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Cojawfee posted:Am I supposed to know who Melba is, or is this just setting her up as a character? She reminds me of Julie Mao but it's been so long since I've watched the first episode that it's hard to be sure. Would definitely explain her turning blue and going beastmode on the dude, though. Which.. raises additional questions. I haven't read the books, this is 100% speculation.
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Hakkesshu posted:So what was the big surprise from the crew stream This seems to have turned into a wet fart?
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hailthefish posted:She reminds me of Julie Mao but it's been so long since I've watched the first episode that it's hard to be sure. She actually looks nothing like Julie Mao
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May 24, 2018 11:00
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Gonz posted:Book spoilers about the ring: Pretty sure there's another thread for that? (Same goes for all the coy spoiler posting that I'm not quoting for what I hope are obvious reasons.)
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May 24, 2018 11:02
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Oh well beep boop goons bad at faces.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Pretty sure there's another thread for that? The only thing worse than Crossfitters are people that post book spoilers
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Open Source Idiom posted:Pretty sure there's another thread for that? Apologies. I didn’t realize there was a book talk thread. I’ll hold off on all spoilers from here on out.
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May 24, 2018 11:27
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Christ, they really made David Strathairn look hosed up. Also, David Strathairn out of nowhere.
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May 24, 2018 11:29
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I like how months of scans and research by UN and Martian scientists and naval personnel yielded less than a racing belter trying to impress his ex-notex-girlfriend more than well packed banana hammock guy
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May 24, 2018 11:40
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May 24, 2018 11:41
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Baloogan posted:this would have been a good cliffhanger for a season finale I think someone mentioned season 3 not aligning with the books so maybe it was the end of a book? Also, it may as well be the finale. 
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May 24, 2018 11:45
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So Thomas Jane has had this pinned on his Twitter this whole time https://twitter.com/ThomasJane/status/834611978383421441
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May 24, 2018 11:51
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That episode screamed season premier to me. New plots, new characters, changeover of cast. Particularly given that the previous episode had an action climax and wrote out several characters, like a season finale does.
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May 24, 2018 12:24
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An episode that is both a season opener, and a season ending cliff hanger, aired mid season. Breaking paradigms.
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May 24, 2018 12:38
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TTerrible posted:I think someone mentioned season 3 not aligning with the books so maybe it was the end of a book? Start of one, actually. Book two's epilogue is the Protomolecule construct leaving Venus.
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NTRabbit posted:I like how months of scans and research by UN and Martian scientists and naval personnel yielded less than a racing belter trying to impress his ex-notex-girlfriend more than well packed banana hammock guy This is the universe where the super-efficient fusion drive was invented when a random guy accidentally made his space boat 1000% time more fuel efficient (and died horribly as a result). Unexpected discoveries resulting in/from someone's grisly death is how science works in the Expanse.
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TTerrible posted:I think someone mentioned season 3 not aligning with the books so maybe it was the end of a book? It's been a while but I think book 2 ended with Holden seeing Miller. Horny belter racer kid was already in the 3rd one. The show is mixing and speeding things up quite a bit, and doing a really good job of it.
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Toast Museum posted:Start of one, actually. Book two's epilogue is the Protomolecule construct leaving Venus. And the Prologue of book three was SPLAT if I'm remembering correctly. But the books and TV show seasons have never lined up form the get-go. There are some significant moving around of characters, mostly we get characters a lot earlier in the show than the books. If anyone is curious: Season 1 is about 3/4th of Book 1 Season 2 is the remainder of Book 1 and about half of Book 2 Season 3 [so far] is the remainder of Book 2 and getting into 3 now with this last episode.
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Also I appreciate how, even though I knew there was going to be a new guy accidentally being overheard/walking into shot in her Dear John video, they still managed to surprise me with the banana hammock. That's just going the extra mile.
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Was there anything cool announced during the cast livestream? e: Also, when do we usually get the ratings from last night's episode? I'm not expecting much, but it'd be nice to see how much impact the campaign to save the show is having. Phenotype fucked around with this message at 13:55 on May 24, 2018 |
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May 24, 2018 13:25
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The livestream announcement is that Tom Jane is there with them I assume. The timeskip was super awkward. Did I miss a "six months later" or something at the beginning? It took me several scenes to figure out just how much time had gone by. Regardless this is still amazing TV and has easily become my favorite show.
