Loved the Expanse. Getting into those books is somewhere on my list
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Submitted 8 months ago by Stamets@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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Infynis@midwest.social 8 months ago
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And you get to finish the series. Great books. And the audiobooks are fantastic
Stamets@startrek.website 8 months ago
Same here. There’s so many!
TheColonel@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Been listening to the audio books.
Totally worth it.
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
[deleted]Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 8 months ago
Yeah, once you start adding alien tech you break any limitations you had on the universe and it starts going deus ex machina.
zaphod@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Oh please they don’t “fall apart”. I’m not gonna claim the second two trilogies are as amazing as the first, but the entire series is damn good.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Me too! Great show and books.
Redhotkurt@kbin.social 8 months ago
Ugh I need to watch this show, but there's already so much stuff to watch
aubertlone@lemmy.world 8 months 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.ee 8 months 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 8 months 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.
aniki@lemm.ee 8 months ago
[deleted]ringwraithfish@kbin.social 8 months 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.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Is all of The Expanse so blue? I don’t remember it that way but I think it might be.
Stamets@startrek.website 8 months ago
A little bit, yea. Depends on the season and the location but they’re a fan of a specific type of lighting that gives this look.
AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’m in this meme and I very much approve.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 8 months ago
See, stuff like this is why Risa is the best community on Lemmy. Stamets, you’re a genius!
beccaboben@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Amazing!
istoff@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re not that guy. I am that guy.
sartalon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The actor is in the new Ahsoka series, but he’s one of the Night Troopers and so you never see his face. :/
cybervseas@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Amos giving us Gowron eyes…