The Expanse (TV series)

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Television series
German title The Expanse
Original title The Expanse
The Expanse logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) since 2015
Production
company		 Alcon Entertainment,
The Sean Daniel Company
Episodes 46 in 4+ seasons ( List )
genre Science fiction
idea Mark Fergus ,
Hawk Ostby
music Clinton Shorter
Initial release November 23, 2015 (USA) on Syfy .com

First publication in German		 November 3, 2016 on Netflix
occupation
synchronization

The Expanse is an American science fiction - television series . The first season ran in winter 2015/2016. The critically acclaimed book series of the same name by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (under the pseudonym James SA Corey ), which began in 2011 and now comprises eight of nine planned volumes, serves as a template .

series

The first season is based to a large extent on the first volume of the book series ( Leviathan awakes ) and was broadcast on Syfy from December 14, 2015 to February 2, 2016 , with the first episode being released in advance as a stream on November 23, 2015 . The second season, based on the rest of the first and part of the following band, Caliban's War , aired in the United States from February 1 to April 19, 2017. In Germany, the broadcast on Netflix will start on September 8, 2017. In March 2017, the extension of the series by a third season was announced, which was broadcast in the USA from April 11 to June 27, 2018 and whose action on parts of the second and the entire third volume.

In May 2018 SyFy announced that it did not want to order a fourth season. The production company Alcon Entertainment was trying to find another partner for the broadcast of future seasons. Two weeks later, Jeff Bezos announced that Amazon would take over the further production of the series from the fourth season. The German-language fourth season was published on December 13, 2019 by Amazon Prime Video .

Executive producers include Mark Fergus , Hawk Ostby , Andrew A. Kosove, and Broderick Johnson , among others . Both Abraham and Franck are involved in the production. The Oscar -nominated screenwriters Mark Fergus and Hawk duo Ostby has written the script of the pilot episode.

In Germany and Austria, the SVoD provider Netflix has been offering the first season of the series since November 3, 2016 via its platform. The second season has been available on Netflix since September 8, 2017. After the takeover by Amazon, the series was withdrawn from Netflix on September 30, 2018.

On July 27, 2019 it was announced that a 5th season would be produced with Amazon.

Background story

The series takes place in the 24th century. Humanity has colonized parts of the solar system , including the moon and Mars , and there are other colonies and space stations scattered throughout the system . Politically, however, there are considerable tensions. On earth, overpopulated with over 30 billion people and suffering from elevated sea levels, the United Nations (UN) has risen to become a world government that also controls the moon and several stations in the solar system. Most of the residents ( Terran in the German version ) have no job due to the large population and are dependent on basic state services for their everyday lives. There are slums and slums in big cities like New York City . Furthermore, the earth suffers from significant environmental problems, such as rising sea levels, although the UN is raising considerable funds to counteract the damage. Yet the Terran corporations are the wealthiest in the system.

Mars, which was colonized in the 21st century, has won its independence from Earth (official name Martian Congressional Republic ) and has considerable military potential, so that there is a stalemate . The Martians are a very focused and independent people. Many look down on Terrans who they consider lazy and spoiled. This is not least due to the living conditions on Mars, where the terraforming process will continue for over a century. Martian cities are accordingly sealed off and partly laid out underground. The population is much smaller than that of Earth, but Mars, despite some technological advantages, does not have the industrial capacities of the Terrans.

Both Earth and Mars are in dire need of resources from the asteroid belt . The so-called Gürtler (English belter ) operate asteroid mining , but suffer from poor working and living conditions (clean air and water are often not available) and show physical deformations due to the force of gravity . The main base of the belt is de facto the dwarf planet Ceres , important industrial centers are asteroids such as Eros or free-flying space stations such as Tycho , while Jupiter's moon Ganymede is used for food production. A militant resistance group called the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA) has formed, which acts against Earth and Mars and is fought by the United Nations with all means. The escalation of the conflict between these three forces, which has been simmering for years, seems only a matter of time.

Cast and dubbing

The German dubbing was done at the dubbing company SDI Media Germany GmbH in Munich under the dialogue direction of Matthias Lange . He was assisted by Hans-Werner Schwarz and Dieter B. Gerlach in writing the dialogue book .

