08-12-2020, 09:53 PM
(08-12-2020, 09:33 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: ~snip
On a brighter note, I just finished rewatching S04 and I must say I liked it much better than on first viewing. I remember the plot as being overly focused on Holden & Co's pointless adventures in the alien structure on Ilus, but to be honest, it's not as bad as I remember it. There's still a lot of stuff going on with Bobbie and Avasarala and Ashford/Drummer at the same time. The thing that jumped out at me, though, is that Avasarala has lost her manners and keeps throwing temper tantrums and dropping the F-bomb in every other sentence. Is this a part of the story (with people suffering from the onset of dementia, basic manners usually goes first) or is it just inconsistent writing? Not sure, but it's jarring and I didn't spot it first time around since there was a big temporal gap between seasons.
All that said, I'm eagerly looking forward to S05 of The Expanse.
Avasarala is much more vulgar in the books, so when Expanse became an Amazon series instead of a Syfy series, the writers wrote her closer to the Avasarala in the books... iirc.
