Expanse: Season 1

Hey Guys,

since i am into Sciene Fiction and i can’t get enough of it i thought why not try ‘Expanse’ Netflix gave it a really high rating for me and what can go wrong with a show in space. It has space ships and space. So what could totally go wrong?

The answer is easy – Everything.

Who pulls the strings

Expanse takes place in a setting that is close to war. There are earth and there is Mars and the worker colonies and everyone is against everyone. Mars and earth are not on good terms and the worker colonies – the belt – has really bad life standards are about to start a big revolution. The times are hard and the lines really clear. Just who is actually the bad guy it is not. In expanse we got a big conspiracy and we don’t really get the whole story in the end of season one. What is not totally a bad thing and not really a surprise since i know that there will be a season two.

The Belt

Expanse is built up with different stories and people. We got the people on the belt. Here the focus is on a cop that always is in confrontation course. He doesn’t have a high stand with his colliges. He got the case of a missing girl or woman. She ran form home and tried to change the world.
For me this of the borings part of the whole serie. The character is unsympatic and so obsessed with that missing woman and his way to handle things are… i don’t know i really dislike it. I liked his partner but he doesn’t have a big role, because this main character just don’t do team work.

Earth

Than we have this woman on earth. She is a high position on earth – UN Assistant Undersecretary of Executive Administration. She tries to find out what is behind the attack on an space ship by a war ship that has mars all written over it. We see her as a nice person with her grandson but when she is working she can’t lose and is ready to do everything to get what she wants. Everything.
In this part they talk alot. It is about the conspiracy and what all this stuff means for the peace in the universe. It is also mostly boring.

Surviors of the Canteburry

Here comes the only half way interessting part of the show. The Canteburry is the ship that get attack and destroyed by the war ship. A little crew of five people survive because they answered a call for help. They have to look how all the people they work and maybe love or like dies. These people doesn’t get along so good. But the characters here are kinda nice. We have the typicall good one – Jim – who always want to do the right thing. I really like him. Than we have the woman – Naomi – who is the engineer and got herself the comando.
With her is Amos which is the most interessting character on the show. He is totally loyal to Naomi and does everything she says. She seems to be a little afraid of him at times. Amos is a also a person that is always on confrontation curse. He just shoots people when he thing it is nessassary. He doesn’t make a big thing about this stuff. The world is like it is.
Than we have the pilot Alex which is okay but not so much more and the doctor of the team.

This group has a really interessting dynamic and i like them. They are involved in what is going on and try to find out why they actually were attack.

Watching or not

For me the answer is quite simple. Don’t watch… the serie is boring and the story is just not so interessting. The conspiracy behind it doesn’t actually make me want more. The only thing i cared in the serie was the survival of the Survivors of the Canteburry Crew.
Amos is a really nice and interessting character and would be the only reason to even thing about looking into the second season. But i am totally not watchin season two.
Maybe if i really have nothing else to watch… but before that. The Expanse is for me nothing more than a really boring story were i had really strong problems to stay awake.