I really hope that a new streaming platform picks up the story, such a great show!
If not, the last few books are great! I urge any Expanse tv show lover to check them out! It’s about to get even more epic!
Seriously? That was it? Apart from that terrorist scum Marco finally being done for that was rather mediocre.
God i'm gonna miss the Rocinante crew so fucking much. They definitely stuck the landing on this finale.
lol Chrissie to Holden “You’re such a fucking optimist. It’s a miracle you’ve lived this long.” I’ll miss her sass.
it's been few days since the last episode came out, I couldn't get myself to watch it right away because that would mean there will be no more of The Expanse
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I was truly afraid that this masterpiece and one of my TOP 10 favorite shows of all time would have a rushed and poor finale considering that they introduced so much but had so little episodes to cover everything
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now that I watched the last episode I have mixed feelings, happiness of how the last episode was and sadness that the show ended forever
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This episode was honestly great of how they resolved the issues and war with Marco in a way that didn't feel 100% stupid, I won't say it was perfect but let's be honest this finale could've been sooooo bad but it wasn't that bad
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Now do I think they didn't give the story enough to develop? yes I think one of my main issues now is that we have sooo many unanswered questions.. like why would you show us that settlement with the dogs then end the show for good without explaining more.. this kind of writing is honestly sh*t and annoying
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The twist with Filip escaping and being alive is cool but now what?? we will never see his fate and him meeting his mother
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The ring beings is another thing that they introduced then totally didn't explain even though it was used to win the war!! who are these beings? what do they want? who trapped them? why they were trapped? ext.... soooooo many questions that we will never get an answer for
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Drummer being the president of the new Transport Union was a great closure of this amazing character that grew on every fan of the show and became one of my all time favorite characters
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in the end the Finale was decent considering that they only had 6 episode in the final season.. did it feel rushed? absolutely but it was still decent
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I will forever love and adore this masterpiece of a show, I had so much joy and memories over the years watching every new episode weekly and living the grief of the show getting canceled then happiness after it being rescued by Amazon
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Rocinante Keep going!!
So when are they announcing the three follow up movies to finish the books? Because this can't be the end right? Right?
Great sci-fi but that side plot with "dogs" healing lifeforms was useless as it wasn't even picken up at the end.
Defeat of Marco was disappointing and looked rushed.
Overall it was 8/10 season. Sadly it had only 6 episodes. They definitely should do more.
Wow!
So many things could have gone wrong for the show here but I'm happier than I thought I could be with it. The loose threads didn't impact the important storylines, so it's one great example that others should look up to when finishing shows that could have been continued. I feared for some of our characters even though in the back of my mind they were always safe, so that's another example of good writing. Most of all, I think all of them were at their best given the conditions they were in, and there's where the big payoff is for me, that we feel like we know these people enough to think like that.
I'll miss this show, I'll miss these characters, and I think I'll miss the most how these actors and staff brought them to life. I hope we'll see each of them again, regardless of which project they might in. :grin:
I hope they decide to make more of this. This last episode and the big finale fight was so good, but they do leave a lot of loose ends and unexplained things.... hopefully there is more to come.
It's such an odd decision to include a side story setting up future events in a season that you know is going to be the final season. They could have easily cut out the entire thing and it would have made no difference.
I liked how the main plot ended, I just do not understand why they included an entire side story of set up with seemingly no intention of following up on it.
This is one of the most favorite show of all time for me. I will miss this show!
I don't think this is going to end. I really hope that it returns with another season. They have had so many questions left unanswered!
They literally opened up the Laconia Ring Arc with the mutated kid and just didn't end. What happened to the kid? What happened to his sister?
I will miss this show and it's characters. Still curious about the whole protomolecule and dogs thing but well guess I have to hit the books
The small prologue to every episode this season ends up being a tantalizing glimpse of this world's future, should the show be picked up again in some form, and I kinda miss the more overtly overarching sci-fi element of the first four seasons. But excellent (for-now) series finale otherwise, great action sequences intersped with effective human downtime in between (love the dinner scene). Also glad the show ends by having its two most prominent leads, Holden and Avasarala, do what they're best at: the former being drawn into something bigger than himself then still do it his own way, and the latter reacting in her signature style ("You duplicitous little shit" lol). Gonna miss this show, now time to pick up the books finally!
