![]() ![]() Do any of us really believe they are dead? I have a feeling the protomolecule has kept their essence alive. Was Solomon’s experiment connected to what happened to Eros?īack at the UN Security Council on Earth, Avasarala wants a team sent to Venus to investigate what’s left of Eros…and maybe Miller and Julie. What does this have to do with Eros? Find out after the jump.Īlthough Solomon Epstein doesn’t survive, what we do know is that his experiment allowed Mars to travel further out into space to not only colonize the belt, but mine the asteroids. Solomon’s experiment backfires and he’s speeding off into space at a dangerous speed. Solomon Epstein is trying to improve the fuel efficiency for his space ship. A 50/50 blend of Wes Chatham and Steven Strait would just about fit.īut it feels pretty unfair to hold that against Steven Strait.On this episode of “ The Expanse“, we get to flashback 137 years to meet an engineer living on Mars. The only thing he's lacking is the physicality - in book 4 (easily the weakest in the series, btw, but power through it because 5 is the best), we get a Holden-fangirl PoV and her detailed description of him is more country-singer-esque than anything. Steven Strait's performance is actually note-for-note perfect in terms of matching the character's idealism/pragmatism transition and general growth in the books. Which is kind of a gimme as far as leadership setups go. So we're watching the Jon Snow character arc play out from the top, only this time it's a little more believable because instead of somehow convincing a couple hundred hard-scrabble arctic warriors to follow him, he just has to convince:ġ) The girl who is in love with him and who, while absolutely more intelligent than him, has made it clear she doesn't want to make big life and death decisions for other people.Ģ) The guy who will follow said girl anywhere, but is increasingly willing to also accept Holden as a surrogate conscience.ģ) The fairly passive guy who is willing to take orders from anyone who lets him continue to fly something sexier than an ice freighter. That would be true even if one of the authors wasn't GRRM's assistant, which he is. Here's the thing about Holden: prior to Kit Harrington's turn as Jon Snow, it wouldn't have worked for me at all, but now I've been conditioned to accept it because there's an existing archetype.Īnd Holden is absolutely, positively, 110% Jon Snow In Space. Given Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), I'd be surprised if they weren't huge fans of the Mass Effect games. Mass Effect was released in 2007, Leviathan Wakes was released in 2011. Mogur - the homology to Mass Effect's Husks is remarkably apt. Most spec fi for this level of technology combat generally posits that these extraordinarily brief windows of activity would primarily be controlled by computers given human-programmed parameters beforehand. Sort of like submarine battles only that when stuff doesn't happen, it doesn't happen for much much (much much) longer and when stuff does happen it happens far faster and more lethally. The space combat is pretty stylized, but I don't know if Newtonian realistic space combat could be very entertaining. ![]() I have a strange huge affinity for seeing gas giants in the local sky - got a nice dose of Jupiter porn this episode. The "three kinds of people" conversation was. I thought that the "like a sister" conversation was hillarious, too asperity, but I like this scene for the economy of character reveal. It's been so long, I can't remember if this was in the novels (and was it supposed to be the same Diogo who pulls the stunt later, after the big event?).Īmos tooling that belter and wasn't even breathing hard, then just walks off as if nothing happened. That Epstein hadn't done pre-burns or remote burns before (or that the efficiencies achieved were at least two orders of magnitude greater than he had expected) strains credulity for the sake of story.Ībsolutely love that hat cop (Miller) is now a cultural icon (at least, if only to Diogo). Appreciated his arm breaking as a consolation prize. The zero gravity effects for the Epstein flashbacks was a bit better, but the acceleration effects couldn't go there.
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