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flosofl posted:I'm imagining you taking a hit of your inhaler after every sentence. Yeah the fact that he instantly thought "Battlestar! So derivative" of stuff like a spaceship getting nuked or a crazy old man in space is enough for me to discount whatever he has to say about shows.
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This was cool. All the ship sets are nuts, they look really well done. I read an early review that said this wan't very good but that was incorrect. I love the long-limbed miner guys, and using Earth's gravity as a method of torture. I've never seen that before. bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Nov 24, 2015 18:34
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am0kgonzo posted:This was really impressive, imo. He wasn't immediately recognizable yeah but they can do a lot with whatever dialogue he gets through the series. Naomi, Alex, and Miller jumped right out as soon as they showed up on screen though.
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Nov 24, 2015 18:46
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This thread is already* showing it's TV/IV with posters jumping all over the guy who compared it to BSG, just like every review I read for the series before I watched the pilot, and just as I felt in terms of visuals. The stories may end up being vastly different, but this show has an undeniable BSG/Caprica feel to it. For what it's worth I liked it. Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Nov 24, 2015 19:01
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The only similarities between this show and BSG are that they're both space operas on the SciFi channel. The plots and characters are wildly different, and the visuals are only similar inasmuch as all shows set in space are going to have some base commonalities.
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Nov 24, 2015 19:19
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I liked how in the setting everything is outsourced to the private sector including law enforcement.
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People going into this series without having read the books really are at a disadvantage. The series is really like Firefly/Spacenoir/Cold-war Political Thriller before it becomes like Mass Effect and that's just the first book. I'd highly recommend the audiobooks over the books to anyone who hasn't heard them since the narrator nails lots of different accents/sexes very well.
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Nov 24, 2015 19:40
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etalian posted:I liked how in the setting everything is outsourced to the private sector including law enforcement. It reminds me of Jennifer Government.
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Bert Roberge posted:People going into this series without having read the books really are at a disadvantage. Yeah I always like the political intrigue parts of the series but then they bring all the alien zombies and bomb monsters and I'm like "Really? Did we need to have that?" The big event in the latest book was Red Wedding level of HOLY poo poo though. Really interested to see where they go next.
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Noctone posted:The only similarities between this show and BSG are that they're both space operas on the SciFi channel. The plots and characters are wildly different, and the visuals are only similar inasmuch as all shows set in space are going to have some base commonalities. BSG had magic gravity and FTL over a hard scifi aesthetic. The Expanse is just hard scifi.
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gohmak posted:BSG had magic gravity and FTL over a hard scifi aesthetic. The Expanse is just hard scifi. This is probably the hardest space scifi tv series of all time I think. For the first half at least.
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Nov 24, 2015 19:59
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gohmak posted:BSG had magic gravity and FTL over a hard scifi aesthetic. The Expanse is just hard scifi. Roman would approve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqjR1gHyIQ Also really funny whenever a new show comes out doing something different like Vikings or The Last Kingdom you have piles of people saying "Game of Thrones with Vikings".
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Nov 24, 2015 20:00
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I read the spoilers and I'm sort of disappointed now
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Nov 24, 2015 20:02
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Good news for cable cutters is the show will available at places like Google Play or Itunes
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Bert Roberge posted:I'd highly recommend the audiobooks over the books to anyone who hasn't heard them since the narrator nails lots of different accents/sexes very well. Wow, you know what? I've never even considered how someone might do an audio book narration. I'll have to check that out, sounds interesting! I'm definitely more optimistic about Amos, because even though he's not who i pictured either, I've seen the actor pull off that "friendly smile with his mouth while his eyes say casual murder" pretty well in the past. That, and he seems to understand the character fundamentally in the interviews. Hopefully in the next episode he gets more of an opportunity to show that. He didn't get the scenes for instant character definition that Alex and Naomi did.
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KatWithHands posted:I'm definitely more optimistic about Amos, because even though he's not who i pictured either, I've seen the actor pull off that "friendly smile with his mouth while his eyes say casual murder" pretty well in the past. That, and he seems to understand the character fundamentally in the interviews. Hopefully in the next episode he gets more of an opportunity to show that. He didn't get the scenes for instant character definition that Alex and Naomi did. Amos really does remind me of  Hopefully he'll get to emote more barely constrained rage in later episodes.
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Professor Shark posted:I read the spoilers and I'm sort of disappointed now
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Oh good lord, that's a terrifying comparison that's gonna stick with me. But now that I think of it, it's not a huge surprise that they didn't showcase his personality right away. They didn't really bring attention to that 'sympathetic monster' vibe right away in the books, either. Just hoping they don't hold off on it as much in the show. I feel bad for the people who read those spoilers, but to be completely fair, even if you're coming into the show completely fresh, the first five minutes of the pilot give you fair warning that things are going to get really weird. Unless glowing blue screaming biomasses are a regular condition in space travel. If you got spoiled and feel put off from the series, don't be. Please check it out still, because it's actually pretty damned cool, and I'm so psyched to see how they continue it.
