NTRabbit posted:

It's happening as Bobbie is saying “Hitch your tits and pucker up, it’s time to peel the paint!”

LionArcher posted:

Between this and Brooklyn 99 today has loving been brutal.

Cingulate posted:

Firefly was quite enjoyable, and very progressive and adult in many ways.

People wishing their fav tv show be renewed may be wasting their time, but are not actually bad.

I'm sad The Expanse was cancelled

Mu Zeta posted:

I think the Martians are getting lazy and too reliant on their advanced tech. They got creamed by the secret protogen ships with the Donnager and that Martian lady said that Admiral Souther was kicking their rear end in the old piece of junk Agatha King. And Alex was impressed by some of the Naval combat strategy Holden devised when they saved Chrisjen and Bobbie by exploding those rockets. Earth must come first. I guess I'm an Earthist.

Milky Moor posted:

theCalamity posted:

I would imagine it would be like crying in low gravity, like we saw with Tilly; the fluid just builds up around the opening.

From Wired:


https://www.wired.com/story/zero-g-blood-and-the-many-horrors-of-space-surgery/

spiderbyte posted:

Yeah, I feel like that is needlessly complicated though. Traveling between the two drums is a pain, and more moving parts = more pain.

Rocksicles posted:

The body is sort of pressurized, if you get internal bleeding it just pools up into the skin balloon.

Imagine if you hosed up your pelvis and punctured your bladder.

spiderbyte posted:

Woah woah woah, let's not go that far. 20% of your blood and health problems is a pretty low price to pay to visit the ISS for a month.

Aexo posted:

I'm guessing this is a Belter middle finger? Does it have a back story? Like the Brits backwards peace sign has a backstory.

Also, index finger over midde is much more difficult for me than middle over index.

Edit: I think Alex said he just got his family back, but I can't remember anything other than his wife saying they've moved on and kiss saying they don't agree with mom. Was there a transmission right before the entering the ring shitshow I'm forgetting?

404notfound posted:

Moore also had a neat "director's commentary" kind of podcast, way before things like The Talking Dead came about, where the idea was you'd start the podcast at the same time as the episode and he'd talk over what was happening in the show. That was a cool bonus that was a little ahead of its time.

counterfeitsaint posted:

Holy poo poo really? The dumb Opera crap and the 5 cast members picked out of a hat to become cylons? Drunk rear end Tigh putting his ear up to all the bulkheads and screaming "Where's that fracking music coming from!!" was pretty good, I'll grant you that, but thats it. That's generally considered the low point of the show.

Zzulu posted:

What about Farscape

Phenotype posted:

I honestly didn't mind that the Head characters ended up just being unexplainable angels, because yeah, religion had played a role from the beginning, and it was increasingly obvious over the course of the series that there just wasn't going to be any explanation that made sense for all the asspulls. But Starbuck literally just disappearing seriously ruins any chance of that ending working for me. Head Six had been around from episode 1 IIRC, and in the LOST era of TV I can understand how they dug themselves really deep with her over the course of the series, but they only brought Starbuck back in the last couple seasons of the show. They seriously sat around the writers room and decided to just... bring her back to life and drop her off in a mysterious ship without any idea how they were going to explain it? That's just amateurish, and ruins a huge chunk of that season because then they write all these scenes where they investigate all the weirdness around her appearance that just... go nowhere because the writers couldn't figure it out either.

Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

Not to keep running with BSG derails, but James Callis as Baltar was the epitome of this...

Azhais posted:

Elementary is the best Sherlock Holmes on TV

Cojawfee posted:

He has one thing right, stranger things season 2 sucked.

drewhead posted:

Quick, name another major religion that's history is rooted in pulling up stakes and moving into the void (Utah/San Francisco) to start anew that American audiences would recognize?

How could they NOT choose Mormons?

blockchain prenup posted:

unwatchable

Svaha posted:

Yeah that's exactly what I was referring to, as well as some other stuff with the badly motivated main antagonist.

