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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:I'm still upset Lopez died Man, me too. That guy was only around for a couple of episodes but somehow left a lasting impression. I also feel a little bad for calling Elias Toufexis 'Adam Jensen' but the guy literally sounds like that IRL and was augmented in show. It's like fate was calling him to the role.
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Reviewer at AV Club (describing hotel fight scene) states that Amos didnt know what was about to happen. 
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Jan 28, 2016 14:45
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Hahaha way to notice stuff.
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Jan 28, 2016 14:52
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ShaqDiesel posted:Reviewer at AV Club (describing hotel fight scene) states that Amos didnt know what was about to happen. C'mon. I think AVClub is busy smelling its own farts these days, but that's a pretty disingenuous take on this. quote:As Holden waits in line to talk to a desk clerk, Amos and Kenzo watch suspicious strangers filtering into the room. Kenzo knows what’s coming; Amos doesn’t, but clearly suspects something is up.
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Jan 28, 2016 14:57
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flosofl posted:C'mon. I think AVClub is busy smelling its own farts these days, but that's a pretty disingenuous take on this. Maybe he doesn't know exactly what's going down but then neither would Kenzo. Both they know it's trouble and Amos especially ) gear up for trouble. You're right though I didn't read it after "Amos doesn't ". 
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Jan 28, 2016 15:02
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ShaqDiesel posted:Reviewer at AV Club (describing hotel fight scene) states that Amos didnt know what was about to happen. He was looking at those fly honeys, getting a lil hot and needed to open his jacket. Legit reading of the scene I think.
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ShaqDiesel posted:Maybe he doesn't know exactly what's going down but then neither would Kenzo. Both they know it's trouble and Amos especially ) gear up for trouble. You're right though I didn't read it after "Amos doesn't ". Kenzo got a message on his HUD that specifically said a hit squad was inbound and the police would not interfere at the hotel.
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Jan 28, 2016 15:49
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Kegslayer posted:From memory, she's described in the book as basically having vomited/bleed these extra growths or tube things from every orifice. I always imagined it as like someone had planted a massive fungus like vine inside a body and the vine is growing slowly and trying to get out of said body anyway possible. That sounds like something out of bloodborne or The Thing and I would have loved some more tentacles. Honestly at first I thought she was just covered in spiders! I was like eww gross, space spiders, somebody get those off her! I guess they're supposed to be like, veiny growths instead? I just kinda see spiders. Shoulda made her more like this: 
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Jan 28, 2016 16:11
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Zaphod42 posted:That sounds like something out of bloodborne or The Thing and I would have loved some more tentacles. Same. I was legit expecting them to start scuttling around to escape the light.
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Jan 28, 2016 16:12
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Zaphod42 posted:That sounds like something out of bloodborne or The Thing and I would have loved some more tentacles. They've massively toned down the body horror stuff from the engine room of the stealth ship that I don't remember the name of but the Julie in bathtub isn't that different from the book if you squint a little. The hotel scene in the book (spoilers probably unnecessary but whatever): The fluid marked a thin path toward the bathroom. Miller raised a hand, pushing the others back as he crept toward the half-open door. Inside the bathroom, the nasty background smell was much stronger. Something deep, organic, and intimate. Manure in a hothouse, or the aftermath of sex, or a slaughterhouse. All of them. The toilet was brushed steel, the same model they used in prisons. The sink matched. The LED above it and the one in the ceiling had both been destroyed. In the light of his terminal, like the glow of a single candle, black tendrils reached from the shower stall toward the ruined lights, bent and branching like skeletal leaves. In the shower stall, Juliette Andromeda Mao lay dead. Her eyes were closed, and that was a mercy. She'd cut her hair differently since she'd taken the pictures Miller had seen, and it changed the shape of her face, but she was unmistakable. She was nude, and barely human. Coils of complex growth spilled from her mouth, ears, and vulva. Her ribs and spine had grown spurs like knives that stretched pale skin, ready to cut themselves free of her. Tubes stretched from her back and throat, crawling up the walls behind her. A deep brown slush had leaked from her, filling the shower pan almost three centimeters high. He sat silently, willing the thing before him not to be true, trying to force himself awake. What did they do to you? he thought. Oh, kid. What did they do? "Ohmygod," Naomi said behind him. "Don't touch anything," he said. "Get out of the room. Into the hall. Do it now." The light in the next room faded as the hand terminals retreated. The twisting shadows momentarily gave her body the illusion of movement. Miller waited, but no breath lifted the bent rib cage. No flicker touched her eyelids. There was nothing. He rose, carefully checking his cuffs and shoes, and walked out to the corridor. ozmunkeh fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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Jan 28, 2016 16:18
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Yeah the book version is definitely way more intense. There's a couple details in there I didn't need to visualize so strongly though  Kinda sad they just went with the spiders after reading that. Really need to get some The Thing style horrors going on here, tentacles all over the place. Guess they didn't wanna gross people out too much, but comeon! If you're gonna do space body horror you gotta go all the way. Wonder what they're going to do next. I mean, whatever that Mao-Thing is, you can't just leave it there. But you also don't want it spreading to the rest of the station. 
