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emanresu tnuocca posted:It is heavily implied but I think these spoilers are really a bit too much for this thread, even tagged. I agree. having read all the books Also, I did have a question, do they ever explain how or why the PM could be used to create those 'super soldiers'? Like, if its some nano thing, does that imply they were able to 're-program' the PM? And if so does that mean they could re-program the stuff on Venus or shut it down?
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https://twitter.com/expansesyfy/status/855790816362504192 Don't read the replies if you don't want spoilers.
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:I agree. having read all the books The first season/book had some talk about reprogramming it. iirc the whole point of releasing it on Eros was to gather data so they could figure out how it works and make it do what they want. I don't think they ever connected it to the stuff happening on Venus though.
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The book reprogramming was about taking a small sample and introducing it in an isolated growth environment (a human) and controlling its growth there through gene and nanoengineering applied as it grew. Totally inapplicable to changing an existing protomolecule mass elsewhere.
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This was a good episode and that last shot of Jupiter was extremely legit. Naomi is a phenomenal actress and downright gorgeous human. The cgi for the protodemon was pretty good actually. I thought the botanist's daughter was saved pretty early in the books? I can't remember. Btw I love the gif dumps. You capture really good parts of the show and they are really high quality. Is there a gif of Amos slapping Holden's knee? Because that was pretty drat funny. Amos has such a well crafted personality and I honestly look forward to his screen time more than anyone. Regarding the books, I just got to cibola burn and tbh I hope the show ends before the gate or something. The whole gate slowzone and station thing I just can't imagine translating into good tv at all. Hell, it barely worked as a book. Good lord sorry. Blind Rasputin fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Apr 22, 2017 |
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Hmm you should probably spoiler tag pretty much all of that.
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Spoil that poo poo. Also, if the show ended there, we wouldn't really have a show at all after season 3...
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Oh ffs. You added spoiler bars but neglected to actually cover half the spoilers.
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Blind Rasputin posted:This was a good episode and that last shot of Jupiter was extremely legit. Naomi is a phenomenal actress and downright gorgeous human. The cgi for the protodemon was pretty good actually. You need to add a spoiler to the bit I spoilered above.
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There still is a big spoiler in your post guy so thanks for that.Number Ten Cocks posted:You need to add a spoiler to the bit I spoilered above.
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Finally watched it. For what this show can do budget-wise I thought the protomonster was ok. The Arboghast exploding diagram actually looked pretty good. I did think the establishing shot before the Venus crater EM spike was a second or two too long, ideally they would have made the switch from protomonster being destroyed at Ganymede to protocrater doing something nuts at Venus (37-49 light minutes away) just a shade tighter. Bobbie's reaction to the electrician's request was the best part of the episode.
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That didn't feel like a finale, but it was hard for anything to beat Drapers scarfing of sandwiches.
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Hello yes I heard there was good Bobbiesarala gifs to he had ITT.
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Next re-cat recap is going to be good.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Hello yes I heard there was good Bobbiesarala gifs to he had ITT.
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Sammus posted:This 100%. I was happy to see that they made it happen like they did, but it didn't work as well visually as it did in the book. Yeah, reminds me of how Game of Thrones treated Ser Barristan. The entire foundation of this character is they are beyond belief incredible combat badasses. So why do they say that instead of showing it? Why are they here if not for those scenes? Why go to TV at all when your imagination shows it better in the books? Argh. Scenes of them advising politicians are not what I was most excited to see. I know, I know. Budget. I still love this show and look forward to more Bobbie. FuriousxGeorge fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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FuriousxGeorge posted:Why go to TV at all when your imagination shows it better in the books? Argh.  New
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Bobbie should have gone through the bulkhead like the Kool‐Aid Man.
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Yeah, Bobbie is cool now. It's funny because her character did the exact 180 degree turn that Miller's did over the course of his story. My only issue is that Bobbie's happened a little too quickly, but I won't complain.
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I believe you'll find that Miller was cool from his very first scene. I get that his arc reached a satisfactory conclusion, but the back half of this season definitely could have used some extra Miller Time.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I believe you'll find that Miller was cool from his very first scene. I get that his arc reached a satisfactory conclusion, but the back half of this season definitely could have used some extra Miller Time. Season 3 needs to feature a Stay Puft Marshmallow Miller protocreature climbing out of the Venus crater.
