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Sekenr posted:I am curious what were the outlandish tactics that fans used to save the show?
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 03:48 |
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Just finished the season. Thought it was great. E9: lmao at Miller’s “oh by the way you’ve got protomolecule on the Roci that was never resolved in season 3; just sayin’ Full season: The Bobbi and Avarsarala sideplots weren’t very interesting though I guess they were setting up Political poo poo for season 5. Better kill the poo poo out of that fucker who spaced Ashford; I loved that guy. Also there’s a part where Alex says the name of one of the new characters wrong in a scene where everyone else is saying it right; surprised that didn’t get caught.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 05:58 |
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Sekenr posted:Haha, so Benzos saved the show? I guess if you consider him one of the fans, being a billionaire is kind of a tactic too. Yeah he was into it before. The demo book for the Kindle at his presentations was Leviathan Wakes. At least the internet has told me that, I did not see it.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 06:19 |
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So glad I picked this show up as my winter watcher, just finished season 4 and the whole thing has been terrific. The added budget from Amazon in s4 (plus the rating change, helloooo f bombs!) was definitely noticeable. And I know he wasn’t a huge part of the show but seeing Ashur from Spartacus basically being Ashur, the good guy, was pretty cool. Dudes a good actor. Also Bobbie Edit: took me forever to realize that was Avasarala’s husband and not somebody with the campaign, that was a rough recast. Actually I guess there’s just a ton of really great casting for this show. Was so pleased to see the fookin legend! Santheb fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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I think that the Arjun recast was the most jarring recast since Daario, maybe even worse. Like, Brian George is such a typecast when it comes to these sort of paternal south-east asian characters that casting someone 30 years his junior for the same role just completely changed the whole tone, we also know that Chrisjen and Arjun have adult children and while Shoreh clearly comes off as a woman in her 60s the new actor looks like he's in his fourties.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 10:44 |
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I hate to admit it, but my first thought when I saw the new Arjun was that he was Avasarala's side piece. But I'm not going to knock the actor's performance, casts change sometimes. It certainly wasn't as weird as the Fabio/Daario recast or that dude that played The Mountain for two scenes in GoT season 2.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 15:12 |
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I assumed he was connected to her brother from the first season, maybe a friend of his, given how awesome he (her dead brother) thought Mars was. It was only at the very end of the initial on-the-ship scene that I raised my eyebrows and was all 'wait, did they recast her husband?'. I genuinely didn't realize it was him until the banquet scene, when he introduces himself to Bobbie.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 15:25 |
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EimiYoshikawa posted:I assumed he was connected to her brother from the first season, maybe a friend of his, given how awesome he (her dead brother) thought Mars was. It was only at the very end of the initial on-the-ship scene that I raised my eyebrows and was all 'wait, did they recast her husband?'. You mean Frank DeGraaf? He wasn't her brother.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 15:31 |
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I hate to admit it, but my first thought when I saw the new Arjun was that he was Avasarala's side piece. But I'm not going to knock the actor's performance, casts change sometimes. It certainly wasn't as weird as the Fabio/Daario recast or that dude that played The Mountain for two scenes in GoT season 2. Yeah he acted fine but to me it's like they also switched out Arjun's personality and motivations with the actor, and that succ
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 16:02 |
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Hopefully they kill him off soon.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 16:20 |
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Phi230 posted:The entire Expanse Franchise: 8 Novels, 7 Novellas, 4 seasons of TV, a roleplaying game, a board game and its expansion, a comic series, and two miniature rocinante's have all been released since GRRM's last book Oh there was an expansion to the game?
