BG is awesome 🤩

It too went out with a whimper.

Yay!

Can't wait to watch this later! Have you covered any of the other eps from this season besides the first one?

yeah, nothing says "utopia" like hollywood sponsored doomsday scenarios being shoved down our throats, in turn manufacturing hollow legitimacy from nitwit civilians who beg-for and think global governance is necessary on the basis of "collaboration and seeing eye to eye" go back to the picture books kiddo. you're more likely to think organic thoughts

​@@merrylderrickson3147 You not understanding the reference to working condition at Amazon makes your rambling rather embarrassing. Here ill help you a little: Amazon is a company that keeps their "workers" in a state of poverty, while denying them basic needs like for example sick-leave or even using a freaking restroom, while at the same (according to The National Labor Relations Board), have violated numerous labor laws like the violation in Bessemer, Alabama or the firing of Daequan Smith just to mention a few, all in order to deny their workers the right to unionize. Are you really that dense, or are you just pretending with your out of place "whataboutsim" about Hollywood (and the global elite I presume) are propagandizing for a global government?

Omg yes, please! Soo much lore now and with season 2 coming soontm. But league, val, and other riot stuff is so good!

Honestly it's unrealistic that there wouldn't be any movements on earth sympathetic to belters. Likewise that there wouldn't be belters connecting their experience of colonization with those victimized the same way on Earth. It's an interesting series but the authors' radical centrist politics and relatively shallow understanding of colonialism definitely hamper the world building.

Nothing to do with class really. Marxism really has poisoned the mind of the masses, hasn't it?

@@hackatthekeyboard there probably are, just not enough to want war, or terrorism

@@hackatthekeyboard No. That is absolutely the most realistic part of the Expanse reality. ie. Racial minorities being homophobic. Repressed religious/ethnic minorities hating other repressed minorities more than their oppressors, etc. It makes perfect sense that the least privileged of Earth would still hate and feel superior to Belters.

Absolutely. Human history (and especially in the last 100 years or so) is littered with examples of revolutions degenerating into a protracted get even campaign. It leads to cycles of violence and a lot of innocent people getting hurt. The most radical among the revolutionaries use the pent up anger of normal people to commit exactly the kind of atrocities that they condemned their oppressors for. It takes pretty strong leadership and a culture aligned with it to stop that kind of thing from happening.

There's a link to his Patreon in the description... And nah, I appreciate the lack of "like, subscribe, support us on patreon" yada yada yada

Last 3 novels delved into it. A lot. I'm reading them all a second time now they're the best arc in the whole series.

We are eventually given plenty of historical and biological background info on the protomolecule builders. We get much less about the gate entities, but that's because they are essentially unknowable and God like. The best thing about the expanse is that we are always eventually given good answers to our questions based in science or understandable character choices.

We learn a ton about the ptotomolecue builders. The gate entities are basically was they should not have fucked with. We of course fuck with both because human.

Thanks! Next video is about Dune. Then an ASOIAF vid like the Tyrion one. And this year, House of the Dragon!

@@AltShiftX lets gooo boiz we got the FCKIN DUUUUUNEEE

Marco was always an obvious puppet.

Right? Am I crazy or did balls get dropped on getting these videos out in a timely manner?

@@LtCaveman This video was originally released on the Amazon Prime UK channel when the first episode was released. They probably had some sort of a deal where they could only upload this on their own channel at a later date. Just as right now the season finale explanation is only visible on the Amazon Prime UK channel, which will probably be uploaded at a later date on the Alt-Shift-X page.

@@Johnismybestfriend thanks for exposing that. I have no issue with that. I want alt shift x to get paid.

That's such an interesting take, for me it felt like barely anything happened and the antagonist taken out in the most anti climatic way possible...

Definitely not. 4 and 5 were brilliant. Actually all of them were brilliant

I really liked the first three as well.

They could finish it up with a movie.

@@kyle857 3 movies, sure. One? That would be way too rushed. I don't want a GoT ending just to have an ending.

They get it all wrapped up except the laconia stuff which they clearly leave set up for a movie.

They weren’t given a choice

He's done what he can. It's up to George now

Doing a Dune video next, then another ASOIAF video like the Tyrion one.