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Number Ten Cocks posted:Season 3 needs to feature a Stay Puft Marshmallow Miller protocreature climbing out of the Venus crater. "What did you do, Holden?!"
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I'm a little underwhelmed with the power armor so far but Bobbie is definitely cool and I hope next season does her and her supersuit justice.
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General Battuta posted:The reason Cibola Burn would make a dismal loving season of TV is that something like half the book is spent under constant rain in waist-deep mud infested with poisonous slugs. And not in a cool hell planet way, it's just everybody huddled together in some ruins, trying to keep the slugs out while they go blind. It would be a thin premise for an episode of Stargate, never mind a trying-to-be-prestige drama. I wish people would stop bringing up the drat slugs in that book. They were involved for a chapter and a half in a sort of "meanwhile, back at band camp" sort of manner. I went into that book thinking "Aw jeez, this is going to be like book 7 of Harry Potter all over again, 78% being some boring rear end camping trip where nothing happens", but it wasn't. The slugs were a non-issue. Still wasn't a great book, and most of its problems involve a bunch of aggressively boring new characters and a military guy that spent 90% of the book screaming "I'm gonna blow up that town if you don't do what I say! I mean it! Just you wait!" Many problems, slugs just not really the all encompassing page-fillers that people seem to enjoy making them out to be.
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AirborneNinja posted:I'm a little underwhelmed with the power armor so far but Bobbie is definitely cool and I hope next season does her and her supersuit justice. I think part of the problem is that it's a SyFy budget costume and there's no way to look cool using a forearm-mounted machine gun.
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Azhais posted:
Is it really that difficult to grasp that this is a thread for the the TV show that is currently just going through material from book 2 and that you shouldn't openly discuss poo poo from book 4 here? emanresu tnuocca fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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The show is doing a good job of minimizing the Primary Concern, just like the books. There are compelling story lines with political intrigue and character drama. People live and die and do everything with such urgency that they barely have time to consider that there is a two-billion-year-old molecule developed by an alien race so advanced that they had transcended everything we understand about physics, and it is running some sort of program on a planet in our solar system. That's why the Arborghast scene is important. It filled the same purpose in the book- to make everybody pause for a moment and realize how insignificant these little parochial disputes could end up being. Even the Protomolecule monster, for all it's fearsome capabilities, is still a crude re-purposing of a technology that the Protogen scientists barely understand, like using a notebook computer as a hammer. It reaches out.
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Alehkhs posted:
I mean if you ignore context. My imagination generally sucks and I love getting movies and TV shows. But if it's two people standing in a room talking to each other yes my imagination is up to that challenge.
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How many books are there, and is the series finished? I assume this chat will devolve into equal parts book chat, and whiny loving book readers making passive aggressive posts about how people don't like bookchat, so I'll be needing something else to read until next season.
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counterfeitsaint posted:How many books are there, and is the series finished? Six books out with nine total planned, and they've pretty consistently been releasing one a year. There's also a couple novellas that cover events in the past or events happening elsewhere.
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counterfeitsaint posted:How many books are there, and is the series finished? Hey my posts weren't passive at all :\
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Is it a spoiler to point out that the last book was really bad
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Big Mean Jerk posted:...there's no way to look cool using a forearm-mounted machine gun. I tried to find something in TV, movies, animation, or games to definitively dispute this (i.e. only machine guns) but fell short. Maybe someone else can give it a try. Edit: This isn't too bad (doesn't allow embedding): https://youtu.be/xkJU9ENyk8I?t=7 Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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Forearm mounted weapons are bad and dumb, people have wrists and hands for a reason.
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How do people in movies even fire wrist mounted guns? If they need to use their hands to pull the trigger there doesn't seem to be any benefit over a normal gun. Just a huge danger of shooting your own hand off.
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Smiling Jack posted:Forearm mounted weapons are bad and dumb, people have wrists and hands for a reason. Aww poo poo son. You just opened it up to any kind of forearm mounted weapon. You're gonna regret this! 
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Smiling Jack posted:Forearm mounted weapons are bad and dumb, people have wrists and hands for a reason. When the suit aims for you, why not keep your hands free? Then again, you could mount the guns on the shoulders or something and free up the arms even more, so yeah, I guess putting them on the forearms doesn't make a ton of sense.
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