Expanse thread #4

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>>79119122
That bitch is like a walking Coup deck.

cheese

>>79119255
Did Miller make that story up?

Just started s02e01 and although obvious what was going on it was no less badass.

>>79119682
Yeah, in the books Miller used to be in a prominent improv group.

Nice promo

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Agua?

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More links.

SDCC 2016 full panel - cast and producers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLOzh1gL4xM

NYCC 2016 full panel - partial cast and writers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2F4eHTIdhc

Season One recap (with cats):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivej0OW7WZk

Season Two title sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krqqqgixNq8

The Expanse SubPlebbit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/
High volume sub despite the 16K pop. Linked because the writers, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, plus some of the show's tech/FX people, are posting there often.

>>79120548
Is that just a regular destroyer on the top left, because that looks way bigger than it's supposed to me

Can someone explain the overall plot of this show? I get who the main characters are and Fred Johnson, they talk about him enough.

It's the whole thing between the Martians and Earth(I guess?). The political scenes go way over my head.

So someone set loose an alien virus on Eros to trigger a war between Mars and Earth? And the reason for that is still a mystery, is that right?

I'm lost about 50% of the time, but I still like the show.

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>>79120632
Looks like the USN's current Arleigh-Burke class of guided missile destroyer - which are 155m.

Your jaw has to bee somewhat square to serve on one according to The Last Ship.

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>>79120632
Modern destroyers are large man.

>>79120679
Here's a recap:

Some weird alien substance is discovered on Phoebe station (which is at least partly owned by Earth corporations but I don't know if Mars has any rights on it) which fucks people up and has the potential to be used as a bio-weapon. Some corporate asshole (Julie's dad from Lost) learns about it and wants to keep the substance for himself to experience upon. So he torches all the bodies and evidence on the station.

Martians learn that the station is now abandoned (how? no clue) and send their battleship Donnager to investigate. Shortly after Donnager completes the investigation and begins their return to Mars, they get this SOS from Holden and co. trying to survive in that emergency shuttle. You know how that ends.

Julie's dad has also some inside people in the UN pulling strings for him, the Indian lady later becomes aware that something is going on under the table but she doesn't yet know exactly what. He'd rather start a war between Earth and Mars to led people away from his experiments with the alien substance

Fred is just an asshole who for some reason waited months before responding to Julie's emergency message. His official reasoning was that he needed a gunship before he could do anything hence cooperating with Holden and his new Martian frigate but that's doesn't make any fucking sense to me

Dawes is another asshole who'd rather sweep this whole Scopuli business under the rug because it failed massively and would cost him politically and acts like none of it happened

How the alien thing ended up in the Solar System is not known. It's explained that Phoebe was caught back in the day by the Solar System's gravity. That scientist asshole speculated that it might have been intentionally sent by aliens but no one knows for sure yet

As you can see there's some bits that are left unanswered for me too, I blame the screenwriter

>>79120966
thanks anon

I need to rewatch season 1, I don't remember shit.

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>>79120936
My brother was stationed on an aircraft carrier once, he said it was literally like a giant floating city. Barbershops, restaurants, laundromats, gyms, bookshops, literally dozens of different little stores to buy any sundries you need.
On paper it sounds like a great place to live, though he said the worst part about it were the bathrooms.
Out of all the money he saw government had spend on everything, I guess the toilet paper was still one ply, and they were all chemical based, so it was like a portapotty, except it got used by hundreds of people a day.
I'd still like to visit one someday.

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>>79120936
The Nevada was considered a dreadnought back in its day (just before WW1) - a class of ship which basically was a cruiser-sized floating tub of armour and guns.

The Zumwalt appears to be some kind of experiment for electrical engineers to test their skills on - they keep losing power and having to be towed to the nearest ports.

>>79120848
>which are 155m.

Shieeet

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>>79121114
... and wrong pic (though somewhat related).

>Ep3 promo

I really hope this show takes a turn into Event Horizon territory because that would be awesome

>>79121208
Event Horizon is fantasy garbage that simply got by on triggering Christians.

>>79120966
While I'm at it, here a few things I'd like to know the answers about if anyone can - potential spoilers ahead

How the hell Earth does not know that something took place on Phoebe? Why wouldn't they confirm it with whoever owns the station back on Earth? And how does Mars know that something happened in Phoebe anyway

Out of all those new high tech ships out there, was it only Anubis which recovered the samples?

