![]() The crew survives, and they now have control of Medina Station however, they are defenseless against the Free Navy without the rail gun. (Easter egg alert time: All the strike team names are tributes to characters who have appeared in sci-fi classics, such as Aliens, Blade Runner, Dune, Terminator, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, etc.) The strike team suffers an enormous amount of casualties before Bobbie Draper ( Frankie Adams) bravely positions herself front and center and takes out the rail gun with Amos ( Wes Chatham), and eventually the Roci, covering her. Holden’s team plans to use an old ice freighter, the Giambatista, as bait while he deploys a strike team to land on Medina. Marco has installed a rail gun on Medina Station at the Ring to destroy any ship that comes near. At the very least, viewers will be angry at the network for pulling the plug early, rather than the writers for delivering an anticlimactic closing chapter.Plan B (which we always knew would have to happen) has the Roci doing a full burnout to the Ring. That's better than Game of Thrones tarnishing an entire body of work with one miserable final season. Game of Thrones, meanwhile, is what it is.Īdmittedly, The Expanse possesses the advantage of a 30-year book time jump, which would allow any continuation to cast completely fresh actors. But even if this wasn't the case, The Expanse season 6 is prioritizing quality storytelling over complete storytelling, trusting the future will finish what it started. The Expanse then has the freedom to pick up where it left off, adapting books 7, 8 and 9 faithfully, with room to breathe. ![]() Maybe another service buys the property, or renewed interest leads to a sequel years down the line. The Expanse is certainly taking a risk leaving so much unsaid this close to its final episode, but at least the door is left open for a future continuation. Given the current landscape of streaming, very possibly. The Expanse deftly avoids Games of Thrones' manic pacing and total absence of cohesion, but faces the complete opposite problem - will audiences be left disappointed when those Laconia and Dark Gods teases are just left hanging, with neither coming to the fore, and nothing to explain why they haven't? Is exciting buildup with no payoff better than poor buildup with equally poor payoff? even if that meant leaving some long-reaching tales unfinished. But the proof is in Hot Pie's pudding, and the intensity of negative feeling suggests Game of Thrones would've been better off maintaining its narrative integrity. There's a bitter irony in how Game of Thrones hastily resolves as many plot points as possible, seemingly believing some resolution is better than no resolution at all. Reaction to Game of Thrones season 8 proved predominantly negative, and the show has since become synonymous with unsatisfying TV endings. Related: The Expanse: Why Naomi Really Hates Peaches In Season 6 Neither scenario is exactly ideal (why would The Expanse tackle one season at a time unless intending to eventually adapt all nine?), but on balance, The Expanse season 6's strategy is smarter. The Expanse season 6 is continuing to drop teases for both storylines as if 4 seasons remain, rather than 4 episodes.īoth were maneuvered into finales sooner than they should've, but while Game of Thrones responded by haphazardly crashing toward a resolution, logic be damned, The Expanse is refusing to be creatively influenced by Amazon's time frame. ![]() Viewers maybe also anticipated The Expanse would drop its longer-term narratives, abandoning the Laconia and Dark Gods setup in favor of properly ending the Marco Inaros saga. Based on the episodes aired so far, The Expanse season 6 is honoring its "one book per season" format and focusing squarely on adapting sixth novel, Babylon's Ashes. Instead, The Expanse season 6's pacing has barely tickled the gas harder than season 5. Perhaps book 6's Free Navy conflict would cover episodes 1-3, then the Laconia and Dark Gods material from later volumes gets lumped together for a three-part finale. With so much material still to adapt, audiences might've expected The Expanse season 6 to kick up a few gears. The Expanse, on the other hand, is maintaining its planned course. Game of Thrones treated HBO's 8-season mandate as a personal challenge to tie off every lingering thread before the curtain fell - no matter how messily. ![]() While both shows were dealt the same bad hand, The Expanse's reaction couldn't be further removed from its counterpart in the fantasy section.
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