@blaineg
Thought maybe it was remote vitals on the team that took out Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi last week. Looked vaguely military to my eye… obviously I was WAAAAYY off!
@blaineg I have heard good things about the expanse but never seen any of it because I have not had cable since scifi chanced their name to SyFY(not a word) and murdered Stargate and Warehouse 13. So much hate lol.
Google says this is the final season. And only streaming on Amazon… Do you watch over there?
I could burn a prime offer if it’s all there and it works. And bingable.
Google says this is the final season. And only streaming on Amazon… Do you watch over there?
It was the final season of The Expanse. All 6 seasons are available to binge on Amazon Prime Video.
Great series, one of my favorites. So cool Amazon picked it up and ran with future seasons. But you gotta force yourself thru season 1 if you’re not a fan of mysterious weird shit. Then the amazing characters will have hooked you and the weirdness mostly recedes, allowing the characters to shine.
@blaineg@unksol I enjoyed it, even though they hacked the last season without tying up all the threads. (But I had to just grit my teeth and let it pass during each external deep space shot where a ship passes by with engines roaring. )
@blaineg@unksol Yeah, they did better than most TV/movies with the space SFX, but the roaring engines in a vacuum is just a pet peeve. And unless it figured into a plot point (or SFX showcase ), occasionally the zero/low-G thing was just conveniently ignored.
during each external deep space shot where a ship passes by with engines roaring.
In space, no one can hear you scream.
/image “in space no one can hear you scream”
And you might not have much air to breathe left after you do the screaming anyway
However in deep space, obviously,everyone can see the flame blast from explosions (even in the deepest of space where there would be no atmospheric elements)
@f00l@macromeh@unksol I just put the engine sound down to the pictured ship POV, or the magic sound conducting aether that ever other SF TV show & movie uses.
I had no problem at all with the first season of The Expanse, and the weirdness continues, and gets even weirder in later seasons/trilogies.
I hope the rumors of the final trilogy getting picked up for a show are true, there’s a lot of fun stuff there. There’s a 30 year gap in the chronology between book 6 & 7, so it does make sense to take a break here.
It’s not perfect, but they do a great job with physics and real-world limitations. The squishy humans are the limiting factor, not the ships. The only magic technology is of alien origin, and that easily falls into “sufficiently advanced” in my view.
There are some wonderful little moments portraying low-G and rotating “gravity”.
It’s all on Amazon, and the 6th season has five brief extras, so check the “X-ray” feature for them.
The books are also very well worth reading. I finished the 9th & last novel this week. There are also several short stories worth reading for more background.
@RedOak@unksol that’s what I said season 3 was when they really got going. Season 2 was when they had that horrible doctor who wouldn’t pronounce Data’s name right.
@RedOak@unksol Also, it was in syndication. Gene Roddenberry didn’t want the threat of cancellation hanging over THIS series. Same with DS9 & Voyager. I don’t know what idiot thought it wasn’t good enough for Enterprise, but that’s why it ended up getting cancelled - putting it on a struggling network that would fail anyway.
@blaineg@unksol@f00l Also, I was glad that Amazon offered the subtitle option for The Expanse episodes - some of the accents are pretty thick and riddled with Belter-slang.
The edit is choppy, but here’s a good intro to Expanse ship combat. Primary weapons are torpedos (missiles), and slug throwers for defense PDC (Point Defense Cannons). Railguns also exist, but are fixed mount, so you have to point the ship at the target.
There are no magic shields, and lasers are for communication, not weapons (too diffuse at long range).
@blaineg I dearly love the Expanse. I thought the books were better, because they include a lot more story, but the show is just wonderful. Just watching that clip made me want to run to the library tonight and check out the next season.
I mostly like Honor Harrington but haven’t finished the series. It even has a cat. Sort of.
I just started re-reading John Ringo’s Posleen War (aka Legacy of the Aldenata). I think I got two books in the first time around, and got distracted waiting for the third one to be released.
Military SF, set in next week (Ok, 2001, but time marches on). Suddenly we find out we’re not alone in the galaxy, and we’ve got 5 years until we’re on the dinner menu.
Here’s the whole list, skip it if you still want a challenge.
Really?
You were warned.
It’s a trap!
