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If it makes you feel better the fourth book of The Expanse is the most boring in my opinion and the show stuck to the plot for the most part throughout. I still enjoyed both the book and the fourth season but the action and production really picks back up in the fifth season.

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The expanse has a lot of problems. Mainly the fact that the creators dislike "disaster porn". Thus making the show completely devoid of any emotional impact.

Like the rocks falling was filmed in such a way as to be the least emotionally impactful to the viewer. I don't think they could have done anything more than they did to make it un-emotional. It is incredibly bizarre.

I agree with that, I think the way the rocks were handled in the books was much more impactful. It all felt a bit analytical and detached in the show which I didn't like. It still had an emotional impact for me but that may be because I was relating it to how I felt while reading it.

Yes, season 4 has the exact same budget per episode and the same production company/crew as the other seasons. Amazon doesn't have anything to do with perceived changes (I thought 4 was still good and 5 was great).

Seeing Laconia with serious CGI budget is going to be amazing.

The budget hasn’t changed, and it’s ending at book 6 we aren’t going to get to see Laconia in all its glory on screen.

I'm chugging through book 2 at the moment, I hate reading books right after I watched a show since I'm already aware of most of the events and the plot direction, but I want to see where the show diverged in the later seasons and of course get to the books after that.

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