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packetmantis posted:...is this why Lorne in Buffy was green? Sort of, he was "The Host" first, then they had to give him a name so...
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Data Graham posted:Whoa whoa whoa back that up a second Isn't this the plot of anime TV series?
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Data Graham posted:Whoa whoa whoa back that up a second We already said it was about space Mormons.
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Which of the characters smoke weed and how do they smoke
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Avasarala gets loving blasted every weekend with Arjun (rip) out of a hookah or fancy bong. Something elaborate, pretty, and wasteful. Alex got banned from trying to make edibles because the process was messy and always managed to stink up the whole dang ship. You just know Miller had a vape pen, to go with the hat
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Apr 21, 2021 00:15
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tokin opposition posted:Which of the characters smoke weed and how do they smoke Starbuck's dad smokes gigantic loving green cigars all the time Oh, also Starbuck
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 CainsDescendant posted:You just know Miller had a vape pen, to go with the hat lmao
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CainsDescendant posted:You just know Miller had a vape pen, to go with the hat
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I just finished season 5 and I don't know what I can watch now that has me as engaged as this show.
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old-BSG "Fire In Space": just a wild guess here, The Towering Inferno made a lot of money didn't it
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"I will make my own expanse thread, with black jack and starbuck!"
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Data Graham posted:All right, I'll shut up Huh. I've always kinda wanted to watch the newer one and maybe play that tactical game. Which way to the main thread?
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Data Graham posted:old-BSG "Fire In Space": just a wild guess here, The Towering Inferno made a lot of money didn't it It was the top grossing movie of 1974. Let that rattle around your brain for a minute.
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I started reading the first book, and its easy to visualize the tv cast as I read the book. Though it means i'm picturing show Naomi was being 7ft tall and rail thin. It does not describe Miller that way though, so i figure because he has lived all his life on Ceres he doesn't have the normal appearance of a more hardcore Belter. And Holden is XO of the Canterbury at the start of the book, which makes me wonder what they hell the point is having Jonathan Banks be the bonkers XO at the start of the show. Was there going to be a point to it and they decided not to keep that storyline, or did they think he would bring people into the show?
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twistedmentat posted:I started reading the first book, and its easy to visualize the tv cast as I read the book. Though it means i'm picturing show Naomi was being 7ft tall and rail thin. It does not describe Miller that way though, so i figure because he has lived all his life on Ceres he doesn't have the normal appearance of a more hardcore Belter. My guess? It was an improvement on the book, as an early example of Things The Canterbury Meant To Holden & Friends to make its inevitable explosion mean something more. Makes you more sad to imagine people other than Holden's Whitewashed Ex dying, gives a little world building that Earthers can go weird in Space, and gives Holden his first character arc of taking responsibility
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tokin opposition posted:My guess? It was an improvement on the book, as an early example of Things The Canterbury Meant To Holden & Friends to make its inevitable explosion mean something more. Makes you more sad to imagine people other than Holden's Whitewashed Ex dying, gives a little world building that Earthers can go weird in Space, and gives Holden his first character arc of taking responsibility Oh yea that makes total sense. And yea I was kinda taken aback, because the Expanse is so fantastic with diversity in its cast, that his fuckbuddy she explicitly said to be Nigerian and in the show she's just some white lady. And yea, you have the Captain, XO, her and the guy who got his arm torn off to established the Cant and and her crew.
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Also, in the show Holden starts off as much more of a reluctant leader; him trying to turn down the XO badge because of the responsibility it represents is a big part of his early characterization. Book Holden is a lot more gung ho about the whole affair from the start. It almost feels like he's been waiting to get his hands on a gunship so that he can start righting all of the system's wrongs, from what I recall.
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twistedmentat posted:Oh yea that makes total sense. They deliberately changed her ethnicity for the show because they didn't think the optics of killing off a black woman as the first major character death sat well anymore.
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Apr 22, 2021 09:19
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PriorMarcus posted:They deliberately changed her ethnicity for the show because they didn't think the optics of killing off a black woman as the first major character death sat well anymore. I thought it was also in part to make it so that Holden didn't have a "type" in that he only went after black women.