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Some lucky nerds got to visit the sets from The Expanse: http://io9.com/our-visit-to-the-mind-blowingly-realistic-spaceship-set-1743284262 Has some mild spoilers about future locations but the show is using massive continuous sets for some of scenes.
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Combat Pretzel posted:In what way? The books read way better than you'd expect from the synopses. Probably going to be the same with spoilers posted here and the series progressing. By spoilers I meant the very brief synopsis of the first novel on Wikipedia. I've digested it and have reconsidered, I'm looking forward to this series.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzUATesLdcs
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Nov 24, 2015 20:55
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etalian posted:Good news for cable cutters is the show will available at places like Google Play or Itunes It looks like Syfy will have the episodes online, does anyone know if Space will? 
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Nov 24, 2015 21:12
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The official subtitles are terrible, I had to manually edit them to be ~700ms earlier. Even then, that didn't fix the overlapping issues (half a sentence would be on the next line, etc etc) Other than that, it's shaping up to be a good show.
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Professor Shark posted:It looks like Syfy will have the episodes online, does anyone know if Space will? I believe so! They took a few hours to put the pilot up, but I think they're going to follow through.
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Xpost from book barn: This was pretty excellent. My only minor problems with it are personal, such as casting. I always imagined Amos as a much more intimidating scary rear end mofo. First impression here is that there is a guy called Amos? Pfft. And Holden is not charismatic enough. Maybe the actors will grow into their roles, who knows. Otherwise, really liked the attention to detail on set and ship designs. The solar system feels plausible. The plot is intriguing.
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Grimwall posted:Xpost from book barn: I always imagined him looking 10 years older. This guy's got a baby face, although he's apparently 37. Guess we'll have to wait till he's gotta threaten someone to see what's up.
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Amos is described as having a baby face too, though, as well as looking generally amiable. I think Chatham is perfect.
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Milky Moor posted:Amos is described as having a baby face too, though, as well as looking generally amiable. I think Chatham is perfect. Yeah, I think the intimidating impression people tend to get about the character is the fact that he can be scary in spite of looking like a forgettable baby-face truck driver. I think that was how Ana described him, the kind of guy you don't think about past that friendly interaction before and after he fixes your plumbing
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This intro and especially the first few bars of the music seem to be borrowing heavily from Game of Thrones. Like it's pretty on the nose.
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Bert Roberge posted:This intro and especially the first few bars of the music seem to be borrowing heavily from Game of Thrones. I actually got much more of a Pillars of the Earth vibe from it, with the sketchiness of the time-lapse and the build-up in the music. But maybe that's because I've been watching it recently. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Roelg7iLvdE VVV I could go on for hours about Amos' characterization, and would fight to the death to defend his honour from being called another Jayne rip-off. KatWithHands fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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KatWithHands posted:Yeah, I think the intimidating impression people tend to get about the character is the fact that he can be scary in spite of looking like a forgettable baby-face truck driver. I think that was how Ana described him, the kind of guy you don't think about past that friendly interaction before and after he fixes your plumbing Ah. Must have just had "Jayne Cobb knockoff". stuck in my brain this whole time.
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Bert Roberge posted:This intro and especially the first few bars of the music seem to be borrowing heavily from Game of Thrones. It's absolutely nothing like the Game of Thrones intro, aside from it being an intro to a TV show and CGI I'm joking
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Professor Shark posted:It's absolutely nothing like the Game of Thrones intro, aside from it being an intro to a TV show and CGI The little bits of the sinking and buildup of the Statue of Liberty really remind me of it. George R. R. Martin is pretty good friends with one of the authors apparently. The Expanse universe started as a failed MMO pitch then Pen and Paper game according to this. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/...5HPStwNw-_-10:1
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Bert Roberge posted:This intro and especially the first few bars of the music seem to be borrowing heavily from Game of Thrones. It's like Game of Thrones in space because it had a sex scene in space
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Bert Roberge posted:The little bits of the sinking and buildup of the Statue of Liberty really remind me of it. I was riffing on Noctune's post at the top of this page about how this show is stylistically dissimilar from BSG/ Caprica despite viewers and critics saying that it does and Syfy talking about how they really wanted to make a show similar to BSG I wholeheartedly agree that the intro is ripped from GoT, my sharkysense tells me this show is going to be a combination of those shows in order to (hopefully) make something really successful. At the very least HBO will learn from it's mistakes when they do Foundation
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Professor Shark posted:I was riffing on Noctune's post at the top of this page about how this show is stylistically dissimilar from BSG/ Caprica despite viewers and critics saying that it does and Syfy talking about how they really wanted to make a show similar to BSG I know I just wanted to  That shot of the Statue of Liberty being below sea level was great.
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Na'at posted:I thought autists were obsessive and exact when it came to fiction but I guess that reading differences in non-cartoon settings must be as hard as reading differences in facial expression. lol sickkk 
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