Eiba posted:

Well, I think you're missing the point about the spoiler.

What is spoiled from the books is there is a specific scene where Bobbie has that revelation. It's an important character moment for her, part of her understanding that everything she'd assumed is doused in ridiculous propaganda.

Bobbie having that specific revelation is not a spoiler because it indicates she goes to Earth, it's a spoiler because it's a specific thing that changes her character when she goes to Earth, and it arguably loses something of its impact without the full context.

I wasn't going to mention anything at the time, but it was a kind of lovely spoiler.

uber_stoat posted:

Fister Roboto posted:

That's a really petty thing to complain about.

Platystemon posted:

I can’t wait for tonight’s episode to give the thread some new material to talk about.

Smiling Jack posted:

The most amazing thing people have missed is that post-Eros Amos is literate but pre-Eros Amos can't read. This is also why Brad Pitt was considered for the role of Amos.

To be fair, PreAmos hides his illiteracy from th other characters, and by extension the viewers, very well.

Fister Roboto posted:

OK, so how would someone who hasn't read the books glean all that from what was actually posted?

Eiba posted:

Are people actually arguing that someone posting, "wow, this is better than the book, where they did [x]" is partially ruining the thread for them? Because I post like that on occasion, and I wouldn't want to ruin anyone's enjoyment of this pretty awesome show. Is referencing the books at all bookposting?

Smiling Jack posted:

get a loving life jfc

Baronjutter posted:

The ending seemed a bit abrupt. I feel really bad any time innocent people are killed
Jim realizing forcibly dragging people into his heroic quest actually might have consequences...

Doresain posted:

Super confused why the Chaplain is so shady if he isn't in Mao's pocket.

Doresain posted:

Super confused why the Chaplain is so shady if he isn't in Mao's pocket.

Doresain posted:

jfc.

Dreylad posted:

Haven't read the books but I feel this episode covered the whole martians in 1g thing pretty well that people were worried about. Also fleshing out how Holden's altruism isn't necessarily a good or helpful thing which is probably going to further Prax's skepticism.

Longbaugh01 posted:

I'd like to see the guy who played Ashur on Spartacus some more. He's the spy/intelligence guy that's been helping Avasarala. I've read the books but don't remember if he was even in them or how involved he was, but that guy is great at playing a slimy character.

Eiba posted:

Well, I think you're missing the point about the spoiler.

What is spoiled from the books is there is a specific scene where Bobbie has that revelation. It's an important character moment for her, part of her understanding that everything she'd assumed is doused in ridiculous propaganda.

Bobbie having that specific revelation is not a spoiler because it indicates she goes to Earth, it's a spoiler because it's a specific thing that changes her character when she goes to Earth, and it arguably loses something of its impact without the full context.

I wasn't going to mention anything at the time, but it was a kind of lovely spoiler.

Who cares? Some people would rather experience things as a whole, rather than getting out of context snippets of it before. You don't care. So why not respect the wishes of the people who do care?

If someone's emotionally freaking out about something, sure, that's undignified. If that's the kind of thing you make fun of, go ahead. But if folks are just talking about preferences, why get worked up about it yourself? No point in deliberately being a dick after someone says "please don't be a dick".

Drone Jett posted:

Washington Post affiliated blog had an article on the Expanse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...it-for-it-syfy/

gohmak posted:

Paywall

Doctor Butts posted:

I wanted to pull out clips of Chrisjen talking but apparently all of The Expanse episodes are copy protected on Tivo so I gave up.

NmareBfly posted:

I mentioned that post because it was quite plainly something that hadn't happened in the show yet. I don't think I'm being overly emotional about it; part of the point was to show how easily innocuous things can be spoilers. If I had posted it I would have used spoiler tags, and I think it was impolite not to do so. The rubric should be 'if it wasn't on screen and probably will be in a future episode, I should use spoiler tags.' That's all I was saying. I don't want to digress into a dumb spoiler slapfight so I'll leave it at that.

I quite liked Holden loving everything up worse by trying to help.

I didn't like Prax's two lines of dialog about Ganymede having a magnetosphere and people going there to gestate because of it. As a concept and part of the setting it's one of my favorite bits, but it felt clumsily handled dialog-wise. It's a snippet of exposition explained to people in-world who already 100% know it and have known it all their lives, so it didn't land well for me. I love the Actual Science things to bits, and I wish we had more downtime on Ganymede earlier to talk about it and Prax's life pre-shitstorm. Like, drop the factoid about the magnetosphere in a background video while someone's riding a tram or something, I dunno. You could have an infographic of the friendly magnetic force field bouncing Jupiter's radiation and leaving behind a host of happy children in a scene at the daycare? I guess filming a couple bits in Ganymede prior to the disaster would have been mighty expensive, though -- why build a pristine daycare set for one scene when you know you're just going to set fire to it?

Also they've talked a lot about the refugee crisis and food shortage but it's odd that lot of people denigrate Ganymede as 'a farm' when the place is theoretically chock full of pregnant ladies and the disaster might have hosed up a whole generation of kids being raised there.