Has anyone read articles on the actors and their accents - whether the create them personally or whether there's input from the producers?
The Expanse Season 3
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Has anyone read articles on the actors and their accents - whether the create them personally or whether there's input from the producers?
I generally okay with profanity. But episode 2 seemed to enjoy the word fuck a bit too much.
Nah that's the norm for Crijen. She's one potty mouth U.N offical - more so in the books.
But everyone was saying fuck this week! In every other scene almost.
I have to admit I didn't really notice it from anyone else.
After The Magicians I have to admit I hadn't even noticed it on The Expanse so I'm assuming the language must've seemed pretty natural.
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Really? I didn't hear it once in the version airing on Syfy. There was even a point where Avasarala said "Forget your" something-or-other to Bobbi in a way that was obviously a euphemism, and I even wondered if they'd looped the dialogue for a censored version. Sounds like they did. But then, why would Syfy let The Magicians go through uncensored yet not this? It's in the same time slot on the same night.
SyFy's version of the episodes are censored (and, at least last year, were a teeny bit cut for time, always using the short title rather than the full opening credits sequence and trimming out a scene from the premiere, IIRC). The on-line and, I believe, Canadian versions of the show are uncensored and uncut. Season two had a bit of weirdness where the on-line services initially used the SyFy cuts (at least, partially. I think the swearing was intact, but they used the short title), but about halfway through switched to the long version (including for the already-released episodes).
In that specific scene, Avasarala did, in fact, tell Bobbi to "Fuck her sorries," but I really wish she'd told her to stuff her sorries in a sack. I guess the "big girls don't cry" line primed me to expect pop-culture anachronisms this week.
There was definitely a lot more in this episode than there'd been to date. I'd read something about them loosening the language restrictions for this season, but it felt like a lot to jump from one or two f-bombs an episode since the beginning of season two, to this episode, which I think had six or eight. And from everybody, not just the characters in the Earth plots. It felt weird that the Roci crew were suddenly letting it rip.
I didn't mind this episode, but it showed one of the downsides of modern heavy serialization. Relatively little actually happened, it was all setup for the big reveal which is going to happen mid season as the series moves from Caliban's War to Abbadon's Gate. It probably would have been more suspenseful if I hadn't read the books and didn't know which characters are integral to the plot and very unlikely to be killed off in any given encounter.
That's kind of odd after Blood Drive, The Magicians and Happy that Syfy is going in that direction with language in The Expanse.
I thought the forget you line seemed a bit odd.
That set ip for the inside of the racing ship was pretty cool, with the big spinning rings.
The relationship that is developing between Avaserala and Bobbi is a lot of fun.
I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Mitchell going back to Lost, so I liked her addition to the cast here.
It'll be interesting to see Avaserala and Bobbi on the no-longer-Roci.
That set ip for the inside of the racing ship was pretty cool, with the big spinning rings.
The relationship that is developing between Avaserala and Bobbi is a lot of fun.
I'm a big fan of Elizabeth Mitchell going back to Lost, so I liked her addition to the cast here.
It'll be interesting to see Avaserala and Bobbi on the no-longer-Roci.
I think we have to. His role is comparably minor in Abbadon's Gate, but he's integral to Cibola Burn. If they don't introduce him, the Ilus plots would make little sense.
Not to mention they've already foreshadowed this with showing the protomolocule onboard. Why do that otherwise?
I'm guessing he will show up in the last scene of the 4th episode. Too much of Caliban's War is left to be wrapped up by the end of episode 3.
Not to mention they've already foreshadowed this with showing the protomolocule onboard. Why do that otherwise?
I'm guessing he will show up in the last scene of the 4th episode. Too much of Caliban's War is left to be wrapped up by the end of episode 3.
We did see in the premiere there's still a bit of protomolecule on the Rocinante the crew missed on their clean-up, which in the novels is where Ghost Miller originated. So it would seem the set-up is there, at least.
Been a while since I read the books but never really pick up on the
protomolocule
Miller's ghost
But I was expecting it to be cause of the locker coming open rather than Meng not quite shutting it properly.
Speaking of reading the books, for some reason I can't remember the character of Erinright in the books. Bad memory is or he an amalgam of characters like Drummer?
I seem to remember Errinwright being Avasarala's boss in the novels. (it's been a little while since I've read any but the latest though)
In Cibola Burn, Holden asks Miller's ghost how he was able to manifest on the ship. Miller tells them about a hidden bit of protomolocule in the storage bay that the "hybrid" left behind, which they then find and destroy. It's no longer needed at that time, because Miller "downloaded" into the Ilus system.
He is in Book 2, but his role isn't really as large as it is in the show. He's more a presence than a character, he gets talked about and referenced more often than he's actually featured.
I'd kind of prefer that, since he's one of my least favorite characters on the show.
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