I’m currently reading the books for the first time, just finished callibans war. I was wondering, should I watch the serie along with reading the books? Does each season represent a book?

  • AmosBurton_ThatGuy
    16·
    1 year ago

    Tons of great answers in this thread, but as you can see from my username, The Expanse is my favorite piece of media of all time. Both the books and TV show are god tier IMO. The show is one of the rare examples where the majority of the book readers agree that the show is a top tier adaptation, as opposed to a lot of other shows based off great books that the book readers don’t like due to major changes. There are definitely changes to make the show flow better, but I’d say the changes are very well done and I’ve gone through all the books and novellas twice, and watched the show about 8 times all the way through.

    Both the books and TV show are top tier sci-fi. Any sci-fi fan owes it to themselves to give either or both a shot!

    • FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      100% agree. Excellent, tasteful adaptation. It keeps the feel, the most important characters, stories, science, etc. It’s my favorite show of all time, and the books are just perfect.

      I’m a Chrisjen Avasarala fan myself. Amos’s conversations with “Chrissy” are some of the best dialogue ever written.

      • thegreatgarbo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        The first time around, I lived, ate and breathed seasons 1-5 in the space of maybe 2 months. I WAS beltalowda. I’ve never had such an immersive life experience in my 58 years. Maybe I lead a boring life, and my husband loved the show along with me, but he says he didn’t think in belter like I did. Beratna, sasa, pensa. I was fucking using belter in my head those 2 months. I came out of that period mourning not being able to watch anymore for a year. And I was so lost without that world and those characters that when season 6 came out it was like looking at a photo album of a lost close friend, knowing it would end after season 6 made me hate it. I swear I’m a relatively emotionally healthy individual with a real life…! Really…I swear! Lolol.