@@trevinwolverine1904 I know, I know... GRRM doesn't help either, though I actually understand his side. I'm a writer too, and writing a big book actually takes time (even if it's 11 years)

@@AltShiftX An hour long! I'm up for it. I'm just saying that I miss them, but take your time, brother 😊 Your content is simple, but it's top quality

@@AltShiftX epic I was hoping you were doing a Dune vid!

why tf are they holding an open casket for a kid

The Laconian stuff doesn't work at all in my opinion. I also don't know what non-book readers are even getting out of it. I know why Cara, Xan and Laconia are important, but I can't imagine show only people caring at all. It doesn't seem connected to anything.

@@doubledown0411 I think the TV writers wanted to leave an obvious thread hanging. It was necessary if they want to eventually do the last three books but it just didn't work for me. It's a shame they didn't just do a 3 or 4 episode mini series based on "Strange Dogs".

Well why don't you just go to GRRM's house and tell him to hustle HIS ass up. Can't have new content without new content.

Not really, ended pretty well actually. Tied it all up despite the limitations of the budget. Only 6 episodes and still perfectly executed

Yeah I don’t agree

I don't agree but I do wish they gave them a full season rather than just 6 ep.

....Cara Gee?......why?

What? The best part about this show is that it doesn't rely on Deus Ex Machina bs and instead on the competence of the characters.

@@SuperCrow02 I guess we haven't watched the same show

@@SuperCrow02 Yesterday I watched ep6 s5 (im not 100% sure it was that one). Amos got saved by the daughter of Jules, she regained the ability to use her modification just when he was about to get shot, how convenient. Then Alex and Draper escape because they can drop the core of the ship to hit a torpedo?? Well that's fine i guess they are stranded now... wait they can still turn on the reactor??? Lmao. I guess is not deus ex machina per se because it relies on them but yeah pretty dumb. And every episode has me rolling my eyes at least a few times. I still watch it though, it is entertaining and a visual spectacle.

@@CCSABCD Those are high tension situations where characters make risky choices to save each other. I've seen Deus Ex Machina many times and it does not apply to those situations. Stop looking for things to complain about.

@@SuperCrow02 Ok keep justifying dumb stuff. I dont get why people get so butthurt when they like something, is not a personal attack, you can enjoy stuff and still find flaws to it. I do and i still enjoy the show.

Yup. Imo the series is so good.

Partially agree with that, but the problems started with season 3, where the merged many individual Belter characters together that have a huge impact on the plot later and since then, the belter story line suffered from it. Season 4 was mostly loyal to the book (only leaving out the Havelock storylines), but season 5 was paced too slowly, while season 6 felt rushed although they included the Laconia stuff that only matters for storylines of book 8 and 9, which is strange as they are not going to adapt them.

I wonder if Amazon didn't give them a budget, and maybe made stretch cheap boring parts or something. Omigod season 5 was soooo boring.

S4, S5, and S6 each encompass the arcs of Books 4,5, and 6 respectively, as well as incorporating novellas that take place at about the same time.

@@sircrapalot9954 interesting. Were they this boring as well?

@@dukaduka506 I blasted through each of the audiobooks in a few days, and have been re-reading each one starting with Book 4. As an engineer, I think The Expanse series is some of the best science fiction out there. Maybe it's not for you.

@@sircrapalot9954 first 3 season were for me. Not the last 3. Don't get tense with me, geek. You're average. Also you being an engineer means nothing. Maybe you just love soap opera.

@@dukaduka506 Ok buddy, whatever floats your dinghy.

Representation, I guess? If a character's canon gender doesn't matter (Which maybe it does, I dunno, I haven't read the books), then you may as well use it as an opportunity to portray people who were previously not represented that much. That said, I had no idea they were non-binary until it was mentioned outside of the show.

"the message" - hollywood

it rly feels like more episodes should come.. but its a good cliffhanger atleast.

Disagree completely. What wasted time are you referring to? The S6 episodes are much tighter than previous seasons. The Laconia scenes are straight out of the novella Strange Dogs and pay off in the next major storyline. Seasons 1 and 2 alluded to events that would take place in 5 and 6. Just because the payoff isn’t immediate doesn’t mean there is none.

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