How did Fred Johnson manage to intercept the message from Julie to Dawes, and what kept him from responding immediately if he deemed it so important

Now that I think about it, all the events of the season 1 might be taking place in a very short amount of time - Fred might have just gotten the message from Julie before he contacted the Cant-Donnager survivors with the Martian gunship. Show gives the impression that there are weeks behind all the stuff happenning though. I guess someone will now call me a stupid retard and explain that it was part of the twist at the end of season 1

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>>79121378

>>79121787
>How the hell Earth does not know that something took place on Phoebe? Why wouldn't they confirm it with whoever owns the station back on Earth? And how does Mars know that something happened in Phoebe anyway
Phoebe station technically belongs to Mars, with Protogen (the company investigating the Protomolecule) hiring it out. Protogen finds the protomolecule, tests it on Phoebe's general population, and then burns the facility whilst taking the protomolecule with them. The Donnager is dispatched to investigate why the station went dark and finds that someone destroyed it
>Out of all those new high tech ships out there, was it only Anubis which recovered the samples?
Yes

>>79121869
Oh shit that makes sense. Thanks

>>79121208

Why would you ever want for a show to take a turn into trash?

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>>79122099
Fuck you Event Horizon is awesome

>>79122165
Maybe if you are a Christian and want to mix science fiction with Sunday school.

Otherwise the Hell thing is stupid.

>>79122232
t. fedora tipping autist

Just replace hell with cthulhu dimension or something if it triggers you this much

>>79122421
Cthulhu is stupid too. Why would you think that's better? Get out of your box, anon.

>>79122483
Yo mama is stupid

>>79122421
>>79122519
I mean, Cthulhu shit is only powerful because of an imagined importance humanity has, propped up by Christianity and other religions. If you don't think the universe was literally made for you then simply acknowledging the fact that you are insignificant isn't all that horrifying.

Just saying.

>>79121208
>Event Horizon

Sure, lets take a fairly hard sci fi and turn it into a complete fanatsy shit. Great idea anon!

>>79122626
Some cosmic horrors would only spice up that fairly hard sci-fi unless all you want is Sandra Bullocks breathing loudly through the entire thing

>>79122714
You obviously dislike The Expanse so you should probably leave.

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>>79119907
I like you anon.

>>79120501
I wonder what the preferred spelling is?

>>79122714
>Some cosmic horrors would only spice up that fairly hard sci-fi
Debateable. Could just as easily over spice, and end up with a designated shit show.

>unless all you want is Sandra Bullocks breathing loudly through the entire thing
Uh, no? Not that I have anything against Gravity, but Expanse isn't that, it is legit sci fi that takes place in our solar system. Gravity was named well, because it was about gravity, in particular, Earths gravitation field. It did a good job in that respect. Annoying that they had to tie the whole thing to feminism/reproduction though. The whole loner/cold vs family/warmth shit.

>>79120501
I can't remember. Did they ever show that kid being found out there in space? Wasn't he just left floating?

Just dropping in to say the books are EXCELLENT and worth the read.

>>79122735
Can you tell me how a mystery substance turning people it touches into crystal meth is "fairly hard sci-fi"?

Besides, you'll be disappointed because I'm fairly certain I glimpsed a zombie in the new promo

>>79122828
A pizza can be made horribly wrong too, but still we all agree that pizza is a delicious meal

Gravity was a boring snoozefest of a movie

>>79122772
Fuck, my subtitles had "tawakwa" or something. Now it makes sense

>>79122922
>Can you tell me how a mystery substance turning people it touches into crystal meth is "fairly hard sci-fi"?
So then I guess your desire for monsters is sated and you can shut up.

>>79122947
Just saying, it would be better left off as "cosmic unexplainable horror which fucks everyone up" than "durr alien nanotechnology let's use it to gain political power without a second thought"

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Why is there sneak peeks to episode 3? Can I watch episode 2 already?

>>79123361
Yeah you can, so go ahead and catch up before I spoiler the ending grandpa

>>79119122
Love her voice.

She's also a sharp dresser desu.

Is she a poo in loo? She looks somewhat Med to me but Im not sure

I hate Amos and the actor playing him. Same facial expression all the time, literally a overgrown beta baby whos bossed around by the SJW haircut british woman who he obviously is in love with.

>>79123026
That's only the beginning if you read the books. The whole thing will be not around it.

>>79123433
she's 200% indian

Does anyone else find the Martian marine girl's accent extremely abrasive on the ears? The space Kiwi makes me want to mute her scenes.

>>79123446
But that's literally who he's supposed to be, right?

>>79123447
That's OK by me, I'm all down for watching a plot-oriented drama in a cozy sci-fi setting unlike what the retard above tries to imply. But if the plot is going to revolve around some unnatural substance I would rather have it be what I said in >>79123026 is all

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>>79123513
Space diversity is real

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ganymede git hype

if this really is next ep then they are majorly compressing/fucking with the timelines

>>79123607
mars is a odd composition of nationalities. the belt is i guess the irish, gypsy, slavic basically all the poor of europe making an american style hillbilly culture

mars is chinese, new zealand, morrocco? nigeria? maybe canada for their weird looking hard white guys

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>>79123607
>bobbie has the same armor as everyone else

RRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>79123864
thanks, I feel like less of a sperg now

>>79123843
UN probably is dominated by US and her NATO allies, but whatever happened to Russia and China? If that Chinese commander on Donnager and the Martian obsession with the color red is an indicator of a China dominated Mars (still leaves the question of why the fuck are they all speaking English), where does that put Russia

>>79123709
I wonder where it will end

With a formation of the gates or will they push it to season 3 finale

>>79123932
In the books - Russia is Earth/UN based. at least some of the characters were

you just can't let your unneeded eternal general die

>>79122858
His uncle obviously thought he had more than a shitty chance, otherwise why throw him out of the airlock?

