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Season 3 Episode 2 - IFF, excellent!

posted 7 years ago by zeesha (1826)
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There are many highlights in this episode. The fatal high-G is obviously one of them. Also the last scene, the crew were stunned by the floating body of Christian held by Bobbie, is done beautifully.
Although, what really got me is the black humor hidden in the conversation between Praxideke Meng and Amos Burton (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Chatham):
Amos: "I don't know shit about parenting. But what I do know is that a kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what."
Prax: "You had someone like that?"
Amos grabbed Prax's shoulder in anger: "It's not about me. It's about you!"

[–] Ziggy (1913) 7 years ago

Agreed. I'm really looking forward to seeing Bobbie and Chrisjen on the Rocinante.

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

I really got to like this show, but the first two episodes of this current season are not doing it for me. Maybe it's just been so long I forgot what was going on since I speed-watched the first two episodes. There was too big a lapse between this last season for me. I am hoping it gets better though, and it probably will.

But that thing where the stuff is floating around loose in the cabin and they have to inject stuff into their blood before acceleration seems seriously silly.

[–] chefao (456) 7 years ago

Agree with the stuff floating around but what's so silly about injecting something in order to be able to survive ftl or whatever? At least it's an interesting new concept.

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

To me anyway it seems completely silly because there is no conceivable way you could put anything into anyone's blood that would make them able to withstand acceleration any better. It is not a biological issue, it is a physics issue. It reminds me a little of those stupid chairs in the Star Trek movies that would grab the thighs of the bridge crew ... it just seems stupid.

[–] zeesha (1826) 7 years ago

Maybe some drug that helps keeping them conscious?

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

That would explain the pilot, and co-pilot or working crew, but why would everyone need to remain conscious? Anyway, it doesn't matter, it's just a fantasy show, but it is billed as SciFi.

[–] chefao (456) 7 years ago

I don't remember if it has necessarily to do with ftl, but there's no physics solution to ftl anyways, so why not just inject the magic juice.

[–] brux (14840) 7 years ago

actually, now that I think about it, did they ever say it was faster than light? and we do not know for sure there is no way to go ftl. but, to me, there is just something i think is kind of buck rogers about injecting stuff like that ... for one thing, if we have no learned by now about putting stuff in people's bodies and its side effects, you'd think to sustain a system wide civilization and economy and no blow everything up we would learn not to do that. I think a jello bath would make more sense or like they do for jet pilots, pressurized suits, just something reasonable.