Role name actor Main role Supporting role German
voice actor 		Role description
James "Jim" Holden Steven Strait 1.01– Patrick Roche Captain of the Rocinante , formerly the first officer of the ice freighter Canterbury
Naomi Nagata Dominique Tipper 1.01– Katharina Schwarzmaier Engineer at Rocinante , former engineer at Canterbury
Alex Kamal Cas Anvar 1.01– Martin Halm Pilot of the Rocinante , formerly pilot of the Canterbury
Amos Burton Wes Chatham 1.01– Stefan Günther Rocinante mechanic , formerly Canterbury mechanic
Chrisjen Avasarala Shohreh Aghdashloo 1.01– Angelika Bender Deputy Undersecretary of Executive Administration , later Secretary General of the United Nations
Sadavir Errinwright Shawn Doyle 1.01-3.06 Matthias Klie Undersecretary of Executive Administration of the United Nations
Detective Josephus "Joe" Miller Thomas Jane 1.01–2.05 3.07-3.10, 3.13-4.02, 4.08-4.09 Philipp Moog Investigator from Star Helix, a Terran security company on Ceres
Juliette "Julie" Andromeda Mao Florence Faivre 1.01–2.05 3.09 Laura Maire Missing daughter of businessman Jules-Pierre Mao, OPA agent
Shed Garvey Paulo Costanzo 1.01-1.04 Hubertus von Lerchenfeld Medical technician on the Canterbury
Gunnery Sergeant Roberta "Bobbie" Draper Frankie Adams 2.01– Jacqueline Belle Sergeant Major and Squad Leader in the Mars Marine Corps
Camina drummer Cara Gee 4.01– 2.02-3.13 Gabrielle Pietermann Johnson's deputy and security officer of the Tycho space station , later captain of the Behemoth
Clarissa Mao Nadine Nicole 5.01– 3.07-4.01 Sophie Rogall Elderly daughter of Jules-Pierre Mao under false identity (Melba Koh)
Marco Inaros Keon Alexander 5.01– 4.04-4.10 Leader of a Gürtler faction
Filip Inaros Jasai Chase Owens 5.01– 4.10 Naomi's and Marco's son
Dimitri Havelock Jay Hernández 1.01–1.05 Julian Manuel Miller's partner at Star Helix Security
Gia Sara Mitich 1.01–1.05 Farina Brock Prostitutes on Ceres and Havelock's mistress
Captain Shaddid Lola Glaudini 1.01–1.06 Angela Wiederhut Captain of the Star Helix Security on Ceres and Miller's supervisor
Octavia must Athena Karkanis 1.01–1.07 Elisabeth von Koch Miller's colleague on Ceres
Arjun Rao-Avasarala Brian George 1.01–2.05 Erich Ludwig Husband of Chrisjen Avasarala
Michael Benyaer 4.01–
Jules-Pierre Mao François Chau 1.02– Hans-Georg Panczak Big entrepreneurs on earth
Diogo Harari Andrew Rotilio 1.02-3.13 Daniel hose Ceres petty criminal and OPA member
Admiral Souther Martin Roach 1.02-3.05 Claus-Peter Damitz Commander in Chief of the UN Fleet
Fleet Admiral Nguyen Byron man 2.01-3.06 Matthias Copper Souther's successor as Commander in Chief of the UN Fleet
Anderson Dawes Jared Harris 1.03– Andreas Borcherding A leader of the OPA on Ceres
Frederick "Fred" Lucius Johnson Chad Coleman 1.04– Ole Pfennig Leader of the Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), Commander of the Tycho space station
Kenzo Gabriel Elias Toufexis 1.06-1.10 Patrick Schröder Spy on Tycho Station
Antony Dresden Daniel Kash 1.06-2.02 Kai Taschner Scientists at Thoth Station
Paolo Cortazar Carlos Gonzalez-Vio 2.02-2.07 Scientist in captivity of the OPA , formerly an employee of Dresden
Cotyar Ghazi Nick E. Tarabay 2.02-3.06 Alexander Brem Security specialist in the service of Avasarala
Dr. Practice "Practice" Meng Terry Chen 2.08-3.06 Peter Lontzek Botanists on Ganymede
Mei Meng Leah Jung 2.08-3.06 Carla Reiter Daughter of Praxidike Meng
Dr. Annushka "Anna" Volovodov Elizabeth Mitchell 3.02– Christin Marquitan European Methodist Pastor
Klaes Ashford David Strathairn 3.07-4.10 Reinhard Kuhnert Former pirate, senior officer in the OPA and first officer in the Behemoth