>>79123499
>>79123433
She's Iranian.

>>79123932
>but whatever happened to Russia and China?
You really think entire nations emigrate to Mars?

This is the best show currently airing. I wasn't expecting it

>>79127346
I guess she won't be in season 3 then, lol.

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There's only one way to deal with all this Belter scum.

Hate that woman

>>79123026
Do you realize that the latter sounds much better and all you did was add "hur dur" to it to make it sound worse than it is?

>>79129313
Is it because she's a powerful woman?

>>79119122
She really looks like an old used porn star.

If this show had good actors it would be amazing.

>>79119255
>dude cheese lmao
I liked that scene.

>>79120548
Rocinante is smol

>>79122772
>I wonder what the preferred spelling is?
t'che Aqk'wa

>>79123864
>The armor doesn't really make them any larger than they already are.
>Bobbie's armor isn't faded red.
>There's no discernable differences between her armor and the other suits.
>We're supposed to believe that this nearly form-fitting suit weighs nearly a ton at 1 g.

From the way they described it in the books, it sounded more like Fallout 4 powered armor, but massively more agile.

>>79130653
Yeah, perhaps but who cares?

WE WAS MARSS EFFECT

>>79120548
What's that triangle ship from?

>>79123513
I think it's hot desu

>>79129738
It has several good actors.

>>79123864
I like that. Boob-shaped armour pisses me off.

>>79123932
>>79123843
Mars = Austrlians
Belt = Seth Efrecans

>>79130990
He means that in the book her armor is a generation older than other suits. There were never any specific physical differences mentioned but it would have been nice for it to be distinguished from the other suits in some way.

>>79119122
They should stop focusing on interstellar political gibber jabber, it's annoying as fuck.
That old pepe looking bitch is ANNOYING as FUCK!

>>79131122
>interstellar
The Nauvoo isn't built yet

>>79131121
Oh, I see. If I'd read the books that would probably trigger me, too

>>79130989
Yeah, like Thomas Jane ... erm ....

>>79131121
>There were never any specific physical differences mentioned but it would have been nice for it to be distinguished from the other suits in some way.

wasn't that why she was doing maintenance?

>>79131204
Also all of the suits used on mars are meant to be painted in a washed out red camo to make them blend in better with the terrain. In a later book it's mentioned that she keeps the red camo even when transferred to a different planet where other powered armor is camouflaged in a different color. Meanwhile in the show it's already black and grey with only a few red accents.

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>>79131228
>can't even be bothered to look at the OP

>>79119122
Her voice sounds really familiar. Did she do any vidya voice work?

>>79131247
I was talking more about physical appearance, yeah it's described as needing more maintenance and having older firmware, but they never talk about if it's got any structural differences to the newer models.

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>>79123433
Oh that sultry voice. First noticed her when she was a mature terroristfu in 24.

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>>79131298
Tali's mom.

>>79120632

An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the workhorse warship of the American navy, and while being called a destroyer it displaces about as much as a WW2 heavy cruiser.

>>79131298
terrorist's mom in 24

>>79131019
Fuck off, we're not belters.

>>79131313
>tfw she will never be your mom and murlur soothing insanity to your ear while she's gently stroking your dick

>>79131328

Yeah they have a few yidya voice actors on the show, the spy from season one is the voice of Adam Jensen

>>79122772
>I wonder what the preferred spelling is?
I'm pretty sure it's teo aqua.
Spanish.

>>79131467
>Adam Jensen
Speaking of sex in voice form.

>no space leviathan

dropped

>>79131301
she said the newer suits don't fit her, so a physical difference would be pretty likely

>>79131367
>while being called a destroyer it displaces about as much as a WW2 heavy cruiser
Don't get /k/ started on naval classes...

Basically they're all called whatever the fuck it was convenient to call them at the time. Classes mean very little.

>>79131609
Lunar whalers killed them.

>>79132093
Damn lunars!
did they also destroyed the giant Abaddon stargate?

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Peter F. Hamilton adaptation when?


Are we living the new space K I N O era?

Reminder that Miller did NOTHING WRONG

>>79131450
STAY WAY FROM TE AKWA

>>79131617
>>79131301
>>79131261
Is this significant to her character though, or is it just an aesthetic detail?

>>79132382
He didn't do much right either.

>>79132382
He's basically Rorschach.

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>>79132485
Oh, shit, so he is.

Why isn't Season 2 on Netflix yet?

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>Do you know that old story Pinocchio?
Who the fuck would EVER talk like that?

