I hope Drummer gets to be the instrument of Ashford's revenge.

My ex did a lot of things that messed me up, but she introduced me to the expanse, and that's one thing I'm thankful for.

I think you forgot to mention the key piece at the end when Ashford secretly recorded and sent the audio from his convo w/ Marco which, it is intimated, will be what helps Earth prepare for the upcoming attack.

Amos busted me up so many times. Every ship needs an Amos

Excellent show ..riveting...but sad for Ashford...liked his character.

Not just the best sci-fi show on TV currently. The best sci-fi show on TV ever. Even better than Firefly, and I loved Firefly.

I love the look that Amos gives Murtry right after he punches him (for the last time), then the confused look that Murtry gives him is priceless like: " Oh crap, I thought I was the monster".

I find the whole Mars issue a bit ironic. Mars seems to be going through the same crisis as Earth did (stagnant, no longer useful, with all the good people leaving to make a new life elsewhere).

Great recap. One of the best shows on tv, hands down. Scientifically, it is probably the most accurate depiction of its genre that we have ever seen. Is Ashford REALLY dead?? He looked dead. Hoping for a Starlord rescue.

This show gets even more fun to watch if you are familiar with the Orion's Arm universe and the concepts within it, because you can apply several of them to the expanse seemlessly. Here's a few: The Builders were a transapient race that had (at the very least) reached the 4th toposophic level, possibly the 5th, the "bubble space" is a basement universe that acts as a wormhole nexus, the Station in the middle is a moon brain, the protomolecule is a self replicating/adapting nano swarm, the thing that killed the Builders is a blight that is of a higher toposophic level than they were, meaning it is EXTREMELY fucking dangerous.

I assumed sentient Miller was the same as the Julie on Eros. I assumed all those voices on Eros were as Miller put it were "infecting" the protomolecule as it was infecting them. And so to me, sentient Miller was indeed Miller breaking that barrier to reach out to Holden like Miller reached out to Julie back on Eros.

*The Expanse - Brilliant:* Cast, Acting, Writers, Directing, Choreography, Musical Score, Editing, Sci-Fi Series, Story, Script, Science, Visual effects, Prop Masters, .... etc. *Powerful! 💪 Inspiring! Beltalowda!*

personally, I enjoyed the show's adaptation more than the book Cibola Burn and, despite not being as spectacular as some may have been expecting, I think it's a great setup for future events

Great review, Thank you!

Season 4 was nearly perfect, except for Bobby’s storyline on Mars, she could have just learned of the OPA stealing tech, and left to join Avasarala without all that mind numbing heist stuff. But so looking forward to season 5. Bobby SVU needs to stop, she’s a badass marine.

Another great review. Thanks! Here's hoping Amazon gives us The Expanse in its entirety.

I've read all the books, which are tremendous themselves, and I love the way the major themes are maintained in the TV series but with very, very clever changes in some details, including characters. (Need I doubt anything about "The Expanse" by this time?) I regard each book and season as so very respectful of the fans and what we have come to enjoy so much about them. There are surprises and some plot twists but nothing like the cheap set-ups and then switches I've seen in Star Wars and the last season of Game of Thrones. Such is the value of good writing to maintain a coherence in story arcs. People--those who haven't yet read the books, this season has been a fantastic way of being fine itself but being even more, as it very cleverly, entertainingly sets up the next season. Hold on to your cockpit seats, the juice is coming! (And it will be yet another transition to something even bigger and wilder.)

Great analysis. Cannot wait for season 5!

Hey man, always enjoy your videos. Thanks for the upload :)

GREAT recap! I'm on my 1st rewatch, and loving it. Anyone complaining because there isn't wall to wall space action can go swim in slug water.

I love your work here. good job.

Such a great show and among the the best, well worth a re watch before season 5 drops.

Great recap!

I think The Expanse is the best video production that humanity ever made like EVER!

I was under the impression that the explosion on the planet was due to some kind of failure in a power source or something, then to prevent it from happening again it prevented fusion from... working. Since an overall theme was that the technology on the planet was pretty broken down over a few billion years. I did like how they showed that even the crazy advance tech of the proto aliens still decays to the forces of the universe. Great recap though, I also really liked how this season was a bit slower. Felt like it was setting up for crazy things to come.

Very nice recap!

Great recap 👏👏👏👏👏

Great Synopsis !!

Man that look on Amos' face gets me everytime. He looks straight out of the Shining, all he needs is an axe

My first thought after finishing the series was wondering what your thoughts on it would be Great stuff Jake!

Earth should just annex Mars at this point and make the terraforming into a pet project while focusing on extra solar colonization. Hell, even Venus could probably be terraformed at this point too.

Excellent review.

Looking forward to season 5 for sure. Season 4 was really underwhelming but I just finished binge watching the whole series so the pace of season 4 was really jarring to me. Still liked it, wish I could love it like the previous seasons though. Am I alone in thinking that? I wonder what the long time fans think of season 4.

nicely done mate! I agree the EXPANSE is total dope

Thanks for excellent recap. I’ve read the books and forgot where they left off in the show. I subscribed to your channel and was totally bummed to see that Altered Carbon was cancelled. Nooooo Are you sure? I’ll have to watch your video.

EXCELLENT video.

For a Sci-Fi series, this show is pretty amazing. The writing, the cast, the Roci “family”, the different groups of people (Earthers, Martians, & Belters), the special effects, the suspense. All of it is SO well done. Sad to see two major characters die (Miller & Ashford) who were two good men. The mysteries surrounding the protomolecule & the new planets keep you wanting to keep watching to see how it all comes together. One of my favorite sci-fi shows now, along with the Star Treks, Firefly, Killjoys, & Dark Matter!

3:40 I will always find it weird how long everything takes to travel. In the books it mentions that going from Earth to Mars takes two weeks, Ceres to Saturn a few months, Ceres to the Ring over four months and the aforementioned a year and a half to Ilus. This is weird as using basic math you can show that it takes a third to a fifth of the time mentioned. At one third G getting to Mars is about three or four days, to Saturn around three weeks, to the Ring Gate about a month and to Ilus anywhere from two to four months.

I wish they would've dove more into the builders and who they were before they came across the proto molecules

I will say, I don't think the journey to Illus took a year. When Avasarala gets a message from Holden, it says that there is a six hour delay. That would mean 6 billion kilometres, which means a few weeks to travel the three billion km to the ring, maybe a day to get out, and a few weeks to get to Illus. So I'm guessing seven or eight weeks.

hey you, Jake. I like you. Keep this stuff up, hope you get more subs buddy. Keep it funny 💯

Yo you are awesome. Deserve much more subscribers!

This series is so good and this season was still so good

I'm starting Season 5 right now and can't wait to see what they do. I hope Amazon did a good job.

Alex/Cas' arc was saving the show.

Jake thanks for the synopsis. The only correction, I think is it was a power plant that failed not a bomb.

So Jake, have they mentioned when they will be putting Session 4 & 5 out on DVD?? I don’t have access to Amazon, saw the fist couple of sessions on KZfaq and loved it. Just recently found they were out on DVD and got them but only 1 - 3.

Great video sir

I thought Holden learned that attacking the proto-molecule was exactly what not to do. It’s one of the first things he does after completing the circuit. 🤦‍♂️

Murtry's actions are ALWAYS over-reactions and thus only justified by his "might makes right" (meaning ambush them before they know you are coming) mentality. Amos has him dead-to-rights as a sadist and a bully.

Best series on TV! I always thought Star Trek was a bit sanctimonious, and Star Wars is kind of a cartoon. The Expanse is true science fiction.

Hey, you have to give SyFy some credit. The show wouldn’t even exist if they hadn’t taken a gamble and greenlit season 1. I saw a great video explaining why they cancelled the show and honestly it made sense. The show was very expensive to produce (SyFy’s accountants called it “The Expense”) and live-viewership when the show aired on SyFy was lower than would be expected for such an expensive flagship show. Add to that the fact that SyFy weren’t seeing any profits from the showing airing on streaming services, like Netflix, which I’m guessing is how a significant portion of viewers watched the show, and you begin to see why it kind of made sense that they cancelled the show in end.

I'm glad Amazon picked it up, it would have been aa big let down after losing dark mater from syfy

Cara Gee was hardly in Season 4 which was a bit of a disappointment , especially after her character, Drummer , practically stole the show in Season 3.

