"You and I were meant to be out here in the darkness.
That's who we are born to be."
Hey guys, Pete here. I just watched the Expanse panel at New York City Comic Con 2021 and thought
I'd do a quick video to let you know what they said about the final season. they also dropped
a new trailer. it was a very final season sort of don't give much away kind of teaser.
there was no mention if there would be something more substantial to follow but either way i'll
come back and do a full breakdown of that after i've had some time to look at it more closely.
so it is confirmed that season six will be six episodes. they're gonna be airing them weekly.
it's gonna start on December 10th. the first episode will come out then and then each one will
follow weekly until they get to the finale. just one episode a week no mini binge at the beginning
so we have exactly six more weeks of the expanse they did say that the final episode will be 65 minutes
long and they said that was something that they always wanted to do was end big. the panel was
like the other ones you've seen Dominique Tipper did the hosting and then there were several cast
members and then the writers and the showrunner so we had Steven Strait who plays Holden. Wes Chatham
who plays Amos. Shoreh [Aghdashloo] who plays Avasarala. Nadine Nicole who plays Clarissa and Cara Gee
who plays Drummer. and then we had Naren Shankar the showrunner. Ty Grank and Daniel Abraham the two
authors of the novels who produce and write for the show. I thought it was interesting when they
were talking about going with six episodes no one said that this was the idea that they had
in mind or this was something that they wanted to do because they thought the story called for it.
they put an emphasis on how it was much shorter than what they're used to
and Naren even said that it was difficult but it gives it intensity and it really sets up for
an ending that's cathartic. Ty said they had to stand on the gas pedal all the way
but then Daniel jumped in to say that he didn't think they lost anything and he pointed out some
of the things that we've been talking about how they pulled things forward to season five and
overall they sounded confident that they pulled it off as far as what the cast had to say they all
felt like it was surreal that they were coming to the end of their journey Bobbie [Frankie Adams] couldn't be
there because she was filming something else they mentioned losing Alex and how that changes things
but didn't give any more details about how the crew would be filled out instead each of them kind
of focused on where their character's at in the beginning it sounds like things are pretty rough
steven strait said that morale is really low the war is dragging on and there's a sense that they
haven't gotten anywhere it's wearing on holden and the rest of the crew Naomi's angry about the part
that she played in alex's death that's hanging over all of them no one seems to be happy that
clarissa is there except for amos and they're flying around fighting with and killing belters
and as you can imagine that's hard for Naomi. Wes Chatham brought up the fact that Amos used to use
these other people as his moral compass and now he finds Clarissa doing the same thing with him
he's starting to make his own choices and not necessarily questioning holden but wanting to
understand things on a deeper level it sounds like there's a real sense of why do we have to
be in the middle of all this Nadine said that Clarissa is just trying to keep her head down
and trying to prove her worth to these people who she tried to kill they did hint that we'll see a
lot of the aftermath of the rocks falling on earth and they phrased it in the way that earth gets
literally obliterated the ecosystem's breaking down there's so many deaths and there's so many
other problems related to that and it's all on Avasarala's shoulders she's lost her husband
and there seems to be a constant stress that it's still not over and they don't know what to expect
charade did say that bobby and Avasarala get to reunite she said they have a real connection
she sees herself and bobby and she can see the qualities in her that other people can't and then
the cast interviews ended with Drummer and they talked about how she's just basically floating
around with what's left of her family she's backed into a corner with nowhere to go and everything's
pretty hopeless for her at the beginning she doesn't really like earth she wants independence
for the belt but she doesn't like the free navy either and she can't get on board with Marco
the idea of the protomolecule was brought up and one of the more exciting things that
they confirmed was that they will be doing an adaptation of strange dogs in the season they
said that would include showing more of laconia and an idea of what the future will look like
later on in the story of course they didn't make any announcements of future adaptations of books 7, 8,
and 9 so at least at this point it's just what the future will look like but we may never
actually see that i think they tried to address the idea of not being able to wrap that whole
story up they reinforced the idea that that's what the later books are about they said that thing is
still there though how humans keep encountering the proto-molecule and keep trying to make it into
what they want and daniel said tai describes it as the rock against which people break themselves
so its presence will be felt but there will be lingering mysteries at the end so not a whole lot
of surprises there if you're familiar with the sixth book then you can probably map out what's
going to happen it is exciting and you see a bit of it in the trailer that there's some Laconia
and some strange dogs it sounds like it's going to be intense it sounds like it's going to be really
streamlined i hope that works well we've seen them do that before six episodes is kind of a
disappointment but i have faith that they'll give us something good i made a whole video about how
that might work so you can check that out and the last thing they mentioned is that there's gonna be
short five to six minute segments that they're going to be putting out in between episodes
so that'll be interesting to see what they do with that like additional materials in between
and those were my big takeaways and i think that's a good place to leave things like i said i'll be
back with the trailer breakdown soon and in the meantime i'm curious to hear what you think about
the news in the comments let me know what you're thinking we've got just about two months until
the first episode drops so what are you hoping to see and they did change the release date for book
nine Leviathan Falls is going to be coming out on november 30th rather than november
16th so we're going to get the end of the books and then we're going to get the end of the tv
series in pretty close succession please like this video if you enjoyed it please subscribe
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