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Jan 28, 2016 16:26
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flosofl posted:Kenzo got a message on his HUD that specifically said a hit squad was inbound and the police would not interfere at the hotel. Kenzo pretty much knew what would happen, which is why he was able to escape the shoot out .
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Jan 28, 2016 17:57
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etalian posted:Kenzo pretty much knew what would happen, which is why he was able to escape the shoot out . Yeah, he was specifically an Earth asset on Tycho. They weren't going to burn him.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:03
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Tortolia posted:Yeah, he was specifically an Earth asset on Tycho. They weren't going to burn him. I'm glad that he got away since it showed he's a pretty sneaky survivor type personality.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:06
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flosofl posted:Kenzo got a message on his HUD that specifically said a hit squad was inbound and the police would not interfere at the hotel. Yeah you're right. Got my character names messed up. Disregard all further posts.
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Jan 28, 2016 18:52
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He never asked to be a corporate spy
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Jan 28, 2016 20:15
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Tortolia posted:Yeah, he was specifically an Earth asset on Tycho. They weren't going to burn him. No, he was a corporate spy that was loaned to the UN. They most definitely would have killed him.
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Jan 28, 2016 21:21
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:I'm still upset Lopez died Yeah, same. Dude's own show just got cancelled, I would've been totally okay with them sparing him his book fate to be a recurring character, because we don't really have a face for Mars' side of things (yet).
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Jan 28, 2016 23:09
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KatWithHands posted:Yeah, same. Dude's own show just got cancelled, I would've been totally okay with them sparing him his book fate to be a recurring character, because we don't really have a face for Mars' side of things (yet). Yeah it really felt like they were setting him up to be the sole survivor of the Donnager, he was coming with them and he seemed like a pretty nice guy with a very different world view than the others. And then nope!  On the other hand, I do like the game of thrones style "nobody is safe, anybody can die at any time, space is dangerous" reminder. Like when Shed ate it in the first few episodes. I was sitting there going "oh, of course those are the people who got off the Cant just in time to survive, they're the bigger actors, so I guess these guys are safe" and then poor Shed lost his Head.
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Jan 28, 2016 23:17
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KatWithHands posted:Yeah, same. Dude's own show just got cancelled, I would've been totally okay with them sparing him his book fate to be a recurring character, because we don't really have a face for Mars' side of things (yet). I liked him a whole lot too, not only was the actor portrayal very good but also his character was very interesting.
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Jan 28, 2016 23:24
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ozmunkeh posted:They've massively toned down the body horror stuff from the engine room of the stealth ship that I don't remember the name of but the Julie in bathtub isn't that different from the book if you squint a little. yeah if anything a lot of superweapon scenes in the book like the Anubis were closer to grotesque barf bag body horror found in the Dead Space games. I guess they decided to turn down the barf bag factor for the show. etalian fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Jan 28, 2016 |
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Jan 28, 2016 23:47
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I thought it might be to keep the rating down, but then I remembered one of the very first scenes was Holden space loving the navigator. Maybe they thought the body horror aesthetic was overdone, and just decided to do something different. KatWithHands posted:Yeah, same. Dude's own show just got cancelled, I would've been totally okay with them sparing him his book fate to be a recurring character, because we don't really have a face for Mars' side of things (yet).
