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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:God Wes Chatham is so hot
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Feels like Marco is working with some rogue faction of the MCRN. Likely Martian Supremacists who see their power slipping away since the opening of the Ring Gate, as that plot point has been hammered-in the whole season. Explains how he got his hands on a big-old MCRN cruiser (ballparking the Roci as a destroyer), the stealth tech for the asteroid, and is getting the surplus weapons and gear shipped to him under armed escort.
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Dec 23, 2020 16:32
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veni veni veni posted:Let s/he who can't admit to being horny for Drummer, Amos or both cast the first stone. Drummer too skinny Amos too scary. Bobby and Alex are the cuties this season Edit: Well bugger me with a fish fork https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-expanse-cas-anvar-fired/ BrotherJayne fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Dec 23, 2020 16:45
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BrotherJayne posted:
It's oddly reassuring that the cast member who's a gross sex pest is also the generally worst and lamest member of the primary cast, rather than a good or likeable one; if it was the Amos actor who turned out to be a piece of poo poo I'd feel played
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Dec 23, 2020 16:56
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Tighclops posted:lol Marco's ship is an MCRN battleship? I didn't see any capital class railguns and it didn't look quite big enough to be a Donnager-class or similar dreadnought, but definitely some flavor of Martian capital ship, heavy cruiser maybe? I read the books but it was like 6 years ago and I genuinely don't remember what his flagship is
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Crazycryodude posted:I didn't see any capital class railguns and it didn't look quite big enough to be a Donnager-class or similar dreadnought, but definitely some flavor of Martian capital ship, heavy cruiser maybe? I read the books but it was like 6 years ago and I genuinely don't remember what his flagship is It's a light-cruiser. In the books its the same model as the Roci but they wanted to up the threat level / make it visually distinct for the show.
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Dec 23, 2020 17:01
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swickles posted:There is a pandemic, half the world shut down, people are extra horny, just let it be. Space titties are fine and earned by the world for th poo poo we have been put through. If we had behaved properly, we may have even been gifted an Amos rear end. No, a pandemic isn't an excuse to post creepy horny garbage.
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Dec 23, 2020 17:27
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CLAM DOWN posted:No, a pandemic isn't an excuse to post creepy horny garbage. I am not talking about the posting, but the content. And yes, we are allowed to be extra horny, but we are not allowed to be creepy. Art is allowed to address that feeling.
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Dec 23, 2020 17:58
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It was a bad post but the people who seem to have a pathological aversion to discussion of sex and attraction are weirdo idiots.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:15
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Wheeee posted:It's oddly reassuring that the cast member who's a gross sex pest is also the generally worst and lamest member of the primary cast, rather than a good or likeable one; if it was the Amos actor who turned out to be a piece of poo poo I'd feel played yep. hosed up situation, and i'm curious to see how they deal w/ it in the story when they get him outta there, but i certainly won't miss him.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:17
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double negative posted:yep. hosed up situation, and i'm curious to see how they deal w/ it in the story when they get him outta there, but i certainly won't miss him. Well if Avasarala doesn't get a reply to all those messages to Arjun, that might mean Michael Benyaer is free to take over as Alex. pik_d fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Dec 23, 2020 18:31
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:God Wes Chatham was so hot in House of Cards That was Terry Chen you ding-a-ling!
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Dec 23, 2020 18:52
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Data Graham posted:I mean if the story is so transparently going to do a 9/11 analog, the way this plays out is going to either be a commentary on how the world was justified in going ham on al-Qaeda even if their grievances were legitimate, or a what-if about bin Laden getting a nuke/bioweapon It's neither, if that helps.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:53
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CLAM DOWN posted:No, a pandemic isn't an excuse to post creepy horny garbage. shut up
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watching the first season 5 episode again and just noticed the Chinese? language version of Rawhide playing in the hokey fake Texas bar. 
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Dec 23, 2020 19:25
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Isn't there a book spoiler thread. It's hard to tell sometimes if people here are speculating about something from the books. Just talk about the episodes that aired here please. Actually the only reason it's confusing is because people are putting the spoiler tag on stuff that already aired. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Dec 23, 2020 19:40
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I'm a book-reader and sometimes it's hard to resist commenting with something from the books, but I think it's worth biting our collective tongues. Speculation on upcoming events is part of the experience of watching a show, and (as a book-reader) asking leading questions or saying things with a knowing wink is helping nobody except yourself to feel smug.
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Dec 23, 2020 19:45
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Mu Zeta posted:Isn't there a book spoiler thread. It's hard to tell sometimes if people here are speculating about something from the books. Just talk about the episodes that aired here please. There are two never ending fights at play here. The first is that book people REFUSE to stop talking about the books in this thread. The second is that even though the show has "aired" people can't show any self restraint and come into streaming show threads without having seen the show yet and get upset about spoilers, so most threads operate under the rule of spoilering things in the first day or two of it going up.