Bobbie Draper – The Expanse (duh)
Amos Burton – The Expanse
Gial Ackbar – Star Wars
Douglas Quaid – Total Recall
David Bowman – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Commander Shepard – Mass Effect
Duncan Idaho – Dune
Alex Rogan – The Last Starfighter
Jason Nesmith – Galaxy Quest
Edward Buck – Halo
Shaenon K. Garrity – Author
Ellen Ripley – Alien
Dwayne Hicks- Aliens
Jenette Vasquez – Aliens
William Hudson – Aliens
Joseph Cooper – Interstellar
John Anderton – Minority Report
Rick Deckard – Blade Runner
Jack O’Neill – Stargate
Lone Starr – Spaceballs
Louise Banks – Arrival
Kevin Flynn – Tron
Roy Neary – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
John Rico – Starship Troopers
Kara Thrace – Battlestar Galactica
Sarah Connor – Terminator
Ryan Stone – Gravity
William Riker – Star Trek
H. Ochiai, R. Levine – Not tributes, just script names, confirmed by crew
Probably open in another tab to be able to read them all.
I though you were only supposed to cross the streams for Gozer.
OK, Looks like mostly NSR on a telemetry board. Not sure of the significance of it though. Any relation to last week’s IS incursion??
@chienfou IS incursion?
@blaineg
Thought maybe it was remote vitals on the team that took out Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi last week. Looked vaguely military to my eye… obviously I was WAAAAYY off!
@chienfou It is military, just SciFi military, a status board for three landing parties.
Was I too subtle with the “all STAR crew” reference?
@blaineg
Nope… I’m just that
denseclueless!It’s an Easter egg from the final episode of The Expanse season 6. (No plot spoilers.)
All of the names are from various S-F media. I couldn’t identify them all without some help. Some are obvious though.
Anyone get 100% without cheating?
@blaineg I have heard good things about the expanse but never seen any of it because I have not had cable since scifi chanced their name to SyFY(not a word) and murdered Stargate and Warehouse 13. So much hate lol.
Google says this is the final season. And only streaming on Amazon… Do you watch over there?
I could burn a prime offer if it’s all there and it works. And bingable.
@unksol
It was the final season of The Expanse. All 6 seasons are available to binge on Amazon Prime Video.
Great series, one of my favorites. So cool Amazon picked it up and ran with future seasons. But you gotta force yourself thru season 1 if you’re not a fan of mysterious weird shit. Then the amazing characters will have hooked you and the weirdness mostly recedes, allowing the characters to shine.
@RedOak I can work with that and. Doesn’t every scifi story start that way?
Star trek TNG. So bad. But recovered.
@blaineg @unksol I enjoyed it, even though they hacked the last season without tying up all the threads. (But I had to just grit my teeth and let it pass during each external deep space shot where a ship passes by with engines roaring.
)
@blaineg @macromeh I had heard that ship design and inertia tracked so…
@blaineg @unksol Yeah, they did better than most TV/movies with the space SFX, but the roaring engines in a vacuum is just a pet peeve. And unless it figured into a plot point (or SFX showcase
), occasionally the zero/low-G thing was just conveniently ignored.
@blaineg @macromeh @unksol
In space, no one can hear you scream.
/image “in space no one can hear you scream”
And you might not have much air to breathe left after you do the screaming anyway
However in deep space, obviously,everyone can see the flame blast from explosions (even in the deepest of space where there would be no atmospheric elements)
And everyone can hear engines roar
Because special effects.
Hey, those effects guys need jobs.
/giphy special effects.
@f00l @macromeh @unksol I just put the engine sound down to the pictured ship POV, or the magic sound conducting aether that ever other SF TV show & movie uses.
I had no problem at all with the first season of The Expanse, and the weirdness continues, and gets even weirder in later seasons/trilogies.
I hope the rumors of the final trilogy getting picked up for a show are true, there’s a lot of fun stuff there. There’s a 30 year gap in the chronology between book 6 & 7, so it does make sense to take a break here.
It’s not perfect, but they do a great job with physics and real-world limitations. The squishy humans are the limiting factor, not the ships. The only magic technology is of alien origin, and that easily falls into “sufficiently advanced” in my view.
There are some wonderful little moments portraying low-G and rotating “gravity”.
It’s all on Amazon, and the 6th season has five brief extras, so check the “X-ray” feature for them.
The books are also very well worth reading. I finished the 9th & last novel this week. There are also several short stories worth reading for more background.
