#The expanse books naomi full#

****** ASTEROID-SIZED SPOILERS DEAD AHEAD! ****** “The Expanse” richly rewards patient viewers. In fact, I included it in my Personal Favorites of 2017.

Despite their dour circumstances, they were starting to tell me a very interesting story and I had to follow them through it. These were fascinating people, and very well-acted. Some of the characters, particularly the crew of the rechristened Mars naval ship Rocinante (appropriately named after Don Quixote’s horse) and the force of nature that is United Nations of Earth Secretary Chrisjen Avasarala (played with ruthless regality by Shohreh Aghdashloo) were working themselves into my soul a bit.

I initially thought former asteroid ‘Belter’ detective Joe Miller (Thomas Jane) was a walking collection of ‘hardbitten detective’ cliches.īut I wasn’t giving up on it, because there was just something about it… It was soul-crushingly dark, literally and figuratively (one early character even asks, “Why couldn’t they bring more lights? ” ) and some of those first season episodes had a tendency to meander. I’ll admit, my early relationship with the show was slow-burning, grudging admiration at first “The Expanse” wasn’t easy to love. ^ As I’ve said before, Season 1 was really dark… I hadn’t read the books, and still haven’t, so all of that post and the following is based solely on my observations of the TV series.

#The expanse books naomi full#

The last time I wrote a full post about this series, I was about three or so episodes from the end of Season One.