The Expanse is one of the most epic sci-fi shows I have ever seen and it did not stop to impress me deeply. I fear if the expanse would have been released today it would have been called woke and immediately been under attack by both factions of the notorious antiwokes vs SJW cultural war that has invaded allmost every major fandom. But luckily the Expanse, had its time to unfold its magic,it already started in 2015 and its characters actually DO work! The writing is exceedingly well, and thought through. Yes it is possible to have a modern sci-fi show with many main cast who are not EXACTLY caucasian, with SOME characters of ambiguous gender or sexuality and strong female characters and much questionable morale and somewhat greyish political intrigue and it does not feel in any way forced or horseshoed, but it makes total sense within the vast world and expanding universe it creates. The Expanse is everything most modern star trek and superhero films are not... it is dark, dirty gritty, yet it still carries a message of some remaining hope and faith, it does have brutal, even bloody, messy action scenes which look really dangerous and the characters do not usually light it up with some cool delivered ironic punchline, you buy it these characters are desperate to survive and do not enjoy being pushed to the extremes, yet they do what they feel they have little choice to do.

It has very silent, deep, emotional, tragic moments, well and dry cynical humor where you believe it should be, yet it does not feel cringey, cheesy, over theatrical. The expanse delivers a believable vision of a future world of spacetravel that is often dystopic.it mixes some of the best of scifi elements of classics like Outland, Enemy mine, Alien, Bladerunner or Starshiptroopers without being a shameless copy of any of it. The Expanse is truly a class of its own.