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How the gently caress did you not mention 2nd best accent holder in the show Drummer (1st being Krisjen)?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:It's on the Wall of Welwallas. I'd imagine Miller's reputation rehabilitated now. Particularly with Diogo (presumably) sharing his story.
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Apr 19, 2018 00:40
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Hakkesshu posted:There are still things about the character dynamics that bug me a lot about this show. Holden is a total rear end in a top hat for seemingly no reason other than to create drama and just comes off as unsympathetic. In general it feels like there's a lot of unnecessary backstabbing going around that could be solved by just talking to one another, which strikes me as a writing problem rather than something that adds to the characters. Just so it's not an empty-quote: Dear god I hope Holden dies. He was a decent character once, but now it's dragging the show way down. Side bonus that it would satisfy all those people who want this to be even more like Game of Thrones re: plot armor.
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Apr 20, 2018 13:12
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PriorMarcus posted:Compared to a lot of shows the Expanse isn't that expensive to make. It looks expensive, but compared to even something like American Gods is relatively cheap. I'm not gonna disagree with you, but a Fuller show maaaay not be the best example to compare it to...
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May 12, 2018 18:42
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Totally unrelated to recent thread topics, a while back some people were asking for clarification on the incidents that set the plot into motion, back with phoebe station and Julie Mao and all that jazz. I've recently started a re-watch, and I'm now at episode 9, and I'm reminded that this starts with a 10 minute re-cap from Julie's perspective. Anyone who'd like a refresher should watch that.
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May 27, 2018 01:15
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Monglo posted:I'm tired of characters in fiction that are similar to Ashford becoming antagonists because they feel they are good men making hard choices. I hope Ashford goes a different path. He has been presented as more or less a good person who wants good for his people. It's be cool that when the inevitable conflict with him arises, he makes the "right" choice. This is basically exactly what passed through my mind every time Ashford was on screen. I don't like this post-GoT philosophy in prestige TV that no good/ok status quo can survive for longer than 2 minutes. I get that some conflict is necessary for good story-telling, but we were in a situation where an intriguing plot device was already present: the loving ring that nobody understands. People could be calming down, maybe even working together for once. Nope. OPA power struggle has to happen, UN ship has to be blown up, Martian ship must be hunting down the Roci, which is now entirely cornered. It'd be cool if Ashford was a good guy, as the one Nice Thing allowed to happen.
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Jun 7, 2018 14:32
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John Wilkes Booth posted:I was watching the movie Source Code the other day and noticed a couple of Expanse actors were in it. Cas Anvar (Alex) played the hapless businessman that Jake Gyllenhaal beats up. I mentioned it once in S2 thread, this is the one mention in S3: there's this older really hard sci-fi series called ReGenesis that involves a lot of actors from this show (who seem to almost all be Martians for some reason). You've got Martian diplomat that got played by Krisjen in S1, you've got Donnager 2nd in command (main role), you've got Bobbie's superior officer until he died at Ganymede, you've got Bobbie'r "chaplain" who she beat the crap out of on Earth (main role). Oh and also UNN science officer reporting to Errinwright from Arboghast. Some others too I'm sure...
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Jun 10, 2018 02:52
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The point of the lawsuit is they have to give the ship back. If they lose the lawsuit and refuse to leave the ship, then there are suddenly a lot of ports where they're no longer welcome.
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Jun 15, 2018 20:59
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bloom posted:Miniguns aren't really a weapon for carefully measured responses. It's kinda impressive they all let out just 5 shots. What the martians have is more than just a silly spammy mini-gun. When assaulting the station on Io, Bobbie identified 4 targets, and fired a tiny 2/3 bullet burst in each of them in quick succession. It's a perfectly reasonable and flexible weapon in the hands of a reasonable person (so... yeah, not necessarily a marine). Unrelated, the legal status of the Rocinante does actually still bug me slightly. Krisjen knows by now what god-damned heroes Holden and crew have been, and how hard could it have been to add a little rider in some negotiations with Mars that says "Oh btw, Holden gets to keep his boat"?
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Jun 16, 2018 12:41
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DaveKap posted:Well I think we at least have two certainties here. 1: We get more seasons. 2: Alcon doesn't have to self-censor anything because the show won't end up on broadcast television anymore, which means they could write the Avasarala everyone wants. At this point I'll settle with any Avasarala at all  .
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Jun 17, 2018 21:14
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Jun 18, 2018 11:52
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I mean, any other issues notwithstanding, I imagine Earther dick is best dick. Kinda like whiskey.
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Jun 25, 2018 22:17
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Well, depends how granular we go. Every non-Bobbie Martian marine is, in fact, the worst.
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Jul 1, 2018 03:36
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Svaha posted:People keep saying this. There have been some non sucking Martians: I mean, that is specifically why I said marines  .Yeah, both Donnager commanding officers were great (and the one you didn't mention was arguably "better"). And the Fleet Admiral was indeed also great.
