enraged_camel posted:

I miss Miller's cop friend.

Phi230 posted:

Prax, when the mirror fell

Wendell, his arms wide

HERAK posted:

If i remember the books correctly the Texan accent is actually something of an affectation even for Martians.

ATP_Power posted:

The actor who plays Dawes is loving perfect, and I'm so happy they're using him more in the show than in the books.

Nihonniboku posted:

Phobophilia posted:

Havelock (Miller's rookie) was pretty important for connecting the dots between Ceres and Protogen.

Though when watching S1 the first time, I got convinced that Havelock was an agent of the conspiracy, because one of the mercs who attacked the Donnager seemed to have a biological modification to seal off injuries, and this was paired with Havelock waking up after being speared through the chest.

gohmak posted:

Havlock and Millar at te aqua

Barreft posted:

I haven't read the books but there's no way that proto-thing was totally destroyed crashing into Venus right? I imagine it takes the planet over or something after being scattered all over after the crash.

404notfound posted:

Oh gently caress, he was Lane Pryce? I didn't even realize it. Great god drat actor.

Xealot posted:

Jared Harris, son of the late Richard Harris, best known to people under 40 as "the first Dumbledore" and "Marcus Aurelius" from the first 20 minutes of Gladiator.

counterfeitsaint posted:

Diogo at Ceres, when the rear end was smashed to dust.

Nihonniboku posted:

Number Ten Cocks posted:

Not sure how to have a conversation about this without book spoilers. I will say that in-show we saw that protomolecule-as-Julie was unwilling to not crash into Earth because "the work" had to continue. She accepted crashing into Venus as an alternative, so presumably she thought that was not inconsistent with "the work."

It's not unreasonable to suspect that a thing that could accelerate with no g forces inside at the expenditure of huge amounts of energy, repurpose biological entities to make machines (and absorb their consciousnesses and memories for processing/understanding), and make a huge drat asteroid radar invisible might also be able to survive atmospheric entry.

The last episode had Avasarala's scientist ex-boyfriend trying to go to Venus, so I'd guess we'll see what the show is doing with that soon via a report to her.

quote:

Eros crashing into Venus was the most widely broadcast and recorded event in history. By the time the asteroid reached the sun's second planet, several hundred ships had taken up orbits there. Military vessels tried to keep the civilian ships away, but it was no use. They were just outnumbered. The video of Eros' descent was captured by military gun cameras, civilian ship telescopes, and the observatories on two planets and five moons.

Holden wished he could have been there to see it up close, but Eros had picked up speed after it had turned, almost as though the asteroid were impatient for the journey to end now that the destination was in sight. He and the crew sat in the galley of the Rocinante and watched it on the broadcast newsfeeds. Amos had dug up yet another bottle of faux tequila from somewhere and was liberally splashing it into coffee cups. Alex had them flying toward Tycho at a gentle one-third g. No need to hurry now.

It was all over but the fireworks.

Holden reached out, took Naomi's hand, and held it tightly as the asteroid entered Venus orbit and then seemed to stop. He felt like he could feel the entire human race holding their breath. No one knew what Eros - no, what Julie - would do now. No one had spoken to Miller after the last time Holden had, and he wasn't answering his hand terminal. No one knew for sure what had happened on the asteroid.

When the end came, it was beautiful.

In orbit around Venus, Eros came apart like a puzzle box. The giant asteroid split into a dozen chunks, stringing out around the equator of the planet in a long necklace. Then those dozen pieces split into a dozen more, and then a dozen after that, a glittering fractal seed cloud spreading out across the entire surface of the planet, disappearing into the thick cloud layer that usually hid Venus from view.

"Wow," Amos said, his voice almost reverent.

"That was gorgeous," Naomi said. "Vaguely unsettling, but gorgeous."

"They won't stay there forever," Holden said.

Alex tossed off the last of the tequila in his glass, then refilled it from the bottle.

"What d'ya mean, Cap?" he asked.

"Well, I'm just guessing. But I doubt the things that built the protomolecule just wanted to store it here. This was part of a bigger plan. We saved the Earth, Mars, the Belt. Question is, what happens now?"

