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I recently caught up with season 1 and was impressed minus the increasingly repetitive "down on their luck lovable rogues against global (in this case stellar) conspiracy." At least in this one the rogues are actually lovable, the plotting is solid, and world of the show feels real and alive. I'm up for another season even if I don't get to see it till it hits DVD.
I'd love to see a full blown space battle at some point. The scenes in Season 1 with the Donnager were a nice treat. I like the star ship designs, and some serious research went into the way ships and space work. Props.
The Expanse and Dark Matter are filling the hole made for quality SF.
n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
"Real" space battles would be rather tedious. Positioning, positioning, positioning, fire torpedoes, boost like hell and hope you hit them/don't get hit in return.
They showed enough of it - with the gung-ho Mickies and their simulator training up against a foe who knew how to fight.
The earth forces would probably be in a similar position. Because neither has been in a war for a while (none of the martian crew would have remembered it - bar maybe the captain and Lopez.).
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
If no-one is watching it, it wouldn't have got renewed.
I've got several friends who have only just discovered it (I saw the first teaser back in 2015 and started watching it in December of that year). We only have S1 downunder on netflix atm but some of us have that and the 8 episodes of s2 that have been screened so far.
I'll be converting some more friends next weekend.
Quote from one of them:
"Hey, isn't that cop the guy who played the Punisher?"
To which I replied "In the only good film, yes."
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
In a universe where there exists a dolph lundgren punisher film, yes. The Thomas Jane one is superior (John Travolta notwithstanding). The dolph movie sucked donkey scrotum.
I don't watch superhero tv shows so they don't count (and the direct to video punisher film also doesn't count). War-something?
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
I'm watching it.. the first season was kinda cool but kinda meh, but the second season has been much better. It's nice seeing real sci fi on the sci fi channel for a change.
