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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 8, 2015 18:15:26 GMT -5
A new series on SyFy. Interesting for several reasons.
1) They released the entire pilot episode for free via streaming video, three weeks before the episode airs. That's an interesting marketing strategy.
2) The series of books is pretty good (although I got a little burned out on them and stopped reading partway through the fourth book). The first book in the series is called Leviathan Wakes and is a mixture of science fiction, detective story, and horror genres.
3) I watched the pilot episode, and it seemed like it was very well done.
4) This is a "near future", realistic science setting. Mostly it is set in space in the asteroid belt and the outer planets. There is no artificial gravity or faster-than-light travel, no "beam me up" magic, etc. (Ships do, however, have much more effective and efficient engines than today's technology.) The human population is made up of Belters, Earthers, and Mars. Earth has the most resources, Mars has the best weapon technology, and the Belters have the home field advantage, but are pretty dominated by Earth and Mars.
5) It's on SyFy and it's not "Sharknado"-level junk.
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Post by hellenallen on Dec 10, 2015 4:20:43 GMT -5
Thanx for this information!)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 6:20:54 GMT -5
Really good series. I liked it a lot. Thanks for the lead. So far episode 1-4 are available and they got better and better. Can't wait for the rest of the episodes. Looks like 5-10 are coming in January.
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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 17, 2015 14:02:03 GMT -5
It's been a while since I read the book, but I didn't remember any "debris field" or four-hour time limit for air. I think that was added to change the story a little and make things more visual.
In the book they have two kinds of fusion drives. One is super-efficient, which is why they can get to places in the outer solar system so quickly -- they can thrust all the way there without having to carry an inordinate amount of reaction mass. The other is what they call "tea kettle drive" -- more or less the kind of reaction drive that we could make today. It's much slower. The lifeboat only had the tea kettle drive.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 22:54:16 GMT -5
There is a good forum for finding all kinds of TV shows and movies for free. It's called "Warez-BB.org" but you have to be a member in order to see all the categories.
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Post by mikegarrison on Dec 19, 2015 16:00:27 GMT -5
So today I watched episodes 3 and 4. I liked them. It was nice to finally see the Roci (even though they haven't given it that name yet).
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Post by c4ndlelight on Jan 3, 2016 1:34:17 GMT -5
I just watched the first 4 episodes. I'm a fan so far. Let's hope they finish strong.
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Post by mikegarrison on Jan 3, 2016 3:25:38 GMT -5
I just watched the first 4 episodes. I'm a fan so far. Let's hope they finish strong. I think it will probably surprise you where they take this story. I know it surprised me when I read the book. BTW, I heard SyFy just picked up a second season for the show.
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Post by mikegarrison on Jan 7, 2016 2:31:38 GMT -5
Episode 5 was interesting. There was a lot more there about Anderson Station than was in the book.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 13, 2016 22:51:52 GMT -5
Waiiiit a minute! I just finished watching the end of Season 1 and they didn't go all the way to the end of the first book! And the next season won't start until next January?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 6:11:03 GMT -5
I didn't read the books. What's the deal with that weird hand grabbing the spy and pulling him up at the end of ep. 10?
Too many things left unexplained in the TV series for the casual viewer. I had to read up on a wiki site just to keep up with the various names of ships and places and figure out what's going on.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 15, 2016 11:07:26 GMT -5
I didn't read the books. What's the deal with that weird hand grabbing the spy and pulling him up at the end of ep. 10? You'll find out. Be thankful that they skipped a concept from the book: "vomit zombies". In the book, the infected and irradiated people started walking around infecting other people by projectile-vomiting a brown goo onto them. The closest we got to that in the show was when one drooled on that one guy in the tunnels.
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 15, 2016 16:04:54 GMT -5
Spoiler Warning: . . . . . . . . (The bad guys deliberately fed all those people to the "protomolecule" in order to see what would happen. And what happened to that spy was part of the result. It has intelligence, of a sort. They found it on Phoebe, which is a moon of Saturn that probably came from outside the solar system and was captured by Saturn's gravity. So they are guessing the protomolecule is from elsewhere ... and they are right.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 16:51:19 GMT -5
Spoiler Warning: . . . . . . . . (The bad guys deliberately fed all those people to the "protomolecule" in order to see what would happen. And what happened to that spy was part of the result. It has intelligence, of a sort. They found it on Phoebe, which is a moon of Saturn that probably came from outside the solar system and was captured by Saturn's gravity. So they are guessing the protomolecule is from elsewhere ... and they are right.) Thanks, I like spoilers (with the exception of sports scores for matches, which I've recorded to watch later). I was under the impression that the protomolecule was created by the old man Nagata's company?
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Post by mikegarrison on Feb 15, 2016 17:15:17 GMT -5
Spoiler Warning: . . . . . . . . (The bad guys deliberately fed all those people to the "protomolecule" in order to see what would happen. And what happened to that spy was part of the result. It has intelligence, of a sort. They found it on Phoebe, which is a moon of Saturn that probably came from outside the solar system and was captured by Saturn's gravity. So they are guessing the protomolecule is from elsewhere ... and they are right.) Thanks, I like spoilers (with the exception of sports scores for matches, which I've recorded to watch later). I was under the impression that the protomolecule was created by the old man Nagata's company? You are confusing Julie Mao with Naomi Nagata. Jules-Pierre Mao is Julie's dad. No relation to Naomi. And no, they didn't invent it. They just found it on Phoebe. Phoebe orbits Saturn in the opposite direction of all the other moons and in a strange inclination, which is why we are pretty sure it came from somewhere else and was captured. In this story, that turns out to definitely be the case.
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