Is anybody else watching The Expanse?

a sci-fi tv series without preposterousness is like trying to imagine germany without hitler sausages!

I think they get the preposterousness/gritty realness balance quite correct in this show

Made for a good cliffhanger so I’ll take the hokum.

if you're not a regular on the Roci are you even real

more on 5.07:

As hokey as the space jump itself was, I was glad it meant the end of Naomi on Marco's ship - I already felt like that story was threatening to run in circles. This was maybe the only episode of the season where it felt like a lot of the plots were just kind of proceeding apace rather than reaching some kind of important new juncture. That said, ice fucking cold ending for Brent Sexton's character. Also, I thought the little glimpses of younger Naomi and baby Filip were tastefully handled.

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-happens-to-the-unprotected-human-body-in-space/

Was going to say--Naomi's dive was unlikely but not preposterous, especially with whatever stimulanty thing was in the needle (can't remember what it was in the books). The main thing that bothered me was her touching the outside of the ship with bare skin because that metal would be close to -273 degrees C.

I don't even care for the fictional credulity ... that it was a powerfully dramatic (daft) moment that left me eagerly waiting for the next instalment is good enough for me.

yup

it was oxygenated blood, same thing they gave to....journalist lady

the first 30 minutes of this dragged, could have used some editing imo (i.e. Simon otm)

then it got good again

The whole family-reunion plotline mostly sucked IMO. I hate Marco, but not in the way the writers want me to.

haha so true

i didn't like it, but it could have been much worse imo

The whole family-reunion plotline mostly sucked IMO. I hate Marco, but not in the way the writers want me to.

I like him in actual command mode (like when he gave his big address to the system), but we definitely got too many scenes of him being petty and small - it kinda overshadowed the menace.

Just imagining him stamping his feet and yelling "regional theater IS real theater!"

looool

I just had the idea that if she punctured skin while not wearing a suit in space she might just wind up with things streaming out of the hole. But maybe that's not the way an injection works at that point in history.
JUst surely if there's no external pressure then surely everything will be rushing to get out.

BUt I guess it looked good and leaves a cliffhanger.

omg DJI lmaoooo

yeah it was getting stale, they’d had those Very Intense conversations about 5 times each

Filip’s heel turn took me by surprise - it seemed as though he’d genuinely reconnected w Naomi

the battle between the Roci and the drone was a+++++

So one thing I’m confused about - when that ship was destroyed, was the sample on the ship; or had somebody gotten it off at that point?

it is unclear, imo (I have not read the books)

i've seen it claimed that the ship fired off a bluish missile before blowing up

in any case, there's no way in hell the sample got destroyed that easily

Ya that would have been mighty anticlimactic

we don't know for sure but i don't think holden does either.. hence "fuck!"

millions of proto-bits flying with full inertia 360 degrees from the explosion would be pretty hard to track down

when someone fires fast movers missiles at you and you try to shoot them, how big do you think your bullets have to be?

just big enough to rip a hole in them i reckon.. did i mention already how awesome the fight was? the fight was awesome.

“want one of my old medals?”

I made a mini version of #TheExpanse Rocinante galley wall light plant lamp thing pic.twitter.com/j7u2bY4jS0

— Darren Schwindaman (@djschwin) January 17, 2021

excellent way to end this week’s episode. I was hoping they’d let that scenario play out

if this episode had been just the Naomi scenes it would have been a classic

unfortunately the rest was mostly very dull

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

non-naomi scenes dull? - drummer and her crew and tensions there? the UN Sec-Gen deliberations as to reactions to the strikes? pee breaks?

ok, holden scene and alex scene were not particularly exciting but still pushing story forward

Holden is absolutely the most boring character on this show. It's like biting into a Tootsie Pop and finding a ball of dry lint.

I don't know if the Amos actor can handle being a character who is more than a cipher.

Lots about saving the Roci in this episode which seems like much smaller stakes than in previous stories.

drummer and her crew and tensions there?

I hated this scene lol, the bit/supporting actors on this show are mostly very wooden and it's a consistent problem

I don't know if the Amos actor can handle being a character who is more than a cipher

Wes Chatham is totally delightful to me in this tbh

Holden is absolutely the most boring character on this show. It's like biting into a Tootsie Pop and finding a ball of dry lint.

Strait has gotten a little easier for me to take over the years (mostly thanks to crew/cast rapport) but yeah I can't imagine anyone watching for him.

feels like very little happened in this one

i am very much enjoying this season but i was very much not enjoying naomi on marco's ship, just very badly written and acted all around, marco in particular, yikes.

feel like the belt not being able to make its own air and water would be a huge thing everyone would have in mind at all times as a political issue re: independence, didn't any of these people watch total recall??

he’s certainly a step down from straithairn and jared harris.. i dunno, in a way it just makes him even more bad and hated for me so it sorta works

the endless urgently whispered threats to an imprisoned naomi do get v repetitive after awhile though. it’s one thing to see her helpless and want her to escape; it’s another for maybe your most iconic character to be stuck in jail for a whole season

i think my favourite bit of wtf writing was after naomi has already assaulted his head engineer with a wrench and they’ve essentially expressed their undying enmity towards each other, the writers needed a way for naomi to get to the airlock so inaros says “look i’m giving you the liberty of the ship.. but if you try anything, i’ll be watching you!!!” let naomi hack her way out of her cell or something at least sheesh

When you have high-speed interplanetary travel the belt and outer planet moon systems are full of water ice you can tow where it's needed and crack for oxygen. It's live soil and food that are the issues.

THat was Naomi's parents taht were with the belter army wasn't it? Mother now on the ship with the female captain and expressing surprise that Naomi might be alive at the end of the episode after having been the one to say that she was dead. NOt exactly expressing maternal feelings so is she mother or step mother?

Hmm no I don't think so. Do you mean the badass Black belter from Inaros' ship who's now on Drummer's as a result of a purported crew swap? I don't think she's related to Naomi - she just said that she used to know Naomi back in the day.

We found out that Drummer's eyeshadow is actual makeup and not tattooed on.

xxp - uh, those women are not related, in fact I am pretty sure that woman is/was a romantic rival

the way she suggested to Marco in a previous episode that if he wanted Naomi spaced, rather than have Phillip do it, she would do a better job of it

hard to argue with tbf

she's just not very maternal innit

alas all this "naomi in peril" stuff should have been greatly condensed

The "Marco and Philip hug and cry" scene in this week's episode could definitely have been cut. Glad to see the Amos-visits-Earth plot resolve in a somewhat interesting way, though.

unfortunately the writing for Clarissa is hopelessly inconsistent