Sunday, May 13, 2018

The Roci is impressive: she can do a 20 G hard burn and keep her fragile human crew alive and conscious.

The Roci is impressive: she can do a 20 G hard burn and keep her fragile human crew alive and conscious. And she has coffee.

It remains odd to me that some company was able to build stealth vessels able to take out the Martian flagship.That says a whole lot more about the geopolitics of the system than just about anything else.

The spaceships are as much characters as Miller or Julie. Maybe more so than Holden or Alex, but distinctly less than Amos, Bobbie Draper, Chrisjen, and Fred Johnson.

Those absolutely shine.
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  1. William NicholsMay 13, 2018 at 6:55 AM

    Oh, the story of Epstein! Nice.

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  2. Brian AshfordMay 13, 2018 at 7:39 AM

    It wasn't the same company that builds the sensors for the martian warships was it?

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  3. William NicholsMay 13, 2018 at 7:48 AM

    I'm not sure. At best, it'd be like Booze Allen taking out Gerald Ford with a drone Norad can't see.

    Which seems absurd.

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  4. Brian AshfordMay 13, 2018 at 7:58 AM

    It's possibly relevant that the ships are out on their own. Space Norad will maybe see what happened in two hours when the light reaches their closest array. And spaceships are fragile. So the company ship on need to get surprise and one good hit.

    I don't really remember the details though.

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  5. William NicholsMay 13, 2018 at 8:03 AM

    They have a pretty long fight in the show, Brian Ashford.

    Missles (fast movers), most of which get shot down by PDCs.
    Then rail guns. They get close enough for the rail guns.

    And the stealth ships shrug off the rail guns.

    So, it's even worse: It's like a battleshp hits you with the 16 inch guns, and you keep going.

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  6. Brian AshfordMay 13, 2018 at 8:05 AM

    Yeah, that doesn't work.

    Not that it bothered me when I watched it.

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  7. William NicholsMay 13, 2018 at 8:07 AM

    This is why I find science fiction hard to watch.

    Don't get me wrong: I love the politics of the belt versus mars versus earth. I love the protomolecule.

    And I do love the Roci. I love the emphasis on how bad for you a high G burn is.

    Just, sometimes, there's some problems.

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  8. Robert BohlMay 14, 2018 at 10:09 AM

    The science in books is stronger, but ultimately it's not a science show.

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  9. Gretchen S.May 14, 2018 at 11:24 AM

    There's almost always serious problems in SF, especially TV SF. The travel times are also hella weird in the Expanse, even with a paradigm-shifting hyper efficient drive.

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  10. Gretchen S.May 14, 2018 at 11:26 AM

    I do, however, like that they dug into the built environment and cultures. This show puts a lot of thought into culture.

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