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Jul 1, 2018 04:09
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:[*]The Captain of that Martian ship at Io went very much against the grain. Probably exiled from Mars after the battle... I mean, that person basically single-handedly declared a truce, that apparently all other Martian ships respected. I'd say she was probably an admiral.
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Jul 1, 2018 13:20
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Phi230 posted:I really like these takes because it really shows what kind of people you are Yes, poor Diogo, victim of the institutional violence symbolized by... Drummer and Naomi and Holden. The context in which we're discussing is 99% belter. If this was and inner v. belter conflict, your points here would be relevant. Given his history, it is indeed no wonder DIogo resorted to violence, but his violence at this point isn't directed at those with the boot on his neck. Within the context of belters, calling Diogo alt-right isn't that crazy. Also there's the loving smug glee with which he does it. "Yeah, look at me, I'm a big boy Lt. in a uniform"
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Jul 2, 2018 14:33
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Phi230 posted:so like they point out in the show that it would take 7 months to get from the center of the dandelion sky to the ring at its edge The 7 month period was with a massively decreased speed limit. With the "normal" limit it's something like a few days.
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Jul 3, 2018 18:28
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Lord Hydronium posted:Not all science fiction is about realism, nor should it be. That's not "lazy writing", it's prioritizing different things to best serve what the work in question is going for. What's the problem with the asteroids? Would they break apart?
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Jul 23, 2018 01:02
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Unrelated, have we seen the PM in the Sol system do anything since the ring left Venus? We have a hunch that the glob of PM on the Roci is intentionally inert to maintain the Miller line of communication, but it's possible that with "the work" complete, the PM doesn't have a reason to keep expanding and multiplying. Maybe we can have one nice thing in this world.
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Jul 23, 2018 14:08
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A complex system that is programmed to achieve certain goals can very well act and follow logic similar to humans. We're all aware that we're anthropomorphising the pm by discussing it this way, but we're doing it because otherwise it would cost us many more words and we're trying to be brief. As for the "separate entities" bit... are you actually sure about that? I am fairly certain I remember multiple bits of protomolecule, separated by a very long distance (light-seconds, if not minutes) doing things at the exact same time, allowing characters to deduce... something.
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Jul 23, 2018 15:25
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Wait, I did misread something you said ring station, not ring.
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Jul 23, 2018 15:26
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So there won't be new expanse for a while, let's do that fun thing where we reminisce about our favourite scenes. S3 had a bunch of cool poo poo, but it was severely lacking Krisjen in the latter half, and I always come back to this one. Avasarala4lyf <3 . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU5w0dieQzo
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Jul 23, 2018 23:33
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The Expanse board game (which is surprisingly good, given that it's based on a franchise like this) is from a Wizkids, a fairly small fish in the board games world.
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Jul 25, 2018 23:42
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Barreft posted:Probably posted pages ago but: Of all the actors out of character, seeing Diogo must be the weirdest. After watching him in the show it's almost hard viewing him as not a childish simpleton.
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Jul 31, 2018 00:42
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Groetgaffel posted:Me too, in all of the right ways. I get that this might label me at "bad at watching TV", but my impression was exactly the other way around. I thought I heard Martians (Marines even) referring to each other as Dusters. Mickies I remember exclusively used by people currently in conflict with Martians.
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Aug 2, 2018 17:16
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Lol ProtoGen threw 75% of their fleet down the drain to blow up the Donnager.
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Aug 20, 2018 12:43
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Normy posted:Does Naomi have a thing about carrying guns? She has a thing about not killing people.
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Sep 25, 2018 20:56
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The numbers are generally a bit inflated. Like, let's say we get Earth's pop to 30 billion without total and utter collapse, Mars' is supposedly 9 billion, and that's just lol.
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Oct 6, 2018 04:40
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That ship that jettisoned all Inners called Ganymede natives "belters", so I guess anything outside the belt counts too. And it's also nominally called the "outer planets alliance". This should logically include the... outer planets .
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Oct 7, 2018 01:50
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Is that thing from Homeworld?
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Nov 12, 2018 23:22
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CainsDescendant posted:Cool well glad we got our opinions of Joss Whedon sorted. What do you guys think about anime Sorry, I'm not really into pokemon
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Dec 10, 2018 19:26
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:But yeah the whole show get's better and better with each episode pretty much. I'm going to disagree with this person, I found latter S1 not that great, for reasons I which would involve spoilers to bring up. But! I do agree that the show is generally on an upward trend, and S3 was best season. Press on, noble soldier (and please keep poasting)!
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Feb 12, 2019 02:02
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I'm disappointed that you keep mentioning so many things and people, but not Her Royal Highness and also my bff Chrisjen.
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Feb 13, 2019 04:41
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He already has, I cheered when he got smashed by an elevator .
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Feb 21, 2019 05:07
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clown shoes posted:I'm free right now.
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