The Expanse

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I downloaded all of season 5 for my looong flight. But ended up rewatching Good Omens, instead.
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Alatar wrote: Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:45 pm You're missing out badly Maria.
We are now back to watching this series, and Bobbie is recovering from the character assassination the writers put her through. :P Now that that's over I can enjoy the series again. Thanks for saying that, Alatar. :)

For those who have read the Vorkosigan saga: It occurs to me that Amos is messed up almost exactly as much as Bothari is, and for much the same reasons.
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Maria, the last two episodes of the series are showing this Thursday and next Thursday. The series covers thru Book 6, plus concurrent novellas. I will be sad to see the series ending.

I just finished reading Book 9. I do hope they eventually pick up the series again and address Books 7, 8, and 9, and concurrent novellas, thought that would mean aging everyone to account for the 20-30 years between Book 6 and Book 7. The end of Book 9 was pretty mind blowing. I will say no more.
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Ooooh….
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The latest Expanse novella just popped into my Libby queue and was promptly consumed and returned. "The Sins of our Fathers" takes place after the 9th novel, so do NOT read it until you finish the 9th novel (Leviathan Falls) as it has major spoilers about the 9th novel. And even then, you may not want to read it, because it takes one of the characters to a place I was hoping that character would not go. :(

Maria - I noticed the similarity with Bothari and Amos as well. Perhaps it is an emerging trope.
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Just finished book 9. Will explore the novella…
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I went to the monthly Zoom-mini-moot today with Jude and we talked about, among other things, The Expanse. I'm not going to say how many times I have seen the series and read (listened to) the books, but it's probably not up to the level of repeat reading of the LOTR books over the years, or rewatching of the LOTR movies. The LOTR books and movies got me through some seriously dark times.

I recently came across a Facebook page dedicated to The Expanse that is full of inquisitive, argumentative people discussing the Screen and the Books, in a way reminiscent of old TORC. It gives me the warm fuzzies. It's here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rociposting/. There are over 16k members, but only about 20 new topics per day. By week two of my involvement with it, I was labeled a "top contributor". What can I say - I like discussing minutia about some of my favorite books.
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