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They should have taken 100M of that and fund the remaining three seasons of The Expanse.

I'm pretty sure that we've not seen the end of The Expanse's universe.

Yeah, what was with that planet with the alien dog thing?

I don't want to spoil too much, but that was basically the entirety of a novella which is the beginning of a plot line relevant to the final 3 books in the series.

I don't know why they would include it if they don't have plans on continuing the show in some form in the future. It's not like there was any shortage of content in the mainline story to cover.

I hope you're right, but they had an entire scene in the last episode where the main characters complained at Bezos for cutting off funding.

This is not the mark of a show that they plan to renew. :-(

Haha. Duarte is playing a different game than bezos... I hope. That scene is already in the book.

> This is not the mark of a show that they plan to renew. :-(

Amazon doesn't own the TV/movie rights of The Expanse (beyond the seasons they funded), they're owned by Alcon Entertainment. So basically, whatever Amazon does or doesn't plan to do is kind of irrelevant and there isn't really anything stopping from the show appearing on, say, Netflix, or the BBC in a few years time. This is also why it transferred from SyFy to Amazon relatively easily.

As much as I like The Expanse, I miss the old days, when Amazon (or Netflix) would have used the $465M to fund one season of each of 46 high-risk shows -- zero of which would be warmed-over sequels.

This would have been great! Allthough, as far as I heard, one of the reasons for stopping was the time jump in the books (full disclosure: I didn't read the books).

There is a time jump. But come on, put some gray hair on and some makeup.

As has been hinted at here, the fact that they included Strange Dogs into season 6 is a pretty clear hint that more is coming. There is no reason to include that if they aren't going to adapt the Laconia storyline at some point, since the only purpose of that story is to introduce us to this new planet and what the Mars rebels discovered there.

I suspect they're going for a film trilogy with a much bigger budget per minute filmed than the TV series. For one thing, some of the action gets a lot bigger in scale. Two, the time jump means all the main characters are now in their 70s and 80s. Avasarala is over 100. Either they go the Twin Peaks route and actually wait 30 years and hope everyone is still alive and working, or they go the Disney route and spend ungodly money on digitally aging everyone. Or they could just recast, but I think doing that as season 7 of the same show would have been pretty jarring.

Can they write around the time jump? Is it that critical to the story?

Eh, maybe. They'd have to handwave a lot about how technology advanced so quickly. The Laconians having much better technology than everyone else is critical.

Yes. But come on, makeup, some gray hair.

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