If you haven’t seen The Expanse then you’re doing yourself a disservice. Also yes, Amos is my favorite character.

Season 1:

Source: DominionMediaTV

    • aubertlone@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Hey listen.

      You don’t know me and vice versa.

      I cannot recommend The Expanse show any more strongly. There’s a lot of care put into the physics, world building, and characters. The whole show really is a grand ride.

      I would say try watching an episode or two. But in reality a lot of the first two episodes are setup. They’re amazing, but you’re still being introduced to the world. By the end of episode 4, I promise you’ll be hooked.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      One of the best in terms of realistic space physics.

      I can’t stand how they always show spaceships flying directly towards things. It’s like, that’s not where you would be burning to get there, and if you’re getting close you would be pointing the other way and burning retrograde, or else the Millenium Falcon is just going to crash straight into Yavin IV. The other one is stuff “falling out of orbit”, which makes little sense. If your orbit brings you into the atmosphere there’s not much you can do but ride through it and hope you don’t lose too much speed to not come out of it again.

      The one exception is the moon. It just so happens that if you’re in low Earth orbit you burn as the moon rises in front of you, then your apoapse will stretch out to the moon for an intercept with it further along its path.

      • ringwraithfish@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’m like that a lot too with anything in space, but Star Wars clicked for me when someone reminded me it was fantasy in space, not science fiction. Ahsoka really leaned hard into the fantasy and keeping that in mind helped me with suspension of disbelief.

        In other words, Star Wars technology is so different and advanced, we might as well consider it magic and not question when it goes against our normal understanding of physics.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah exactly, Star Wars is very light on the science part of scifi. Ahsoka was pretty boring though imo, I actually got GOT season 8 vibes from it - not from the writing so much (although it was a bit weak), but the way everything seemed so excessively choreographed. It’s like every step, every position, every arm fold is directed, leaving no room for the actors to actually act.

          But yeah, Star Wars gets a pass for being cool. Ad Astra annoyed the hell out of me, though, every rocket was going straight up from one place directly to another.

          • ringwraithfish@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            I enjoyed Ahsoka mainly because it built on the more fringe themes from Clone Wars and Rebels (the witches) and continued the Rebels character’s stories. I agree though that the choreography was pretty stilted. Maybe it’s a side effect of filming in the infinity stages they’ve been doing most of these shows in… lower budget, or maybe less room for standard camera angles, who knows.

            I had to Google Ad Astra, that’s how little it had an impact on me, lol. I remember seeing it in theaters, and the moon cowboy chase, but that’s about it.

                • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Probably just as well!

                  They were flying from the moon to Mars, but on the way stopped at a space station for reasons (because space physics says the station is at a static point in space in between Earth and Mars, and the rocket has no issue slowing down to rendezvous and speeding up again). Inside all the people were dead and some gorillas they were experimenting on had broken loose. It was so ridiculous and completely inconsequential to the film lol, and only 4 minutes long.

      • ringwraithfish@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I tried to listen to the audiobooks after watching the show. You’re definitely right, the show knocked it out of the park.

        I like that they ended it, but hope we get to see the story pick back up somewhere in the future. So many plot lines to continue exploring.