It's great - I've read all of the books and am eagerly awaiting season 2.
Their drive reminds me oh HEPLAR tbh
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On Feb 1, 2017, at 5:35 PM, Rob Davenport <xxxxxx@gmail.com > wrote:
I know - I was listening to a podcast about the interplanetary warfare and they started talking about The Expanse, it sounded intriguing and I found it on Amazon Prime Video - and I watched the first one and it was great. Can't wait to binge the first season! Seems very Traveller and I'm going to tell my group of new-to-Traveller players to watch. (Hint, hint, Timothy...)
Rob
On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Fred Kiesche < xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
- I knew I'd like the show, but when they did the flip-and-burn in the first episode--I shouted with joy.
- On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 16:35 Ken Matlock <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
- If you didn't know about the books, you probably don't know it is a SyFy (yeah yeah, I know) series, and staying pretty true to the books.
- Tonight is the 2 hour premier so you only have 10 episodes to catch up on (and IIRC it's on Netflix)
- Ken
- On Feb 1, 2017, 2:28 PM -0700, Timothy Collinson < xxxxxx@port.ac.uk>, wrote:
- Hi there,
- OK, why has no one told me about The Expanse before?!? Computing lecturer recommended it last week, I picked up the first one as I passed through a bookshop on the way home from work... well you do, don't you?... and am really loving it.
- Not quite Traveller of course with no artificial gravity and all in the Terra system (no Jump etc), but the plot and characters and descriptive bits feel very Traveller to me.
- Of course, I'm sure if I searched the archives I'd find it has been mentioned on TML so my apologies for not picking up on those hints then.
- And I was moderately amused yesterday, given the discussion in another thread, to read this:
- "Ships were small. Space was always at a premium, and even on a monster like the _Donnager_, the corridors and compartments were cramped and uncomfortable. On the _Rocinante_, the only rooms where Holden could spread out his arms without touching two walls were the galley and the cargo bay. No one who flew for a living was claustrophobic, but even the most hardened Belt prospector could recognize the rising tension of being ship-bound. It was the ancient stress response of the trapped animal, the subconscious knowledge that there was literally nowhere to go that you couldn't see from where you were already standing. Getting off the ship at port was a sudden and sometimes giddying release of tension."
- (page 212 in my Orbit Books paperback)
- Anyway, I'm off to buy the next volume (though I think I saw yet more...)
- tc
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