Episode list

reception

The series was largely positively received in the media. In the Internet Movie Database , the series has a rating of 8.5 / 10 based on approximately 94,000 votes.

At Metacritic , the first season has a rating of 65/100 (based on 23 reviews) and at Rotten Tomatoes a rating of 77% with an average rating of the 44 critics of 7.12 / 10. In 2018, The Expanse won the Curt Siodmak Prize for Best Series .

The second season has a rating of 77/100 on Metacritic (based on five reviews) and a rating of 95% on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of the 21 critics of 8.95 / 10.

The third season achieved a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with an average critics rating of 8.57 / 10.

The risk of appropriately filming Abraham and Franck's bestsellers was pointed out, both in terms of the wide-ranging plot and due to technical hurdles, but the implementation seems to have been successful. In advance, among other things, the gloomy and intense mood was praised in the pilot episode, the technical implementation was also highlighted. In a detailed report on the production of the series, Andrew Liptak from io9 also said very positively about The Expanse .

Reactions to the cancellation by SyFy and takeover by Amazon

Fans of the series collected 100,000 signatures in an online petition in one week to convince the streaming providers Amazon and Netflix to take over the series. On May 15, 2018, fans let a plane with a "Save-the-Expanse" banner circle over the Amazon headquarters in Los Angeles for several hours. Celebrities such as Wil Wheaton , George RR Martin , Patton Oswalt and the Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen supported the campaign.

On May 25, 2018, the main owner of Amazon, Jeff Bezos , who is himself a big fan of the series, announced that the series would be completely taken over by Amazon from season 4. On December 12, 2019, the fourth season in a row was released on Amazon's Prime Video .

literature

  • James SA Corey: The Expanse book series
  • James SA Corey et al. a .: The Expanse Roleplaying Game. Seattle 2019.

Web links

supporting documents

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  3. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: 'The Expanse' To End On Syfy With Season 3, Will Be Shopped Elsewhere By Alcon. Deadline, May 10, 2018, accessed on May 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: 'The Expanse' Picked Up By Amazon For Season 4 After Syfy Cancellation. Deadline, May 25, 2018, accessed on May 26, 2018 .
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  6. ↑ Melanie Schöppe: Only this week on Netflix: One of the best sci-fi series will soon be gone. Film releases , September 26, 2018, accessed October 29, 2018 .
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  10. ↑ See James SA Corey et al. a .: The Expanse Roleplaying Game. Seattle 2019, p. 166 ff.
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  12. ↑ a b c Denise Petski: 'The Expanse' Ups Three To Series Regulars For Season 5 Of Amazon Series . Accessed January 21, 2020.
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  19. ↑ Justin Landon: A Risky Adaptation: Syfy's The Expanse . Tor.com, November 11, 2015.
  20. ↑ Max Nicholson: Comic-Con 2015: Syfy Debuts Thomas Jane's New Series. The Expanse . IGN.com, July 11, 2015.
  21. ^ Andrew Liptak: Our Visit to the Mind-Blowingly Realistic Spaceship Sets of Syfy's The Expanse . IO9.com, November 23, 2015.
  22. ↑ Amazon or Netflix, please buy the rights to The Expanse - #SaveTheExpanse. In: Change.org. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .
  23. ^ Debra Yeo: Campaign grows to save made-in-Toronto sci fi show The Expanse. Toronto Star, May 16, 2018, accessed May 17, 2018 .
  24. ↑ Jack Shepherd: George RR Martin and Will Wheaton plead for Amazon and Netflix to renew cult scifi The Expanse. The Independent, May 18, 2018, accessed May 19, 2018 .
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