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How good are the Expanse books, I don't expect greatness but are they at least well written as genre fiction goes? Like for example, the first few ASOIAF books aren't anything special but they do read well and GRRM is good at dialogue imo
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Cool, thanks book bros and broettes Been wanting light escapist reading lately, will grab a copy
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Nov 24, 2020 22:23
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BrotherJayne posted:
It's oddly reassuring that the cast member who's a gross sex pest is also the generally worst and lamest member of the primary cast, rather than a good or likeable one; if it was the Amos actor who turned out to be a piece of poo poo I'd feel played
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Dec 23, 2020 16:56
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It was a bad post but the people who seem to have a pathological aversion to discussion of sex and attraction are weirdo idiots.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:15
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There's a difference between knowing something is possible and accepting it will possibly happen See: climate apocalypse, death
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Dec 24, 2020 13:18
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Maybe the belters should get their poo poo together and build some O'Neill cylinders
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Dec 24, 2020 20:21
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Nuclear winter isn't from direct fallout and doesn't require ground detonations, it's a result of the resulting continent-wide firestorms filling the atmosphere with smoke. Look at what some wildfires do to the sky, now imagine every forest across multiple continents was burning.
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Dec 25, 2020 19:45
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I sure hope that Marco gets owned and replaced by Dawes soon because whether it's the actor, the writing, the direction, or a combination thereof, Marco is a dogshit character who's not selling it at all. Most of this show is so well done, and well cast, that weaknesses like Bobbie and Marco really stick out.
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Dec 25, 2020 23:43
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Bobbie has had some ups and downs, she can be good but especially early on was wooden and unconvincing. Again most recently, it's not the actor's fault but she was awful in ep5. I haven't read the books and don't care about how much the cast members align with the book versions in appearance and the like.
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Dec 26, 2020 00:36
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Amos is stronk
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Dec 26, 2020 05:01
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twistedmentat posted:Pretty sure she's actually the best person to lead this because she has a better idea of what's going on out there than anyone else in the UN. She was who they sent the Ashford message to, so she is aware this is only one faction. Though her ability to convince other people that its Marco's faction and not everyone is what's in question. Avasarala's actor is brilliant, and she's been given great writing to work with, turning a cold hearted sociopathic fascist into an unironic fan favourite
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Dec 26, 2020 10:27
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Some of her actions, she got dat selective empathy
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Dec 26, 2020 10:53
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we don't know how good their augs are maybe Tiny can return and replace Alex next season
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Dec 30, 2020 07:58
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Gobbeldygook posted:The Expanse's computers are Star Trek level. The Roci's medical bay is completely automated, it can diagnose and treat patients without any human input besides making sure it has sufficient supplies. the computer on the roci instantly calculating a slingshot flightpath through several gravity wells was like, drat
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Dec 31, 2020 00:10
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Jan 1, 2021 18:55
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Is there any particular explanation for the lack of automated ships? Given the power and software capabilities of the computers displayed in the series, it would make sense that drone ships would be heavily utilized given the tremendous advantages offered by removing humans from the equation.
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Jan 3, 2021 22:10
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the belt is a harsh mistress
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Jan 4, 2021 02:04
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The ring gates humans see are the tiny partial projections into three dimensional space of vastly larger higher dimensional structures which humanity is literally incapable of accurately perceiving Problem solved
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Jan 5, 2021 08:01
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Sab Sabbington posted:I didn't really mind it at all, but I think it would've been just as effective having her suddenly and very abruptly tackle him out of frame with the same blood spatter on Amos' face. yea if she can move that fast/exert that much force there's no reason for her to hit the guy more than once that singular silly moment aside however it was a good scene and prepper guy had it coming, Amos did nothing wrong
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Jan 8, 2021 03:48
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Crazycryodude posted:who want to talk about how cool things work nanomachines, son
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Jan 9, 2021 17:14
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the western nuclear family that most people watching this series consider traditional and normal is a historical anomaly
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Jan 10, 2021 23:57
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with the opening of the gates the belt, and by extension the belters, have become redundant and irrelevant, a vestigial people who will wither away and fade from history they are the past and will soon enough be consigned to it
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Jan 19, 2021 01:06
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it's a bad creative decision made for a dumb reason but, and maybe it's just having watched discovery's terrible third season, i can forgive this show the occasional stumble
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Jan 21, 2021 10:53
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looking forward to next few episodes where earth goes all
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Jan 21, 2021 11:37
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Yea I've enjoyed this season but taken in the context of there only being twelve episodes remaining in the series it's not so good with pacing and setup, I'm kinda expecting the final season to be relatively rushed and unsatisfying.
