The Expanse season 1
May. 14th, 2019 04:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have finished watching the first season and
wow
that is doing a lot.
Plot plot plot, and there's character stuff going on, but it's maybe more subtle than I'm used to. Like people seldom sit and talk about their feelings, they just around trying not to get dead. Things don't get solved very often, except for the very pressing problem of how not to get dead this episode. And that is frequently solved by people they've only just met. Who then get dead.
There is a lot of dead going around, is what I'm saying.
There are some excellent female characters, but it does that frustrating thing where they're isolated in a sea of men. Like there's one woman per context somehow. Naomi Nagata is great (and looks amazing, my first reaction was Wow and it has not worn off), but I'm not sure she's talked to another woman since the Cant blew. The Mars ship had several women, very briefly. Earth apparently has one woman, until she needs to talk to someone about their dead sons. Ceres had two lady detectives and a prostitute, so that's several, but we don't get to talk with them much. And then there's niggly things like that station saying 'we have women and children here' but it's not women talking for themselves and there's the weird implication that a couple hundred years in the future women are still fundamentally different so their presence changes the rules. I realise there are sometimes plural female characters in an episode or a room but the lingering impression is a character is only a woman on purpose and it's really frustrating.
Because I like the women we get. A lot. They're all fascinating.
Which is why I get annoyed when the white guys think they're the protagonist, even though it's weirdly meta like Holden has been raised to think he's the protagonist.
I like the diversity we get, I'm frustrated with some of the maths.
I like the characters we get, everyone is doing things for clearly demonstrated reasons.
I like the politics and twists and turns.
I am going to watch season two in the very near future.
And also schedule a second slower rewatch if it doesn't disappoint. Because they're telling a lot all the time and I think going slower I'd get more out. I just also want to see what happens next.
Which is fun.
wow
that is doing a lot.
Plot plot plot, and there's character stuff going on, but it's maybe more subtle than I'm used to. Like people seldom sit and talk about their feelings, they just around trying not to get dead. Things don't get solved very often, except for the very pressing problem of how not to get dead this episode. And that is frequently solved by people they've only just met. Who then get dead.
There is a lot of dead going around, is what I'm saying.
There are some excellent female characters, but it does that frustrating thing where they're isolated in a sea of men. Like there's one woman per context somehow. Naomi Nagata is great (and looks amazing, my first reaction was Wow and it has not worn off), but I'm not sure she's talked to another woman since the Cant blew. The Mars ship had several women, very briefly. Earth apparently has one woman, until she needs to talk to someone about their dead sons. Ceres had two lady detectives and a prostitute, so that's several, but we don't get to talk with them much. And then there's niggly things like that station saying 'we have women and children here' but it's not women talking for themselves and there's the weird implication that a couple hundred years in the future women are still fundamentally different so their presence changes the rules. I realise there are sometimes plural female characters in an episode or a room but the lingering impression is a character is only a woman on purpose and it's really frustrating.
Because I like the women we get. A lot. They're all fascinating.
Which is why I get annoyed when the white guys think they're the protagonist, even though it's weirdly meta like Holden has been raised to think he's the protagonist.
I like the diversity we get, I'm frustrated with some of the maths.
I like the characters we get, everyone is doing things for clearly demonstrated reasons.
I like the politics and twists and turns.
I am going to watch season two in the very near future.
And also schedule a second slower rewatch if it doesn't disappoint. Because they're telling a lot all the time and I think going slower I'd get more out. I just also want to see what happens next.
Which is fun.