499: I Love Space Fedoras

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Step into the alien architecture and watch out for death slugs, as we discuss season four of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Expanse.” We’re happy to have our characters saved from the clutches of the SyFy channel, but how has the transition to streaming been? Why are alien planets so much like quarries? Why is Avasarala so competent and unelectable? What shenanigans is Bobbie Draper getting into on Mars? Listen, or be spaced.

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0:00.0	The Inconquerable, number 499, February 2020.
0:12.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.5	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.7	We continue our walk through many, many, many, many, many, many TV shows that aired in late
0:19.3	2019 that we are enjoying talking about. A TV shows that aired in late 2019 that we are
0:21.0	enjoying talking about. A lot of good TV in late 2019. And in this episode, we're going to be
0:26.3	talking about the expanse. You may remember it as the sci-fi channel's The Expans, but the
0:31.1	sci-fi channel walked away from it and said, we don't want that show anymore. And then
0:36.5	in came reclusive billionaire Jeff Bezos to say, how about Amazon Prime?
0:42.6	Let's just put that on the Amazon Prime. So they did. And the entire fourth season of The Expans dropped
0:49.7	on Amazon Prime video in December. I'm joined by three wonderful people to talk about season four of The Expans.
0:57.2	Aline Sims is here.
0:58.6	Hello.
0:59.1	Hello.
1:00.0	Sci-Fi channel executives are fools.
1:02.4	They're, um, yeah, dummies, dummies, dummies.
1:06.0	Chip Sutterth is also here.
1:07.6	Chip is the host of a wonderful or one of the many host slash panelists
1:13.6	slash, I don't know how, is it a flat organization? It's a very flat team structure. Okay. Of a legitimate
1:19.3	salvage, uh, on the incomparable, which is going through the expanse episode by episode.
1:23.7	We've pulled Chip forward in time to talk about the entirety of season four, even though
1:29.3	a legitimate salvage is still on episode.
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