Expanse thread #4

Best Character Edition

Previous thread: Ep3 promo:
youtube.com/watch?v=7TDIpvzTG7o

Ep3 sneak peak (Amos and Millar bonding):
youtube.com/watch?v=uwgrsXeZxMM

Adam Savage nerds out over the show:
youtube.com/watch?v=p8vR2FB1PGM
youtube.com/watch?v=-fJoWSOYn6U
youtube.com/watch?v=QXwe51lkJ6M

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=XLOzh1gL4xM
youtube.com/watch?v=D2F4eHTIdhc
youtube.com/watch?v=Ivej0OW7WZk
youtube.com/watch?v=krqqqgixNq8
reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

That bitch is like a walking Coup deck.

cheese

Did Miller make that story up?

Just started s02e01 and although obvious what was going on it was no less badass.

Yeah, in the books Miller used to be in a prominent improv group.

Nice promo

Agua?

More links.

SDCC 2016 full panel - cast and producers:
youtube.com/watch?v=XLOzh1gL4xM

NYCC 2016 full panel - partial cast and writers:
youtube.com/watch?v=D2F4eHTIdhc

Season One recap (with cats):
youtube.com/watch?v=Ivej0OW7WZk

Season Two title sequence:
youtube.com/watch?v=krqqqgixNq8

The Expanse SubPlebbit: reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/
High volume sub despite the 16K pop. Linked because the writers, Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, plus some of the show's tech/FX people, are posting there often.

Is that just a regular destroyer on the top left, because that looks way bigger than it's supposed to me

Can someone explain the overall plot of this show? I get who the main characters are and Fred Johnson, they talk about him enough.

It's the whole thing between the Martians and Earth(I guess?). The political scenes go way over my head.

So someone set loose an alien virus on Eros to trigger a war between Mars and Earth? And the reason for that is still a mystery, is that right?

I'm lost about 50% of the time, but I still like the show.

Looks like the USN's current Arleigh-Burke class of guided missile destroyer - which are 155m.

Your jaw has to bee somewhat square to serve on one according to The Last Ship.

Modern destroyers are large man.

Here's a recap:

Some weird alien substance is discovered on Phoebe station (which is at least partly owned by Earth corporations but I don't know if Mars has any rights on it) which fucks people up and has the potential to be used as a bio-weapon. Some corporate asshole (Julie's dad from Lost) learns about it and wants to keep the substance for himself to experience upon. So he torches all the bodies and evidence on the station.

Martians learn that the station is now abandoned (how? no clue) and send their battleship Donnager to investigate. Shortly after Donnager completes the investigation and begins their return to Mars, they get this SOS from Holden and co. trying to survive in that emergency shuttle. You know how that ends.

Julie's dad has also some inside people in the UN pulling strings for him, the Indian lady later becomes aware that something is going on under the table but she doesn't yet know exactly what. He'd rather start a war between Earth and Mars to led people away from his experiments with the alien substance

Fred is just an asshole who for some reason waited months before responding to Julie's emergency message. His official reasoning was that he needed a gunship before he could do anything hence cooperating with Holden and his new Martian frigate but that's doesn't make any fucking sense to me

Dawes is another asshole who'd rather sweep this whole Scopuli business under the rug because it failed massively and would cost him politically and acts like none of it happened

How the alien thing ended up in the Solar System is not known. It's explained that Phoebe was caught back in the day by the Solar System's gravity. That scientist asshole speculated that it might have been intentionally sent by aliens but no one knows for sure yet

As you can see there's some bits that are left unanswered for me too, I blame the screenwriter

thanks user

I need to rewatch season 1, I don't remember shit.

My brother was stationed on an aircraft carrier once, he said it was literally like a giant floating city. Barbershops, restaurants, laundromats, gyms, bookshops, literally dozens of different little stores to buy any sundries you need.
On paper it sounds like a great place to live, though he said the worst part about it were the bathrooms.
Out of all the money he saw government had spend on everything, I guess the toilet paper was still one ply, and they were all chemical based, so it was like a portapotty, except it got used by hundreds of people a day.
I'd still like to visit one someday.

The Nevada was considered a dreadnought back in its day (just before WW1) - a class of ship which basically was a cruiser-sized floating tub of armour and guns.

The Zumwalt appears to be some kind of experiment for electrical engineers to test their skills on - they keep losing power and having to be towed to the nearest ports.

>which are 155m.

