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[yumyumpod]

Watching The Expanse for the first time: Season Four

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Favorite Book Based TV Shows

Round 3

The Expanse (The Expanse by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)) VS Murderbot (The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells))

The Expanse

Murderbot

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The Expanse:

probably the most well-made sci-fi series ever.

[patrickbrianmooney]

Somewhere, when she'd still been working security contracts, she'd seen an interview with an old, smiling imam, whose name she didn't remember. The one thing he'd said that stuck with her was, I am a human being. Anything that happens to human beings could happen to me. One time and another in the years since, she'd taken comfort from that. Or warning. People fall in love, so maybe I will too. People get jobs, so maybe I will too. And people get sick. People have accidents. And now, she supposed, people are divided from their families by war and history. And so that could happen to me too.

James S.A. Corey, Persepolis Rising (2017), ch 42

[geekynerfherder]

'The Expanse' by Piotr Cieśliński. Cover art for the Polish editions of 'The Expanse' series written by James SA Corey (aka Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), published by MAG Publishing.

Available as prints through Piotr's Inprnt store.

[benedictusantonius]

[2023|89] Tiamat’s Wrath (2019) written by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)

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In Episode 69 of the Ty & That Guy podcast Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey), Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) and Joanne Hansen (Costume Designer for The Expanse) discuss everything costume related on the show ...

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NotaBlog, August 6, 2018

[jbk405]

I don’t know how I never noticed this before, but last night it hit me how many similarities Amos Burton from The Expanse has with Konstantine Bothari from the Vorkosigan Saga.

It starts with their shared childhood and background, and extends to the way they are written as latching onto somebody else to serve as their moral compass and create their identity.   The authors of The Expanse have to have taken inspiration from Bothari when generating the character.

Bothari followed Cordelia Vorkosigan, and her son Miles, because she made him a better man than he could ever have been on his own.  Amos follows Naomi Nagata, and later James Holden and the whole Rocinante crew, for the same reasons.  Because by letting them guide him he can act as a better man than he would be on his own.

Where the characters diverge is where they try to go themselves: Bothari wants nothing more than to be Cordelia’s “dog”, so he stays as he is for his entire life and is even buried at the foot of her grave when he dies.  Amos instead decides that he wants to become better himself, and so makes an effort to form his own judgements and build an internal moral code.

In a way, Amos is who Bothari could have become if he a group of people supporting him (The entire Roci family) instead of just one person holding him together.

There’s so much here to discuss that I never realized until last night.