![]() ![]() This takes the 'Rocinante' to a frontier planet, away from great events on Earth and Mars - a device that may be a narrative necessity because the second half of the previous season demonstrated how our heroes are now celebrities, having saved the Solar System a couple of times. While maintaining longer arcs that connect what has gone before with what is to come, Season Four has a self contained principal plot with a beginning, a middle, and an end, which is far more satisfying. It also ended the rather eccentric practice of effectively dividing a season into separate half-seasons, each with its own main storyline. The first was the most significant: following their usual practice, Amazon commissioned a shorter season. What was more unusual was that its "improvements" really were improvements. As usual in such situations, the new management was eager to make its mark on its recently acquired property. It was the first following the show's dramatic cancellation by 'Syfy' and its even more dramatic rescue a few days later by Amazon. Season Four represents a fundamental change. Indeed, to cut immediately to the conclusion, this is great television, and it is recommended that you just go and watch it for yourself, but before you do so, you need to familiarise yourself with what has gone before, and before you read this, it might be best if you either watch the three previous seasons or at least read their overviews here. We're already writing the first scripts."Įvery episode of The Expanse Season 4 premieres on Amazon Prime Video on December 13.Like its predecessors on this website, this overview of the fourth season of The Expanse is deliberately spoiler-light, but not entirely spoiler-free. Pretty much we've been able to get our entire crew back in Toronto. Season 5 of The Expanse is already in pre-production. It's Shankar's favorite book in The Expanse series and he believes Season 4, based on the previous novel in the series, Cibola Burn, effectively tees up the future of the series. Corey, the joint pen name of writers Daniel Abrahama and Ty Franck. In July, Amazon renewed The Expanse for a fifth season, which will be based on the book Nemesis Games, by James S.A. "We left Season 4 with just a great, fulfilling ending that kicks into Books 5 and 6." "We're happy creatively where it went," Shankar said of the upcoming season. You watch the show and it seamlessly switches back and forth from 16:9 and 2.39." A widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9 has become high definition standard, while the wider 2.39:1 anamorphic format is more commonly reserved for theatrical movies. "So every time you're on the planet, it actually opens up, so you feel the vista is much larger. "We chose to shoot all of the stuff on Ilus in anamorphic, 2.39 to 1 - it's a very wide aspect ratio," Shankar said. The new, planetary focus will be marked by a stylistic change proposed by The Expanse cinematographer Jeremy Benning. The Rocinante crew are going planetside in Season 4 of "The Expanse." Prime Video ![]() So just being outside in weather, that was a huge difference for us." "We haven't really spent this much time on a planet before. Up to that point, pretty much everything was on sets and sound stages," Shankhar said. ![]() "It's the first season that we've done a substantial amount of location work. The first world to be colonized by spacefaring homesteaders is Ilus, one of the primary settings for Season 4. With the activation of the Ring Gates, humanity now has access to hundreds of new worlds, including the planetless "Belters" caught between the political machinations of Earth and Mars. "That gives the show a very unique visual style, a signature that is quite beautiful, but it's a unique identity I think, in terms of science fiction." ![]() "On The Expanse, what I find interesting about it, in terms of hard science and science fiction, is that we really embrace the idea of space as a character, the environment as a character, and it is used to generate drama in an unusual way that most science fiction simply ignores," Shankhar told The Crash Couch. Appearing on The Crash Couch podcast, The Expanse showrunner Naren Shankhar shared how Season 4 differs from previous seasons, while also providing an update on Season 5. Taking the science fiction series planetside will change the show's visual approach, right down to the shape of the frame. While most of the previous three seasons have been set on various space stations, asteroid colonies and aboard spaceships, The Expanse Season 4 will land the crew of the Rocinante on the alien world of Ilus. ![]()
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