Season Ranking (Series overall is A-):
Season 2 (A)
Season 3 (A)
Season 4 (B+)
Season 6 (B+)
Season 5 (B+)
Season 1 (B+)
Personally I’ve found the ending quite predictable. Well, not in the details, but in the outcome. I even imagined that Filip would have escaped.
I’m missing one thing, though: what the hell happened to the two kids and THE “DOGS”??? As I still have to understand what the protomolecule was for (that’s probably my fault. I can’t remember the previous seasons after one year).
And yes. It was rushed.
Again with the kid side story. They didn’t even explain it further & so random.
Oh, wow, what an epic masterpiece!
I doubted one last episode would be enough but they made it happen <3 IMO this is indeed a satisfying ending.
The highlight was of course the most epic battle ever! So awesome with so many different aspects. I loved their plan with the many containers coming out of the ice hauler and the evasive maneuvers plus hard landing were both very intense and fascinating to watch. And those huge railguns! Them being on the ground put such a different perspective on things. I'm loving it! Then there were so many different kinds of combat (ship vs. ship/railguns/humans/etc.), torpedos, PDCs, etc. And Amos and Bobbie were such heroes. Plus of course the soundtrack and sound effects made everything even more epic.
I also absolutely loved the political discussions at the end. This show has a way to make politics so interesting :) And of course James just had to pull another major stunt... xD
Some nice quotes:
It's a satisfying conclusion to this awesome show but I certainly wouldn't mind if they manage to reboot it. It doesn't seem like there's a lack of content to tell :D It's also nice that Philip escaped / ran away. It's a very satisfying yet very open ending.
What in the name of … is going on here?! What’s with the Family and their Zombie-Boy?! What’s with the protomolecule?! How is that supposed to be a Finale of a Series in ANY capacity?! Is the GoT S8 now the new guideline of how-to-wrap-up-a-once-great-series-in-the-most-bullshitty-way-imaginable?!
For someone who hasn't read the books, I was disappointed with the lack of closure about the entities and protomolecule. If they weren't going to answer any of the questions viewers already had about them, why create more at the beginning of every episode? It didn't seem like a final season to me and I'm really disappointed because the writers knew this was the last season. If they were only allowed 6 episodes then Inaros should have been dead by episode 2 or 3 leaving the rest to focus on the real antagonist of the show that most viewers wanted answers about. Hopefully, they knew about a plan to make a movie or something down the road because it's not fair to the fans of the show to play with our curiosity and interest like that. Overall though I thought it was great if you take away the first 5 to 10 minutes of each episode of this season. Having Alex die at the end of last season really helped increase the drama of each battle scene. It felt like anyone could die if he did. I'm really gonna miss the Roci crew, Drummer, and everything else on this incredible show. I really hope there will be a movie or another season on another streaming service someday soon! If not at least there is always the book series to get some closure from.
Great ending to a great show.
Perfect ending!
I thought the six episodes wouldn't be enough to make it great like that. But that was it.
I'm pleased.
what a ride. incredible finale. They delivered!
It has ended well, although I would have liked them to tell what happens to some characters. One of the best sci-fi series I've ever seen.
I remember I told my husband after watching together the first episode of this show: "I don't know any of these characters and I don't know if I'll ever like them." Six seasons later and after watching the final episode, we both agree that we will miss these characters so much.
Appointing a war hero in charge of a newly-formed, financially and politically powerful "independent" office without a democratic process... Isn't that oligarchic and a form of feudalism?... Don't the people of the Belt or the Ring colonies have a say on who gets to control their lifelines? Why not form a new democratically-elected council with about a dozen equal seats each for Inners, Belters and colonists?
I don't dislike Drummer but this felt very undemocratic and short-sighted.
Wow that was really mediocre… I love how they killed off Alex and the reasoning was “it’s a war and you need to feel the losses” and then proceeded to write en entire scene to keep Filip alive and literally render the tension of destroying the Pella completely useless. Don’t even get me started on the subplot with the dead kid and the alien ship that was teased at the end of last season and went absolutely nowhere. I guess making scenes with chemo patient James Holden and Marie Sue extraordinaire Naomi was more important to the writers. What a letdown this was.
The season was good, but series finale is seriously underwhelming. They left so many unanswered questions, it's ridiculous. What was going on with that boy? What are those creatures on the planet that supposedly are bringing everyone to life? What are those entities in the ring? What happens to the ships? I am so annoyed they didn't explain any of this. What was the point of taking about it then??? I really hope this show will continue at some point, but in the meantime I'm going to read the books to find out about all these things.
I'm going to miss Rocinante and it's crew. Fingers crossed for season 7. :fingers_crossed:
A really good finale. A shame it has to end...
Ok, good, it's not a patchwork quilt, still, I want more.
What's the purpose of so many loose ends, otherwise it was only ok.
I didn't read the books, so not sure if this is from them, but did you all catch "Filip Nagata"? I'm another one not really satisfied with the Dog/Protomolecule story, or lack there of. That said, big fan and I wish it wasn't ending.
If there was any question about the politics of this show, the tokenizing bureaucracy they leave us with as a hopeful note should clear that up for you. Still, fun show and I hope they get to do more of it some day. Meantime, guess I'll have to pick the books back up.
It was... OK. It had everything you want from an Expanse episode - confusing battle sequences, bravery, pretty monologues, politics - but it was all very compressed and unsatisfactory (Inaros might be the first TV villain ever to meet his end at the hands of a 90s soft drink advert). I hate battle scenes (I find them tedious), but even I think the ebb and flow of the battle needed more time to unfold.
Apart from anything else, do they even know Inaros is dead? Do they know where the victims of the rings vanish to? They might have transformed Inaros and his crew into a superpowered version of themselves for all they knew.
And the Laconia ministory that went... nowhere.
I guess we have Amazon to thank for giving us a few more turbo-budgeted seasons of this superb show, and also Amazon (and Covid?) to blame for the rushed, perfunctory, underwhelming conclusion.
The highlight of the whole episode was the hauntingly rescored arrangement of the theme at the end. Beautiful.
Now to wait a year and watch the whole thing again.
It was a nice finale; tight enough to close most loose ends. I haven't read the books, but i found the way they beat Marco, kinda rushed (i'm guessing for the lack of time, if not it might have been a separate episode). The battle inside the ring was nice, but not the best (there have been better along the series). I liked how they kinda bound James with Camina in a way that, at least i, was expecting for some time. Didn't catch too much about the sub-plot of the kids in the foreign planet. I'm guessing that's where the stolen proto-molecule went, but not sure, and don't really get how it ties to the main plot, but alas. I'm gonna miss this series, even tho i just started to watch it last year. It gave me those Mass Effect vibes that not another movie or series about space gave me
I thought for sure that the short season and short episodes would lead to an unsatisfying ending...
I could not have been more wrong. I'll miss this show, I'll miss these characters, I'll miss this ship. Till we meet again Rocinante.
I love the end - but it is not like it would be an accomplishment to the TV Show, they took it from the book and removed so much that it barely makes any sense.
All the political tension is basically removed and replaced with "why are we even discussing this". Not to mention the fact that they completly left out how Inaros fleet got destroyed.
That was really important, because the way they did it, the physics they used in the books (The rings make matter disappear when there is more than a certain amount in transit at the same time) was the reason Earth and Mars actually agreed that a trade union controlling passage through the rings was necessary.
It would have been hard enough to do this properly in 10 Episodes, doing it in 6 was impossible. Too much of the source material has been left out without patching the holes.
Its heartbreaking and not in a good way...
Horrible ending. Every character had meter thick plot armor, so we can't even get the emotional satisfaction of losing people we used to care about. Dozens of plot threads left hanging with no attempt to wrap them up. They even threw in some terrible CGI.
I think this ending was worse than the way they ended GoT, that ending was bad, but at least it was complete.
Not the finale we need, not the finale we deserve either... I was expecting at least a 90 minutes run. But regardless of the amount of them being cut, and sped up, I'm glad it was not a jumble mess like Season 5 finale.
A lot in the episodes feel like a callback to Season 1: the Rocinante dinner time (like the one they had with Alex and Miller), the landing and assault on the Ring surface (like the Assault on Thoth), and the negotiation/politics (like the whole Errinwright debacle). They were not as intense as the 1st Season given the time constraint, but enough to get all the things going.
The space battle leaves something to be desired, esp. on the UNN & Mars side (very far from the tenuous chaotic high command conflict back in Season 3), and the Belters' side could have more improvement (wish we could see more from the old guy Walker), but it's enough to convey the direness of the situation. Holden's crew raid is executed better than the space combat side, just like in the Thoth Station assault. Marco's demise was a bit cut short however, which feels a bit anticlimactic after they all went through. Similarly, the roundtable meeting was very simplified, without much tense and direness like we see during the tension between Earth Mars in Season 1-3 (like in Bobbie's trial), but at the very least it gives enough reason for a resolution to come up and conclude the series.
Again, this could've been more: it has improved from the less than average Season 5, but still it was not a very satisfying conclusion to this fantastic series. Alas, this is what we have. I hope we could still see more from The Expanse.
They've been building up Marco Inaros storyline for seasons just to kill him without a fight and I felt like I was watching that episode of Game of Thrones where Arya easily kills or vanquishes Night King with Catspaw on her own. At that time I felt that it was a cheap move and lazy writing and I believe the same goes for this ending too.
It's a pity that it ended, this season was rushed to 6 episodes and it can be felt in the pace and the character development.
But books are definitely in my wishlist now. TV shows always end up messing up.
A great episode of a decent season, with the promise of more to come. I hope there is, eventually.
THIS IS WHAT THE WHOLE SEASON SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE.
They were missing a dedicated pilot, why wasn't it the guy from last season? I liked him. Now Draper is the pilot? She's not a pilot, she's a soldier, but alright. Getting the negatives out of the way, that other planet ressurection storyline went completely nowhere? What a waste. And in this season the only alien stuff concerning the main story and characters was "The bad ones are inside the rings sometimes, and when there's high enough energy going on with them" and that's literally IT. Nothing is even said about the protomolecule until the very END.
So many good moments in the episode though. The dinner, the action, the plan with the creatures inside the ring, the politics, Draper's heroics, Fillip surviving, Holden and Noami chillin and talkin at the end. It's a great episode and this is the kind of quality i want to see.
If this is the end, then damn, i'm going to miss the show and these characters. I don't love them, but i like them, same with the story. I hope i get to see this show continue someday. But for now, i'm going to read the next book summaries https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/wiki/index#wiki_frequently_asked_questions
Review by Matt DVIP 4BlockedParent2022-01-14T06:03:26Z
Well its done... it turned out the best way it could with the time we had.... It was not a train wreck, but it was certainly rushed. The writing never waivered and that made it much more palatable. The characters were strong till the end as well. It was emotional and charming as always. Overall it didn't ruin the series, and I'm overall happy with it.
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My main issue is the narrative feels SEVERELY incomplete, and I'm beginning to wonder if that was done on purpose.
I might just be an optimist as much as Holden here, but it truly does not feel like its done. ESPICALLY with the protomolecule ship coming thru the ring at the VERY END. IDK they'd include that if there was not something up their sleeve. I really hope and pray there is more story to be told from the roci and this amazing universe.
The one thing I am disappointed in is Marco. His end was just so unsatisfying and overall he was severely underwritten and ended up being one of the most underwhelming villains ever. He had no characterization and they never really fleshed him out, nor really did anything with his and Phillips relationship. Their whole arc was just a nothingburger and that is really a shame
If this is truly the end though, I thank everyone in this show involved for the joy its brought me. It was truly something special we had here and I am so happy I got to experience it.
Till next time folks.