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The expanse... Are they still working on a sequel? I wish they hadn't had to get rid of Alex.

Also season 6 of the walking dead still feels like the shows awkward finale.

>I wish they hadn't had to get rid of Alex.

I'm not entirely sure why they got rid of him at all: they could have simply re-cast him. Yeah, it'd be a bit jarring, but that's exactly what they did with Avasarala's husband. The replacement actor didn't look or act anything like the old one, and seemed 20 years younger too. Surely they could have found a replacement for Alex's actor that was closer than that?

I thought The Expanse was done and dusted.

The last season really accelerated into an abrupt unsatisfying ending, on a smaller scale than GoT's final season.

I have to read a lot of books now to get real closure.

Its not terribly different from the books. The plot is only really getting started. IMO they still need to give the actors another couple years to get older for the next chapter of the story. They really are old farts for the next part.

AFAIK there hasn't been any talk of them not exploring options for the last three books.

The double negative (hasn't, not) makes your comment a bit confusing. You're saying there is talk of something to cover the final 3 books? Do you have any sources on this?

I haven't seen anything about this online besides one thing I saw, but can no longer find, something along the lines of "we're not done with the Expanse universe yet", but I may be misremembering.

Naren Shankar and the cast have said pretty much that same thing and Wes Chatham said something around the lines of "there's more in the works", but that is it. My comment was around the fact that there hasn't been anyone saying anything negative around it's future, so we can presume they're still trying.

Expanse was apparently axed at end of s6 because of budget reasons from one Reddit comment thread I came across a few years ago, someone quoted something along the lines of "Internally it was called 'The Expense" because of how much the show cost to make". Makes you wonder if someone else would be willing to put up the money for new stuff. But then again you have shows that cost multiple millions per episode these days.

A small hope of something is better than nothing.

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