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Crazycryodude posted:I don't give a poo poo how many "diverse" characters a show has just for the sake of diversity. I do give a poo poo when they make an explicitly Nigerian character into a Norwegian for some indiscernible reason. Ade has all of five minutes of screen time, it's not like they needed to find an actress that could work on the show long-term and had to make a concession to casting constraints. I'm sure there were dozens of black actresses that were just as available and happy to work for one portion of one episode as the generic blond white girl they went with. Replace your post with "Wow, they have a black character and then kill her within five minutes. What a *thing from TV tropes*."
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Mar 9, 2018 04:09
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There's a reason why shows tend to have a thread for the show and another thread for the show that includes book spoilers.
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Mar 11, 2018 08:30
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Or just don't be an rear end, and keep book discussion to the book thread.
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Mar 11, 2018 17:58
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I don't really get what those dudes were. Were they normal people in fancy suits? Seemed weird that the guys hand was cut off and then the suit healed over it.
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Mar 18, 2018 14:56
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bloom posted:I kinda wish they had gone the book route with it. In those she doesn't take the armor off, she stands there and uses it to brace herself against the g-forces. No idea if that's remotely realistic but it did make the armor seem even more badass. That would have had the problem where either no one is flying that ship, or someone has to get left behind.
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Apr 13, 2018 01:19
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bloom posted:This may blow your mind, but the black bars are called "spoiler tags". They are called that because they are used to tag spoilers. If you have a mental condition that forces you to compulsively mouse over every one of these tags, maybe the problem is at your end? This may blow your mind, but the other thread is called "the book spoiler thread". It is called that because it is used for posting book spoilers. If you have a mental condition that forces you to compulsively post book spoilers in the non book thread, maybe the problem is at your end?
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Apr 14, 2018 19:09
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The very end of the second season was Bobbie getting her power armor out of the transport and killing dudes.
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Apr 15, 2018 03:54
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bloom posted:Not intending to talk about her character in any detail, was just remarking that going by her first appearance I like her. The suits probably use chemical filters, and those would be limited. Hooking up to the ship's air supply would be free air. Amos disconnected his hose at the helmet, and Prax's hose disconnected at the wall. Perhaps there is a failsafe built into the helmet end that will seal off when a hose is disconnected, but for some reason the same isn't built into the other side. So when Amos disconnects, his suit starts providing air. When Prax disconnects, his suit thinks it is getting air from the ship. Even then, it should still have sensors that detect that the pressure dropped rapidly and it needs to do something to keep Prax alive. Aside from catastrophic failure, there's no way Prax would have run out of air like that in a real life situation.
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Apr 19, 2018 06:42
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bloom posted:To clarify this part does make sense, it's just weird that a disconnect would have such a catastrophic effect. Seems to me like the ship should be keeping the suits' tanks filled up so if someone needs to disconnect during maneuvers(bound to happen on a warship) they have a full tank of air to work with. I think the scene was needed for that Amos tool catch. Catching a tool in front of his own face would be impressive, but not as impressive as catching it in front of Prax's face. Maybe they could have accomplished that if the seats were right next to each other, but Amos making his way across the room added action to an already tense scene.
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Apr 19, 2018 15:29
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As long as Syfy doesn't pull an Adult Swim and kill a very popular TV series and then absolutely refuse to sell the rights to anyone.
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Apr 19, 2018 23:12
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Holden gets stuck on one thing and refuses to entertain anything else.
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Apr 20, 2018 13:45
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Milo and POTUS posted:lol Which episode was this? I definitely must have missed. Mao's ship had pretty paintins on it.
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Apr 21, 2018 21:52
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etalian posted:It was great when he got dunked on at Tycho station. I liked when they got there and just assumed they'd get to keep their ship as if they were some A-Team special forces whatever out to save the solar system. Not enough people say "You're just a bunch of lovely rock hoppers who lucked into a fancy ship." I feel like that's going to come up now that they don't have much in the way of weapons left anymore. They stole a cop car and now it's out of gas and they don't want to go back to normal.
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Apr 22, 2018 17:53
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They could probably just reconfigure the current one.
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Apr 22, 2018 19:35
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Turn the Roci into an A-10 and put a big ol fuckin rail gun right on the front.
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Apr 23, 2018 02:42
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They probably don't need pickets or scouts or anything. The point of a picket is to find out if the enemy is marching towards you. Carrier groups have planes in the air to see if there are other ships coming towards them. if you're in space, you can see literally forever. Anything a scout can see will be just as easily seen by the main ship.
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Apr 23, 2018 03:56
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No way in hell is anyone going to do business with Tycho Station ever again if they take the Mormon's money, build a ship, steal it, abandon it, and then "salvage" it.
