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Slashrat posted:Turns out spiderwebs don't look much different in space, but the flies fly even more like they are drunk than usual I like when the spider bounces the fly corpses out of the web and into oblivion. Pretty neat how it didn't seem to care about microgravity at all.
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At that kind of size scale, it's not very energy intensive to attach yourself to a surface. So it's the difference between using a miniscule amount of force on a couple of your legs to counteract earth gravity, vs not having to use any force to counteract microgravity. Also spiders are probably some of the smartest insects in existence, they are predators after all. They're the most likely candidates to adapt to microgravity. Just they better hope that their prey can also adapt to microgravity, else there is no ecological niche for them at all. Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix was a precursor to The Expanse, and one of the points they made was that space vessels and rotating colonies had to constantly worry about their ecological balances. So an economically depressed colony quickly transformed into a festering swamp, and the crew of a spaceship had a complement of pet cockroaches to consume and degrade dust and detritus and dead skin.
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I'm having trouble finding the episode this is in, but I think it's season 3 where Dawes is on TV in the background (or maybe some main characters are watching it). It's framed like he's making another speech but really, it is just reused audio and maybe even footage from that scene in season 1 where some dockworkers are beating up a Martian and Dawes yells about giving the Martians their water and not to act like animals. Are we, the audience, supposed to think that Dawes only acted civil back then because he knew he was being filmed or are we not meant to recognize that scene and see it as just Dawes politicking back on Ceres or wherever he was but they didn't have any other usable footage of Jared Harris to use? Am I totally misremembering this? I could swear I scrubbed through every episode to get a timecode for you guys, but I still couldn't find it.
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Roumba posted:I'm having trouble finding the episode this is in, but I think it's season 3 where Dawes is on TV in the background (or maybe some main characters are watching it). It's framed like he's making another speech but really, it is just reused audio and maybe even footage from that scene in season 1 where some dockworkers are beating up a Martian and Dawes yells about giving the Martians their water and not to act like animals. Are we, the audience, supposed to think that Dawes only acted civil back then because he knew he was being filmed or are we not meant to recognize that scene and see it as just Dawes politicking back on Ceres or wherever he was but they didn't have any other usable footage of Jared Harris to use? I think you're misremembering a scene where he says "animals" in his distinctive Belter accent a couple of times...I always had the impression it was supposed to be a speech crafted from his spontaneous moment on the docks. I want to say it's the episode when Miller has been captured by the OPA, before he goes to Eros?
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I'm pretty sure the only time the "milowda na animals" speech gets shown again is when Julie's watching it on a screen in her room on Eros in season 1 episode 9. If it showed up again, I missed it. Either way, I don't think Dawes is interested in random freighter crews being harassed by OPA whether a camera's pointed at him or not since it doesn't really further the cause. He wants Ceres to remain a thriving port city that trades with everyone, he just wants to take over as governor.
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Ah right, s1e9 @ 13:00, thanks. I guess I thought it was so much later in the show because of the rescene within a scene thing.
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This show has been great, so much in fact that I'm reading the books. Did the show start with a lot of hype and then die down? The SyFy -> Amazon seems to be doing OK but between switching networks and realizing that AVClub just flat out stopped writing about it around Season 4, I'm wondering what viewership has been like.
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Hed posted:This show has been great, so much in fact that I'm reading the books. I don't even know if it really matters, 'cause if the richest man on the planet is a fan of your show and owns a streaming service, your show is never cancelled
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It only matters if he stops being entertained if he doesn't season 10 is going to get weird when they run out of books .
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pixaal posted:It only matters if he stops being entertained if he doesn't season 10 is going to get weird when they run out of books .
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Right it is going to get weird as I said. You can't end the his favorite show if you want to work with Amazon again.
