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aveserala quite literally pulling the 'I know your mother young man' card :D some top quality Aveserala over all and cotyar not dead but alive and well, chokin mans then playing the hardcase to the UNN. A more politicking focused episode overall but that is the good shit also, President Pliable notwithstanding
 
I'm worried that the plot disregarded speed of light communications during the

rail gun misfire incident

The delay in events seems to be much shorter than the distance between participants in light-minutes...


Otherwise, another cracking episode. Please don't kill this show, TV gods.
 
The showrunners freely admit it's the one thing they totally ignore in the face of making it even possible to shoot a coherent show. Even with the... unobtainium drive, or whatever it's called, transit times between places would be in weeks and months. You could pull it off in a novel, but not on-screen. That little spin last season with using gravity slingshots and whatnot would take months just to hop a few moons.
 
Chz said:
The showrunners freely admit it's the one thing they totally ignore in the face of making it even possible to shoot a coherent show. Even with the... unobtainium drive, or whatever it's called, transit times between places would be in weeks and months. You could pull it off in a novel, but not on-screen. That little spin last season with using gravity slingshots and whatnot would take months just to hop a few moons.
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Nah, the travel times are pretty realistic. If you can accelerate at 1G constantly, you can go REALLY fast. You can go 5AU in 5 days. The slingshot thing was half way through VFX production when they realised it made no sense and just had to let it slide.

The issue I had was about how the
5th missile platform seemed to know that the others had been destroyed and therefore got a shot off before being hit
but thinking about it they were all actually much closer to Earth and stealthed, rather than far enough away for the delay to matter.
 
if you are in a position to speak truth to power then that is what you should do, not help it with its homework and sugar coat its lies

and president pliable fucking did the strike anyway! audible sighs of relief as it was just a few mill south americans. Pro bombs man who later guilt tripped speech writer over causing the presidents hesitation (nice work dickhead) literally says it to her 'he'll need you now more than ever' thats right, Jimminy fucking Cricket, go wipe his tears. You're our shield of conscience that the man requires. Bleurgh.
 
Only twigged later that the credulous Captain was the former admiral who quit the SG's cabinet in S2 and had make up drink with Avasarala afterwards.
 
More cracking stuff. That closing scene!

I do like the way that tense situations can be diffused by talking in this show.
The desperate ensigns felt like a genuine threat, but they weren't stupid enough to go down in a hail of bullets.
Erinwright can fucking do one. President Pliable (©dotty) too, the spineless fraud.
 
the opener was amazing
the salvage of spaaaace mormonsville just killed it, the drone engine swarm.
Aveserala line of the show 'I'm wearing the skin of my enemy' whereas Amos gets top marks for 'did I miss it?', somehow stealing the scene from my gf Gunny.


I was amused that the guy running doctor evil did a volte face from last week's 'we are torturing children!' to this weeks 'yep, this is too important to stop with this one'.
 
Awesomeness again everyone,

It's all out now, dodgy admiral is gonna get the back of the head off the, get's knocked back down the stairs, drunk the fucking coolaid, 2 episode new character.
 
I see amos is helping Dr. Hydroponics in his quest to become a hard man.
I'm wondering if a major character will die, I think they will and my money is Averserala. Also:
 
This seems daft considering it's not on Netflix et al yet.

Syfy should take a leaf out of HBOs book and make sure it's aired everywhere same day/next day!
 
I don't think SyFy themselves saw much of the streaming money.

I've found out that Amazon streams S1-3 in the US, which might bugger up negotiations for a streaming service to buy it outright :(
 
fuck :( this is such a brilliant show, it must get picked up by someone else, but I guess it won't have the same budget if it's picked up by another network (I've torrented all the episodes then watched them at least once on netflix but it seems like my netflix viewings won't have helped pay for the show to continue). Hopefully netflix can buy it outright despite the amazon us agreement. I need more Amos.
 
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