Nobody says "do you know that old story [novel name]"

Don Quixote is over 400 years old and nobody would ever in their life think to ask someone else if they know "that old story"
People don't talk like that

What a pathetic attempt at reminding us that it's the fucking future

Shit writers

>>79132743
Do you know that old band, The Rolling Stones?

>>79132773
said nobody ever

>>79132722

Why don't you fucking download like a normal person, fucktard?

>>79132722
syfy/nbc/comcast has retarded licensing shit in place

>>79132743
it's pretty frequent in sci-fi novels

often the guy doesn't know the story because it's so fucking old! at least 250 years

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>>79132788
Because it's not as convenient and I don't have to look around for English subtitles

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>>79132743

>Hey guys, you ever see that really old movie, Empire Strikes Back?

>>79119122

This is so much better than "Dark Matter" holy shit. It's everything I've ever wanted in a sci-fi show.

is it ever mentioned in the books if humans sent probes to other star systems or know of any habitable worlds outside of the solar system?

>>79133022
Simple physics is enough to deduce there are no extrasolar colonies. Probes might work though if you make it all engine or a laser propelled solar sail.

>>79133022
Well the mormons are paying Tycho to build a massive ship and plan to launch it out of the system. It's the ship you see next to Tycho station under construction, big enough to support multiple generations

>>79133022
There is none. The books mention the drive the ship's used gave them the solar system but not the rest of the stars.

>>79120966
The plot would be easier to follow if half the dialogue wasn't in unintelligible niggerspeak. Also that indian lady should've cut down to one pack a day about 20 years ago.

The new batshit crazy martian kiwi chick is annoying as fuck, hopefully she gets little screentime.

Anyway, why did Miller shoot that guy at the end? Seems uncharacteristically retarded of him.

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>/pol/ gets triggered by the niggers in space

Kek, I can't wait to see their reaction to the blacked lesbian orthodox priest.

>>79133320
>Indian
Do you people not have access to the internet? She's Iranian.

>>79133252

What are the travel times from Earth to the Moon or Earth to Mars?

>>79133320

>I don't watch the show:the post

Jesus fucking christ

>>79133366

It's the sari.

>>79133320
>>>79120966
>The new batshit crazy martian kiwi chick is annoying as fuck, hopefully she gets little screentime.
She'll be one of the main characters for awhile

>Anyway, why did Miller shoot that guy at the end? Seems uncharacteristically retarded of him.

Yeah but he was right. He kills him because the others were negotiating and accepting what happen to Eros. He wants it stopped, no Fred getting a weapon to use at the negotiation table with Earth and Mars

>>79132786
Said me, a millenial

>>79133320
>The new batshit crazy martian kiwi chick is annoying as fuck

She's really fucking annoying in the books too.

>Anyway, why did Miller shoot that guy at the end?

His reasoning is that people like Dresden(the guy he shot) always get away with murder. He was even persuading Johnson to let him on his side to continue his work. Which was murder. And Miller is a Belter. For a Belter, if someone is endangering the life of others on the ship/station they get spaced out, no trials, no bullshit.

Took 2 scenes for me to hate the stronk womyn martian.

>>79133423
Okay I looked it up and I guess she is supposed to be Indian in the books, fair enough.

>>79133533
faggot
took me one shot

>>79133533

Good for you

I don't like show bobbi, I think it's because she's too one hunna with the earth hate
bobbi & avasarala when?

>>79133533
Nah she's peng bruv

>>79133533
heh, she is supposed to be your typical brainless muscle soldier. I don't think that would count as "strong female".

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>>79133533
She doesn't look all that fit to me yet she's supposed to have super-strength or whatever. She has baby fat. Not buying it at all.
Poor casting choices are one of the weaknesses of this show. Cas Anvar trying to pull off that ridiculous southern accent is embarrassing.

>>79133676
would chew her arms desu

>>79133676
Who the fuck thought she would be a good pick for Bobbie?

I hope they cast a decent looking woman for Clarissa Mao. I'm tired of looking at these transvestites in the show.

>>79133761
why would they cast someone else for clarissa? just give her younger looking makeup & a different hairstyle

>>79133676
Alex's accent is supposed to be annoying, it's mentioned in the book as being exaggerated

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>>79132237
Richard K Morgan's Altered Carbon will be going into production soon: cyberpunk, mind & personality state digital recordings, bodies rented out as 'sleeves', immortal rich a-holes, future combat, spycraft, virtual torture sessions.

Not one bit of all that will make it to the screen unaltered (pun intended) but it oughta be a huge glorious mess.

>>79133676
I don't gie a fuck. She's fit. It's a tv show, suspend your disbelief

>>79133803
Because she's not the twin of Julie, she's her younger sister.

>>79120966
>Fred is just an asshole who for some reason waited months before responding to Julie's emergency message

No. Space is big. It takes weeks to travel between locations in this series. A quick response to anything is impossible, especially a rescue mission.