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Gobbeldygook posted:There is zero chance the show continues after the books. The ninth book will definitively end the series. and humanity, perhaps
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Kesper North posted:and humanity, perhaps we'd only be so lucky
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Gobbeldygook posted:There is zero chance the show continues after the books. The ninth book will definitively end the series. They just released the name of the last book. Leviathan Falls. The authors have said they have a new sci-fi book series in mind that's more Dune-like. Somewhere, Brian Herbert got faint.
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Ha, nice way to close the loop there. e: I'm a dumb, book-related speculation removed dyzzy fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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There's also supposed to be two more novellas, right? One before and one after Book 9? Or did I imagine that? E: Whoops, this isn't the book thread. 
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MA-Horus posted:They just released the name of the last book. Hmm, did they specifically say that- "more Dune-like?" 'Cause if so, that'd make me think maybe it will take place in the same world/universe, just set like 10,000 years in the future." That would be fun. (Spoilered just in case)
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They've been very clear that is not the case.
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Grand Fromage posted:They've been very clear that is not the case. Boo
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Grand Fromage posted:They've been very clear that is not the case. But what if they're lying to hide some big reveal 
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Dig that as an spin-off, ngl
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What they've said, condensed, is: A) Good stories end, so The Expanse ends with book 9 + the novella/short stories they're writing as a coda. B) Alcon's rights are different, so if they/Amazon want to make Expanse spin-offs for TV that's not really up to the authors. C) They have no plans to revisit the setting once it's done, but they hopefully have decades of writing left ahead of them so never say never.
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Grand Fromage posted:What they've said, condensed, is: Oh well. I'll still read whatever they come up with next. Probably not a good idea to keep doing the same thing anyway.
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I'm honestly glad the expanse has an ending. It's not always good for a series to keep going.
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For example: Firefly
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The Simpsons in SPAAAAAAAACE Season 69
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T-man posted:The Simpsons in SPAAAAAAAACE Season 69 Archer in space was pretty good.
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pixaal posted:Archer in space was pretty good. Archer in space was exactly as good as Archer on earth. And exactly the same characters. And the same jokes. I can't possibly tell you which series of Archer is better than another, because they all feel identical. It's like a webcomic in that nothing seems to change.
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Bit we got Matt Berry as Mr Deadly
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Archer in space was exactly as good as Archer on earth. And exactly the same characters. And the same jokes. I just haven't liked any version of Archer since they abandoned the spy storyline.
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Organic Lube User posted:I just haven't liked any version of Archer since they abandoned the spy storyline. they're back to it this season
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Pattonesque posted:they're back to it this season I should pick it up again then. I checked out after the baffling conclusion of the danger island season and just didn't bother watching the space one or whatever came after that.
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CPColin posted:For example: Firefly Harsh, but fair.
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NYCC has an Expanse panel. They showed off a trailer for Season 5, release date - December 16 - and release schedule, which is first 3 episodes on the 16th and episodes released weekly, following other Amazon shows I guess. And unsurprisingly Cas Anvar was not on the panel.
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Dreylad posted:NYCC has an Expanse panel. They showed off a trailer for Season 5, release date - December 16 - and release schedule, which is first 3 episodes on the 16th and episodes released weekly, following other Amazon shows I guess. Woo nice! I'm so glad they'd wrapped up filming by the time covid started. Was there ever any updates on the whole Cas Anvar thing? The last I heard Alcon was starting an investigation but nothing since.
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https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGGPP3qJA2h/?igshid=yqm3zjkpmeh5 Wes posted the video to his Instagram. It's pretty loving impressive and I am hyped.
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TIME FOR MY FAVORITE BOOK IN THE WHOLE SERIES, I'M HYPE AS gently caress SORRY.
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Also hyped!!! Recently started book 7 also. Going to be a good winter after all.
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I am hype as gently caress for Amos and Peaches in the wasteland
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CommanderApaul posted:https://www.instagram.com/tv/CGGPP3qJA2h/?igshid=yqm3zjkpmeh5 Oh my god this looks incredible
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