Shieeet

... and wrong pic (though somewhat related).

>Ep3 promo

I really hope this show takes a turn into Event Horizon territory because that would be awesome

Event Horizon is fantasy garbage that simply got by on triggering Christians.

While I'm at it, here a few things I'd like to know the answers about if anyone can - potential spoilers ahead

How the hell Earth does not know that something took place on Phoebe? Why wouldn't they confirm it with whoever owns the station back on Earth? And how does Mars know that something happened in Phoebe anyway

Out of all those new high tech ships out there, was it only Anubis which recovered the samples?

How did Fred Johnson manage to intercept the message from Julie to Dawes, and what kept him from responding immediately if he deemed it so important

Now that I think about it, all the events of the season 1 might be taking place in a very short amount of time - Fred might have just gotten the message from Julie before he contacted the Cant-Donnager survivors with the Martian gunship. Show gives the impression that there are weeks behind all the stuff happenning though. I guess someone will now call me a stupid retard and explain that it was part of the twist at the end of season 1

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>How the hell Earth does not know that something took place on Phoebe? Why wouldn't they confirm it with whoever owns the station back on Earth? And how does Mars know that something happened in Phoebe anyway
Phoebe station technically belongs to Mars, with Protogen (the company investigating the Protomolecule) hiring it out. Protogen finds the protomolecule, tests it on Phoebe's general population, and then burns the facility whilst taking the protomolecule with them. The Donnager is dispatched to investigate why the station went dark and finds that someone destroyed it
>Out of all those new high tech ships out there, was it only Anubis which recovered the samples?
Yes

Oh shit that makes sense. Thanks

Why would you ever want for a show to take a turn into trash?

Fuck you Event Horizon is awesome

Maybe if you are a Christian and want to mix science fiction with Sunday school.

Otherwise the Hell thing is stupid.

t. fedora tipping autist

Just replace hell with cthulhu dimension or something if it triggers you this much

Cthulhu is stupid too. Why would you think that's better? Get out of your box, user.

Yo mama is stupid

I mean, Cthulhu shit is only powerful because of an imagined importance humanity has, propped up by Christianity and other religions. If you don't think the universe was literally made for you then simply acknowledging the fact that you are insignificant isn't all that horrifying.

Just saying.

>Event Horizon

Sure, lets take a fairly hard sci fi and turn it into a complete fanatsy shit. Great idea user!

Some cosmic horrors would only spice up that fairly hard sci-fi unless all you want is Sandra Bullocks breathing loudly through the entire thing

You obviously dislike The Expanse so you should probably leave.

I like you user.

I wonder what the preferred spelling is?

>Some cosmic horrors would only spice up that fairly hard sci-fi
Debateable. Could just as easily over spice, and end up with a designated shit show.

>unless all you want is Sandra Bullocks breathing loudly through the entire thing
Uh, no? Not that I have anything against Gravity, but Expanse isn't that, it is legit sci fi that takes place in our solar system. Gravity was named well, because it was about gravity, in particular, Earths gravitation field. It did a good job in that respect. Annoying that they had to tie the whole thing to feminism/reproduction though. The whole loner/cold vs family/warmth shit.

I can't remember. Did they ever show that kid being found out there in space? Wasn't he just left floating?

Just dropping in to say the books are EXCELLENT and worth the read.

Can you tell me how a mystery substance turning people it touches into crystal meth is "fairly hard sci-fi"?

Besides, you'll be disappointed because I'm fairly certain I glimpsed a zombie in the new promo

A pizza can be made horribly wrong too, but still we all agree that pizza is a delicious meal

Gravity was a boring snoozefest of a movie

Fuck, my subtitles had "tawakwa" or something. Now it makes sense

>Can you tell me how a mystery substance turning people it touches into crystal meth is "fairly hard sci-fi"?
So then I guess your desire for monsters is sated and you can shut up.

Just saying, it would be better left off as "cosmic unexplainable horror which fucks everyone up" than "durr alien nanotechnology let's use it to gain political power without a second thought"

Why is there sneak peeks to episode 3? Can I watch episode 2 already?

Yeah you can, so go ahead and catch up before I spoiler the ending grandpa

Love her voice.

She's also a sharp dresser desu.

Is she a poo in loo? She looks somewhat Med to me but Im not sure

I hate Amos and the actor playing him. Same facial expression all the time, literally a overgrown beta baby whos bossed around by the SJW haircut british woman who he obviously is in love with.

