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Holden has gone full beta
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Apr 26, 2018 02:04
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cortyar nooo
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Apr 26, 2018 02:09
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OH poo poo!
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Apr 26, 2018 02:55
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Apr 26, 2018 02:58
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I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill em all!
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Apr 26, 2018 02:59
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you’re right, we’re not going to be friends
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Apr 26, 2018 03:01
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Hexel posted:Holden has gone full beta The virgin Holden vs the Chad Amos
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Apr 26, 2018 03:26
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StashAugustine posted:I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill em all!
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Apr 26, 2018 03:27
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Avasarala continues to own.StashAugustine posted:cortyar nooo He was really sorry  Hexel posted:
2 million out of how many billion? Just a fleshwound 
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Apr 26, 2018 03:45
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When do new episodes appear on syfy.com? I missed the one stupid episode window airing (gently caress not repeating it, really).
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Apr 26, 2018 04:11
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This episode had everything, was on the literal edge of my seat
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Apr 26, 2018 04:38
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I feel like I'm missing out on some of the tension just because the end of the semester has me doing homework while watching. That or the commercials
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Apr 26, 2018 04:55
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:2 million out of how many billion? Just a fleshwound I'm totally on board with Anna's plot here. It's actually really compelling. Errinwright has become such a shitbag villain... but we saw how he got here. The guy made choices, and now he's got to double down. It's hosed.
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Apr 26, 2018 05:12
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Eiba posted:The scale of the human tragedy in this episode was so much greater than Eros... It's kind of mind boggling that two million civilians being killed can seem anything other than an incomprehensible tragedy. I was down on Anna last week, but it was because her parts were slow, but this was great. The Secretary General is such a poo poo though. He only listens to the last person he speaks to like Trump. It was nice to see Errinwright be absolutely shocked at what happened, though. It's awesome that the two villains had kind of the same moment. Errinwright with 2 million people dying and Mao with realizing the weight of using kids for his science experiment. Errinwright doubles down on his fuckup while Mao is seemingly having a change of heart.
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Apr 26, 2018 06:26
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I gotta say this show is killing it with the casting. Both Mao's and Errinwright's actors nailed their "holy poo poo i've gone too far" moments. Ana is excellent even though she could very easily come across as overly preachy. Also I would be so down for a spinoff that's nothing but Amos and Avasarala talking for 45 minutes a week. "I didn't always work in space" 
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Apr 26, 2018 10:38
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theCalamity posted:It was nice to see Errinwright be absolutely shocked at what happened, though. It's awesome that the two villains had kind of the same moment. Errinwright with 2 million people dying and Mao with realizing the weight of using kids for his science experiment. Errinwright doubles down on his fuckup while Mao is seemingly having a change of heart. Yeah, watching Mao get gutpunched throughout the episode as he watched/interacted with Mei, clearly remembering Julie, was great. bloom posted:"I didn't always work in space" This was perfect.
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Apr 26, 2018 10:53
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:2 million out of how many billion? Just a fleshwound Plenty of leaders in the Cold War would have made that trade. theCalamity posted:It was nice to see Errinwright be absolutely shocked at what happened, though. It's awesome that the two villains had kind of the same moment. Errinwright with 2 million people dying and Mao with realizing the weight of using kids for his science experiment. Errinwright doubles down on his fuckup while Mao is seemingly having a change of heart. They had the devil on the shoulder (Errinwright/Strickland) parallel, too.
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Apr 26, 2018 11:03
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Planetary defence railguns, I was right  I also liked how much less impressive the Agatha King looked compared to the Donnager, inside and outtheCalamity posted:I was down on Anna last week, but it was because her parts were slow, but this was great. The Secretary General is such a poo poo though. He only listens to the last person he speaks to like Trump. Except Errinwright immediately absolved himself of the blame and felt totally guilt free when the power cycling report came in that let him mentally shift the blame to the SG NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Apr 26, 2018 |
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Apr 26, 2018 11:42
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The timing on that war room scene was nonsensical. It takes a while for even light itself to travel that distance.
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Apr 26, 2018 12:52
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I liked that Holden still has an old Pure&Kleen t-shirt laying around.Platystemon posted:The timing on that war room scene was nonsensical. It takes a while for even light itself to travel that distance. I think this is one of those situations where you just have to toss out science for the sake of storytelling.
