The Expanse digital premiere is available NOW!
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Awesome. Bobbie and Avasarala are my favourite characters. I've been waiting very impatiently to see who they cast.
http://www.tor.com/2016/07/23/the-e...-for-season-two-at-san0-diego-comic-con-2016/
The Expanse panel was moderated by Adam Savage (who particularly praised the show’s use of SCIENCE! saying, “The awesome twist is that it’s hard science fiction. The science they’re showing you is correct!”), and featured cast members Thomas Jane (Miller), Steven Strait (Holden), Dominique Tipper (Naomi), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Chrisjen Avasarala), Wes Chatham (Amos) Cas Anvar (Alex), and in addition to premiering the Season Two teaser, featured a lively talk about the show’s science and diversity. We’ve rounded up a few highlights below – beware of spoilers for season one!
The Expanse panel was moderated by Adam Savage (who particularly praised the show’s use of SCIENCE! saying, “The awesome twist is that it’s hard science fiction. The science they’re showing you is correct!”), and featured cast members Thomas Jane (Miller), Steven Strait (Holden), Dominique Tipper (Naomi), Shohreh Aghdashloo (Chrisjen Avasarala), Wes Chatham (Amos) Cas Anvar (Alex), and in addition to premiering the Season Two teaser, featured a lively talk about the show’s science and diversity. We’ve rounded up a few highlights below – beware of spoilers for season one!
Well, it seems Bobbi Draper is appearing sooner than expected, like Chrissie did of course.
Maybe they combine the second book with the first book, since the juicy stuff happens much later, with Medina and Illus and such, as they probably will not get 10 seasons nowadays, there is not enough crap for that.
Maybe they combine the second book with the first book, since the juicy stuff happens much later, with Medina and Illus and such, as they probably will not get 10 seasons nowadays, there is not enough crap for that.
Seems to me like they're doing their own thing this season and not being as joined to the hips to the novels as the first season was. In particular, in the trailer we see Earth being attacked, which I don't recall happening in the first or second novel. I approve.
I noticed the season is premiering pretty much a year exactly after season 1 ended. Probably for the best, IMO January just wasn't that good a month to air it.
I noticed the season is premiering pretty much a year exactly after season 1 ended. Probably for the best, IMO January just wasn't that good a month to air it.
Earth is being attacked in the fifth novel, and The Expanse novels haven't really stated at what time they are situated in (more than 200 years it seems).
Well, if they combine the best parts of all the novels and can still tell a coherent and good story, good for them, as some parts of the novels really dragged, though I am still anticipating the sixth one.
And I recently did a rewatch of the first season and was still astounded by its production design, for a SyFy series.
Well, good night and good luck.
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Finished all of the first season today. Yeah, it was good. But it wasn't great. It wasn't as good as everyone hyped it too be.
Part of it may have been the slower pacing. The other may be that it's so far into the future it didn't seem as hard of scifi as I was expecting. Also it didn't seem spacy enough. Sure they had all the spacesuits and stuff, but everywhere they went they might as well have been on earth. Is just didn't look all that spacey.
It didn't seem to merit all the hype.
Part of it may have been the slower pacing. The other may be that it's so far into the future it didn't seem as hard of scifi as I was expecting. Also it didn't seem spacy enough. Sure they had all the spacesuits and stuff, but everywhere they went they might as well have been on earth. Is just didn't look all that spacey.
It didn't seem to merit all the hype.
^I disagree -- I think it's the best SF show since Babylon 5. So what if everyone isn't wearing colourful spandex, life in space is somewhat grubby, and human behaviour hasn't evolved along the perfect people track. I'm not sure what you mean by spacey -- forehead aliens of the week, FTL, magical nanotech, beam weapons, force-field shielding? --
. The science is generally pretty solid, which makes a welcome change.
some of that might be yet to come
A new video, but with stupid audio peaks. Since it is the official SyFy channel, I suppose that is the new production standard.
Well, the big stuff at least, I guess. Seem to remember them not doing so well at radiation poisoning. It's not like deactivating a bomb 5 seconds before it explodes. When you stop getting irradiated 5 minutes before lethal exposure, it's not the same as no exposure, curable. Just means you got really badly cooked, but aren't dead yet. You'd probably end up wanting that last 5 minutes of exposure rather than getting away...
I get the point he was going for, just thought it was a dumb plot point towards the end. But magic anti-radiation meds fixed it! When you're minutes from full lethal exposure, you're losing motor function, and things are bleeding everywhere, think permanent damage was already done, just not lethal yet...
I assume they must have access to "magic" nanotech meds that can repair damage below the cellular level. However, with that level of tech, you could easily revivify the dead and no-one would die of natural causes, except perhaps the poor or the disinclined.
That would be SOMETHING, but like I said, by the time you're falling down and bleeding from every orifice, permanent damage is done. Anti-rad meds may help, but can't imagine much. More helpful BEFORE the exposure, to try and limit absorption.
Sure, magic sci-fi pills, just doesn't go towards the Science! argument much. Common fiction trope, so no biggie though. Anything short of completely dead is solvable with 15 minutes of bedrest and an aspirin. In reality, just short of fatal radiation exposure probably looks more like what happened to Captain Pike than Captain Kirk.
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