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counterfeitsaint posted:The livestream announcement is that Tom Jane is there with them I assume. The time skip note was audio, "184 days since the ring formed"
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May 24, 2018 14:04
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There was also an "A few months later" on screen during the initial scenes with the slingshot pilot, between him seeing the press release of Avasarala's speech and shooting the rings of Saturn. Gives everyone enough time to wind down from last episode and travel out to the Ring. I also forgot to mention: loving loved the belter remix of Highway Star.
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May 24, 2018 14:10
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Being stuck in that loving tin can for months does not seem fun.
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I liked that the belter slingshotting extreme sport referenced in the first season came back in a meaningful way Also want to give a shout out to the drone camera and its operator. That was a cool little slice of sci-fi; dude looked like Nosferatu casting some sort of warding spell piloting that thing around and it was smart and appropriately off-putting at the same time. Oh yeah and I just remembered Amos answering the documentary film maker's line of questioning. She says something about not being able to find any record of his whereabouts for years and he dismissively says something like "woah, that's crazy.  " his delivery was so great. Amos loving owns.
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May 24, 2018 14:20
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In the books, the girl Maneo wants to bang is also his 1st cousin
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Phi230 posted:In the books, the girl Maneo wants to bang is also his 1st cousin Eh it's not so bad. If twins nowadays can have their dna become distinct from one another due to time in space who knows what a belters dna will look like. Or maybe don't gently caress your cousin.
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Well he didn't gently caress his cousin because the Ring Crush rear end To Paste
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I just wanna thank the lord that they didn't slot our sweet Diogo into that role and they introduced Maneo instead
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Maneo's rear end got crushed to cytoplasm
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Arcsquad12 posted:Eh it's not so bad. If twins nowadays can have their dna become distinct from one another due to time in space who knows what a belters dna will look like. Their DNA isn't different, their gene expression is different.
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Phenotype posted:Was there anything cool announced during the cast livestream? The ~big surprise~ was Steven Strait being there to give an uplifting speech... Numbers should come out today or tomorrow, hopefully that will loosen a log from the jam.  Phi230 posted:I just wanna thank the lord that they didn't slot our sweet Diogo into that role and they introduced Maneo instead Thank goodness everyone on the production crew is too nice to fire actors. 
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etalian posted:It's getting better! when most people talk about baltimore "getting better" they mean gentrification is forcing out all the poor black people into poor suburbs where the white residents wont have to look at them
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Fake news. Everyone knows the Earth is flat!
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Phi230 posted:I just wanna thank the lord that they didn't slot our sweet Diogo into that role and they introduced Maneo instead I actually said out loud when Maneo first appeared, "Oh, I'm so glad it's not Diogo"
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I don't think anyome mentioned yet that the "Two heartbeats from ruling the planet" line from, literally, the first episode came back. The way things shook out are exceptionally well done- Avasarala being in the top seat in the UN and pushing hard for peace, with that awkward and uncomfortable tolerance of her handlers moment getting her makeup put on was really well done. You empathize with her as challenged by the transition from the edge of space in constant danger to the excessive, pampering seat of luxury the ultra powerful live in. The Rosi crew specifically are confusing. They're famous, and yet strapped for cash. They don't have anyone to fight, and yet they are still in a court case with the Martian government over ownership of their high tech Martian battle cruiser. You'd think access to martian crypto keys alone would be enough for Mars to fork over an insane amount of cash and say "you never saw any of this", or some of their weapons tech, or god knows what else. But I guess you can run away with a nice Martian space ship and end up with a civil incident to deal with rather than an interplanetary one. This show has fans that are good company.
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TimWinter posted:I don't think anyome mentioned yet that the "Two heartbeats from ruling the planet" line from, literally, the first episode came back. Also, at this point the Tachi/Roci is a few years old: she's no longer the cutting edge of MCRN tech, especially now that PM tech is out in the wild. I imagine Martian materials science got a big boost from studying the stealth tech and then the Ring. The show really feels like it's starting to hit its stride, finding the perfect balance of narrative recreation to translate the books into a TV show. The changes here almost always help the story or streamline it, as opposed to say GoT, where the changes felt forced or like simple audience manipulation. They even finally stopped doing that thing I hate where they compress SFX shots into time-dilation nightmares! 
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TimWinter posted:The Rosi crew specifically are confusing. They're famous, and yet strapped for cash. They don't have anyone to fight, and yet they are still in a court case with the Martian government over ownership of their high tech Martian battle cruiser. I'm not strapped for cash, but if a major corporation/government came after me in court I'd be hosed. The Roci is a Corvette class ship, not a cruiser.
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