Comment on What TV cancellation are you most upset by?
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoThe Expanse
Read the books, starting at book 7. The plot in the show is almost identical to the plot in the books. It shouldn’t be too hard to just pick them up.
However, the books are better than the show. I thoroughly enjoyed reading books 1-6 in preparation for reading 7-9. You get to read from various characters’ point of view. It’s so much deeper than the show.
You even get chapters from the point of view of...
Protomolecule Miller.
And the point of view of...
Random other people consumed on Eros. Seriously creepy shit! They didn’t die. They can’t die.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’ve read them all but I’m still bummed that the show got cancelled. Although, a lot of the stuff that happens in 7-9 feels kind of unfilmable to me. But, hey, they’re adapting 3 Body Problem which is insanely unfilmable so who knows.
I actually think the show complements the books really well – probably because the authors were so involved in the production. In a few cases, I think they were able to fix some mistakes in the books on a second go around and also added to the world in brilliant ways too. Belter Creole as a spoken language, for example, doesn’t really exist in the books and was created for the show. It’s also interesting replacing the subjective view of the point of view characters with the objective view of the camera. In the first book, it just bounces back and forth between Miller and Holden. You don’t really know what’s going on system-wide because they don’t. Having that perspective shift is really cool and it’s done in a way that feels cohesive and consistent with the world of the books.
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I agree with everything you said. I wish they’d make books 7-9 into a shows, too. I just unsafely assumed you hadn’t read them. I guess other people might read what I said and be inspired to read them.
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Me too!