Youtubers have recieved all 6 episodes, weeks early, and the people actually paying only get one episode.

...and I hate the fact that this is the final season. It's been such a good series. Great writing, great acting, and great production. To get all three in sync is such a rare combination and treat. After watching the first episode, it looks like this season is going to be just as good as the previous ones. I'm sure I will be re-watching the entire series more than once when it's finally over.

show is ok, what is not is the fact Amazon is slowly releasing these shows for whatever reason.

The entire series should be released together - NOT PIECEMEAL!

Piecemeal releases are very annoying!

In my opinion, the writers have lost the focus from a high quality futuristic sci-fi story line and gone the way of smut which does not enhance the story, but makes it crude and uninteresting. Leave out the sex and smut and get back to the quality story.

The problem with this show over the last few seasons is it has 0 hard edges. It's like a soap opera in space, sentimental, borderline sappy, the conflict all seems pre-ordained. That they can use the F-word on Amazon just makes the sappiness more stark, as if the show is pulling its punches at every opportunity. There's such good material but they keep wasting it. Season 1 and 2 were very good but it's been going downhill since.

Great show, glad the new season has started.

Well done on the last book, authors. This first episode of the final season (for now) is also very well done. The first glimpse of Laconia was everything I hoped it would be. The scenery is even reminiscent of the real Laconia on Earth (perhaps the authors may have payed a visit?). I hope to see the TV series production of the last books on Amazon, eventually, although I fully understand why there may be a substantial delay between this season and the next season (have to wait for the gray hairs and the wrinkles on Holden to come in). I just want to say, about the last book, every complaint I had about the earlier books was completely resolved in the final book. It is an unusual accomplishment to end a 9-book series with what may have been the best book in the series. I had feared that the Expanse could lapse into the same curse-of-the-sequel that even Asimov's Foundation series seemed to lapse into during the last few books of that series, so, it was beautiful to see not only among the best writing in the series, but also such a remarkable symmetry to the entire epic, and such a philosophical depth, with subtle yet penetrating references of not only modern times, but also the patterns across all of human history, and how all those patterns are likely to project far into the future. Even the notion of the 1300 worlds seeding the galaxy with human settlement is both a furtive, Muskian call to action, and a bit of a prophecy, of the likely frontier-nature of human settlement across the vast expanse of space, where, for the first time in many years, mankind may once again by either as connected or as separate as it wishes to be, where unity is possible, but division is always an option too, should unity ever become too over-bearing on any segment of humanity, as has always been human-nature, whenever an exodus was an option.

So, to conclude, Bravo. I look forward to the rest of the episodes and the next series of the last few books some years down the road...

If there is one thing Humanity needs today, it is an inspiring vision of what we can become if we set our minds to it, while staying true to our hearts and our consciences. But along with that, from time to time, we also need a cautionary tale of what we could become, if we forget the values that make us good, values and principles which, I believe, are innate in nature, timeless, carved into the very fabric of spacetime by the hand of the Deliverer of Big Bangs. Though hardly any of humanity may agree on the exact interpretation of these carvings, there are few good people who doubt their existence. James Holden is not what most people think of when they think of Moses, and he would tell you himself, that he's nobody's savior. Nevertheless, the future often rhymes...