@RedOak @unksol TNG didn’t really hit it’s stride till Season 3. Had to be patient.
@Angelmaat @RedOak maybe… But season one was awful. I don’t recall season 2 and 3 beeing that bad. At least out of cancel territory
@RedOak @unksol that’s what I said season 3 was when they really got going. Season 2 was when they had that horrible doctor who wouldn’t pronounce Data’s name right.
@Angelmaat @RedOak
Eh. I did not hate Dr. Pulaski although Crusher is better
@RedOak @unksol Also, it was in syndication. Gene Roddenberry didn’t want the threat of cancellation hanging over THIS series. Same with DS9 & Voyager. I don’t know what idiot thought it wasn’t good enough for Enterprise, but that’s why it ended up getting cancelled - putting it on a struggling network that would fail anyway.
@blaineg @f00l @unksol
Not 2001: A Space Odyssey !
(And they did all their magic in the '60s, before most of today’s SFX technology!)
@blaineg @unksol @f00l Also, I was glad that Amazon offered the subtitle option for The Expanse episodes - some of the accents are pretty thick and riddled with Belter-slang.
@f00l @macromeh @unksol
RIP Douglas Trumbull, just last week.
The edit is choppy, but here’s a good intro to Expanse ship combat. Primary weapons are torpedos (missiles), and slug throwers for defense PDC (Point Defense Cannons). Railguns also exist, but are fixed mount, so you have to point the ship at the target.
There are no magic shields, and lasers are for communication, not weapons (too diffuse at long range).
@blaineg The FedEx deliveries are breaching pods full of boarding troops.
I love the detail of the glowing debris trails from the holes in the Rocinante remaining stationary until the ship moves.
@blaineg have you read honor herintong? She kicked a considerable amount of ass.
https://honorverse.fandom.com/wiki/Honor_Harrington
Same kinda thought process on using physis in space
@unksol Yep, the Honor Harrington novels are great. I like the way he structured his technology to make sailing ship combat in space work.
@blaineg I dearly love the Expanse. I thought the books were better, because they include a lot more story, but the show is just wonderful. Just watching that clip made me want to run to the library tonight and check out the next season.
I mostly like Honor Harrington but haven’t finished the series. It even has a cat. Sort of.
@cf1 I definitely want a Treecat.
@blaineg - now i have to go rewatch all these shows/movies. thanks jerk!
@carl669 Happy to help!
I just started re-reading John Ringo’s Posleen War (aka Legacy of the Aldenata). I think I got two books in the first time around, and got distracted waiting for the third one to be released.
Military SF, set in next week (Ok, 2001, but time marches on). Suddenly we find out we’re not alone in the galaxy, and we’ve got 5 years until we’re on the dinner menu.
@blaineg @carl669 I really liked those stories. There are a lot of plot points that really stuck in my head even a few years down the road.
Yeah this topic is a good list of stuff I might watch someday.
Spoilers for the easter egg!
Here’s the whole list, skip it if you still want a challenge.
Really?
You were warned.
It’s a trap!
Bobbie Draper – The Expanse (duh)
Amos Burton – The Expanse
Gial Ackbar – Star Wars
Douglas Quaid – Total Recall
David Bowman – 2001: A Space Odyssey
Commander Shepard – Mass Effect
Duncan Idaho – Dune
Alex Rogan – The Last Starfighter
Jason Nesmith – Galaxy Quest
Edward Buck – Halo
Shaenon K. Garrity – Author
Ellen Ripley – Alien
Dwayne Hicks- Aliens
Jenette Vasquez – Aliens
William Hudson – Aliens
Joseph Cooper – Interstellar
John Anderton – Minority Report
Rick Deckard – Blade Runner
Jack O’Neill – Stargate
Lone Starr – Spaceballs
Louise Banks – Arrival
Kevin Flynn – Tron
Roy Neary – Close Encounters of the Third Kind
John Rico – Starship Troopers
Kara Thrace – Battlestar Galactica
Sarah Connor – Terminator
Ryan Stone – Gravity
William Riker – Star Trek
H. Ochiai, R. Levine – Not tributes, just script names, confirmed by crew
@blaineg Alternate interpretation:
L. Starr — Lucky Starr from Isaac Asimov’s Lucky Starr book series.
@blaineg Also: