The Expanse 1x1 "Dulcinea" | Full Reaction

Signed up for your Patreon for The Expanse and excited to be here! What a fantastic show this is and I really hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

I'm glad you're watching this one because I'm going to need your commentary because I had a hard time with the first few episode. I may have made it to the fifth one. Watching these shows with you are fun

Can’t believe this won over Breaking Bad… lol especially considering it didn’t even get a resolution, it was just canceled… 🤷‍♂️

Chris am I misremembering that you have an Amazon Prime membership?

LOVE you’re watching this show. Was a big fan of the books and have been waiting for the perfect reason to watch the show. Shall be watching along with ya!

This show is based on a book series by "James S.A. Corey," which is actually a pen name for two guys who have done a whole bunch of sci-fi and fantasy stories, both together and on their own. And unlike something like Game of Thrones or Outlander, the show's crew takes a pretty free hand in their adaptation choices right from the start, the biggest one right now being that Avasarala actually wasn't introduced until the second book, but was so popular by the time the show was made that they decided to add a storyline about what she was up to during this time. Which also isn't really a spoiler about how long you can expect her to stick around, because another way it differs from those other shows is that despite following the same general plot beats of the books, there's also not really any effort to have the events of each book match up with a certain season. It can get a bit odd if you already know the books, but from what I've seen, people who don't know them still find the season stories pretty natural. The big hook that "Corey" started with here is that rather than either of the two typical settings for space-faring sci-fi, showing either the very start of humans entering the larger galaxy or just being set at a point when we're already long established as a space-going people, this series catches human society somewhere in between, still mostly confined to our own solar system and with resources a huge issue before we can go further. And there's an incredible amount of thought put into what that society would look like, and what kinds of stories you can tell with it. And starting out with a hard-boiled film noir IN SPACE was a great choice to start out, giving the audience a comfortable-feeling setup before we move on to the really wild stuff. Thomas Jane makes for a great Bogart stand-in and I was hooked instantly. And trust me, it just gets better from here.