has been nice to get another chain to be able to continue emitting it
Masterpiece! Superb ending to the best season The Expanse had to offer us yet! Best sci-fi series around by a long shot (keep eating your veggies, Discovery)! I'm running out of exclamation marks! Fuck you, Syfy! Thank you, Amazon!
So looking forward to see what Amazon is going to do with the next season!!
Best show on right now. And this could be considered only the start of the series as the pretty much all the amazing stuff in the books is only just now coming up. I'm excited.
I can't believe they, for the first time ever, did a proper final at the last episode of the season. Crazy.
2nd part of Season 3 was incredible and everything I was hoping the series would be since very promising 1st half of season 1.
Finally, Bobbie grew on me. For some reason Mao's daughter did it instantly. Not as a person, but fascinating character to watch.
Drummer alive and the show is better for it.
On thematic level it's kinda messy. So the lesson here is that unethical sacrifices of thousands of people paves the way for progress. Once again. Who would have thought...
No, but seriously. After crusade against "von Braun", his work and his benefactor. Turned out that Eros was anthill, but simultaneously "let's finally work together and not fire at the problem as a solution".
Let's keep the maniacs who painted the world red in prison, but also let's not worry ourselves with the ethics of sharing fruits of their labour and trust ancient civilization that didn't find ethical way to obtain "building material for the road".
A good finale to cap out a decent arc and an overall good season. They even got me caring about the characters i liked the least, the super powered woman and the speechwriter. That's good writing and acting! And i loved the monologue by Holden at the end.
I got emotional thinking Drummer would die, but they handled it perfectly.
And now at the very end, we see the ring portals to 1300 habitable worlds he said. That's crazy! And there was something about a threat to the ancient aliens who made them. This is all pretty interesting. I wonder what's going to happen next? Guess i'll have to watch to find out.
That was epic, absolutely brilliant.
The characters' developments and interactions are amazing.
Not to mention the extremely well-written story and dialogs, the cinematics, the music, the acting, the suspense, and the director.
The best Sci-Fic show ever... Almost the best TV series out there.
What a brilliant season! I can't believe it's already over and now we'll have to endure through a long hiatus. Thank god the show's been saved! I can't wait for s4!
Oh, so it's actually a prequel to Mass Effect... :D
Mind-blowing season finale.
I'm really amazed by the character development of this show.
One of the best show I've seen.
After going through this series three times now, this is the one episode that hits me the hardest.
It's going to be another blood-soaked gold rush.
Holy shit, the moment the reactor went out? chef's kiss I got goosebumps!
Not the most satisfying finale, but still a well-done one. It gets the tense evenly spread across: despite properly knowing who the major characters are by this point, The Expanse manages to convince me that any of them can be at a stake at any point. Well, perhaps except the main Roci crew.
The shootouts were well made: other series should follow what The Expanse does with their shootouts: doors and corners. People take covers and shots are taken carefully. I think I'm used to watch movies/shows where character's death happen for the shock value, that I expected something to happen when Amos, Alex, Dr. Volovodov, and Reporter Monica were doing their job.
However the writing on supporting characters could've been... more on par with previous seasons. Ashford came off as... a bit more reckless, and the way Amos justifies it ("He's a pirate") seems to be not the strongest plot device to make the story moves along with the tense, as everything that leads to the climax of this episode ultimately rests on his decision alone. We were introduced two new captains but they act as nothing but stocks to show that Ashford appears not to be the single commander (he seems to be though). There is something that feels a bit... artificial, after a very humane and rational Ashford we've seen in previous episodes. I feel like the episode attempts to replicate the Ganymede crisis on previous half-season, but in a more downsized scale.
I am not too sure with the resolution of Melba's arc either, with her having a change of heart then suddenly coming to the rescue, not to mention she is aboard Rocinante now, where she should've been a war criminal, murdering people in Seung-Eun? It seems to be too convenient. As is with Holden's and Rocinante crewss fate, who appears to get out of the trouble without having to face the criminal prosecution accused to them earlier.
That being said, this finale is a fitting end for The Expanse's run in Syfy. As it moves to Amazon Prime, a brand new channel, so does humanity move to new systems opened by the Ring. The three season that has occurred in The Expanse so far seems to be about how humanity discovers interstellar travel.
SyFy abandoning this show after season 2 will pass to sci-fi history like one of the dumbest moves ever made.
Convoluted Mass Effect relay confirmed?
But seriously this show gives me so many Mass Effect feels and that isn't an insult. If this had truly been the end and it hadn't been picked up for season 4 I think I would have been happy with that. What a fantastic culmination to an amazing ride.
I've been so impressed with the character and story work on this show.
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This was great! I really enjoyed this season and it’s probably my favorite one so far. As I expected we got our answers, but we also got a thousand new questions. Can’t wait to see what will happen in s4.