Expanding Expansive Expanse

I know that I wrote about the book series, "The Expanse"; it is up to five books now and they are still on schedule for a new book every year until the last book, number nine.  But the new news is the release of the television series, not that I watch it on TV.  They released the first two episodes on two successive days and they will continue to release through the holiday times, so where other shows take a break, they will be there to pick up the slack.

What I love about the show is that it did not dumb anything down.  The language of choice in the one setting, Ceres Station is the same mix of English, Chinese, Portuguese and other languages that it was in the book you know that you are not in Kansas anymore.  In the book they explain certain features through interactions with the narrative, but here in the show you see it and you have to try to understand it.  Why birds fly with simple strokes and then fold their wings in close while the very light gravity slowly pulls the bird back down.  How the shoes in the ships have a magnetic option so they can walk in zero g, clink, clink, clink as they walk.  Hair is wrapped close else it is everywhere rippling in breezes and head movements.  Gravity is created through thrust and the people who grew up in zero g, look differently, elongated limbs and heads.

All there remains is the plot and it is different, subtly, but only so.  Secondary characters are introduced earlier into the series than they were in the books, all fine.  It is like watching the book that I read.  Even the ravenous need to skip to the next episode that plagued me while reading the book.  Most of the actors are unknowns but that makes it authentic and I am sure most of them and the extras are local talent.  Filming was done in Big Smoke.  New York in the 23rd Century look very pretty, –it is the seat of government for the world's parliament.  Countries are mostly dissolved, you only get a hint of that, because it is not a big deal to people who grew up with it.  And it is not important, it is just setting for what will come.  

People still have smart phones except they are pieces of glass and the apps are way cooler and they still break, the second main character has a fracture in his that you can see when ever he uses it.  

Go watch it.  I could tell you all the secrets but you can see them yourself if you just go and watch it.  It is better if you read the books though.