The Expanse Season 2

[MadAmosMalone]

The impression I got about the juice thing was that it was, as you said, a way of keeping them together under high-G maneuvers. I remember they did a hard "turn and burn" in a season one ep and had to use it then. It reminded me, a little, of something I read once. I think it was a Ben Bova novel where the occupants of a space ship were living onboard in a sorta oxygenated liquid (not unlike that shown in the movie, The Abyss) in order to keep from being smeared into jelly by the ship's powerful engines.

Like you, I'm gonna hafta rewatch season one (in fact the whole series up to this point) to see if there was something I missed. I thought it was a good episode from the standpoint of being exciting to watch, what with the race against time and the missiles and the threat to Earth and all that. But, on the other hand, one of the things I liked best about this show was there was no Clarketech to be seen in it. Then the Protomolecule takes over Eros. Ok, I was fine with that but then it moved the asteroid... and I was fine with that too. Then it blew the Rocinante's doors off and Miller wasn't feeling the gravity from it? The Roci's crew were plastered into their chairs and still losing ground to it and yet Miller was up walking around with his nuke like it was no biggie. They even lampshaded it by out-and-out saying it violated the laws of physics. The whole scenario just seemed wildly out of character for this show.

[lsgreg]

Yeah, I thought of the Miller not being plastered against the wall in high g-forces, but I was taking one thing that bothered me at a time. In fact, the whole inside seemed to be not affected by the speed. I guess the protomolecule is gonna be the "Dune Spice" of the series. If you can't explain it, just say the spice does it. Though in Dune Frank Herbert used as a plot device to not bog you down in how things work.

[MadAmosMalone]

Maybe it's like in Babylon 5. In that show, the alien races all (except the Narns I think) had some near-magical artificial gravity tech but the Earthers had to work in "real world" physics so they had spin-gravity on everything. Likewise, in this show, if it's "alien" then we can't hope to understand it, just know that it can do things we can't.

[ORCACommander]

the go juice is used in s1 but only infrequently. it is some sort of drug cocktale and blood agents that allows you 2 stay conscious and survive g forces that would normally kill you,

in the book, the protomolecule was never intended to work with sophont organics. which is why its being so screw ball. Julie left a large impression on it and so the molecule kinda adopted bits of julie. in the book the impression is clearer that Proto Julie becomes self aware and that she is about to destroy the earth and thus diverts for venus. Miller helped protojulie realize this.


its not strictly out of character, Humanity is not in clarke tech phase, However the protomolecule's creator's are and would likely register on the Kardeshev scale and and past us on the singularity scale. you will see soon enough

[lsgreg]

Okay, new episode. I love Sam Huntington cameo/flashback. Wish he was added to the cast, but it doesn't look that way. So we are led to believe the Martian Marines and their Navy are suppose to be elite and badasses. Why are they always getting decimated? The ending kinda confirmed what I thought. There were aliens or another protomolecule based lifeform in our solar system. This was an enjoyable episode. It is definitely intriguing, and there is a lot of potential heading into the second half of this season.

[ORCACommander]

its important to note that neither navy nor the ground forces were at combat ready levels of alert.

As for the protosoldier hehehehehehe

[MadAmosMalone]

What is that pill the Martians are always taking? The one guy said "it sharpens your mind" didn't he? What does it do?

[MadAmosMalone]

Really gut-wrenching episode tonight. Wow. Just had to comment about that. I don't really have anything to add, just really hard to watch that one scene.

[lsgreg]

Yeah, I agree. I don't know what that pill is. I am not familiar with the books so I don't have an explanation. I jokingly call it a "Coffee" pill with concentrated caffeine. I am enjoying the new season so far. There were some hiccups to begin with, but it has me hooked. I hope we haven't seen the last of the Thomas Jane character.

[MissKittyFantastico]

I'm an episode behind, but boy howdy am I adoring Admiral vas Sexyvoice (Avasarala for the non-Mass Effect fans). Her fire and brimstone speech to Errinwright was magnificent to behold - I wouldn't even have questioned it if the shadows started flowing up the walls behind her like when Gandalf loses his cool.