This is a work of forum art :)

Three seasons at the time. The Expanse was cancelled by SyFy after the third season.

Wiki gives a good account of it, with development on the film beginning in 2017. Solo saw its pause as a film project, making it ripe for web serial adaptation once Disney+ became a reality. A month after it was announced, Chow was announced as series director. 

I really hope that is Lars Mikkelsen’s head there! It does look like him in the Killing and his dirty minister show!

Brilliant episode; like you I kept being struck by the light and the colours. Lots of turquoise and teal too, this episode, contrasting with the golden light. And that race course!

Such love for this series - I really hope it keeps going on and on.

Does anyone think Miriel and Elendil have some strange chemistry in this episode? How does Elendil become king? Is this how? And could there be an Isildur the second?

I thought he was correcting her calling him an “orc”?

I think it’s best to view the events as happening non-synchronously until characters actually meet (like in this episode) or are viewing an event happening at roughly the same time (the comet). The Harfoot’s travels seen last episode looked like a very long journey, so it feels like the different storylines are…

He was so good as himself in the Leftovers!

Great episode, although I was hoping the show would confront Ed more on his entitlement - but we have a season to go to do that :D

But it is still a fair point to question why the role (or indeed almost all major roles in the film) didn’t go to an actor from the continent - although that has the equal issue of condensing a continent’s diversity, multitudes of ethnicities and complexities into one ‘tickbox’ for American casting agents....

No he wasn’t, he was a Caucasian actor from Scotland, Hilton McRae:

One thing the time jump really helps with is the timegap to those pesky Netflix shows ever making a come back on Disney plus or FX.... With a two year wait til production can even begin, it means 2022 or 3 for airing; just right for the five years later.

I know this, I actually was part of what prompted Mack to reply. But I also hope, for avoiding any spoilers, that was really a lie for our behalves since saying anything else would have told us numerous future plot points from the next few eps (sentient ai, impersonated admirals,rebellion, etc). And I can’t imagine…

I should also note Mack is possibly the biggest and most successful of modern Treklit writers - he wrote several keynote works, including Destiny (which is Treklit’s answer to the Borg, both ending them and explaining them in elegant fashion, a trilogy published in 2009), then when the Pocket licence was possibly…

I think it does make sense; Kirsten Beyer is heavily involved in TrekLit, so even if had come up in the writer’s room, it would’ve been hard not to address how much it relates to David Mack’s work. Similarly, Mack did do the first Discovery book, so it’s unlikely he is a total stranger. The Treklit writers are pretty…

Also intriguing was how it was Rudolph Wegener (Rudolph Baynes) from S1 who said the line about Cincinnati - they had served together at one point in history, and this complicates what that meant - that complicity in genocide. I really do like how despite making Smith and Kido more complex, sympathetic figures, they…

That was a brilliant hour, and really grim and macabre,but delightful in its plotting. Like Zack I was worried about certain cliche developments, esp. Drummer and Ashford, but that became a great conversation about values and then led to the drum being spun, which although I think needing one or two more shots to show…

Although it’s rich given that Maeve continually removes agency and freedom from almost every other host she encounters - she makes them kill themselves, kill their friends, etc. - i.e. remove their selfhood, or identity. I don’t think Maeve is any more ‘moral’ or ‘ethical’ here.... Maeve does what Delores did that one…