I love this show! thanks amazon for taking over the torch! season 4 is well made! love the characters 😃. best show of the moment! just wonder if there will be an answer in the future about what the spirals are and why "something" happened to a moon? 🤷🏼‍♂️

Loved the season!!! A awesome space opera with in-depth characters and beautiful complex socio-political environment. Hope they bring Miller back...a household favorite

Great show

Love the show. I liked season 4. Looking forward to season 5. I hope the COVID stuff doesn't impact the schedule too much. I wish they would make more episodes per season. I binge watch each season with in a few days. Goes WAY to fast due to the small number of shows each year.

I've been doing a reread recently after rewatching the whole show, and it's starting to strike me how the show and the books have drifted apart in a way that they may not easily be able to straighten out. Specifically concerning the character Drummer in the show. This character is essentially made up for the part of the show that exists now. Yes there is a character called Drummer in the books, but up to the point where the show is, she is pretty much just Fred Johnson's security chief in the books, which means that basically only one of her scenes in the show so far really has anything to do with book-Drummer. Drummer of the show is a sort of composite of Drummer in the books together with Pa and Bull (with Naomi picking up the "being in conflict with Pa" part of Bull's role). The absence of Bull is a pretty clean translation from book to show, but I don't really see how the absence of Pa is going to work out the same way. Pa is a major character in book 6, but I don't see how they're going to just introduce her "from whole cloth" in season 5 when so much of Pa's history was already absorbed into Drummer's character. Is Drummer just going to fully absorb Pa instead? I don't quite see how to make that work smoothly, either. But maybe I'm missing something that the show writers are seeing.

The biggest failing of the show between the book was Murty. There were a lot more that happened that turned his character. The belters ambushed him and killed several of his team before he really turned bad.

Can you jump in to read book 5 and forward, or is there too many changes from the TV show?

I hope we get to see Baltimore and Erich's thing. I seriously can't wait for season 5, only finished the book yesterday and will be starting Babylon's ashes next. Damn the books are so fuckin good!

I think in the first episode they mention it's been 8 months since the rings were open. Also I remember someone says it takes 2 weeks I think to get from the ring station to Ilus. So definitely not 2 years

3 days ago I finished season 3 and watched your summary video yesterday...here I am a day later having finished season 4. Genuinely, I read in the news this morning the Perseverance is landing on Mars in 2 days and NASA is steaming it live and I thought to myself “Man what’s the point, Mars’ inhabitants are giving up terraforming as the ring gate is open and giving them options. I’m mixing up life and television. The 3rd lockdown has got to me here in the uk, I need to work again! Enjoyed this one as well though bud, you funny fucker!

I agree. Book four is the deep breathe before the plunge.

Amos Fed That Guy A Well Needed Beat Down

One of the big reasons they didn't evacuate to the ship was that one of the Edward Israel's landing pods was destroyed entering the atmosphere.

I do wish they kept baja and the cop from book 1 in the season. It built well on the previous books and made it feel like this book brought closure of sorts.

i feel like elvie passing through that orange alien stuff is important and should be mentioned

For me, it was new caprica all over again....

I didnt get the part where The Rocinante kept towing or pulling the Barb. Can anyone tell me what that was for? Thanks!

I’m what I like to call Expanse-sexual: meaning I would gladly do Dummer, Bobby, Amos, or practically any other character in the show

Huh. It's interesting to hear this season described as "low key" relative to the others. I just finished it and I came out thinking things were getting much crazier this season with all the stuff on Terra

Murtry's actor was also fantastic is Game of Thrones, just a really good "bad guy".

As person who knows what will happen in Babylon's Ashes. I really like The Expanse Season 4 and story line of Klaes Ashford's was awesome nad nostalgic. I am not English native speaker I am Polish this TV show was so awesome that I started read book of this universum in english (two years ago there was no Polish edition). And I have question about one scene in this season episode Saeculum when ''Miller robot was crashed''and Elvi Okoye touch the hole. This scene in this TV SHOW is the same like in book? I am not native english speaker Enligsh and i don't understand everything in books

Great review Jake. I have to say though that I wasn't as impressed with season 4 as I thought I would be. Of course I am the only person who feels that way apparently so maybe I need to watch it again. But thanks for the review, Ill look for your season 5 review when it is time.

It's a year and a half from Tycho, isn't it? Medina Station is in the hub space.

