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Great show, BUT..

posted 8 years ago by warrenf_peace
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I LOVE the expanse - adult, Science Fact SciFi, and everything is done so realistically that I applaud the production team. I love the sets, the costumes (Terrific space suits, and as my dad was an Apollo space suit designer, I have an eye for these things..). The acting is terrific, although Holden is a bit too wooden.

My gripe is with this episode, 'Safe'. Did I see it wrong. or did the UNH Nathan Hale fire missiles at Phoebe Station?. This makes no sense in the writing, because it was the Martian Scirocco on the way to Phoebe who said "we can't let it fall into UNH hands". Of course, the shill at the Earth/ UN didn't want anyone to get to Phoebe, either. But for them to fire on Phoebe seems to play their hand, especially given that they were alleging Mars was "saber rattling". At the end of the episode, it is confirmed that the Martian ship Scirocco fired on Phoebe. Anyway, I found this line of the story backwards, but then again, I'm high as a kite.

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[–] my_name_is_lear 8 years ago

Watch it again - the Scirocco fired the missiles. They are just whipping past the Nathan Hale, not fired from it.

[–] warrenf_peace 8 years ago

Good idea, thanks, although I did re-watch the scene, and still it's confusingly done. But I'll watch it again - it's an excellent episode - in fact, the first two have been excellent (as was Season 1!!). It's really outstandingly produced, subtle in the important ways, and they don't browbeat the obvious (the sex anyway - the violence drags on a bit AT TIMES, but is usually just right.) But the science is Almost perfect, except for the fact that 'artificial gravity' is a key tech for actual space travel - this is how the ET craft work, like the spaceship in "Arrival" - also exceedingly well-done science/ sci-fi. I believe we either HAVE reverse-engineered their tech, or are reasonably close to doing so at present, so in 300 years, we'd better have this feature. The kind of G's pulled in episode 2 of this season would be too extreme for humans to endure - that's the main thing they don't pull off that well, because it's really hard to do so. Like when Fred Johnson blows the OPA guy out of the air lock - he falls down. Un-uh...)

Anyway, thanks for the comment. It's a great time to be a SciFi fan (and if those marketing idiots at the channel hadn't changed the spelling to that stoopid "SyFy", I'd bearly have ANYTHING to Komplane about!)..<sarcasm noted>

Peace!

Warren

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[–] my_name_is_lear 8 years ago

Actually, the direction the OPA guy falls is correct. The station is under spin, pressing the inhabitants against the floor. Therefore, he would fall out in the direction of the floor.

[–] warrenf_peace 8 years ago

GREAT explanation, but the way he falls still looks wrong.

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[–] MrSpock (286) 8 years ago

I think you got your answer, right? It was the scirocco that fired the missiles.