![]() Make no mistake, there are new tererors to be found lurking off in the distance. At this stage in The Expanse book series the narrative becomes more about exploration and discovery, and less wholly about politics (though there’s still plenty of that too), and this season reflects that. That’s likely the result of the source material which, at the start of where season four picks up, strikes a brighter tone. The tone of the show has brightened up too. It all still feels totally real and scientifically accurate… if science could find a way to make it easier to look at things in the black of space without having to squint a little. The change is subtle and it has been accomplished without turning The Expanse into Star Wars or a less realistic show about the future. When Amos lurks in one of the ship’s dark corners, it still looks like a dark corner, but it’s a lot easier to see that Amos is the one lurking there. The inside of James Holden’s ship looks a little brighter too. It’s a subtle shift, but suddenly it’s a lot easier to see the freshly painted outlines of the Rocinante against the backdrop of space. The Expanse captures all that, but it’s not always pleasant to look at.įor The Expanse season 4 they’ve brightened things up without losing any of that intense realism. Shows like Star Trek and The Orville may have conditioned us to expect space travel to involve a lot of sounds and spot lights, but the reality is that it’s dark and cold out there. That makes sense, since it’s set largely in outer space. With its focus on hard sci-fi realities, the look of the show has always been a little washed out and shadowed. When I say the first episode of The Expanse’s fourth season is brighter, I mean that both tonally and literally.
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