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 17:09 |
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EimiYoshikawa posted:I assumed he was connected to her brother from the first season, maybe a friend of his, given how awesome he (her dead brother) thought Mars was. It was only at the very end of the initial on-the-ship scene that I raised my eyebrows and was all 'wait, did they recast her husband?'. When he introduced himself to Bobbie I legit thought he was just an aid of Avasarala and was trying to quickly get info out of Bobbie by quickly building trust. I was very much "nope, that can't be him"
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 17:12 |
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emanresu tnuocca posted:I think that the Arjun recast was the most jarring recast since Daario, maybe even worse. Like, Brian George is such a typecast when it comes to these sort of paternal south-east asian characters that casting someone 30 years his junior for the same role just completely changed the whole tone, we also know that Chrisjen and Arjun have adult children and while Shoreh clearly comes off as a woman in her 60s the new actor looks like he's in his fourties. Do we know that he's the father of her children? Maybe since last season she divorced that old dude and got herself a new younger piece whose dick still works.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 17:19 |
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I kinda like the new Arjun. Brian George felt like a puppet or even a pet husband of Avasarala, always there to comfort her, never question anything. The new one feels much more fitting as Avasarala's husband, he is confident, has enough of her bullshit and clearly tells her so, but he still loves her. He seems much more the type that a woman like Avasarala would actually respect and develop a long lasting relationship with. I'm much more worried about Marco and season 5. He is casted and written exactly like described in the books, but that is not a good thing. In both instances the problem is that every character talks about him as such a charismatic, passionate (and manipulative) leader, but in every scene we see him, he is just a complete poo poo spewing bullshit for minutes and minutes. Yet everybody still fall for his poo poo. That is very bad writing, it is one of the worst examples of "telling us not showing us". They have done such an excellent job with Ashford and Drummer, hell every character is better written in the show and has more depth and emotions. I really hope they do something better with Marco for season 5.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 17:41 |
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I piped in at the sunset of the Season 3 thread and got through everything up through S04E01 in the past two weeks. Just absolutely floored with the quality of this show and the books (nearly half way through book 1). Season 3 finale just completely changed everything and with the Amazon purchase this show could legitimately go on for as long as it needs to now. Looking forward to keeping up as I finish Season 4. I caught one spoiler while looking up a quote in the first book (Holden makes a comment about an anvil being a better planet buster than any ship and I was curious exactly how much damage an anvil could do) and it brought me to the Expanse wiki which is a HUGE MISTAKE. Not sure if this shows up in Season 4 or is exclusively a late stage book spoiler but E: edited out Regardless, I hate having that little spoiler stuck in my head as that's all I can think about. Never stumble on spoilers, ever! TraderStav fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Dec 31, 2019 |
# ? Dec 31, 2019 17:45 |
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There is no good reason to post that here, tagged or not.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 17:48 |
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Toast Museum posted:There is no good reason to post that here, tagged or not. It's gone. Bad judgment. Hope that wasn't new for you.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 17:58 |
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Matwic posted:I'm much more worried about Marco and season 5. He is casted and written exactly like described in the books, but that is not a good thing. In both instances the problem is that every character talks about him as such a charismatic, passionate (and manipulative) leader, but in every scene we see him, he is just a complete poo poo spewing bullshit for minutes and minutes. Yet everybody still fall for his poo poo. That is very bad writing, it is one of the worst examples of "telling us not showing us". I think it half works but he talks way too much and needs to do something other than stage whisper E: like the whole time hes in the airlock I was thinking "ok I get your point shut the gently caress up already"
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 18:23 |
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Matwic posted:I'm much more worried about Marco and season 5. He is casted and written exactly like described in the books, but that is not a good thing. In both instances the problem is that every character talks about him as such a charismatic, passionate (and manipulative) leader, but in every scene we see him, he is just a complete poo poo spewing bullshit for minutes and minutes. Yet everybody still fall for his poo poo. That is very bad writing, it is one of the worst examples of "telling us not showing us". Do you watch old Hitler films and think, this here is a guy who is a complete poo poo spewing bullshit for hours and hours is an uncharismatic, unpassionate dude that no one would follow? Just because Marco has 125x the body count of Hitler doesn't mean he's going to be 125x as persuasive. It works just fine. Apparatchik Magnet fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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Matwic posted:I'm much more worried about Marco and season 5. He is casted and written exactly like described in the books, but that is not a good thing. In both instances the problem is that every character talks about him as such a charismatic, passionate (and manipulative) leader, but in every scene we see him, he is just a complete poo poo spewing bullshit for minutes and minutes. Yet everybody still fall for his poo poo. That is very bad writing, it is one of the worst examples of "telling us not showing us". I'm surprised to see you say this, because Marco was one of the characters that I felt was much better on screen than in the books. In the show, we've seen a lot of the OPA leaders, and they're all skeevy-looking pirate captains, and it's a lot easier to remember that a lot of the OPA were terrorists or terrorist-adjacent when it came to fighting for Belter rights. Marco's speech about how he's being punished for a strike against the inners when just a few years ago he would have been praised felt a lot more convincing than I thought it would, he really pulls into the us vs. them mentality that a lot of Belters are used to having.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 19:02 |
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I have it on good record that a hours of ranting, incoherent, bullshit is plenty enough to drum up a crowd of violent, ill-educated would-be-murderers. Doubly so if you have a neat red hat.
