I could keep listing other instances, but this serves as a good example of the sort of tension added for television. And ending with the escape from Gynemedes, which, int he books, is not so much of an escape as simply, you know, leaving. Continuing through Bobbie’s escape from her rooms in the UN compound she simply walks away in the book and that’s it. Starting with the Somnambulist, which is not taken by force – or near enough to force – in book!verse, but is simply a ship at OPA’s disposal that Holden is given by Fred. Every little thing that is routine in the books becomes exceedingly tense on the show. The most significant difference between the books and the show in season two is, without a doubt, all the added drama. Wouldn’t it have been awesome to see that? But now, just more indistinguishable black and grey. Ganymede is supposed to have corridors carved in ice. The other are the universally dark and gritty visuals. One is the scope of the world as it is depicted on the show. Warning: the following contains spoilers for both the show and the books. The good news, however, is that the changes are not so dramatically for the worse as is usual, and in some cases are even for the better.
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It continued its similarity to Game of Thrones as an adaptation by diverging from the source material significantly more than in the first year it was on air. The second season works with the second half of Leviathan Wakes, the first book in the series, and the first half of Caliban’s War, the second installment. So allow me to continue in my attempt to assess how it fared as an adaptation. In other words, both the authors of the source material and of the adaptation are keeping busy, making it a very current show.
#THE EXPANSE BOOK 2 SERIES#
The Expanse has had the seventh book in the series released this month, while its third season (meant to adapt the second half of the second book) is scheduled to come out some time next year.