expansiverse complaint of the day is abaddon’s gate is a SLOG but it would be 100% less sloggy if a quarter of it were not bull constantly griping about alleged reverse racism
#the back half of s3 is a WONDER TO BEHOLD in the context of this experience#had so many complaints about it when i first watched but now that i am witnessing the raw material#HOO BOY#this is obviously part of a much bigger complaint about the white bro libertarian posture of transcending ideology#that suffuses these books and in slightly more subtle ways also the show at absolutely every level#making the fanfic writer who cares about power and politics and ethics tear her hair and rend her garments#but that is a rant for another day#soph reads the expanse#soph watches the expanse#soph is sort of inescapably tethered to the expanse not entirely of her own will#etc