Naomi and Alex exchanged glances. Amos pursed his lips. On-screen, Venus glittered as arcs of lightning danced all across the planet.

"Cap," Amos said. "You are seriously harshing my buzz."

CeeJee posted:

It was never really stated after the 'they are charging us' but you could see the UN guys running and shooting at whatever was chasing them.

Xealot posted:

So, how is it that anyone knows anything specific about what happened to Epstein? It seems like he died of a stroke and his ship went off in some random direction. I guess he kept really comprehensive notes about what he was working on.

I assumed the V.O. was from some speech he delivered or book he wrote, but clearly that is not the case since his corpse is traveling 0.05c somewhere beyond the Oort cloud.

Kingtheninja posted:

Anyway, thanks for clearing up everything about the ending. With all the cuts it was incredibly confusing as to what was going on, and was not super easy to tell one of the targets running wasn't a marine. So are we supposed to know who mars was shooting at in orbit? Was it mars vs earth in the sky, and random proto monster on the ground killing both sides?

Number Ten Cocks posted:

9. Bobbie comes to, face plate is cracked and the chest of her armor scarred, but she's alive. She first sees the mystery recon drone from above, then the monster comes into frame. The drone, aimed more towards the monster than Bobbie, fires three pulses of light. IMMEDIATELY after that, a light appears on the monster's chest. It gets brighter and starts to spread. Cut to Bobbie, who is increasingly illuminated by the ET heart light in the monster. She rolls away and we get an impression of an explosion with smoke or maybe plasma implied.

counterfeitsaint posted:

Diogo at Ceres, when the rear end was smashed to dust.

Your Gay Uncle posted:

Also singer of one the greatest lyrics ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRwYQgk05DY

"All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh no!"

counterfeitsaint posted:

Diogo at Ceres, when the rear end was smashed to dust.

counterfeitsaint posted:

Diogo at Ceres, when the rear end was smashed to dust.

gohmak posted:

When the wellwallas fell.

Tiggum posted:

I guessed that that was happening, but I couldn't see it.

Yeah, that narration was really weird and confusing. What's it supposed to be? He obviously couldn't have said it, and even if he had no one would have heard. It also gave those scenes a really weird tone, more adventure than tragedy.

Yeah, I didn't know until I read in this thread that it was actually an Earth ship (ships?) fighting the Mars one(s). Also had no idea what the mirror(s) were.

Didn't see that either.

HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:

I believe in the books there a line about how you can still grab a telescope and see Epstein sailing off into the universe at some small fraction of C.

"The first page of [i posted:

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A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind. Fortunately, he’d left the plans on his home computer. The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets.

Platystemon posted:

For the book thread, I calculated how good “a good scope” would have to be. If you had a perfect detector the diameter of the Moon, it would catch one photon from the ship every few months.

Baronjutter posted:

It seems crazy that humans haven't sent out a bunch of probes to nearby systems with their magic not-quite-ftl drives. How long to get to Alpha Centauri with expanse tech? Ten years or so?

R-Type posted:

Meh, any good engineer would have put a timed limit to the burn, and or put a dead mans switch to cut it off with. Waverunners from our time have a dead man's switch. Still a good origin story though.

R-Type posted:

Meh, any good engineer would have put a timed limit to the burn, and or put a dead mans switch to cut it off with. Waverunners from our time have a dead man's switch. Still a good origin story though.

Phanatic posted:

She can't handle Scottish and you expect her to understand Belter?

Baronjutter posted:

I was watching a clip of some japanese gameshow where they were testing people's english by trying to get them to say words to siri and it was so shameful when it couldn't understand. Except for the most part they were speaking incredibly clearly and the shame is entirely on siri being trash.

Phanatic posted:

She can't handle Scottish and you expect her to understand Belter?

bitprophet posted:

To be fair, wasn't Epstein Martian?

Platystemon posted:

If you wanted to slow down and get a good look, that would double the time it would otherwise take to get your data.

Evernoob posted:

Couldn't the probe slow down partially by using the destination's star gravity well?
Pretty much by doing an reverse slingshot?