Ships are fast in this but they spend half the journey slowing down. This is why it takes weeks to get anywhere. The TV series edits it for time.

On a 3 week flight between asteroid bases they fly forward for 1.5 weeks and at the halfway point they cut thrust, flip the ship 180, and engage full thrust again to slow down for 1.5 weeks. They can fly faster but the strain on the crew is severe and if they stop suddenly they kill the crew.

>>79133252
If I remember correctly, they state somewhere in the books that the furthest ship ever launched is the one outfitted with the prototype of the drive all the ships currently use

From the wiki :
>After finishing his design, Epstein outfitted his private three-man yacht with the Epstein drive and turned it on, launching it out into the Sol system at a marginal percentage of the speed of light. He was, however, unable to turn the engine off, and never returned. His ship accelerated for 37 hours at an unknown rate above 7 g before his fuel supply ran out and ended up at about 5% the speed of light. Solomon himself died from the high acceleration within minutes.

>>79133388
I don't know about The Expanse universe but in reality a ship that accelerates an decelerates at one g could reach Mars in mere days.

>>79133855

Being fit doesn't mean that you are skinny or spend your life trying to maintain a low body fat percentage.

>>79134619
'Fit' as in 'hot', anon

please upboat

reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/5s8wxy/this_show_is_going_to_shit_fast/

>>79135291
I don't have a leddo account you do it

we don't get to see much of Mars in the show
what's it like in the books?

>>79135716
Like Ceres but better? They live in domes and shit.

>>79119122

Awesome voice.

>>79133022
Sent probes? Yes.

Have any actually arrived where they were going? Not yet.

>>79135716
>what's it like in the books?
superior to earth

>>79131684
Just like Earth Alliance in Babylon 5, where the Omega destroyer masses larger than the Nova dreadnought and the Hyperion heavy cruiser.

>>79133830
>Richard K Morgan's Altered Carbon
Such a good fucking book, but the sequels got really weird.

>>79119122
I hope trump deports this annoying bitch tbqhwy

her character sucks. le strong womyn with intuition

>>79133830
noice

>>79136003
this reminds me I should finish the second book

>>79136035
cringed

>>79136189
same here, every scene

>>79135291
kek, that cuck got triggered

>>79125119
From this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TDIpvzTG7o
We can safely asume that next episode will be about Eros dodging the Nauvoo
Episode 5 and forward will probably be about the Venus shitstorm, and as there are still 8 episodes left, the season will most likely end with the Gate

>>79133676
She'd break you in half.

>>79136940

They haven't even finished the first novel and we're couple of episodes into season 2 now. There's no way they'll get to third novel material this season.

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Space-kino is back on the menu boys, damn it was so long since BSG.

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>>79133676
Frankie Adams is mainly known for a local soap and modelling for Bonds lingerie line here in NZ.

Nothing wrong with Anwar's texan accent. It's set a couple of hundred years from now so a current day texas drawl wouldn't sound right. And let's face it - It's not like a texan voice sounds ok now, let alone in some fictional future.

>>79137107
The Gate launch happens at the end of the second book

>yfw the season ends with "We need to talk"

>>79137433

I wanna fuck that leaf

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>>79131454
Indeed it is a shame.

Why even live?

>>79137433
>Nothing wrong with Anwar's texan accent. It's set a couple of hundred years from now so a current day texas drawl wouldn't sound right

In the book the area of mars was colonized by texans and poo-in-loo indians. Their accent is a corrupted texas accent for that reason.

>>79132441
it shows that she is special

>>79119122

Thomas Jane didn't age well at all.
Like, his skull looks entirely different from when he was doing the punisher 15 years ago. He's not even 50 ffs.

>>79139113

I think it's the perfect look for his character. He's a failed detective who has been drinking his life away.

>>79137973
Do the books ever go into any detail about how the fluid prevents the human body from being torn apart by the high g?

>>79138872
>her armor looks different to show she's special
So the tv show didn't go with 12-year-old logic. I'm okay with this.

>webrips have missing scenes and censorship
the fuck is this aboot?

>>79140163

The fluid just helps them stay conscious at ~7G.

They rarely do maneuvers more extreme than a few G in this series.

The women in this are terrible.

>>79137281
>WATCH IT, BELTERS

>>79141123
Avasarala is ok, the rest are just absolute shit.

>>79131467
The guy who voiced Coach plays Fred Johnson

>>79140713

They fucked up and sent the rebroadcast videos to amazon etc, instead of the VOD ones.
Apparently it's getting fixed 'soon'.

So I'm fully expecting them all to be the cut, cencored ones going forward.

>>79141123
You know what, that nappy haired afrobong chick is actually starting to grow on me.

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>>79131122

>he perfers GoT style "who fucked who" politics

>>79138634
I really like that about Mars, they made the melting pot an actual thing. All these nations sent up people, built these domes where everyone was forced to live together, and then they basically said "Fuck you, we're MARTIANS now, not Chinese or Russians or Nigerians or whatever that live on Mars". They left all that Earth baggage behind and built what America has catastrophically failed to accomplish.

