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Having read the books, one thing I was confused about was the sequence on the planet, with the weird dog things and animals (then boy) that get brought back to life with the proto molecule.

It's a while since I read that book but from memory was that sequence in them? I definitely found it a bit confusing in the TV series, and questionable whether it was needed (was it to connect to Marcos getting hold of the proto molecule or something?)

I did wonder if it was a sequence from a later book, and they included it in this series to leave a couple of hooks there - just in case there was another series some years down the road.

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Given how little the molecule featured in this season, I kind of imagine it was just to remind you it was a thing and not gone since it was their extra fantasy sci-fi hook.

 
   
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 Pacific wrote:
Having read the books, one thing I was confused about was the sequence on the planet, with the weird dog things and animals (then boy) that get brought back to life with the proto molecule.

It's a while since I read that book but from memory was that sequence in them? I definitely found it a bit confusing in the TV series, and questionable whether it was needed (was it to connect to Marcos getting hold of the proto molecule or something?)

I did wonder if it was a sequence from a later book, and they included it in this series to leave a couple of hooks there - just in case there was another series some years down the road.


It's a standalone short story, not from the mainline novels. It's there to lay the foundation if/when a future Laconia project happens, and help close out some of the S5 story threads about the Martian defection.

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The dog things (repair drones) are from the short story "Strange dogs" - which is set around that time - not from the main novels.

They were dormant on Laconia (because protomolecule tech on all the worlds in the ring gate system did this after the "war" that killed off the 'ring builders' ). When the martians brough an active protomolecule sample back on-world, they - like other Proto-tech left behind, started to 'wake up'. Like the "orbital shipyard factories" (the books call them "the stick moons").

This is where Laconia built (technically, got the yards to 'grow' them) the enhanced railguns that were used on the Sol gate station and where their battleships are being built.

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Having not read the books, I am glad I came across this thread, the bit with the “dogs” made little sense to me… now I get it. So thanks for that. 👍

I do hope a new series gets made to the same level of quality covering the future developments with the Laconians.

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How dare you, sir! Getting my hopes all up that there was new news or something and then dashing them quite expertly!

 
   
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 AduroT wrote:
How dare you, sir! Getting my hopes all up that there was new news or something and then dashing them quite expertly!


*bow*

It is one of my skills apparently.

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The "repaired" kids are an important step in how the protomolecule tech adapts and learns.

From the 'vomit zombies' on Eros, to the more self-aware Protoform Juli Mao, the "enhanced" child weapons, the "investigator" recovering from vestiges of Miller caught in the gestalt of the protomolecule; to Kara and Xan, the kids in "Strange Dogs".

If they do ever make the remaining books into more of the TV show, I really hope they're as close to the story as this past 6 seasons were.
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Poor Amos

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If y’all’s are interested this is getting the continuing comic treatment, picking up where the show left off. No idea how close it’ll follow book plot, but it’s definitely using the show’s given the referenced character death.

The Expanse: Dragon Tooth, issue 1 of 12, came out this week.

 
   
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Alas, no comic store within a reasonable distance of me (which is a 2 1/2-3h drive each way.)

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