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Both those make sense. And Holden really is like a lovesick puppy with her. He's all "you are my sun and my stars" and she's all "yea dude, i just wanna gently caress, so stop getting weird".
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Data Graham posted:All right, I'll shut up I've actually enjoyed your takes as you move your way through. Couch Chat Thread is a great place for stuff like that if making a rewatch thread just for you is  .It's been fun reading along as you go through the episodes and seeing all of these bits of cultural floatsam going by! PriorMarcus posted:They deliberately changed her ethnicity for the show because they didn't think the optics of killing off a black woman as the first major character death sat well anymore. swickles posted:I thought it was also in part to make it so that Holden didn't have a "type" in that he only went after black women. Por que no los dos? I would imagine the official reason is the former, but that the latter was discussed as also potentially having bad optics. I am guessing that they gambled (correctly) that the diversity of the show's main cast would stave off any criticism from whitewashing the dead girlfriend. twistedmentat posted:Both those make sense. And Holden really is like a lovesick puppy with her. He's all "you are my sun and my stars" and she's all "yea dude, i just wanna gently caress, so stop getting weird". Holden's always been a bit clingly...it's why Naomi has to sneak off every time she wants to do some Belter-poo poo. 
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well  https://twitter.com/jamessacorey/status/1385684874422407168?s=21
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Man the expanse is like a really bad tobacco addiction. No amount seems to satisfy me but I always want more. It’s gonna suck when season 6 ends in a single binge watch weekend.
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I really hope the rumors of doing some movies is true. Though 6 seasons IS pretty good. Its only one season less than TNG or Ds9.
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twistedmentat posted:I really hope the rumors of doing some movies is true. Six seasons and a movie! Also, those DS9 and TNG seasons had 26 episodes each.
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TNG has 178 episodes and 4 movies so not that comparable. I wonder how terrible The Expanse would be with 178 episodes. Naomi would be stuck on that ship for 50 episodes in a row.
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Mu Zeta posted:TNG has 178 episodes and 4 movies so not that comparable. I wonder how terrible The Expanse would be with 178 episodes. Naomi would be stuck on that ship for 50 episodes in a row. Please don't turn The Expanse into Naruto
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Dalael posted:Please don't turn The Expanse into Naruto You're thinking of DBZ. The Expanse as Naruto would be Holden and Marco teaming up at the end with their unique abilities to harness the protomolecule to fight Christian God residing in red space.
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Eej posted:You're thinking of DBZ. The Expanse as Naruto would be Holden and Marco teaming up at the end with their unique abilities to harness the protomolecule to fight Christian God residing in red space. The Expanse being like a JRPG would be pretty fun. First Quest: Mine Some Ice(In Space!) Final Quest: Kill God(In Space!) twistedmentat posted:I really hope the rumors of doing some movies is true. I'd much rather it end at 6 than burn out with too many seasons. When a series falls apart, it kills even the parts I liked before that for me. 6 and a movie would be pretty great.
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swickles posted:Six seasons and a movie! Also, those DS9 and TNG seasons had 26 episodes each. I think that only about 10 episodes a season of any of those were on the quality level of Expanse. More book vs show differences I find interesting, Holden actually contacts Pur and Kleen offices on what to do after the Cant is blown up and they tell him to meet up withe Donnager. The show has the Donnager just showing up, which i think is better to create a sense of mystery and tension in the show, because maybe Mars is behind things, but it also makes sense in the book where they actually contact their employers. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Apr 24, 2021 |
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wilderthanmild posted:The Expanse being like a JRPG would be pretty fun. Everyone knows the first quest of a JRPG is to kill rats in a sewer.