>>79133893
Given that it's a major plot point that the only person who can tell them apart without having it pointed out to them is someone who knew them both for years, they'd be stupid to go with a different actress

>>79130770
planet of the apes

>>79119682
Nah, it's from the books.

>>79140734
Not just unconsciousness. It prevents organ failure, especially among belters.

>>79131122
The "interstellar political gibber jabber" is what makes the show so enjoyable. They should focus more on it.

>>79132823
>do you know that old story, the romeo and the juliet

>>79142544
STFU!
You want this thing to tun into a theatrical Star trek?

>>79142811
You're not making any sense.

>>79125155
In that first episode of season 2 there was that cool headed commander Yevgeniy who was serving for the UN. This name is clearly savic, so I'd say that's true.

>>79133351
what

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>>79140163
not really, just seems to be some kind of futuristic cocktail of amphetamines or sympathomimetics that help them keep some blood in their brain, it's also implyied it includes some blood thinner to prevent high g strokes

>>79137973
The scene where they race to phoebe in last episode triggers me a lot

If earth and mars ships "race" toward the rock, at that distance they would have flipped and would be decelerating hard, not accelerating towards it, only to crash into it cause they can't brake

Actually the scene would be much more dramatic if it was written with correct orbital mechanics. You could have the two captain racing by maintaining their speed without decelerating enough, with one of them then daring to do an very high g burn next to the rock, risking ship and crew to be there first, while the other choose to fire missile to not let the first guy win

t. autistic ksp player

>>79143881
I imagine they also mix a strong cocktail of painkillers in there as well

>>79143845
At least she is supposed to be pretty, but I'm afraid they'll cast another transvestite.

>>79143881
The show really fails at that part. They travel anywhere in the Solar System in 1/4 of an episode.

Too bad it's the theme of the opening sequence.

I dare you to post it again, faggot.

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>>79120966

I'll try and answer some.

Bookfag tho, so I'm never sure what's spoilery


>Martians learn that the station is now abandoned (how? no clue) and send their battleship Donnager to investigate.

They didn't learn about it, they just got mobilized to the vicinity after Holden blamed Mars for destroying the Cantebury, his original ship, th

>Fred is just an asshole who for some reason waited months before responding to Julie's emergency message. His official reasoning was that he needed a gunship before he could do anything hence cooperating with Holden and his new Martian frigate but that's doesn't make any fucking sense to me

Johnson has no fucking clue of what happened. Trying to be the leader of the OPA is like trying to herd kittens, except the kittens have delusions of mad max WAR BOYS in SPACE

>How the alien thing ended up in the Solar System is not known. It's explained that Phoebe was caught back in the day by the Solar System's gravity. That scientist asshole speculated that it might have been intentionally sent by aliens but no one knows for sure yet

Yeah that's a spoiler

>>79121787


>How did Fred Johnson manage to intercept the message from Julie to Dawes, and what kept him from responding immediately if he deemed it so important

Dawes and Fred are kind of frenemies. They're both OPA, just not necessarily the same tribe of OPA at any given time. Some interlap sometimes happens

Dawes controls Dawes station, Johnson controls Tycho

>Now that I think about it, all the events of the season 1 might be taking place in a very short amount of time


They're not. It takes weeks to get anywhere, which is why sometimes it can take weeks until an individual of power can get some agency

>>79120966
Show only pleb, terrible run down.

>>79133320
>Anyway, why did Miller shoot that guy at the end? Seems uncharacteristically retarded of him.

Many reasons.

1) Getting payback for Julie Mao
2) Getting payback for Phobe
3) Taking this psychopath's machinations out of the table before he got his chance to get his grubby little fingers all over the politics of the belt and make a faustian deal

People like Amos, Miller, or Clarissa fulfill rolls of Darwin Award distributors in a world such as that of Expanse

>>79144918
Those nukes seem a little too powerful.

>>79143881
I believe the intention was to hard burn to Phoebe, dump off drop pods full of troops, and THEN turn around, decelerate, and come back for their people once the place had been turned inside-out and investigated/purged. When it became evident that Nathan Hale was going to beat Scirocco, the Martians blew the station up rather than allow the Earthers to drop troops and claim it for themselves because missiles outrun ships.

>>79121090
Don't forget the literal prostitution rings.


>tfw will probably get stationed on a ship unless I get P-8s or E-6, because every other aircraft in the Navy lands on a ship.

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>>79119122

>Has you in torture device.
>Whispers in your ear...
>You benis is mine, belter.

Wat do?

>>79146068
Not worry because my benis frequently doesn't work anyway because micro-gravity fucks erectile function in males.

>>79146068
>oh fug she wants my big belter benis

>>79120679
>It's the whole thing between the Martians and Earth(I guess?). The political scenes go way over my head.

