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I don't know if I'd say the get the technical details exactly right, as there are some concessions to story-telling over physics - the (probably) impossibly eff
by sillyquiet 6y ago
I don't know if I'd say the get the technical details exactly right, as there are some concessions to story-telling over physics - the (probably) impossibly efficient fusion drives, and the protomolecule is kinda magic sometimes, but it get is right enough, and way more so than any other sci-fi show I've seen.
- dharmab 6y agoIt's like Mass Effect. The mass effect phenomena is basically space magic, but most of the rest of the lore is realistic (aside from a few things like the quantum communicators in the third game).
- fullstop 6y agoShohreh Aghdashloo (Avasarala) was a voice actress in Mass Effect 2, so there's some additional relationships.
- Gatsky 6y agoThere is one scene where Avasarala comes aboard the Roccinante and is dressed in a white textured jumpsuit straight out of Mass Effect. The camera lingers slightly too long on her, it is a clear homage imo.
- dwohnitmok 6y agoEh... Mass Effect is fairly soft sci-fi and more of classic space opera. All these things happen in Mass Effect: Sounds in space, spaceships bunched way too close together, impossibly slow projectiles for space (especially the classic "blob of light/plasma thingy" traveling at what appears to be subsonic speeds), giant 18th-century infantry-style spaceship firing lines, in general heavy reliance on "spaceships as just extensions of naval warfare" trope, all alien communication neatly glossed over with universal translation, nearly universally bipedal humanoid aliens, etc. None of these are bad things! Mass Effect is simply much more similar in tradition to something like Star Wars or Star Trek than the Expanse.
- bentcorner 6y agoAgree - I love the show but the two nits I have with it are the sounds in space (engines/guns most notably, although it makes for a better show) and the fact that they can't film in zero-G. The weightless thing is obviously understandable but it's the kind of thing where you can't unsee the things they do to convince you there is no gravity (magnets everywhere!)
- yuters 6y agoOther nitpicky things: - Lights inside helmets to light up a person's face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it, but it makes complete sense in a tv series, as you definitely want to see the actor's face. - Transparent/Glass tablets & phones is still a complete mystery to me how this could be useful in any way... other than it "looks cool".
- musingsole 6y agoAre lights in a helmet dumb? Being able to see companion's facial expressions while not critical would be absolutely useful in day-to-day life in space - TV production reasons aside. On the transparent glass phones: "looks cool" is reason enough for most any consumer product. I haven't read the series, so I don't know if there is some lore explanation somewhere -- but --- if the technology is lying around as some component of a space habitat AND it looks cool, yeah, that tech is definitely going in a phone.
- leetcrew 6y agoif you have lights on one side of a piece of glass and the black void of space on the other, it turns the visor into a mirror for the wearer. not very practical.
- jon-wood 6y agoThe actual mechanics of phones aren’t really explored in the books, which I kind of like. Going into the physical design of them would be like a novel set in 2021 going into detail about the design of an iPhone. They’re also always referred to as hand terminals, which is so much of a better name for the devices we carry around and very rarely use as phones.
- futilehabit 6y agoWouldn't our science just be magic to our ancestors, too? I hope in 100 years there are things that seem impossible to me now and I enjoy when the fiction I consume reflects that.