Only on book three, so far there's a Jewish inventor of the space drive, a foul mouthed but wise pajeet grandma politician with her soy husband, strong independent mongrel women, south east Asian doctor looking for his daughter, interracial lesbian pastor, oh and foolish/violent huwite men. shitskins diversity IN SPACE!
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Expanse was one of the last pieces of popular media I very, very grudgingly admitted to liking (I watched the series; they included everything you mentioned), but you're not wrong. It was clear there was a forced diversity agenda and cringey feminist ideas of assertive heroines. This seemed to get worse as the show went on and I couldn't be bothered to watch the final season.
Still, earlier on, it does have something going for it. Hard to pinpoint what it is. I kept telling people how lame I found it and mocking it, only to find myself watching through it attentively season on season for a while. In the end I gave up and accepted that I kind of liked it (until I gave up watching). Regardless of how clumsy and cringe the low points are, I think it's one of the few pieces of popular TV to ever treat sci fi concepts fairly well. The Eros incident towards end of S1 and the return to Eros in S2 were very memorable, conceptually and visually.
Sci fi literature is, generally speaking, 100x better than sci fi TV or cinema even on the low end. Still, if it's a candidate for Netflix adaptation in the first place, chances are it's a mid novel as novel series go. Try Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep if you haven't.
The Expanse TV show is really good if you just skip over any time Naomi is talking. Her story doesn't matter and she's 80%-90% of The Message (also skip over the lesbian pastor's black wife, but you'll instinctively want to do that anyway).
Speaking of which, somebody should make a Sponsor Block thing to skip over woke shit. Queue up Expanse and it automatically skips over Naomi and lesbo wife instead of manually hitting right arrow.
Does VLC have like a skiplist file it loads automatically like subtitles? That would be awesome.
The Asian doctor was cool. The Indian president played by that real-life-Iranian chain-smoker was fun. Plenty of good normal white characters in the mix and character you don't know are good/bad just by their race. Honestly it's worth watching just for Amos, he's a real badass.
Other than Naomi and lesbo it's really not bad other than the low production value from SciFi seasons.