The Expanse

Emmys have always ignored good acting in Sci-Fi, but David Strathaim deserves some hardware. Insanely good performance. Amazon will bring back Jared Harris and when those two meet and converse my brain will melt.

Still have one more ep to go. Being on babysitting duty this Summer has killed my tv and gaming.

Jorren said:

With Bezos backing it, I am not too worried about the FX unless they try to throw too many people at it. As long as they let them keep doing what they have been doing, it is gonna be alright/amazing.

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There's some buzz that the first passenger module on Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket will be named the Rocinante.

someone figured out what the pic i posted above means, its a cat pirate in space!

spronk said:

someone figured out what the pic i posted above means, its a cat pirate in space!

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Can't let you do that Starfox!

That was an awesome finale. I can see how they definitely tweaked the ending to let it finish off the series if that what was going to be it, but I'm so glad Amazon took it up. I'm a big fan of the books too and really think this show is largely doing them justice. I'm hyped as hell for next season.

"Ok, I`ll need my gun back" had me in tears, when they arrested Naomi. Amos no fuck mode is so goddamn funny.

Awesome finale. But I find it confusing why suddenly powering down everyone's reactors would cause the station to go, "OH my bad, thought you were assholes. Here, let me open up a bunch of Stargates for y'all". It almost seemed like it was a test for humanity and not simply some lost planetary-system killing war machine. Or maybe I missed something somewhere...?

Yeah I took it as a test as well, basically prove your worth as a species or be eliminated. Everyone always goes to the kill it with fire solution for things we don't understand so it made sense to test if they could do something differently.

My take is Miller and the aliens need our corporeal’ness for lack of a better word.

They can still be brought back (the aliens) but they’ll need to manipulate us into doing it the same way we reconnected the network. Farscape touched on this with “Einstein” but never continued the Arc. If you were dead and had a hologram but only a group of talking monkeys it’s not like you’re going to ever be partners or friends if you can convince them to hit the red button and bring you back. And even if they did, you’re still left with a talking monkey. Doesn’t make it more evolved overnight.

It’s a great basis for the next phase of the series.

I think Miller also basically said while the station was in "high alert" mode, he couldn't do as much as he wanted to. Once the threats in the region were gone, the station moved down a Defcon level and Miller was able to "do more".

He said something similar in a previous episode, when he needed Holden to touch the bridge to activate a bunch of stuff in the station, that proto-Miller by himself wasn't "organic enough".

The idea being that the original builders of the protomolecule and everything else placed organic life at a higher tier than their tools, similar to how we see computers and stuff.

Man its a real bummer now we got a year to wait for this and Westworld, and also fascinating how I have zero interest in talking about or thinking about Westworld but you could spend hours talking about whats going on in the finale of Expanse.

I had no idea this show existed until reading about it here a few days ago. I'm on episode 9 of S1 and HOLY SHIT this show is great.

Grabbit Allworth said:

I had no idea this show existed until reading about it here a few days ago. I'm on episode 9 of S1 and HOLY SHIT this show is great.

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And the most amazing part about this show is that each season is somehow BETTER than the one preceding it. It went from 76% - 95% - 100% (seasons) on RT for example. That said, even season 1 is still fantastic.