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This show just does that instant death from outer space so well. I remember Shed the medic just having his head disappear midsentence during the Donnager battle being one of the scenes that sold me on this show in the first place.
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What a god damned episode. Again. This season is nuts. Lord Hydronium posted:Naomi code switching to a stronger Belter accent while she's among other Belters was a really nice little touch. I also really enjoyed this.
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:29 |
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i didn't know what to expect and it was a bit jarring to suddenly fast-forward 6 months but holy gently caress
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:33 |
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I'm consistently impressed by basically everything about this show and I don't even know where to start I haven't read the books so I didn't know about the splat ahahahaha e: where can I pledge my allegiance to the new belter nation
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:37 |
man david strathairn is an extremely good choice for this role and i'm very excited to see the rest of this season
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:41 |
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seriously wasn't the pirate guy on the show before? i forget when
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:48 |
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Can I get a gif of the actual splat please?
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:50 |
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Jesus loving Christ There isn't a big enough
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:52 |
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Tighclops posted:I'm consistently impressed by basically everything about this show and I don't even know where to start You'll need to learn lang Belta first. It's totally a thing.
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:52 |
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Lang Belta was designed by an actual linguist to actually make sense, and yet Duolingo only has the dumb meme languages of Klingon and High Valyrian instead of it.
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# ? May 24, 2018 04:57 |
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TVIV> The Expanse, Season 3: Belta lik pashang!
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:01 |
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i like how 'welwalla' literally means 'guy who lives in a gravity well'
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:01 |
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Oh, and props to the costume department for Amos' holey, tattered undershirt. They are really good at setting stuff up on this show and having it pay off way down the line: remember when they introduced these slingshot guys in what? Episode 2? They really compressed a lot into this episode for the pace they've been going so far and it felt very natural to me. We got a time jump and a brace of new characters that look like they'll stick around for a bit. The show has been really great this season about fleshing out the world with secondary characters each episode! And no one has even mentioned Melba doing the Horizontal Pile Driver on that dude...way to hulk out, lady. Anywho, the show continues to get better in my opinion, really hoping Bezos loves space enough to just buy ~all the things~... theCalamity posted:Can I get a gif of the actual splat please?
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:03 |
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What the gently caress did I just watch I love this goddamned show.
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:03 |
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Crazycryodude posted:Lang Belta was designed by an actual linguist to actually make sense, and yet Duolingo only has the dumb meme languages of Klingon and High Valyrian instead of it. Memrise has a course! It's a fun little phrasebook that will teach you useful phrases like "Na gif fo mi na kaka, dzhemang (don't give me any poo poo, brokedick)"
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:35 |
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I thought last episode was loving amazing but holy poo poo this one blew that right out of the goddamn well. The loving pirate dude accent is goddamn ridiculous. Nobody fucks with Drummer dude, when you gonna learn. All the world building has been fantastic. And that ending... gently caress me, man.
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:40 |
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Dude should have watched more sci-fi, I was positive that was a portal the first moment I saw the Ring. That or a giant space hedgehog was going to come along.
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:51 |
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So the thing that never settled right was Miller chasing Julie Mao's ghost. It was like, wasn't she not really there? Miller sort of must have been hallucinating. Now I think it's pretty clear it wasn't just artistic license, it was intentional how the hallucinations were done and there's some underlying mechanism for how they work.
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# ? May 24, 2018 05:52 |
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twistedmentat posted:Dude should have watched more sci-fi, I was positive that was a portal the first moment I saw the Ring. I read the books, and like, that was done a million ways better than I could have possibly imagined. Dude got loving obliterated, holy poo poo
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:02 |
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StashAugustine posted:i like how 'welwalla' literally means 'guy who lives in a gravity well' Oh it's more than that. Wallah is a Hindu suffix that is used to indicate a persons doing something, usually a profession, for example a Chaiwalla (chia meaning tea) being a person who sells tea. It can also be used to refer to a persons hobby or even an obsession they have. In Belter Creole, they appropriate the Wallah suffix with other languages - a psychiatrist is known as a Govawala, Gova being taken from the Polish word głowa which means head. Pashangwala is another good one, taking the Mandarin word "to mount" which Belters use in lieu of gently caress. Welwalla means person who is obsesed with the wel (aka inner plannets). ... .... as a person who loves language and etymology this show tickles me in ways I never thought possible. Rougey fucked around with this message at 06:06 on May 24, 2018 |
# ? May 24, 2018 06:03 |
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Taintrunner posted:I read the books, and like, that was done a million ways better than I could have possibly imagined. Dude got loving obliterated, holy poo poo Yea, I assume what happened is he was going insanely fast, then BAM came to a near stop, so part of him just kept going forwards.
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:36 |
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, I assume what happened is he was going insanely fast, then BAM came to a near stop, so part of him just kept going forwards. Delta-
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:36 |
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Am I supposed to know who Melba is, or is this just setting her up as a character? Also, holy poo poo at that guy just stopping. When he first started talking about how everyone would remember him, I figured he was going to slam into the ring to try to destroy it or something. Then he got excited that his girlfriend wanted to bang him again, and I was wondering why if he was going to kill himself. Then I realized he was going to fly through the ring. Then that climax, god drat. Can't wait to see what the hell that ring is supposed to be.
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:39 |
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Cojawfee posted:Am I supposed to know who Melba is, or is this just setting her up as a character? New character.