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Apr 26, 2018 12:55
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bloom posted:I liked that Holden still has an old Pure&Kleen t-shirt laying around. Would a railgun round be visible at those distances? I'm wondering whether the simultaneous attack would have worked at all in real life, or if the Martians would have had hours (more?) to fire off first strike nukes.
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Apr 26, 2018 13:18
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Platystemon posted:The timing on that war room scene was nonsensical. It takes a while for even light itself to travel that distance. Pretend that the first strike platforms were slaved in a way that would begin launch if any of the others were destroyed. That way, no command would need to come from Mars.
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Apr 26, 2018 13:30
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Phenotype posted:Would a railgun round be visible at those distances? I'm wondering whether the simultaneous attack would have worked at all in real life, or if the Martians would have had hours (more?) to fire off first strike nukes. In the books it is explained that rail gun rounds travel at a a speed that approaches C. So no, you're not going to see something coming at you at a speed that is indeterminate from that of light.
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Apr 26, 2018 14:00
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Semi-hard sci fi
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Apr 26, 2018 14:01
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Milo and POTUS posted:Semi-hard sci fi He didn't always work in space 
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Apr 26, 2018 14:28
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i ship sgt. draper and amos so hard
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Apr 26, 2018 15:05
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Took me until this episode to notice that the fleet admiral was Yao Fei in Arrow. Heh.
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Apr 26, 2018 16:55
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There's a lot in the show especially that doesn't make sense if you look too closely at it from a hard sci-fi perspective. The notion that the missile platforms could be hidden, and once found, be "lost" if they move makes no sense, same for the Roci somehow being able to "lose" the tracking of the UN or Mars, and then be compromised (except to the person they're communicating with) if they took or sent a tightbeam transmission. Stealth in space aside from some very niche cases doesn't exist, and the idea of railgun platforms on Earth being able to snipe the Martian platforms without any warning is also complete nonsense if you're being 100% grounded in reality. That said, it'd be really boring TV to be completely realistic, so I'm fine with their bizzaro space world where things aren't perfectly accurate if it's generally consistent within its own rules.
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Apr 26, 2018 17:12
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I generally assume that there's some technobabble you could justify it with but no one wants to see it
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Apr 26, 2018 17:16
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If one of those Martian stealth first strike missile platforms wasn't called Red October in the script, then they are devoid of joy
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Apr 26, 2018 17:21
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my thought is that mars has to have some sort of other ability to wipe out most of earth (even just slam rocks into it, poo poo a railgun aimed at NYC wouldn't be fun times for the city) and why wouldn't they interpret this as prelude to a first strike
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Apr 26, 2018 17:25
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in a cold/lukewarm-war
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Apr 26, 2018 17:45
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If those platforms were Mar's main deterrent threat, they're really bad at deterrence. A bunch of large missile platforms a long ways from Earth when you're the only power who has access to large amounts of stealth composites shows a real failure of imagination.
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Apr 26, 2018 17:55
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I'm assuming that mars has IPBMs in surface silos like earth has, and ironically they might stay their hand because Buenos Aires was pulverized. Or mars might not, we'll see next episode.
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Apr 26, 2018 18:47
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StashAugustine posted:my thought is that mars has to have some sort of other ability to wipe out most of earth (even just slam rocks into it, poo poo a railgun aimed at NYC wouldn't be fun times for the city) and why wouldn't they interpret this as prelude to a first strike One of the conversations in the first season (or the first book? either or) illustrates the ludicrousness of the situation. Anybody with enough thrust can just spin up an asteroid to intersect with either Earth or Mars and kill the planet.
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Apr 26, 2018 19:21
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it's time to get ceres' (population) back to earth!
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Apr 26, 2018 19:23
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Party Plane Jones posted:One of the conversations in the first season (or the first book? either or) illustrates the ludicrousness of the situation. Anybody with enough thrust can just spin up an asteroid to intersect with either Earth or Mars and kill the planet. this does require getting a ship out there and launching it on a ballistic trajectory towards earth so it's less reliable than stealth super nukes, so theoretically taking out the stealth platforms is technically a win for earth. it's just all very dr. strangelove.
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Apr 26, 2018 19:34
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but why have a doomsday weapon and not tell everyone about it?
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literally errinwright: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4
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