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Apr 23, 2018 21:23
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I hope they go into how the people of Earth react to it. From their perspective, Mars launched a first strike against Earth. They have no idea that the UN fired rail guns against the Mars platforms. It would be interesting to see how the secretary general or whoever tries to explain that it's not a big deal and they aren't going to retaliate by leveling Mars.
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Apr 29, 2018 01:48
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I hope the last scene of this show is someone on a science station around Neptune trying to radio back to Earth and there's nothing because Earth and Mars nuked each other back to the stone age.
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Apr 29, 2018 14:23
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Kassad posted:It's fun to wonder how many people might be living in Antarctica, if they managed to make the moon hospitable enough for a billion people. What would they do? I assume the people on the moon extract helium or minerals or whatever. What do they do in Antarctica?
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May 1, 2018 00:39
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I can't wait for that video to get leaked. Errinwright is hosed.
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May 3, 2018 05:48
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Did they just raid the killjoys set for minor characters in this episode?
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May 3, 2018 13:22
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Milo and POTUS posted:Idk who the white guy was but man he looked familiar The lady was the new nerd they got. The white guy was the rich guy with connections.
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May 3, 2018 16:31
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So what exactly was that? Was the protomolecule analyzing the efficiency/effectiveness of the human body? The kid said something about distance and bandwidth, and redundant sensory inputs or something. I assume it was talking about the eyes.
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May 4, 2018 02:28
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They can send messages to nobodies and no one will look into it. If they send a message to the leader of the UN, the UN might look into who it came from and what direction it came from.
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May 4, 2018 04:46
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spiderbyte posted:I wish they were able to show more of a range of graivities than zero-g and 1g, but I understand that is really really difficult due to budget reasons. They have before. When Miller poured a drink in the first season, he held the glass further out because the liquid wouldn't fall as fast.
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May 7, 2018 03:33
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I don't know about the show, but in general, an interstellar ship would accelerate at 1G or around there until the halfway point. Then it would turn around and then decelerate at 1G.
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May 9, 2018 15:24
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Crazycryodude posted:Are you sure you don't mean interplanetary? Because that is indeed how ships travel between planets in the Expanse thanks to the magical bullshit drive that lets them afford constant acceleration. But I think it's literally physically impossible using anything even vaguely within the current understanding of physics to do that at interstellar distances. Sorry, not accelerating at 1G. Just accelerating the whole time. The method I saw was to use an Ion drive powered by a laser beam being fired from a station in solar orbit.
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May 9, 2018 15:51
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Don't Mormons get their own planet when they die? What if the Nauvoo shows up at some random dead Mormon's planet? That would be annoying.
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May 9, 2018 16:42
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Why does this thread still have a poo poo post tag?
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May 9, 2018 18:43
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I want to see an episode open where some ship is on its way to an asteroid to mine it or whatever and then gets peppered by a bunch of bullets from like 10 years ago.
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May 9, 2018 23:59
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Yeah, but it usually gets changed after the OP says "Oh poo poo, I forgot to change the tag"
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May 10, 2018 00:48
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Amos bangs Avaserala.
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May 10, 2018 02:03
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Between this show and Barry, it must be "insane episode" week. That was crazy and I can't wait for next Wednesday. I understand why they did it, but I hate when lovely people pull the "once a lovely thing happened me, that's my excuse for being lovely now" pity party.
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May 10, 2018 20:35
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Everyone is getting more lax with language now. There are no rules for cable, they just have to please the sponsors. If the sponsors don't care about swear words, then we'll get swears.
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May 10, 2018 20:48
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I guess that shoots the "they are shooting season 3 and 4 at the same time" thing in the rear end. Netflix would be stupid to not pick this up.
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May 11, 2018 05:25
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If Syfy was only broadcasting it, is the show really even cancelled? Netflix is already paying for international distribution, they would probably just have to pay a bit more to also stream it in the US.
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May 11, 2018 06:14
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Amazon has also been on a sci-fi tear, so they could be just as likely to pick it up.
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Rah! posted:youtube has The Expanse too, but i have no idea how all this rights stuff works. But it seems like amazon doesn't have exclusive rights? Maybe Amazon has exclusive rights to have it be "free" or something as in they are allowed to just throw it up on their paid service. But Youtube and iTunes or whatever are allowed to sell the show like Best Buy would sell blurays. Milo and POTUS posted:I've been wondering this about Fox for years but I guess they're just too big or something? I don't know much about the TV business. Because Fox is the only company willing to take a shot on these niche shows in the first place. Other channels throw up some safe multicam sitcom where a bunch of 30 somethings live in two apartments across from each other. Or a fat funny guy is married to an attractive woman and they live in a house where the family room/front door/stairs are on the left, and the kitchen/back door is on the right. Fox takes a chance on these wacky single camera shows that don't appeal to the masses. Unfortunately, they also dump them just as easily.
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