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On a lighter note, I have watched more of The Expanse and I can tell that I am going to be here 110% for the relationship between Avasarala and Bobbie. Terrifying political mastermind and terrifying space marine from opposite sides of a war bonding, and they're both women? I have waited all my life for this. I like Cotyar too, if you wanted to make it OT3 I could be convinced of that, but Avasarala was my favourite from the moment she appeared (I saw her described as the ultimate female power fantasy, and, yeah. Would give cash money to put her and Phryne Fisher in the same room, too, some kind of wardrobe singularity might occur). Bobbie grew on me slowly, but when she ran off to see the ocean I fell for her as well. And I adore Bobbie snapping right back at Avasarala, that is the best thing ever and Avasarala looks so delighted about it, like she's finally found someone tough enough to fight with her for fun.
But mostly I love Avasarala. I love her sitting on the roof, I love her swearing at important people, I love her listening innocently while people tell her things she already knows and then turning around and slapping them in the face with that, I love her sending little side messages that make other people dance the way she wants them to dance, I love her pushing and pushing and daring anyone to make her stop, I love her using her own sincere emotions as a trick and a trap, I love everything. I love Cotyar's long-suffering face when he tries to make her consider her security, and I love how she switched from wearing Earth colours to Mars colours when she woos Bobbie.
The rest of the show is good too, I like Holden and his increasingly disastrous crusade, I like Alex a lot, he is very cute, I like Naomi and Amos, I am just getting to know Prax but I like him too. And I'm enjoying the breadth of the storytelling and all the SF stuff and really all of it. I have bought the first of the books to read, but I'm still torn on wanting to experience the show as its own thing first or wanting to read along and do a compare and contrast in my head. Also I'm afraid that Avasarala in the books wouldn't be as awesome as on the screen, Shohreh Aghdashloo is amazing. Right now the forty minutes late in the evening when I can sit down with this show is definitely a bright spot in the day.
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But mostly I love Avasarala. I love her sitting on the roof, I love her swearing at important people, I love her listening innocently while people tell her things she already knows and then turning around and slapping them in the face with that, I love her sending little side messages that make other people dance the way she wants them to dance, I love her pushing and pushing and daring anyone to make her stop, I love her using her own sincere emotions as a trick and a trap, I love everything. I love Cotyar's long-suffering face when he tries to make her consider her security, and I love how she switched from wearing Earth colours to Mars colours when she woos Bobbie.
The rest of the show is good too, I like Holden and his increasingly disastrous crusade, I like Alex a lot, he is very cute, I like Naomi and Amos, I am just getting to know Prax but I like him too. And I'm enjoying the breadth of the storytelling and all the SF stuff and really all of it. I have bought the first of the books to read, but I'm still torn on wanting to experience the show as its own thing first or wanting to read along and do a compare and contrast in my head. Also I'm afraid that Avasarala in the books wouldn't be as awesome as on the screen, Shohreh Aghdashloo is amazing. Right now the forty minutes late in the evening when I can sit down with this show is definitely a bright spot in the day.
Crossposted at https://philomytha.dreamwidth.org/171576.html. There are
comments there.