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Jan 21, 2021 12:31
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The book excerpts posted in this thread look like they were pulled from a Dan Brown novel, so yea it's good that the show has largely done its own thing when it comes to the details.
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Jan 21, 2021 23:25
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Marco just killed more people on earth than exist in the belt, potentially by orders of magnitude, and the full population of belters is a rounding error taken in context of the solar system. They're fortunate to be facing potentially one small station being destroyed rather than complete annihilation.
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Jan 22, 2021 15:11
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the primary conceit of Jeffrey's drive is making travel fast enough to be plot-convenient and ships small enough to fulfill the space opera fantasy, we had nuclear drive designs during the cold war that could make establishing colonies on Mars and farther out possible, just not as convenient and cool as in the Expanse with little ships full of plucky little bands of heroes
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Jan 23, 2021 01:54
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gonna colonize a planet with two G and create an unstoppable race of mighty space dwarfs
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Jan 23, 2021 10:46
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I haven't read the books but the impression I've gotten from the series is that outside of some military hardliner psychos and the conditioning propaganda they feed the troops Mars doesn't actually want a war with Earth and that their belligerence is largely posturing in an attempt to force Earth to negotiate with them as equals. Much like the USSR, Mars is a state that sees itself as under constant threat from the dominant power in the system, one which would destroy them in a moment given the opportunity, and their heavy militarization is a defensive response to that rather than due to any intent of actually starting poo poo. Also much like the USSR, Mars couldn't keep up with the superior economic power of their adversary, suck it you red bastards oo-rah
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Jan 24, 2021 02:23
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Gedt posted:Jfc, this is the second thread you regale us how us uncouthly barbarians/children are enjoying media wrong. Nobody cares. This is your only post in a 153 page thread and all you're doing is whining like a dumb little poo poo about someone else's posting, in the context of 'nobody cares' your contribution is worth less than nothing, gently caress off idiot.
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Jan 25, 2021 13:00
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Amos is carrying this entire mediocre season on his powerful shoulders
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Jan 26, 2021 09:48
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lol at peaches' naive bullshit getting a bunch of their people killed it's unfortunate that we're about to eat an unsatisfying cliffhanger season finale
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Jan 27, 2021 13:49
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in the series finale Avasarala rolls up on the belt in the flagship of Earth's armada, sweeping aside the remnants of Marco's forces and proclaiming the belters free of his tyranny, until she sees the belters on video feeds running around in a panic at the carnage and not kneeling and weeping in gratitude to her and so she just blasts Eros out of the sky
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Jan 28, 2021 03:28
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Very few movies or shows do a convincing job of showing how fast someone able to move like that would actually look. To bring everyone's favorite director up, Man of Steel did a better job in the Smallville fight of showing what 'super' speed would entail than anything else I can recall off the top of my head. https://youtu.be/zWTbLZCR84k The prepper kill was some extremely lame cheap anime looking poo poo.
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Jan 29, 2021 05:17
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Rah! posted:lol Clarissa moving like that would have been 100% more cheesy than what we got in that one episode yea it would, jus sayin if you can't make it look decent best not to do it
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Jan 30, 2021 04:44
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Has Amos actually hurt someone that didn't have it coming? Been a minute since watching the first seasons so maybe I'm forgetting him going apeshit on someone for no reason.
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Jan 30, 2021 23:01
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should have just cast Wagner Moura and had him shuffle around in dad jeans
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Feb 2, 2021 09:16
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Marco cannot fail, he can only be failed
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well yea drunks tend to survive crashes better because they don't brace for the impact
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