Her name is Drummer (Cara Gee). It looks like she's been bumped up to series regular billing, IIRC.
The Expanse Season 3
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Her name is Drummer (Cara Gee). It looks like she's been bumped up to series regular billing, IIRC.
No, she was still in the guest cast. Last one listed in fact.
Ah, okay. Got my wires crossed. I'm so used to seeing credits in the first act instead of the main titles that I mixed them up.
The rating is in!!! 0.653 which is higher than all but one of the episodes in season 2. Let's compare apples to apples though - it's actually a decrease over the season 2 premiere and about half of the series premiere. If it wasn't for Netflix paying for it, this show would be right on that bubble line for cancelation.
I generally concur. The one thing that I thought hit it out of the park though was Alex's monologue in the message to his family.
Was it just me, or did a lot of the performances seem weirdly off in the first half of the episode? Or maybe it was just the dialogue seemed weirdly stilted. I could just be not "in the groove" considering how long it had been off the air, but it took me some time to adjust.
Bwahahaha! I had forgotten that! Both my "title" and Location are more reference to the song Cygnus X-1 by Rush. But then the traveler in that song was on a rather quixotic mission, just like Holden seemed to claim for himself.Psst..... Going to have to change the name in your "Location" ...
Hope no one was waiting on news from Venus. Otherwise, a good opener for the season. It looks like they're abandoning the "realistic" look for wham bang scifi hardware/action, at least in the first episode. I hope the rest of the season is a little less of the action stuff and cool hardware and more of the subtlety and thoughtfulness of the first two seasons. Either way it's still a good show.
Aside from the opening "overview" animation, which greatly exaggerated the scale of spacecraft and stations relative to the planets they orbited for the sake of visibility, I didn't see any diminution of realism compared to prior seasons.
Darn, like last year Netflix UK seem to not have this available at the moment. I'll probably have to wait until late summer or autumn again. I won't stear clear of this thread though as I've read all the main novels. It's interesting to see how the adaptation deviates from those.
In what way?
Nothing jumped out at me as being wizz-bang.
If you're talking about Julie Mao's racing ship that was aboard the Yacht, those fuckers are fast and sleek and straight out of the books.
Last year, it was all in one drop on netflix. I wish it would drop at the same time for the rest of the world. Around 6 months later or so.
Enjoyed the first episode, but looking forward to next week.
Enjoyed the first episode, but looking forward to next week.
I thoroughly enjoyed the S3 premiere. It took me a bit to get back into the swing of things, remembering who was who and what was what, but once I did the show's vibe felt much the same as before, and that's a good thing. it struck a very nice, taut balance between action, narrative development, and character moments. (Indeed, on that last front, the writers and actors make really effective use of downright minimal bits of dialogue and interaction to convey some strong emotional beats.)
I haven't read the books the show is based on, and I don't know how much it deviates from the source material. I can certainly say, though, that it seems like there's a clear long-term plan for the plot and the characters. And every time the stakes get raised (or changed), it seems like a logical, even inevitable development of what's been set up before.
Plus, the show just looks fantastic. I wish DSC looked this good.
At the end of the day it's still space opera... but it's mature, intelligent, thought-provoking space opera. Can't complain about that.
(Honestly, my only real gripe about this show is some of the accents. I often feel the need to either rewind a scene or put on the captions just to make out what certain characters are saying.)
I haven't read the books the show is based on, and I don't know how much it deviates from the source material. I can certainly say, though, that it seems like there's a clear long-term plan for the plot and the characters. And every time the stakes get raised (or changed), it seems like a logical, even inevitable development of what's been set up before.
Plus, the show just looks fantastic. I wish DSC looked this good.
At the end of the day it's still space opera... but it's mature, intelligent, thought-provoking space opera. Can't complain about that.
(Honestly, my only real gripe about this show is some of the accents. I often feel the need to either rewind a scene or put on the captions just to make out what certain characters are saying.)
It's weird, the way the Belters talk is actually much more difficult to follow in the novels than it is in the show.
Doesn't seem weird to me. In the novels, you have time to pore over the dialect and figure it out. In TV, you have to understand it in real time. So it's natural that they'd simplify it for the show.
That's the thing, they didn't simplify it for the show. It's the same, just when I read it, I have a lot more time following all the twisted words originating from various languages moreso than when I hear it. Although, I suspect I'm likely just blanking my attention when the weird talking starts up, which is easier to do with something you hear vs something you're reading.
Oh, I see what you mean.
Or maybe it's the actors' interpretation, the tone and emotion they put into the unfamiliar words, that helps you understand the underlying meaning. Like with Shakespeare, or Star Trek technobabble.
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