The writers have really shown a talent for tweaking characters and making them much waaay better in the previous seasons, so I'm not at all worried about it. The writer's room for the show has gender parity, so I imagine the female half of the writing team had a few things to say about that character you mentioned.

She's from some obscure rock where everyone is originally from Brixton, it's fine.
The Expanse is Dominique Tipper's first ever acting job, I think she's doing great considering the cast of scenery chewers she has to share the screen with.

Please enlighten us.

uber_stoat posted:

haha, that was the moment that got me.

uber_stoat posted:

most sci fi shows would have you going all Total Recall when you get exposed to vacuum but the real deal is you can survive short term exposure just fine, and a guy who has spent years on the job in space would know that. another good example is the bit where space newbie Prax doesn't properly secure equipment so it starts banging around the cabin when they start maneuvers.

Svaha posted:

She can do the accent, she is not fluent in the language. These are two different, yet related things.

As I said, there are 2 people who speak Lang Belta, the guy who invented it, and a bartender named Pirate. There is no shame in speaking an imaginary language from a phonetic key.

NTRabbit posted:

And that, while being on a planet surface isn't totally new to Alex, he still does a quick 360 with a big grin because it's the first time he's ever done it without a vac suit

Crazycryodude posted:

Biospheres are just absurdly complicated systems, and keeping one not only self-contained but self-sustaining for centuries seems nigh-impossible. As far as we can tell, you need something the size of a planet to build a self-contained biosphere on, all humanity's attempts at even just agriculture in space are delicate balancing acts that also are not self-sufficient (IIRC it's mentioned that one of Earth's major exports is various biological inputs for all the off-planet ecologies). If Ganymede, a centuries-long project consuming an entire moon was still relatively fragile and also needed constant outside inputs, how are the Mormons going to build a 100% completely self-sustaining biosphere that will never ever need any outside inputs, not even topping up the water supply, in a little metal can? If they wanted to use all that space for algae vats and eat nothing but fungi and algae cakes for the next 300 years I might believe it, but they want to grow actual macroscopic complex crops that need soil and poo poo. Soil alone is a wildly complex substance with billions of different living components that go into creating and maintaining it.

E: Livestock! They want to have livestock, on a spaceship.

jfood posted:

if I were a space trillionaire, my personal army would be stoned to the loving tits on combat drugs.

no need for brain surgery, just mountains of space meth and dissociatives

CainsDescendant posted:

Ok I'd been hearing good things about killjoys for a while but you just sold me on it

etalian posted:

The show also has a fabulous space warlord.

ashpanash posted:

Everyone always predicts doomsday. It's been predicted for as long as we have recorded history. Yet doomsday never comes.

Ultimately, it inevitably will. But our collective track record towards predicting its arrival is exceptionally poor, even when we think we have good motivation.

Thom12255 posted:

I thought the SFX for the sequence was cool to watch though even if unrealistic tbh.

Kanine posted:

imo it's actually a nice touch that the opa arent united under a single political ideology outside wanting self-rule, since a lot of independence movements are also like that

Cojawfee posted:

That was probably all for show to make him look better than drummer.

404notfound posted:

Some of the TV characters are pretty drastically different from their book incarnations, but in almost every instance it's an improvement. Ashford is a much more complex character on the show, we lost Sam but she got rolled into Drummer's TV version, and even what little we saw of Dawes was a lot more impactful than I remember him being in the books. It also helps that some of these characters are played by some pretty respected actors (Jared Harris, David Strathairn) instead of just drawing from the usual well of Vancouver-based sci-fi talent.

Captain Splendid posted:

BSG had a run of 1 and 2/3 of a season without a single bad episode but slowly turned into Lost: In Space no pun intended about midway through the third.

Still recommended though, the earlier seasons had some of the best VFX art direction I've seen for a sci-fi show