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:41 |
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Cojawfee posted:Am I supposed to know who Melba is, or is this just setting her up as a character? You aren't supposed to know who she is yet but pretty chekovs gun that her introduction is people talking poo poo about Mao and asking what she thinks about the guy that put him away
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:45 |
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The *splat* was really cool. Between this and the lab tech it's impressive how well they're pulling off gore effects despite the show not having them before.
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:45 |
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It was cool to see them clean up and reuse the Agatha King set for the fancy UNN flag this week. Come on, Amazon, look at how efficient this production is! VV Fair enough. Toxic Fart Syndrome fucked around with this message at 06:55 on May 24, 2018 |
# ? May 24, 2018 06:50 |
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:
Well that spoiler is completely based on the tonight's episode so gently caress off ding dong.
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# ? May 24, 2018 06:52 |
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Camera dude and hulk-drug lady and maybe interview lady are up to something and I don't like it.
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# ? May 24, 2018 07:11 |
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That was so Metal. Elentor fucked around with this message at 07:17 on May 24, 2018 |
# ? May 24, 2018 07:11 |
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Also belter 1st officer guy is pretty cool and he's 100% right that they need to create a civil society but he's also 100% up to no good.
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# ? May 24, 2018 07:17 |
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People are gonna squee about a lot that happened. Can we get a moment--just a moment--to appreciate the guy who steps in on his brother's girl, and walks in on the Dear John VLOG wearing a banana hammock to say whats up? Just suspending completely for a second the idea that Belters are tallish skinny waifs and going straight for the FCC safe dickcentric cuckoldry sight gag? Because that whole story sequence was a hilarious departure in tone, and that particular bit was the cherry on top. e; Cojawfee posted:Am I supposed to know who Melba is, or is this just setting her up as a character? I could swear I've seen someone who looks just like her. Willie Tomg fucked around with this message at 07:28 on May 24, 2018 |
# ? May 24, 2018 07:25 |
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It took me way too long to realize that was Straithairn. I like that he's going to the Sam Elliott school of aging ruggedly. I have to say, this season started a bit slow for me, but the last 3 episodes have shifted it into overdrive like splat
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# ? May 24, 2018 07:38 |
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This video is good for Lang belta, this bartender geezer has got it down. I hope he gets a gig in the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eupcy0lIjsk&t=379s
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# ? May 24, 2018 07:41 |
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So what was the big surprise from the crew stream
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# ? May 24, 2018 08:21 |
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StashAugustine posted:I like the OPA uniforms, and how the more radical faction is the one trying to establish more of a rule of law It'll be interesting to see how far he's willing to take that notion, and how long this Dawes-Johnson alliance can last before Dawes or his guys (in particular his head guy first officer on the Behemoth) see an opportunity that's worth burning the alliance for. I wish the show had given a better explanation for what the Behemoth is doing out there, if they ever said it I missed it. I know from context clues and there really only being one notable thing to be out there doing in space right now (at least on the government ship/giant Belter legit salvage poo poo level), but it seems like there should be a line or two about it. Right now I'm more inclined to think I just missed it, unless they're saving it for a reveal later for some reason.
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# ? May 24, 2018 08:45 |
drat that was crazy I haven't read the books, this is all speculation based off of the show, but the last time i did this the post got spaced so i'll spoiler tag this: i'm thinking the ring might be a gate. It could be that the protomolecule was created by aliens for finding habitable systems (among other things) and then collecting the materials necessary to build some kind of hyperspace/wormhole gate so that the aliens themselves could travel there. But maybe something went wrong with the probe carrying this protomolecule sample, and it crashed and never activated...until it was discovered 2 billion years later by humans who fed it with lasers and people and radiation, and then it grew and fed itself everything, and completed its job of building the gate that now links our solar system to a gate in a habitable system a long way away, with a long dead (or maybe not?) civilization in it and a bunch of weird crazy hosed up and cool poo poo to explore and colonize and get killed by. As for the guy getting turned into meat goop by the ring, here's what i think might have happened: the gate activated. oops lol. Maybe any ship passing through the ring activates it, or maybe there's some some invisible technobabble energy field inside the ring (im thinking the ring needs enough energy or a magic quantum space signal from home to activate the gate), and passing through that field at high speed can activate it (we see a ship pass through the ring at slow speeds earlier in the episode with no effect, though maybe that was a protomolecule drone thing, not a human ship). But unfortunately for racer dude, the act of passing through the activated gate into the warp dimension or whatever, is a slow process, so it slowed him down really fast. Not so fast that his ship was destroyed, but fast enough to rip his body apart. or maybe you need some protomolecule with you in order to pass through the gate safely...and doesn't the Rocinante have some rogue protomolecule stowed away in the bulkheads? or maybe its just a giant space goatse Rah! fucked around with this message at 09:07 on May 24, 2018 |
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# ? May 24, 2018 09:04 |
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Book spoilers about the ring: It is indeed an interstellar transportation system, but in order to use it, you have to travel at realllllllllllllly slow speeds. Eventually, that changes, but at the start, it takes quite some time to navigate the gate system. EDIT: quote:The Slow Zone, the Dandelion Sky or the Hub is the location on the other side of the Ring. It's a black, starless space approximately one million kilometers across, with 1373 individual Ring wormholes[Citation needed] in an enormous sphere around it. Ring Station sits in the middle of the slow zone. The actual location of the slow zone in space, or whether it is connected to the universe other than through wormholes, is unknown. Gonz fucked around with this message at 09:38 on May 24, 2018 |
# ? May 24, 2018 09:24 |
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Those covers are bad I rather listen to Martian music
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Belter rap is where's it at koyo.
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