0:01 nightmares with that

At 6:37 You mention that it's confirmed the belters are the ones responsible for attacking the RCE shuttle, but that's only half true - when the shuttle was still in decent it was attacked by the swarm first (as can be seen with multiple small punctures and impacts throughout the cabin) and the damage isn't consistent with detonating a landing pad (which is on the ground, far below the shuttle). Yes, it's possible that the shuttle was hit with shrapnel from the explosion but if that were the case then there is no reason the show needs to have the swarm at all - the swarm isn't integral to any other part of the plot. I mean why show us - the viewers - the swarm at all if it isn't (at least partially) responsible for bring down the RCE crew when it doesn't feature anywhere else to connect the plot?

Okay so we gonna see one for next season?

nice vid ;)

You missed something; right before Marco spaces ashford he secretly presses the record button on his space suit and basically gets a full confession

When you explain Miller's fate, i realized, anchient aliens or at least some of them didnt die, just how proto molecule absorbed miller's mind it may have this aliens minds too, perhaps its actually them who want to learn what happened their people or even use humanity to get their revenge.

Great recap. Could "Amos-curious" be considered a sexual orientation?

Why didnt the protomolecule multiply and overwhelm Holdens ship like it has done everywhere else its been?

dude im binging this show after not watching a single episode until now and this fucking season 4 was so confusing and dull.. but watching your video fucking cleared so much confusion and how the fuck Marco became importantly character lol

If you look at the actual big picture, the Belter's actions were wholly justified no matter how unfortunate. They were entirely correct that the intent of the ship coming there was to evict them and steal their wealth and to do so without the slightest regard for their well being and likely without a care if many or most got murdered. The Miller Ai didn't 'take the form of Miller'. In order to communicate with Holden, it induced Holden's brain to perceive Miller talking to him. The Ai, any AI in general, has no real 'form', it's a program running on a machine. I think what was supposed to have happened is the entity, whatever got created by the protomolecule and which then kept creating these Miller subprograms, slipped up somehow, maybe had a programming glitch, maybe a bit got flipped by a gamma ray, who knows, so anyway, the Miller AI managed to get past the constraints if normally worked within, like a sandboxed program slipped out of its sandbox. Since the entity used Miller's brain as a template, there was enough of him/his personality in it that it had a mind of its own so to speak and that is what determined its actions in opposition to the entity's 'desires', its programmed goals. Or at least that's my nest guess so far.

When does it say the proto molecule killed the other civilization? I thought that the civilization on that planet was the one that made or used the proto molecule. I had originally thought they used it to fight that massive threat.

My guess is that Miller finds his way back. If not in Millers head maybe in Elfie's head?

I desperately want to know more about the bomb that looked like Sauron.

I enjoyed Season 4 very much. I didn't like some of the subplots added for bling value, like the subplot about Bobbie Draper delving into the underworld on Mars. Would have been better if she had accepted a job from Avasarala to investigate tech and ships going missing from Mars or something like that. I sorta knew they would find a way to write her into the storyline given her popularity, but that was unsatisfying to see. At least Drummer wasn't killed off and we will see her in Season 5.

“Bohbie da baybe” lol

I wonder if proto Miller is actually dead or if the protomolecule intelligence is still alive in some of the samples that are still around

Why did Drummer quit being the head of Medina station? I did not understand that in the show.

poor Alex always stays on the ship while the others get more screentime on ground

Won't those asteroids just burn up once they get close to earth? It was even mentioned in season one when Chrisjen Avasarala was talking to her grandson?

Honestly I liked that Murtry kinda acted as pretty much anybody would ofc with less random psychopatic killing. And can somebody explain to me why Mars is working with OPA? I mean the corrupt officials want money... But they are the enemy and I would expect Mars fully focusing on colonizing new planets not giving tech to terrorists that will plunder their colonization efforts through raiding.

This is my favorite channel for The Expanse, however, you sound sober in this video and I enjoy Drunk Jake much more, as in "THE EXPANSE Season 3 EXPLAINED!". 🤣🤣🤣

I'm in the process of reading the books. In the second book now.

Im just a little shadowy on what was going on with the detective ? So he took the souls of all the people out with him. I mean the gate is still the protomolecule right so its not like its completely dead right? How can they fight something like that without the detectives help i mean seems like they are really screwed. Orville is really good too. But the Lost Starship books are my favorite. Everything by Vaughn Heppner i have read is pulp fiction fun.