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Dec 23, 2020 20:10
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BrotherJayne posted:Drummer too skinny lol just recast him and have someone go "wow Alex, you look different" and have nu-Alex go "I know!" and then never mention it again
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Dec 23, 2020 20:11
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Pattonesque posted:lol just recast him and have someone go "wow Alex, you look different" and have nu-Alex go "I know!" and then never mention it again pik_d posted:Well if Avasarala doesn't get a reply to all those messages to Arjun, that might mean Michael Benyaer is free to take over as Alex. The combination of these posts is exactly what they should do.
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Dec 23, 2020 20:51
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I loved that cold open. It's a nice little character moment for Bobby and Alex, but also drags out the suspense of just how bad things are gonna get. Amos and Melba owned, as always. I took her echoing his lines as showing just how far off the deep-end she's headed - Amos definitely seemed disturbed by it. "a second rock has hit the planet" - not even hiding the 9/11 analogy, love it. I felt kinda bad about how S3 handled south america getting nuked - it was all done in news reports, and it felt like the real drama was about how the people in power hosed up, not that 2 million people got obliterated. But I loved that handling of it here. It really captured that strange unreality of watching atrocities unfold from a distance. It felt more like the London Tube bomings with the situation developing in fits and starts, especially as you have no idea how big the attack is. It doesn't end, there's no resolution, you're waiting for the next explosion and maybe it never comes. Christ, and I thought the Eros incident was terrifying.
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Dec 23, 2020 20:55
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I like that they updated the opening credits for this episode to
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Dec 23, 2020 21:26
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Just got this: Fred's replacement security chief is Bull. Carlos c de Baca. Nice shout-out for the book readers. Just lol that the show makes him Drummer's replacement rather than the other way around like the books.
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Dec 23, 2020 21:30
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I just found a ton of kickin rad concept art in the x-ray bonus content section on the video player, check it out    
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Dec 23, 2020 21:40
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Amos and Melba owned, as always. I took her echoing his lines as showing just how far off the deep-end she's headed - Amos definitely seemed disturbed by it. Nadine Nicole was really good in this episode. Just radiating heavily medicated pain and self-loathing
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Oscar aint no Slouch posted:I just found a ton of kickin rad concept art in the x-ray bonus content section on the video player, check it out are we allowed to be horny about spacecraft because um I'm having feelings seriously lol that the Razorback's actual sets don't fit inside the ship
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Dec 23, 2020 21:47
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I love the Pella's design.
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Grand Fromage posted:I love the Pella's design. It looks like a baby Donnager  Which also instantly sells it as a Martian cruiser.
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Dec 23, 2020 21:56
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Did anybody else laugh out loud when the spider-bot bopped Holden in the face?
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Pella is a cruisre Any mentions of its exact shiptype in books?
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Dec 23, 2020 22:27
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Erulisse posted:Pella is a cruisre Yes: The books call it a light frigate, a newer version of the Roci
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Fister Roboto posted:Did anybody else laugh out loud when the spider-bot bopped Holden in the face? Yup, that was a hardy lol from me in a super intense episode.
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Erulisse posted:Pella is a cruisre As mentioned, it's a newer version of the same class as the Roci, which means it doesn't have a railgun, unlike the Roci, but probably has marginally better sensors/ECM.
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I have a friend that couldn't get into the show the last time he tried watching season one. He wants to give it another shot considering how much I gush about it, but has an easier time getting into hour-long episode drama shows if he watches a random, particularly good episode, even if it's out-of-order. Considering the series is based on a set of novels and is basically all about character development, that sounds like a difficult request and I'm struggling to think of any single episode to suggest to get the hooks in. Anyone have a specific single episode, maybe two, to recommend?
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Dec 23, 2020 23:26
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Better be in the first half of the first season because anything after that spoils too much of the show. Maybe CQB?
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Did he get to "CQB"? That's where the show really came together for me, and it's got a good mix of action and character, plus it's really demonstrative of how the show uses physics as part of its storytelling. It also is too early to spoil all the protomolecule stuff (or unleash it out-of-context on someone who might get turned off by it).
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I was thinking the season 2 openers: "Safe"/"Doors and Corners" (it aired as a 2 parter, right?) But random protomolecule out of context might turn someone off. "CQB" is probably a safer bet.
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Dec 23, 2020 23:48
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Tell him first four eps. If he doesn't like it after shed bites it and they escape with the Roci, it ain't for him. If he won't do 4 episodes, gently caress him.
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Definitely s2e2, it showcases the strongest aspects of the show and is early enough in the overall plot e: conversely, 
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TraderStav posted:Tell him first four eps. If he doesn't like it after shed bites it and they escape with the Roci, it ain't for him. Agreed with this.
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