Delta-V

Too many changes, too many new characters at once. I felt the writers were like "ok, now, what can we do to renew ourselves"? That is a good question to ask, and the series is great otherwise (my favorite, actually), but this time the story felt a bit rushed.

This was so much like a new season with new characters and developments moved into the future. It took a while to tune into this but it wasn't long before I remembered what the players were up to. We now have "the ring" which adds an element of mystery. The thing on Venus has manifested itself in the far reaches and those behind fear maybe this thing is really dangerous. We have a couple of new characters who are very threatening, one woman in particular. But I am impressed that they have set up some threats that will have to be handled.

Stargate ran for more than a decade and it was lame. The spin offs were better such as Atlantis, and my personal fav...Universe. It seems that on SyFy if the shadow has that very mediocre actress Amanda Tapping, no matter how lame the show might be, it will last for many years. However, if ANY top rated and award winning shows such as Farscape, Babylon 5, and many others ALL were cancelled over the protests of the millions of fans. Makes as much sense as when the NY Mets baseball team won the World Series in 1986. Then traded away the MVP for the series to another team. It's all about MONEY! Not talent, not excellence, nothing that would actually IMPROVE the quality of TV. Just what costs the least, and has the highest profit margin regardless of how lame the show might be if it's cheap enough. SyFy channel, aka NBC....YOU GUYS ARE PATHETIC!!!

I certainly have to commend The Expanse for creating a show aimed at intelligent viewers. I want to recommend the show for that alone, but it also does it while making an incredibly rich world.

But... while there are ways that that notion tends to slip in this episode a bit with regard to one over powered character, I think the bigger problem is the lengthy distractions into irrelevant backstory and minor characters.

This kid that flies through the ring? Of course somebody will. Who cares about why, that he's a speed racer, etc? To the story from everyone's point of view, this could have been cut to starting five seconds before the kid went through the thing.

This is very similar to the even worse dull flashbacks 100+ years earlier of the invention of the Epstein drive. Who cares if a Martian invented the high speed drive of this show? Mars also has nukes... do we need a flashback to the Manhattan Project? Mars doesn't have a monopoly on this drive.

Intelligent is one thing, lengthy excursions into minutiae isn't the same thing.

This show has become very unpredictable, it is digging deeper and deeper into the mysteries of space and also in our own human nature. This episode gives us a necessary time-jump in the narrative after the events with Hybrid-conflict.

It was a great continuation of story and was perfectly paced. Enough surprises to keep you hooked.

Syfy was hasty and short-sighted to cancel this show at third season - it is picking more steam in this season, it is actually surpassing the expectations at each turn. I sincerely hope that Amazon or Neflix picks this one up and gives it a boost it so much deserves.

I am waiting for next episode, keep'em coming guys!!