Basically Mars and Earth are in a coldwar.

>So someone set loose an alien virus on Eros to trigger a war between Mars and Earth? And the reason for that is still a mystery, is that right?

Basically a corporation found an alien life form and are doing experiments with it. As far as we know nobody in Earth or Mars government know about it at all yet.

Is this the show where it has every dead character from larger shows?

I just saw the second episode

MILLER WENT BATSHIT INSANE AND KILLED THE SCIENTIST, WTF SENPAI
HOW HE CAN BE SO FUCKING STUPID

>>79146734
Some science fag kills your waifu like a lab rat, you'd shoot him in the head too.

>>79146068
Her voice is like a rasping cheese grater across my dick.

>>79146954
It's magnificent. It's soothing and menacing all at once, kind of like whiskey. She could talk me to orgasm in a way no one's done since Tony Jay was alive.

Is this a step above the usual SyFy show quality?

I've been hearing a lot of praise for it but I have to admit the network thats holding it on a pedestal has me a bit hesitant to try.

>>79147040

Yes. 2 steps

>>79146734
>killed Miller's waifu
>killed a fuckton of people on Eros and was about to get away with it
>wanted to kill even more people
Miller did nothing wrong.

>>79147917
He didn't do much right either.

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>>79145740
Even then you kind of need to rendezvous with the rock, dropping pods at a relative speed of several hundreds kilometers per second won't really help. in the show these pods don't have fusion drives, can't really decelerate and even if they did, you need enough time to do so
Let's say that they were burning at 3 g for 2 days, you would still need 12 hours at 12g to stop, or 4 hours at very unsurvivable 36g...
this is why autists don't enjoy things

>>79122621
It's an interesting idea you're putting forward, that this kind of horror works best when there's a human-centric worldview going on for it to undermine, but having your skin pulled off in the shit dimension is still a bit scary even though I'm a fedora

>>79133351
>Kek, I can't wait to see their reaction to the blacked lesbian orthodox priest.
Hahahahaha, I had forgotten about her. /pol/ will love her so much.

Oh man.


Honestly, the writers are a bit preachy about a few things but it's not racial/feminism...they're really just post-racial and (mostly) post-gender. Only Avasarala and a Bobby a little bit really get into gender stuff, the rest regard it as irrelevant (and so does everyone around them). But what they do preach about is same-sex relationships. They don't make a huge thing about it but there are quite a lot around.

>>79121378
>Event Horizon is fantasy garbage that simply got by on triggering Christians
I won free tickets to see Event Horizon and I wanted my 90minutes back.

>>79133440
>He kills him because the others were negotiating and accepting what happen to Eros. He wants it stopped, no Fred getting a weapon to use at the negotiation table with Earth and Mars
Or anyone else getting it either.

He was the technology lost because it leads to massacres and because murderers need to be punished.

Basically, he wants to stop operation paperclip before it can even begin because he knows that if he doesn't act, he knows that Dresden will cut a deal with Fred or other leader types because his whole thing is cutting deals like that and he has the money, influence and secret technology to do deals with any side, no matter how bad his crimes.

>>79133676
>She doesn't look all that fit to me yet she's supposed to have super-strength or whatever. She has baby fat. Not buying it at all.
Hahahaha

I mean, she's not book Bobbi because she's not 7' and covered in muscles but she's not fat and she'd destroy anyone in this thread in a fight. She's an MMA champion.

bobbie will be real different after next ep so don't dismiss her yet

>>79136285
>cringed
No, I cringed at the retarded /pol/tard being triggered by an accent and by a woman who isn't making sammichs.

Her husband is a university professor of poetry by the way, his response to all the shit going down is to write her love poems.

>>79138634
>Their accent is a corrupted texas accent for that reason.
Also because it sounds 'frontier'. It's literally them being try-hard.

Also a lot of Chinese on Mars too. Which makes sense, India and China both have huge populations that emigrate everywhere, often as part of first-wave colonialism (Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore...), seems pretty reasonable that they'd be large population segments on Mars.

>>79139383
>I think it's the perfect look for his character. He's a failed detective who has been drinking his life away.
It really is. I didn't quite grok his side-shaved hairstyle at first but his weathered face and generally shit appearance really sell the character.

>>79141123
>The women in this are terrible.
I like them, I've got no complaints about any of the women in this show, at least until Clarissa shows up. Man, she's a headcase but I guess she's written to be one.

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>>79146023
>carriers
>literal prostitution rings

Huh?
Enlisted whoring themselves on the boat? You couldn't smuggle on civilian whores could you?

>>79146389
>So someone set loose an alien virus on Eros to trigger a war between Mars and Earth
Other way around.

Someone faked a war (Canterbury & Donnager) in order to cause a real war so that nobody would look too closely when Eros went dark, and then was maybe destroyed to cover it up.

They literally wanted to cause Solar-System War I just to keep people busy while they killed an entire asteroid station full of people.

