JGP Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 I just hopped over to see if anyone updated this lol This makes me happy. Except for a ridiculous [and relatively minor] side plot that was served up to, I guess, heighten Edward's tension in the last episode around the Moon, S2 was fantastic. Gordo and Tracy still smarts. Super stoked. SpaceChampion and Spockydog 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Consigliere said: Season 3 premieres June 10. Not much of a trailer… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauberk Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 21 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: Not much of a trailer… I don't know... looks like a new age of cooperative exploration given the combination of US and Soviet (? did USSR break up in this timeline?) suits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted April 12, 2022 Share Posted April 12, 2022 3 hours ago, hauberk said: I don't know... looks like a new age of cooperative exploration given the combination of US and Soviet (? did USSR break up in this timeline?) suits. Did Russia invade Afghanistan in this timeline? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hauberk Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 On 4/12/2022 at 5:44 PM, Ser Scot A Ellison said: Did Russia invade Afghanistan in this timeline? They did not. In that timeline, they withdrew from the border in 1979. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 2 hours ago, hauberk said: They did not. In that timeline, they withdrew from the border in 1979. I doubt the Soviet Union collapsed in this timeline if that is the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Ser Scot A Ellison and Ran 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 I was coming to post this. So… they’ve got an Elon Musk character thirty years early? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 1 minute ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: I was coming to post this. So… they’ve got an Elon Musk character thirty years early? They've got a lot of stuff thirty years early. Can't wait for this. Loved season 2. Though that ending was brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 7 minutes ago, Spockydog said: They've got a lot of stuff thirty years early. Can't wait for this. Loved season 2. Though that ending was brutal. I’d still like more than a handwave explanation for the “nuclear shuttle”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 (edited) I am giggling at the characters this season who are in their late sixties or early seventies, and they have made zero effort to make them look that old. It's 30 years since Season 1, and quite ludicrous the actors look almost exactly the same. The Last Kingdom did the same thing, but it kind of got away with it because casual viewers aren't closely parsing the time frame. Here, where Season 1 was set in the late 1960s and Season 3 is set in 1995, it's much more obviously an issue. It was also a character point in Season 2, with an actor in his mid-twenties playing a teenager having a relationship with a woman in her mid-fifties, but played by an actress in her early thirties. Because nobody looked the age they were supposed to be, it didn't look as big a thing as they were trying to make out. 22 hours ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: I’d still like more than a handwave explanation for the “nuclear shuttle”. I don't mind the nuclear shuttle, which they can kind of say anything about because it's a new design. I have a much bigger problem with the standard space shuttle flying to the Moon and back, which is patently impossible: they do try to nod to it by saying it needs to refuel in orbit, but they ignore the fact it would still need the external fuel tank and it would need to refuel in lunar orbit as well, plus the speed it would need to hit the atmosphere with would be several times the shuttle's actual tolerance. If you wanted a reusable shuttle to go to the Moon and back, it would not resemble the actual Columbia-class in any way, shape or form. Edited May 17, 2022 by Werthead Ser Scot A Ellison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Season 3 Premiere has Dropped on Apple+. It’s solid. JGP, SpaceChampion and Spockydog 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Is it me or does the kid who plays Danny look like the Pharma bro Martin Shkreli? JGP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Outstanding opening episode. A slow start but then it turns into Towering Inferno but on the 2001: A Space Odyssey Space Station One. Brilliant tension, even if Spoiler they don't explain why the carousel starts slowing down so fast the second the thruster cuts out. I'm assuming friction with the supporting mechanism would slow it, but not that fast. Decelerating so fast through another mechanism like brakes would probably tear the station apart. I'm also not sure why Ed is in the running for the Mars mission at 60. Danielle at 48 I can buy. JGP and hauberk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 4 hours ago, Werthead said: Outstanding opening episode. A slow start but then it turns into Towering Inferno but on the 2001: A Space Odyssey Space Station One. Brilliant tension, even if Hide contents they don't explain why the carousel starts slowing down so fast the second the thruster cuts out. I'm assuming friction with the supporting mechanism would slow it, but not that fast. Decelerating so fast through another mechanism like brakes would probably tear the station apart. I'm also not sure why Ed is in the running for the Mars mission at 60. Danielle at 48 I can buy. Spoiler The “ventral thrusters” never stopped firing to attempt to counter the main thruster. Without that counterbalance shouldn’t it slow down pretty quickly? Given the damage to the station shouldn’t they have shut off the rotation completely to effect repairs? JGP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 They're going to run with the taboo plot and I want to say everything else is so good that I'm ok with that, but I'm just not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 8 hours ago, JGP said: They're going to run with the taboo plot and I want to say everything else is so good that I'm ok with that, but I'm just not. Eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: Eh? Spoiler Karen and Danny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 11 minutes ago, JGP said: Hide contents Karen and Danny. Spoiler Yeah… that’s pretty… off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGP Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 (edited) 15 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: Reveal hidden contents Yeah… that’s pretty… off. It's kind of bizarre, honestly. There have been very few subplots that haven't revolved around the subject matter of the show. I mean, even when Gordo lost himself there for a while it was still adjacent to the program. Spoiler If it's just to add tension and/or goad Ed into growth, as it appeared end of last season, I dunno. I don't hate it. Just feels like a very strange writing turn. So far. Edited June 12, 2022 by JGP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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