No Rosi had a rail gun in season 4. They used it to keep them at the ship they were towing from falling into the atmosphere. It was added in Earth orbit
This still has never really been confirmed. They've came out and said they're taking a break but who knows.
Only the expanse can have a giant set up season that's better than most of the shit out there. Next season is going to be wild as fuck.
Spoiler Enjoyed it. Liked the Amos scenes way more than the Philip and Naomi stuff. Hated to see Alex go like that because the actor is a shitty person. Book people, Is that gonna mess up the story too much going forward?
Is this an elite level show or just pretty good. Just finishing up a show and trying to decide what to start next.
I think so. It's pretty genre heavy. Can be meticulous at times. It's one of my favorite books series and the show does really good by it, so Im heavily biased, i think
Best show on TV imo You’re going to get hooked so make sure you have time to binge. Had three friends fall down that hole now
finished season 1 today in ~3 days. really like the show and i enjoy knowing nothing about it. generally speaking, where do people feel like this show peaks? it was picked up by Netflix for the last season, right?
Finished S2 tonight I think I liked S1 a little bit more because the mystery of the monster/alien shit was more interesting than these human-like alien things. But also because I liked how S1 wove multiple stories together and intertwined them at the end of the season whereas S2 started with most of the main characters together. Still interested to see where this goes.
s1 is like a detective story that ends up heavy on the sci-fi. it's going to be more like the heavy sci-fi part going forward, until you get into a mother-son story arc that i hated
finished s3 tonight. show was pretty wild at the end there - and good - but i also liked the political/diplomacy element between mars and earth and that was gone inside the ring. excited to get out a bit. two questions that i think i should understand by now but please no spoilers if this is answered in the next two seasons: 1. the protomolecule is some sort of smart technology/organism that is trying to figure out what sort of thing did genocide across the galaxy (the gates)? i can't figure out what the rings/protomolecule is vis-a-vis what they are trying to solve. there was some great genocide/annihilation of the things that built the rings and the rings are looking for what did it? 2. this is a dumb one, but Amos had his empathy part of his brain removed on Tyche after talking with the scientist guy that they imprisoned, right? speaking of, that scientist guy was gone all season. but i thought it was implied that Amos did because he acted strange in the immediate aftermath and is sort of cold and logical now. just want to make sure I didn't miss anything and am using some sort of weird sociopathic lens on him
As far as I remember from the books, the protomolecule creates the rings but wasn’t trying to solve anything. It was just to help the species that created it get from one space to another. Sometime in the millions of years after the protomolecule was sent and before humans discovered it, the race that created it went extinct but I’m not sure that the protomolecule was investigating how or why. The protomolecule just got caught by Saturn’s gravity and frozen and didn’t complete its mission of making a gate until millions of years too late. Other experts free to correct me, though.
1. shawnoc is right. That's the gist of it. 2. Amos didnt have anything done to him. He's just a legit sociopath. But he knows he's one and leans on Naomi and Holden for social / moral cues to abide by. It's that found family thing that is teaching him to be more part of a community instead of a emotionless monster. Some of the roots of that are laid out in future seasons.
season 4 was my least favorite so far. too much of it felt like a bottle episode where cast/scenery was limited and none of the fun mystery was solved. still a good enough season but not my preference. i'm going to have to read some cliffnotes on the plot because I'm not sure i understand how/what miller was or what the "god's eye" was. or what the flying ninja star weapon things were or how miller was crushed by the structure or what the structure did, etc. looks like things are about to get wild with the weaponized asteroid, ashford's death + naomi's son involved, and the other planets in the rings for exploration.
i think the idea is that humanity went exploring and we don't know what the fuck we got ourselves into. we still have primitive propulsion and weapons, and we ran into some ancient war among people who build stuff that bypasses everything we know about physics
disagree here. he was hurt in the way that a child who's being trafficked will feel damage. and then he grew up to be Amos.
i'm about halfway through s5: - amos is the most fun (and best looking) character and they put him on this boring path to home and now he's maybe locked underground on earth. - the martian marine lady and the pilot don't have a lot of chemistry. they're doing interesting work but their scenes are a drag. - naomi has really been the worst for a couple of seasons now. i don't give a shit about this weepy naomi with her long-lost son. - i think i'm supposed to have empathy for the belters in this series but i can't stand the big bad marco guy (so good storyline for him) so i have no cares in the world if belter ships start getting torpedoed (except for the cool belter lady who was fred johnson's second in command)
finished s5, think it was better than s4 by a fair bit but I'm ready for the crew to be together fixing the galaxy. - naomi was horrible all season. obviously the emotions with her family were grating but even the cool macgyver stuff she was doing was like watching the torture porn in handmaid's tale. she was just so damn weepy, which is sad because she was so strong in the earlier seasons imo. were they trying to get her an emmy? jesus christ, it was grueling just to watch and that's with her doing some badass rescue shit. - alex's death --- wtf? so fucking random. can't really make sense of it. no emotions with it. felt like he was urgently written off or something; very strange. - the reporter girl is pretty cool, both in s3 (i think) and this one. i wish she had a reason to join the crew. - everything about amos is the best. i didn't remember he and the mao sister being all that close but i dig it. - not sure i really understand the martian betrayal and the details around that storyline. they traded support/weapons for the protomolecule + the doctor researcher guy so they could go to a new world? all because mars is undisciplined now or w/e? sort of bizarre. i never bought the "mars is falling apart because terraforming the world is useless when there's all of these other new worlds to discover", anyways glad i finished in time for s6. even watched a few of these episodes in prime video so hopefully they get the data for future things. edit w/ more - marco is a beautiful man. there were a few scenes where he starts giving a monologue on his ship and he looks like a model. he reminds me of the antagonist from 10 things i hate about you: https://i.insider.com/5c86a497eb3ce80814361953?width=1300&format=jpeg&auto=webp - the plot line with the nice guy taking over as un secretary general and then turning evil in two episodes was strange. - the very end of ep10 with avasarala giving her monologue to the partygoers (and roci people) was very, "the taliban hate us because we are free" and so it was horrible. pretty unexpected because i've found her character to be great up until then. - that little speech about how this was the future that marco hated was even dumber because it was like 99% inners and only a few martians at that. the only belter was the 'trophy girlfriend' character. - i kept thinking the second in command to fred johnson who became pilot on the roci would turn on holden or had something to do with the belters' plan. i don't trust him.
Alex was written off the show for reasons unrelated to the show. Fred Johnson's dude is probably replacing Alex because of that The Martians fell apart because terraforming is a really hard multigenerational process, and it seems stupid to continue when you can just fly to a new planet with air to breathe. That's really all it is. And "they" didn't trade for the protomlecule. A small sect of their military did. They are essentially a civilization built to fight a war that becomes irrelevant in an instant.
I always forget that Amazon drops eps the night before they’re scheduled to. Will watch tonight after the Blues game.
fwiw it wasn't indicated at all during the last season that the "free navy" essentially took control of the entire martian fleet especially not that they had the capability of building a donnager-type battleship that was a depressing way to start the season