[chasil]

One major problem with The Expanse is that none of the alien influences were investigated in any detail. They really just served as plot devices.

[3eb7988a1663]

That is rather of of how I think the books as well. Alien space magic exists. Every once and a while a researcher discovers some mini Cthulhu, how do the humans respond?

It is a book about human drama. If you lean too heavily on space magic, the human component becomes uninteresting because there can always be some unknowable deus ex machina that flips the world on its head.

[baq]

The last three books provide exactly that. We'll probably never see them on the screen, but the source material is there.

[chasil]

"The Grandmothers?"

The plot just falls apart.

[baq]

You can argue it never made sense in the first place before the big reveal.

That didn't stop me from enjoying it.

[rbanffy]

I imagine this is how contact with abandoned alien technology would play out. Chances are it’s totally incomprehensible to humans and if you are unlucky enough to turn it on, it’ll bite you in unpredictable ways.

Think Dave Bowman activating Big Brother.