Is anybody else watching The Expanse?

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Glad Cara Gee has risen to the stature of UN secretary/Roci crew/authors/showrunner with Drummer.

Though honestly I wasn't sure it wasn't Nadine Nicole (Clarissa) before looking closely. The racoon makeup is iconic.

BRING BACK JARED HARRIS.

yes!

He left S3 for AMC's The Terror (highly recommended). He'll be back.

Must watch The Terror. I really enjoyed the novel.

it’s v good

I hope we get more Jared Harris in The Crown tbh.

TS: Richard or Jared.

Up to Season 3 on the rewatch. So good.

Was wondering as this was now Amazon, we're going to get all of Season 4 in one go, yes?

Think their only weekly releases are their exclusives of shows that are on weekly on US TV.

Honestly, I'd prefer if Amazon and other streaming services presented their serialized/episodic series on a one episode per week schedule, if only to preserve the "social event" nature of broadcast TV.

I don't think any streaming series has sparked the amount of water cooler talk that everyone in the fanbase, awaiting the next installment, can. There's a degree of anticipation that comes with serialized output, that's ill served when its squeezed out at once, just a miniseries/movie, too long for one sitting. The internet's going to be ablaze for a week wondering how (for example) Jon Snow gets out of a cliffhanger, and that's a good thing for the show, the broadcaster, and the viewership.

If the Amazon et al tried this, those who wished to binge could of course do so, 10-14 weeks later, but will have to avoid spoilers online. Those who want to watch with their friends anywhere on the planet, as a common focus to pleasant conversation, and without so much concern about seeing spoilers, can follow episode by episode on the day of release.

Yeah, I'd much rather a weekly release.

I haven't got the time to binge 10 or 13 episodes over one weekend but there are plenty of people who will and then spoilers will be out there.

Fun thread:

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— Cas Anvar (@Casanvar) May 7, 2019

(Non-book spoilers FYI)

Finally caught up with this, really liked the Ring plotline, the disaster recovery episode was amazing and totally sold me on how much space sucks. My only complaint is that a lot of the character arcs and dialogue in the finale seemed off. Ashford in particular, I get that they were trying to make him a noble antagonist but but it really seemed to come out of nowhere. And Melba, whose storyline has always seemed kinda dumb tbh, asking a stranger if one good deed will make up for a lifetime of bad choices was just awful writing and totally unnecessary.

Can’t wait for the new season though!

I dunno he seemed pretty noble from the beginning? To the point where his antagonism could have been construed as purely a consequence of Drummer's POV

At times I've wondered whether Ashford's character was a rewritten Anderson Dawes once they realised Jared Harris had other commitments

I probably phrased that badly - it’s not the nobility I object to, it’s that his decisions in the finale are really hard to buy, and it comes off like the writers are using his nobility to justify his bizarre behavior because they need an antagonist to make the episode work.

I recently had a meeting with a potential client for work and the dude eerily reminded me of Amos. Similar voice and brusque, humorless manner, even looked a bit like him. It was a bit unsettling. As you can probably guess the gig didn’t pan out.

i like how the dead don't fall bcz magnetic boots

belatedly this is s3e10

wanna watch this again!

you're allowed i think!

dr annushka "anna" volovodov is a very annoying character tbh

Need to watch s3 again.

more relevantly maybe, a fvck of a lot of old-school quasi-hardcore hard-science nuts-and-bolts rocketships type 50s/60s SF -- the stuff that wasn't stars wars and wasn't the ballardian new wave -- was about how the science-which-we-didn't-understand was actually opening portals to magickal elvish realms

(i'm thinking colin kapp's "lambda-1" or donald malcolm's “beyond the reach of storms” and the like, maybe lewis padgett's "mimsy were the borogoves" -- which is abt fourth-dimensional logic rather than rockets)

so anyway

― mark s, Thursday, September 21, 2017 8:05 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it all got quite beyond the reach of storms, didn't it??

i remember anna being a) annoying as fuck b) interesting because she thinks she's the hero when actually she's kind of a baddie (though i do need to watch it again because i can't remember precisely why i think that)

ok now i have to rewatch all 3 series despite more miller than i bargained for plus also his horrible hat

Trying to deconflict my book and series memories but she is a godfathering busybody. IIRC in the book her internal monologue is a lot more conflicted although IIRC her role in the book is very different so....

They posted this yesterday. The coordinates are for the San Diego Convention Centre so assume there'll be a release date announcement at comic con in a couple of weeks

Coordinates set. Prepare for flip and burn. pic.twitter.com/ruPiwmLlRX

— The Expanse (@ExpanseOnPrime) June 25, 2019

rewatching from s1e1: miller gets his stupid hat lampshade hung at just 7 mins in

first holden sex-butt shot is a p much hard cut from some guy's arm being squished off ("stand by for thrust correction"

I thought it was pretty funny that there was zero-g boning in the first 10 minutes of the show and then no one so much as kisses for the rest of the season.

that's they mean by "stand by for thrust correction"

lol it's mike from breaking bad in a micro-role

head-knocked-off scene still good

a neat little thing is when a belter on ganymede sprays a "remember the cant" graffiti (with a pic of holden beside it) and the spraycan does the entire correct slogan and image in one preprogrammed sweep

(i mean, i assume CAD spray-beds exist that can do this now but this was just a little just-shaken hand-held)

At times I've wondered whether Ashford's character was a rewritten Anderson Dawes once they realised Jared Harris had other commitments

there was an Ashford character in the book, though he was a bit different ... and Drummer basically stands in for two different characters ... so, i don't think so, but on the other hand, maybe the writers' idea was to substitute Dawes for the book captain?

don't think i grasped before (ftb sleepy inattention) that the anderson station story is a flashback and an origin story

i love protomolecule glitch Miller

more hot takes from mark s: alex is good from start to finish

i kind of like holden more also

(also he's definitely got younger since i first watched)

rewatching from s2e1: enter bobbie draper

Bobbie is probably my favorite character on the whole show

holden (the second worst character after miller): "alex? make us look like something that got dropped"
alex (the second best* character after bobbie): "you got it hoss"

*i will not be taking questions at this time

My initial reaction to Alex was “come on” but over time he grew on me to reach the top tier (along with Drummer)

drivers and drummers

ok I may take this show from the top again. It's really so very good.

squash klaxon

"not dead! [exultant pause] becoming!!"

does the "becoming" trope come from red dragon? like when weirdos are excitedly explaining why they do horrific stuff? "it's not me, i'm becoming"

"i've heard that shit in bars, i thought it was just bad music"

(insert amos in cafe oto gag here_