>>79146435
>Is this the show where it has every dead character from larger shows?
That's every sci-fi show. There are a whole lot of actors who basically only do 2nd tier roles on sci-fi shows, they keep popping up as girlfriend/officer/redshirt all over the place. Joss Whedon is responsible for quite a lot of them, though Stargate and BSG used a lot too.

>>79149876
>She's an MMA champion
Really? Huh.

>>79147031
>It's magnificent. It's soothing and menacing all at once, kind of like whiskey

It does a decent job of doing what her book version did with swearing. She tries to sound more macho than the men around her so that they won't notice that she's actually pretty soft (compared to the psychos she works with).

All the men at her level of politics are like 'a ship full of children is in the way of our strike? nuke 'em both' She's all 'zero civilian casualties'. But she has to find ways to make it sound like she's just being professional and shit.

In the book, she does it by swearing all the time, every sentence has a fuck in it, usually seven of them.

>>79148907
>He didn't do much right either.
That's everyone, humanity is a train-wreck in this show, nobody knows the full picture, they all have agendas and are just kind of clumsily thrashing around in the dark in the hope that good things will happen.

>they usually get worse

>>79150098
It is.

Not for free.

>>79137433
would make Hapa with

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Reminder that keeping good juice on your ship is really fucking important and is basically fucking long term foreshadowing,

You deserved better, Fred.

>>79150098
you can watch it on Syfy

>>79149542
>having your skin pulled off in the shit dimension is still a bit scary
But scaring you by pulling your skin off is still human-centric. Why would lovecraftian horrors care about scaring humans?

Do you torture ants to elicit reactions from other ants? You don't even know what kind of things ants react to.

Torturing humans is a distinctly human thing to do.

It's one reason why Event Horizon was garbage, it could have been set on earth in say, a school. And instead of a fancy hyperspace drive, just have used sex education. It would be the same story.

>people explore forbidden knowledge
>people dragged to hell
>demons use sinners to come into the world
>demons proceed to demon all over the place

Science is in no way essential to the story, except that it's basically yet another science=evil story where people who invent/use/trust science (instead of faith etc but this is often implied) are punished by hell/god/angels/heroes.

>>79149933
is it the space PTSD

>>79149876
>MMA Champion
Her wikipedia says she is an amateur boxer who participated in a charity boxing event once.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Adams

>>79150669
ye

also she goes to earth and finds they're not all that bad

>>79150681
Yeah, looks like you're right.
I'm sure I saw somewhere that she was an mma fighter but it might have been advertising hype or something.

>>79149979
I get it, we're both cringing at her.

>>79137433
Top cute

>>79141752
I was so glad that she and Holden fucked, without that the show would have been totally sterile

>>79142075
Yeah, that is a cool aspect. Martian pride worldwide. I also like how they needle the Earth born guy in the squad, but accept him really

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>>79148907
Miller = GOAT

>>79150951
No, you're the only thing that is cringe-worthy.

It's your fear of and disgust at female characters that is hilarious and frightening at the same time. You're one step away from /r9k/.

>>79150951
It wasn't funny the first time.

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Roci is just so adorably compact.

Are there even hypothetical engines that accelerate for literally weeks at a time?

>>79152706
>Are there even hypothetical engines that accelerate for literally weeks at a time?
Ion drivers accelerate forever. Well, as long as they have fuel but their fuel lasts a long, long time.

The catch is that it's a very, very gentle acceleration.

>>79152850
And now there are those EM drives that literally accelerate forever. They will probably get debunked eventually but until then we can dream.

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>>79146068
>You benis is mine, belter.
I read this as
>Your benis is good, mine is better

>>79153125
Futa on male is my fetish.

>>79153062
>They will probably get debunked eventually
The resonance chamber thing?
I think it's already been debunked by most standards, I don't believe the effects have been observed by any third-parties.

>>79153432
It works for the time being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqoo_4wSkdg

WHO'S GOING TO FEAST ON EARTH'S SKY AND DRINK THEIR RIVERS DRY?

>>79154218
MMC!

>>79119122
Why are belters such niggers?

Also Mars Fuck Yeah.

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>>79133676
>not fit
>no curves
>flat on both ends
>ugly face
>flabby arms

She's shit.

>>79157487
Supposedly she's an MMA fighter. Doesn't matter how she looks. She's fit.

>>79157667
She looks completely untrained and flabby. She's not fit.

>>79157681
see >>79157667

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>>79157715
Yeah and I'm a spaceman.

>>79157747
We don't want your blue goo. Take it back.

>>79157815
No, have some more.

It's actually a gay detector and it turns blue in the vicinity of FAGGOTS

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>>79157487
>no curves
Are you blind senpai, she's got curves for days, especially in the undersuit. She's my new Expanse ethnicfu

>>79159802
The only curves she has are in her fat face.

>>79137433
wtf i love mars now

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Laura Roslin is now president of the UN.

What happens next?

>>79161064
Cancer

>>79161064
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