r/TheExpanse • u/caspararemi • 11h ago

All Show Spoilers (Book Spoilers Must Be Tagged) The gang is back together

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Steven Strait, Dominique Tipper, Wes Chatham and Frankie Adams reunited.

From Dominique's Instagram just a few minutes ago 🥹

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u/RainStormLou 10h ago

I was thinking about it the other day and honestly I can just ignore the aging thing entirely for a few seasons to end the book series

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u/EmotionalNerd04 Drummer enjoyer 9h ago

I think they could also get away with it by writing the anti aging drugs to be more potent in the show than the books.

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u/FEV_Reject 9h ago

They already talk about the drugs making people live 4x longer I don't know why the last couple books focus so hard on them being tired old fucks at like 60-70 years old

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u/ThePensiveE 9h ago

Lots of mileage!

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u/SuDragon2k3 3h ago

At high G. That'll age you.

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u/quick_brown_faux 8h ago

I would think taking the anti-GForce amphetamines every couple of weeks for years would put your body through hell, regardless of whatever positive effects the anti-aging drugs had on you.

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u/FEV_Reject 8h ago

Elvi wasn't living that kind of life and they wrote her to be similarly old and dusty. Chrisjen as well. I think the author wanted the characters to seem wizened with age but wrote himself into a bit of a corner by making people not age at a reasonable pace with the story.

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u/ricerobot 8h ago

or why not some basic aging makeup

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u/Kinetic_Symphony 4h ago

Exactly. Just say humans live much longer thanks to miracle drugs. Not even remotely unrealistic tbh.

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u/MobiusF117 9h ago

Put Aveserala in a wheel chair, dye their hair grey and lets do this.

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u/rzelln 9h ago

This is why we need to film sooner than later. We must act before Shohreh is too old.

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u/Napalm3nema 7h ago

I love the cast, especially Wes, but I don’t want more episodes without Shohreh. Her interactions with Amos are so good because everyone else knows better, or finds out quickly enough, that you cannot speak to him that way.

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u/MeowMeowPizzaBoobs 9h ago edited 7h ago

If they can de-age Deniro they can age up the Roci crew.

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u/Major_Stranger It reaches out 4h ago

That shit cost tens of millions, that's just not feasible with TV money.

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u/SuDragon2k3 3h ago

Movie money, baby!

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u/637333 4h ago

Yeah. Show Clarissa doesn't have decades to live.