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tooterfish posted:I thought it might be to keep the rating down, but then I remembered one of the very first scenes was Holden space loving the navigator. I think they figured they'd go for the game of thrones audience with gratuitous sex and lots of intrigue. You can have violence and even gore by that method, but the violence is usually "hoorah! get em!" and not "oh my god that's loving disgusting." I could have used a little more Cronenberg when they found the dead girl (and with the blue goo too, it seemed almost a little too benevolent. After all apparently the cast is able to deduce "it felt like a weapon" so it should probably look a little more threatening) but I'd rather not see a corpse with tentacles coming out of its mouth, vulva, etc. like the book described. That's a little too far. You gotta find a nice happy medium like  That doesn't make me wanna barf at all, but it does stay with me and gently caress with my mind to look at the unnatural ways it moves around and the surrealistic way its almost-human-but-not.
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KatWithHands posted:Yeah, same. Dude's own show just got cancelled, I would've been totally okay with them sparing him his book fate to be a recurring character, because we don't really have a face for Mars' side of things (yet). Lopez giving his life for them was a pretty big scene in the book - I'm afraid he was doomed from the start. But I too loved the portrayal, would have been nice if he'd lived and could have been the symbol of Martian aspirations.
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gohmak posted:The the smirk he gave Miller after he threatened to kill Holden if he touched him again. Relive the moment forever. 
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Jan 29, 2016 00:58
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WanderingKid posted:Relive the moment forever. Amos owns. What's Fred going to do with the data recording from Lopez? I thought Lopez/the captain had given Holden a copy too?
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It was telemetry data from their sensors, Lopez had the only copy as far as I could see. I doubt Holden even knew about it, since he'd already been marched off the bridge when the captain handed it over, and Lopez was too busy being dead to tell him later. edit: as for what he's going to do with it... haven't read the books in years but I think it's a safe bet that proof the OPA or Martians didn't attack the Canterbury could come in handy. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Jan 29, 2016 |
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Jan 29, 2016 01:09
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The tech shows him something off-camera that makes Fred blanch a little bit but they don't go back and drop the other shoe 
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Jan 29, 2016 01:18
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Flesh Forge posted:The tech shows him something off-camera that makes Fred blanch a little bit but they don't go back and drop the other shoe If anything the tech blanched on it just as much as he did. Although I found the dialogue there kinda clumsy, "what are you going to do sir?". Not "what should we do?", but explicitly "what are you going to do, sir?". I get that he's a big deal or whatever but it just seemed a little weird, but that was probably intentional.
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Jan 29, 2016 01:37
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Alex in shock pointing his gun at the civilian shouting "don't" was outstanding. The could have played it for laughs but they played it dead serious.
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Jan 29, 2016 01:42
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WanderingKid posted:Relive the moment forever. Don't worry, I gave him an occular patdown.
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Jan 29, 2016 02:25
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Did Miller order his Number Four burrito-style or was that my imagination? Love little details like that.
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Jet Jaguar posted:Did Miller order his Number Four burrito-style or was that my imagination? He did.
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Jan 29, 2016 09:06
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Jet Jaguar posted:Did Miller order his Number Four burrito-style or was that my imagination? Love little details like that. I'd like to think it was going to be a space sushi burrito.
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Jan 29, 2016 09:34
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bloodychill posted:I'd like to think it was going to be a space sushi burrito. Now I'm hungry.
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movax posted:Amos owns. OPA stuff? If Mars and Earth didn't know about the attack and are desperate for information then Fred and the OPA can worm their say into a seat at the table. Holden definitely doesn't know anything about the chip which led to that subtle scene last episode with Fred Johnson where he's all like yeah Holden, you definitely got one over me. What a player you are 
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Jan 29, 2016 11:48
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WanderingKid posted:Relive the moment forever. Someone please make this into an avatar or smiley, we need "Amos approves" around the forums. Heck, I'll even buy the avatar for myself if someone does it.
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Jan 29, 2016 13:17
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I wonder how many takes it took to get that, because it's not exactly a simple shot (focus change). One of the things I really appreciate about the show in general is all the great camera work.
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Flesh Forge posted:I wonder how many takes it took to get that, because it's not exactly a simple shot (focus change). One of the things I really appreciate about the show in general is all the great camera work. It's actually pretty basic. Both actors are standing on preset marks, the cameraman just racks focus to set points that stand-ins were used to set up in advance.
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Fister Roboto posted:Don't worry, I gave him an occular patdown. Lol. Amos is who Mac is in his own fanfiction.
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