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 19:07 |
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TraderStav posted:It's gone. Bad judgment. Hope that wasn't new for you. Nah, I'm a filthy book person. Thanks for editing
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Toast Museum posted:Nah, I'm a filthy book person. Thanks for editing Man I was really tempted to click on that but held off. Just finished up this season today and I really enjoyed it, more than most of you guys it seems. I really love space colonization stuff like Interstellar or The Martian and the trailer for this got me really pumped up to see these characters in that kind of setting. And the cinematography planet side I guess made up for the slower plot development for me 🤷🏻♂️ Nice change of pace, and I’m excited to see how next year is going to ramp up things.
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StashAugustine posted:Oh there was an expansion to the game? Yeah, "Doors and Corners" that updated the game to season 3. I don't know if there will be more expansions though
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# ? Dec 31, 2019 20:45 |
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TraderStav posted:It's gone. Bad judgment. Hope that wasn't new for you. Kinda pointless considering fuckwit's marco posts.
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# ? Jan 1, 2020 22:51 |
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I binged all 4 seasons over the holiday break, what a great show! Season 4 though was underwhelming. The one thing that is laughable is why the gently caress does everyone have a thin glass phone/tablet? Throughout the series there have been a few occurrences of them being damaged or broken. Phone cases not a thing? Anyway Amos is my favorite, bring on season 5.
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Weaponized Autism posted:I binged all 4 seasons over the holiday break, what a great show! Season 4 though was underwhelming. The one thing that is laughable is why the gently caress does everyone have a thin glass phone/tablet? Throughout the series there have been a few occurrences of them being damaged or broken. Phone cases not a thing?
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 17:00 |
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Glass is cheap. Overlay whatever magical electronics they have on it, and mass distribute. Miller's was cracked just to make it unique, because of course he has a broken phone.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 17:43 |
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Also, you're going for an overall look to your show with its production design, and utilizing a whole bunch of different styles of 'tablet interface' props is both a timesink and confuses the overall visual language.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 17:59 |
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Phi230 posted:Yeah, "Doors and Corners" that updated the game to season 3. Which is an obnoxiously bad title that has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the game but it is a good improvement on an already solid game. It's not like, game of the year, but it is a shockingly good board game given that it is based on a popular IP.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 18:12 |
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I'm pretty certain whatever glass material they use for their Future Phones is pretty drat durable compared to today. I remember the phone that got smashed to bits by the robot arm in the Navoo looked fragile but at the same time it got crushed by a robotic arm
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logikv9 posted:I'm pretty certain whatever glass material they use for their Future Phones is pretty drat durable compared to today. I remember the phone that got smashed to bits by the robot arm in the Navoo looked fragile but at the same time it got crushed by a robotic arm the gently caress happened to miller's then? did he get a bible-caught-bullet out of it?
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 18:49 |
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He left it out in the rain.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 18:51 |
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Nothing is stored locally on the terminals and you can apparently get a new one out of any public printer if you're on Earth or Mars.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 19:46 |
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When the refugees show up up Tycho, there's someone handing out hand terminals.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 19:56 |
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They just had all those hooli phones lying around anyway
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 21:29 |
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T-man posted:the gently caress happened to miller's then? did he get a bible-caught-bullet out of it? space
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Dancer posted:Which is an obnoxiously bad title that has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the game but it is a good improvement on an already solid game. It's not like, game of the year, but it is a shockingly good board game given that it is based on a popular IP. Doors and corners, kid, thats where they get you. The terminals can hold stuff and what not, the lay it out in the book that all of the terminals on Ilus are basically on an ad hoc peer to peer network. On a ship/city/station theyre all centrally hooked in together. They become a lot easier to produce when its basically just the interface, bettery, and space wifi antenna. There is undoubtedly high end space phones, but for most people a freebie phone is good enough. Millers phone was cracked because miller.
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# ? Jan 2, 2020 22:07 |
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They're called thin clients or zero clients and they're in use today even. There's a cloud server that does all the actual work, and people connect to it with these cheap, low-powered devices that pretty much just send commands to the server and display the responses.
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I hate thin clients with a passion.
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