>>5920617>Expanse less believable because some loose coalition of 3rd world countries somehow materialized an advanced armed fleet>some random third world missiles challenging more powerful fleet, how could this possibly happen??Imagine it is not like there is some poor impoverished third world country of militants that has endured a decade of famine and bombing, that is challenging the most powerful world navy in a critical transit lane right now, with some random missile barrages - that is not ever happening, right? (see pic related)
I agree this bit is on the surface unbelievable and unconvincing, but the explanation is that after the magic alien star gate lol, Mars (which possessed the most advanced and newer modern stealth tech fleet, versus Earth legacy spacecraft) Mars went into recession, so it began selling off their advanced military tech to the third world Belters etc. So I read this a bit as a parable of technology dissemination, dual purpose civilian military tech fusion etc, it is quite relevant to the Cold War now, particularly when Mars is portrayed as being a bit Chinese in ethos (have not read the books, but in the TV series Mars has a lot of Asian type imagery, the Chinese rail station announcements etc highly focused technocratic science driven community).
I think the worst episodes were the season 4 and 6 alien planet ones, season 5 set entirely on Earth with the crime backstory exploration, poverty storyline and prison escape from Baltimore etc were really really compelling and convincing, Amos was a very interesting character, and I also liked the ending of the Pirate Captain and also Drummer etc. And I liked that imagery of the wealthy private enclave homes having their own private SSTO (single stage to orbit) launchpads luxury tourism spacecraft lol