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I certainly perefer the end of the Donnager in the show over the book, one of those improvements they went with is as I mentioned, keeping the tension going by not having Mars's goals clear, and also putting Holden on the bridge so you know what's going on. In the book they're all just stuck in the room and then boom, dead Shed and holes in the wall. Though the book gives more meaning to the marines sacrifice to get Holden and the rest to the Tachi. Do I have the books right, book 1 ends with Eros crashing on Venus, book 2 ends with the thing coming out, book 3 is just the stuff on Illus? book 4 is all Marco all the time?
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The one part of the Donnager fight in the show that really bugs me is how slowly Our Heroes move as they run across that exposed gantry bridge to the soon-to-be-Rocinante and how exposed they are to fire from above, below, basically every direction. It seemed insurmountingly, yet somehow also inconvincingly, lethal, and overall just felt clunky and not-cool.
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Kesper North posted:The one part of the Donnager fight in the show that really bugs me is how slowly Our Heroes move as they run across that exposed gantry bridge to the soon-to-be-Rocinante and how exposed they are to fire from above, below, basically every direction. It seemed insurmountingly, yet somehow also inconvincingly, lethal, and overall just felt clunky and not-cool. Yea In the book there is a bunch of Power Armor marines with them and one of them goes to distract the Protogen troopers by firing in such a way that it looks like there are more than one. This distracts them enough that the main characters get across the bridge, but the LT gets hit with a RPG. I do like Holden having an internal monolog about how in space, boarding actions were risky, because you had to gamble on if the ship you're boarding is going to just blow themselves up rather than be captured, and the first, and only time, he met Yao, he knew she would not be the one to blink. Though i am still a bit confused how the Protogen ships were able to take on the Donnager. Were they just that advanced, that their stealth capabilities were that good that the Donnager crew weren't able to use its firepower to its maximum effectiveness?
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twistedmentat posted:I certainly perefer the end of the Donnager in the show over the book, one of those improvements they went with is as I mentioned, keeping the tension going by not having Mars's goals clear, and also putting Holden on the bridge so you know what's going on. In the book they're all just stuck in the room and then boom, dead Shed and holes in the wall. Though the book gives more meaning to the marines sacrifice to get Holden and the rest to the Tachi. Book 3 is the slow zone, book 4 is Ilus, then we get Marco.
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twistedmentat posted:Though i am still a bit confused how the Protogen ships were able to take on the Donnager. Were they just that advanced, that their stealth capabilities were that good that the Donnager crew weren't able to use its firepower to its maximum effectiveness? Yeah, the Donnager was not able to detect the Protogen ships at long range and was stripped of most of its PDCs and its ability to respond by the initial attack. The stealth gunships were a still-classified project designed to be invisible even to modern ships of the line such as Donnager, that's why their very existence was destabilizing, let alone the protomolecule. (I still wonder if the magic stealth tech was protomolecule-derived, since the stuff is so energy-hungry.)
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CommanderApaul posted:Book 3 is the slow zone, book 4 is Ilus, then we get Marco. How'd I forget the slow zone stuff? Kesper North posted:Yeah, the Donnager was not able to detect the Protogen ships at long range and was stripped of most of its PDCs and its ability to respond by the initial attack. The stealth gunships were a still-classified project designed to be invisible even to modern ships of the line such as Donnager, that's why their very existence was destabilizing, let alone the protomolecule. (I still wonder if the magic stealth tech was protomolecule-derived, since the stuff is so energy-hungry.) That makes sense. The one Anubis class that does get hit is obliterated by the Donny's railgun. I don't think they were using protomolocule in any way before Eros, and even then it only seemed to be used to make the hybrids. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Kesper North posted:Yeah, the Donnager was not able to detect the Protogen ships at long range and was stripped of most of its PDCs and its ability to respond by the initial attack. The stealth gunships were a still-classified project designed to be invisible even to modern ships of the line such as Donnager, that's why their very existence was destabilizing, let alone the protomolecule. (I still wonder if the magic stealth tech was protomolecule-derived, since the stuff is so energy-hungry.) As Yao said, "I didn't think we could lose." Hubris that they were the biggest, baddest navy in the system. Reminds me a bit of the Millennium Challenge combat exercise. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
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