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Here's where you assholes can talk about rocks dropping and the best scene in the whole series:Nemesis Games Pg 322 posted:Peaches took a bite of her ration bar and sipped the water from her self-purifying canteen. "Is it bothering you?"
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You know, that scene in the latest preview of the roiling dirt could be either plotline....
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Aug 20, 2019 03:48
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:You know, that scene in the latest preview of the roiling dirt could be either plotline.... If I'm thinking of the same one as you then you can see the Illus Roman structures in the background of it. I'm hoping they seriously retool Illus and take out the post-apocalyptic scenes after the reactor blows. It'll be a bit samey to have both that and Earth's destruction back to back.
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Aug 20, 2019 07:47
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Yeah, rocks falling on Earth is Season 5. No way they're cramming it into Season 4. We've got another year or more of being very careful about not making rock jokes in the spoiler-free thread. I think messing up an empty world like Illus is going to feel very different than messing up the Earth, no matter the superficial similarities. And messing up Illus badly is important to emphasize the whole monkey-with-a-microwave lack of understanding humans have about their whole new world. That said I don't remember what specifically happens to Illus, and I'd be fine if it was different in a weird alien way. Just so long as it's still kind of terrifying to see that things on that scale can happen in these new worlds. As a side note, all the promotional stuff calls it New Terra. But everyone with remotely sensible political inclinations calls it Illus. I wonder if this is Amazon's doing.
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Aug 20, 2019 08:58
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Eiba posted:Yeah, rocks falling on Earth is Season 5. No way they're cramming it into Season 4. We've got another year or more of being very careful about not making rock jokes in the spoiler-free thread. Pretty sure that's some intentionally clever advertising. 
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Aug 20, 2019 09:21
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Pretty sure that's some intentionally clever advertising. Yeah. Nearly all the actors are calling it Illus in tweets and the like. I'm going to guess part of the promotion will be rolling with both names in a playful way.
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Aug 20, 2019 10:06
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They're probably going to drop the rocks at the end of season 4. Super huge cliffhanger or something.
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Aug 20, 2019 15:50
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My guess would be that we see the stealth tech being stolen but not the rocks being dropped because they still need to get Amos on Earth, Alex on Mars, and Naomi kidnapped.
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Aug 20, 2019 17:14
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They could always changes things up like with ashford, drummer, and naomi on behemoth
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Aug 20, 2019 17:46
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Uterine Lineup posted:My guess would be that we see the stealth tech being stolen but not the rocks being dropped because they still need to get Amos on Earth, Alex on Mars, and Naomi kidnapped. I love that the audience is supposed to think Avalarala's OPA smuggler from the first episode is getting stealth tech for the gunships, but he's actually trying to get it for Marco... 
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Aug 20, 2019 18:00
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I was kind of making a joke about the name too. Seeing "New Terra" slowly pop up at the end of all these trailers in that crisp promotional font and for a fleeting moment being angry that they're using the wrong name is a pretty nifty move. It's just kind of funny that if Amazon is still around in the time of the Expanse they'd totally be backing New Terra. Watermelon Daiquiri posted:They could always changes things up like with ashford, drummer, and naomi on behemoth If they cram it into season 4, you'd need to have a whole episode or two of low key epilogue stuff after Illus. The crew goes off to do their own things and decompress/deal with personal issues that piled up while they were away... and then it happens out of nowhere. At the very least they'll need to introduce Baltimore/life on Earth a bit, and then get Amos to the prison. That seems like it'd be a lot of work for a cliffhanger when all that stuff belongs in the next season, but it would indeed be an amazing cliffhanger.
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Aug 20, 2019 18:43
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Eiba posted:I was kind of making a joke about the name too. Seeing "New Terra" slowly pop up at the end of all these trailers in that crisp promotional font and for a fleeting moment being angry that they're using the wrong name is a pretty nifty move. The only thing I'll find hard to believe is Naomi and Holden separating voluntarily again because they just played that card and Holden already knows her past.
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Aug 20, 2019 22:28
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I love that the audience is supposed to think Avalarala's OPA smuggler from the first episode is getting stealth tech for the gunships, but he's actually trying to get it for Marco... Yeah, when I was rewatching and they dropped the Inaros name I was like whoa hold up, this is a fuckin LONG con
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Aug 21, 2019 00:27
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Earth after rock drop is Season 5. source: Amos himself. https://twitter.com/weschatham/status/1162711613230764033
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Aug 21, 2019 00:53
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uber_stoat posted:Earth after rock drop is Season 5. source: Amos himself. yeah I  d
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Aug 21, 2019 02:03
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Eiba posted:It's just kind of funny that if Amazon is still around in the time of the Expanse they'd totally be backing New Terra. Watch this season be "adapted" to have the colonists be an irrational and hotheaded bunch of sovereign citizen types who need to submit to the order and discipline of Daddy Corporation if the colony is to survive and become profitable. Murtry will be the self-sacrificing do-gooder who dies to protect the company's interests, which is really in everyone's best interest.
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Aug 21, 2019 04:04
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Phenotype posted:Watch this season be "adapted" to have the colonists be an irrational and hotheaded bunch of sovereign citizen types who need to submit to the order and discipline of Daddy Corporation if the colony is to survive and become profitable. 0% chance of this.
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Aug 23, 2019 07:02
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I can't imagine the scene with the slugs would look decent no matter how good the CG is. Looks like they may have replaced them with flying insects. How many episodes do you think we'll have to endure blurry point of view shots as they slowly go blind from the parasites?
