Is anybody else watching The Expanse?

anyway i love all those buffoons regardless.

imo the implication so far (from only having watched the tv show) is that nobody knows what the fuck they're actually doing and are using the protomolecule, a completely new thing to humanity, in very human ways

except for the geniuses who were like "let's just turn it loose on a station and see what the fuck happens"

while an exceedingly poor idea, they at least had some experimental vision

:D

i sorta got the idea that it has a mind of its own but i guess that's just eros, once it got outta control. the beast thing pn the other hand was a result of a difft more focused program?

the implication was that it can do a hell of a lot when given free reign over organic matter, seems to have created some mega-lifeform with weird powers now

but yeah, the whole "maybe we can put it in people and make supersoldiers" thing is one scientific insight beyond "what happens if we put it in bullets"

that protomolecule beast would previously kill a roomful of people in 10 secs and take out whole squadrons of elite soldiers. In the finale it seemed a good job it didn't need to think about complicated things like breathing.

the whole plot angle of deciding that the belters need to "possess the protomolecule" had me turning into yakov smirnoff and yelling "no, the protomolecule HAS YOU"

yeah I'm thinking the protomolecule soldier in the field actually had some sort of control mechanism

that protomolecule beast would previously kill a roomful of people in 10 secs and take out whole squadrons of elite soldiers. In the finale it seemed a good job it didn't need to think about complicated things like breathing.

lol totally this. finale went from Doom to, like, Ico in two seconds flat

xpost ahhh that's what it ripped out i guess.

tbf, and this is ethically horrible, they did make the soldiers out of sick children

belter glossary

https://www.memrise.com/course/1102952/belter-creole/1/?platform=hootsuite

s2 still not arrived on netflix >:( >:( >:(

Memrise and the expanse is like a match made in heave for Mrs Ed

Gútegow bosmang!

s2 still not arrived on netflix >:( >:( >:(

S1 didn't appear until November last year so may be a while yet

this sucks i hate everything

;_;

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— Cara Gee (@CaraGeeeee) June 14, 2017

mark do i need to send a usb or something?

season two resolutely not appearing on netflix uk

;_;

that sucks

Reddit seems to think it's getting a worldwide Netflix release on July 7th

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/6d13sh/expanse_season_2_uk_release_date/

Nog even volhouden! Seizoen 2 van The Expanse is vanaf 7 juli te zien op Netflix.

— Netflix NL & BE (@NetflixNL) May 21, 2017

apparently david straithairn is joining D'EXPANSE!!

niiiice. more people should really have watched Alphas

aka the only superhero thing from the last decade I kinda liked

I tried to watch Alphas but it was too much like Misfits of Science and I am no longer 7

oooh strathairn :D :D yay

How's the prose in the books?

SEASON TWO IS HERE ON UK NETFLIX

Your life has been improved

I'll be dead and never even see season 3, by the mark s + UK Netflix catch-up on The Expanse seasons rate. No wonder the torrents still reign!

https://techraptor.net/content/the-expanse-review-choose-wisely

Just finished S2

I love this. So gloomy and dark and claustrophobic, alienates 'earth' wonderfully. I feel more at home in cramped space tunnels than on earth after watching. Anderson Dawes is wonderful. I was reading a website about how real space rockets work before I watched this and like all the realness they put in.

Was a bit let down by the monster. It was a bit too blue and glowing. I think I'd have preferred something pale, naked and hairy.

The bits of bad acting don't seem to matter in this, unlike in the nu BSG. I like Gunny, her violence and her weary confused offense at everything around her. I have a mate who looks and behaves exactly like Amos.

In terms of a family tree it seems to connect with a lot of British vibes, Dr Who obviously but also with like, Bottom, Maid Marion, and Red Dwarf and 2000AD. And also with a certain something called Rogue Trader which I'm not sure I should admit to knowing about or liking but whatevs.

But it is also its own, new kind of thing and feels as though it's incidentally ticking my boxes whilst being something new?

The hybrid is a letdown but I think the episodes with it remind you of what works in good old B horror, it's the human reactions to it are what make it frightening and effective. I haven't read the books but I suspect it's better in prose form, like most monsters.

I think I agree with your last two sentences. Part of me would like to see this show get knocked off 3 different ways, like a CSI or L&O.

ok finished my first watch-thru (and finally read the whole thread): going straight back in when this ep of celebrity masterchef is over

i no longer hate everything

lol you guys have known all this for so long and yet i had unspoilered even miller's end (by the useful magic of being ancient and forgetful)

the end... OR IS IT

envisaging the planet venus sporting a huge hat made of protomolecule tipped at an irritating angle

lol

these ppl are very wasteful with whole moons

slightly unexpectedly miller just reminded me of my mum: "i hate space" was a phrase she once used when i was watching a documentary abt the solar system, an anathema that stayed with me bcz it's such a big and distant and kind of routinely unobtrusive thing to hate

anyway miller just said "god i hate space" -- he has more obvious reason to

it was a great moment

i miss the ol' scenery chewer, i do

TIME TO PLAY SQUASH

AND THEN A RAVE

holden is so boring

Yeah I didn't like the squash or the rave

There's always something a bit hokey about depictions of 'nightlife' in TV shows (apart from the Wire) and doubly so in space TV shows

the young guy whose music miller hated shd have been a 24th century wire reader and chin-stroker

Yeah what we've seen of the Expanse clubbing scene is all a bit contemporary white American college student naive 'rave' style.

I reckon Belters would listen to music made on bits of metal detritus found lying around and used as percussion, or that copied the ambient sounds of space stations. Or would consist of fragments of earth music they find a significance in that we wouldn't, like music from classic adverts or windows startup sounds. I dunno. Probably some rapping too, seeing as the bit where Dawes was giving a speech to the different OPA factions was more or less a toasting session. Mind you the program gives us enough worldbuilding that this conversation isn't entirely ridic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWO5Ai_a80M

Real belter music is the reactor hum