That's only the beginning if you read the books. The whole thing will be not around it.

she's 200% indian

Does anyone else find the Martian marine girl's accent extremely abrasive on the ears? The space Kiwi makes me want to mute her scenes.

But that's literally who he's supposed to be, right?

That's OK by me, I'm all down for watching a plot-oriented drama in a cozy sci-fi setting unlike what the retard above tries to imply. But if the plot is going to revolve around some unnatural substance I would rather have it be what I said in is all

Space diversity is real

ganymede git hype

if this really is next ep then they are majorly compressing/fucking with the timelines

mars is a odd composition of nationalities. the belt is i guess the irish, gypsy, slavic basically all the poor of europe making an american style hillbilly culture

mars is chinese, new zealand, morrocco? nigeria? maybe canada for their weird looking hard white guys

>bobbie has the same armor as everyone else

RRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

thanks, I feel like less of a sperg now

UN probably is dominated by US and her NATO allies, but whatever happened to Russia and China? If that Chinese commander on Donnager and the Martian obsession with the color red is an indicator of a China dominated Mars (still leaves the question of why the fuck are they all speaking English), where does that put Russia

I wonder where it will end

With a formation of the gates or will they push it to season 3 finale

In the books - Russia is Earth/UN based. at least some of the characters were

you just can't get your unneeded eternal general die

you just can't let your unneeded eternal general die

His uncle obviously thought he had more than a shitty chance, otherwise why throw him out of the airlock?

She's Iranian.

>but whatever happened to Russia and China?
You really think entire nations emigrate to Mars?

This is the best show currently airing. I wasn't expecting it

I guess she won't be in season 3 then, lol.

There's only one way to deal with all this Belter scum.

Hate that woman

Do you realize that the latter sounds much better and all you did was add "hur dur" to it to make it sound worse than it is?

Is it because she's a powerful woman?

She really looks like an old used porn star.

If this show had good actors it would be amazing.

>dude cheese lmao
I liked that scene.

Rocinante is smol

>I wonder what the preferred spelling is?
t'che Aqk'wa

>The armor doesn't really make them any larger than they already are.
>Bobbie's armor isn't faded red.
>There's no discernable differences between her armor and the other suits.
>We're supposed to believe that this nearly form-fitting suit weighs nearly a ton at 1 g.

From the way they described it in the books, it sounded more like Fallout 4 powered armor, but massively more agile.

Yeah, perhaps but who cares?

WE WAS MARSS EFFECT

What's that triangle ship from?

I think it's hot desu

It has several good actors.

I like that. Boob-shaped armour pisses me off.

Mars = Austrlians
Belt = Seth Efrecans

He means that in the book her armor is a generation older than other suits. There were never any specific physical differences mentioned but it would have been nice for it to be distinguished from the other suits in some way.

They should stop focusing on interstellar political gibber jabber, it's annoying as fuck.
That old pepe looking bitch is ANNOYING as FUCK!

>interstellar
The Nauvoo isn't built yet

Oh, I see. If I'd read the books that would probably trigger me, too

Yeah, like Thomas Jane ... erm ....

>There were never any specific physical differences mentioned but it would have been nice for it to be distinguished from the other suits in some way.

wasn't that why she was doing maintenance?

Also all of the suits used on mars are meant to be painted in a washed out red camo to make them blend in better with the terrain. In a later book it's mentioned that she keeps the red camo even when transferred to a different planet where other powered armor is camouflaged in a different color. Meanwhile in the show it's already black and grey with only a few red accents.

>can't even be bothered to look at the OP

Her voice sounds really familiar. Did she do any vidya voice work?

I was talking more about physical appearance, yeah it's described as needing more maintenance and having older firmware, but they never talk about if it's got any structural differences to the newer models.

Oh that sultry voice. First noticed her when she was a mature terroristfu in 24.

Tali's mom.

An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is the workhorse warship of the American navy, and while being called a destroyer it displaces about as much as a WW2 heavy cruiser.

terrorist's mom in 24

Fuck off, we're not belters.

>tfw she will never be your mom and murlur soothing insanity to your ear while she's gently stroking your dick

Yeah they have a few yidya voice actors on the show, the spy from season one is the voice of Adam Jensen

>I wonder what the preferred spelling is?
I'm pretty sure it's teo aqua.
Spanish.

>Adam Jensen
Speaking of sex in voice form.