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Aug 24, 2019 12:39
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Bert Roberge posted:I can't imagine the scene with the slugs would look decent no matter how good the CG is. Looks like they may have replaced them with flying insects. Nah. The flying insects are just to illustrate that the life on Illus is (supposedly) unable to harm humans. It's just a dramatized version of the scene in the book where a character gets bit by one, but it immediately dies because humans are toxic to them. I think we'll get something like the slug situation, but not necessarily involving slugs, and not necessarily involving blindness. I'm pretty confident the writers see the problems with the story in the books and will improve it as they have in the past.
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Aug 29, 2019 21:44
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Eiba posted:Yeah, rocks falling on Earth is Season 5. No way they're cramming it into Season 4. We've got another year or more of being very careful about not making rock jokes in the spoiler-free thread. I recently re-watched the first few seasons, it amazed me just how much they telegraphed that. I guess I hadn't read that far in the books when I watched the first couple of seasons. IIRC they mention it in the very first episode...
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Sep 8, 2019 06:37
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:I recently re-watched the first few seasons, it amazed me just how much they telegraphed that. I guess I hadn't read that far in the books when I watched the first couple of seasons. IIRC they mention it in the very first episode... yeah, I don't remember the episode but Avasarala has a conversation with her grandson about it. "I worry about people who throw rocks."
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Sep 8, 2019 07:06
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uber_stoat posted:yeah, I don't remember the episode but Avasarala has a conversation with her grandson about it. "I worry about people who throw rocks." I like that his response is something like “  well there’s nothing you can do about that...” And yeah, Avasarala’s first scene in the show was interrogating an OPA prisoner caught smuggling stealth tech. The red herring is thinking the OPA is involved with the Donnager, but since the Belters has nothing to do with Protogen’s stealth ships: we all know he was actually smuggling for Marco... I wonder how many show-only viewers have thought about that, or just dismissed it as character/world-building.
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Sep 8, 2019 07:29
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I like that his response is something like “ I though this too, but wasn't Duarte most of the brains behind the Free Navy? He couldn't have started his Big Scheme before Ring Space showed up and people started abandoning Mars.
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Sep 8, 2019 20:03
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GigaPeon posted:I though this too, but wasn't Duarte most of the brains behind the Free Navy? He couldn't have started his Big Scheme before Ring Space showed up and people started abandoning Mars. I feel like it was Marco's plan/goal for a while, it just took the partnership with Duarte to make it happen. I think we'll get introduced to Duarte this season, and maybe Marco. But I'd bet no rocks drop until next season.
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Sep 8, 2019 22:32
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I just finished book 7; is the 8th books title (Tiamats Wrath) referring to the EMC and TU, the Roci/Storm(?) Crew, or something else entirely?
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Sep 8, 2019 23:39
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Something else.
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Sep 8, 2019 23:42
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Zazz Razzamatazz posted:I feel like it was Marco's plan/goal for a while, it just took the partnership with Duarte to make it happen. Do the math! Book 1: 1.5 Seasons Book 2: 1 Season Book 3: .5 Season Book 4-8: 0 Seasons We can safely say that rocks will fall and Laconia will invade by the end of the first episode.
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Sep 9, 2019 05:46
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I agree we'll see Duarte this season. I wonder if it's going to be the Cylon they had as an unnamed Martian admiral when they met with Avasarala, was weird to cast someone known for such a zero background part. I kinda suspect they knew they were getting a season 5. Also Amos needs time to get back to Earth. It's conventional but I'd guess rocks happen midway through 5.
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Sep 9, 2019 06:29
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i can't wait to see how people respond to the rocks
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Sep 9, 2019 08:51
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https://twitter.com/theexpansewr/status/1172222609343205376?s=21
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https://twitter.com/comiccon_paris/status/1173877046428282881?s=21 Show will apparently premier on AmazonFrance!
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Sep 18, 2019 01:57
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Seems a bit spoily to be mentioning that season 5 events in here for the plebians. They'll revolt.
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Sep 18, 2019 03:51
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:https://twitter.com/comiccon_paris/status/1173877046428282881?s=21 That says "Amazon will show the first episode of S4 at ComicCon Paris", not "the show will premiere on AmazonFrance".
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Sep 18, 2019 04:04
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Rocksicles posted:Seems a bit spoily to be mentioning that season 5 events in here for the plebians. They'll revolt. It's the spoiler thread. Pinterest Mom posted:That says "Amazon will show the first episode of S4 at ComicCon Paris", not "the show will premiere on AmazonFrance".  That semester of French fails me again!
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Sep 18, 2019 04:41
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I just read The Vital Abyss last night and I have to wonder how weird it was to try to write from that perspective. Also gotta laugh that they have a bunch of scientists and they just shove them in a big room instead of putting them to work on something to help the belt. That doesn't make much sense to me.
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Sep 22, 2019 17:37
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Where can you get the side novellas, anyways?
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Sep 22, 2019 17:50
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Where can you get the side novellas, anyways? They're only available as ebooks until they're all done, at which point a single physical book will contain all of them.
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Sep 22, 2019 17:52
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Grand Fromage posted:I agree we'll see Duarte this season. I wonder if it's going to be the Cylon they had as an unnamed Martian admiral when they met with Avasarala, was weird to cast someone known for such a zero background part. I kinda suspect they knew they were getting a season 5. Also Amos needs time to get back to Earth. It's conventional but I'd guess rocks happen midway through 5. I definitely think this might be who they go with. He's set up in such a weird way for a nothing extra. Also they have definitely cast Marco. Keon Alexander has been cast as a "smart and charismatic Belter faction leader" whose name they haven't revealed.
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Sep 22, 2019 19:11
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He looks about right, just a little bit too pretty for Inaros. I wish they could have gotten Gael Garcia Bernal circa 2008.
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I thought Marco was supposed to be pretty, like that's most of his appeal? I think that single photo of that guy looks like a great choice. Edit: I'm an idiot and that's not the photo of the actor they cast for him! I agree that the actual guy looks too pretty.
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