• @Stamets
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      • Naja Kaouthia
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        317 months ago

        Truth. I thought the show turned Naomi and Holden into twats but they did a pretty good job with Chrisjen. I’m still mad about the Arjun bamboozle. Arjun 1 is best Arjun.

        • @Madison420@lemmy.world
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          Yeah they chose weird edges to soften. Make Amos less intimidating and batshit? No sir, my boy is supposed to be a crayon eater restrained just barely by Naomi, Holden or his love for children.

        • @schmidtster@lemmy.world
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          197 months ago

          I feel like most of it comes from the lack of forced perspective in the show. You never really see stuff from certain characters angles like you do in the book.

          The show could only show a generic third person perspective, you never really got holdens insights from the chapters from his perspective, or Naomi’s from hers. So they kinda blurred together in the show I found.

          • Naja Kaouthia
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            127 months ago

            This is a good point. We never get that internal monologue from Holden like in the books. In the first season, at least, I feel Ike they stripped out that key component from Holden’s personality where he would talk before he would fight.

        • teft
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          Brian George Dr Bashir’s dad is a gem. I wish he had stayed as Arjun. That new guy felt so off.

        • @Kwakigra@beehaw.org
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          87 months ago

          Damn sex pests. That was so disappointing. He did some damage but hopefully his shitty behavior doesn’t ruin the part of the show he’s not in.

          • @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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            17 months ago

            I doubt the show will continue after this. In the books he continues to be relevant, as the group is separated for…reasons.

    • Chetzemoka
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      97 months ago

      I chose a deeper cut Expanse reference, but in truth I’m Avasarala in public, Naomi in my heart

  • Troy
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    527 months ago

    She is pretty much the best character on the show by virtue of being the best cast actor. Wow what a good choice. I give a close second to Amos.

    • @tobimai
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      177 months ago

      Also Drummer

    • @BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee
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      147 months ago

      Thomas Jane was also fantastic. Same with Jared Harris. Shame they couldn’t secure him for later appearances, his character is great and he did the belta accent so well.

        • @CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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          He really is. He was great as Moriarty opposite Robert Downey jr., and he killed it as Valery Legasov in Chernobyl.

          EDIT: He also had a short bit in a show called “Carnival Row”, I’d almost forgotten.

    • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      97 months ago

      interesting. I haven’t engaged in any online dialog about the expanse so maybe this is a super unpopular opinion but I felt the actor seemed really uncomfortable with the swearing and didn’t start off as that kind of character and just weirdly changed one episode

      Amos on the other hand was incredible. He, Drummer, Draper and Miller really carried that show.

  • Flying Squid
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    387 months ago

    I like how every modern Star Trek show just ignores the silly idea that everyone has given up swearing in the 23rd and 24th century.

    • gregorum
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      Most trek shows were on primetime network television. Once they went to streaming, the swearing came back. 

      Although, even during the primetime network era, we got plenty of alien swearwords, mostly in Klingon. One or two in Romulan.

      • Flying Squid
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        Yeah, but that was said in a movie where they could potentially have sweared as much as they wanted to. Or at least acknowledged that ‘dumbass’ wouldn’t be some shocking thing to a guy from the future.

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          True, however, we did get Data blurting out, “Oh, shit!” when Troi crashed the Enterprise saucer section into Veridian III in Star Trek: Generations.

        • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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          57 months ago

          Yeah, it’s like the transporters. They were originally made due to the limitations of making a TV show (budget didn’t allow a landing sequence every episode) but they’ve become an established part of the universe now.

        • gregorum
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          67 months ago

          SNW is getting better with its sense of humor.

          Now, PIC… apparently, the 25th century is the century of the potty mouth! It’s old man Picard and old man Riker dropping f-bombs left and right. Even old lady Seven getting in on the fun.

        • Pope-King Joe
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          57 months ago

          My favorite instance of swearing is in one of the TNG movies (can’t remember which one cuz it’s been forever) when the Enterprise is going down and Data looks up at the viewscreen and the land is coming up fast and he just shouts “Oh shiiiiiit!”

      • @Hasuris@sopuli.xyz
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        I like the old shows more because everyone acts appropriately to their rank and station. In the new shows a captain can go like “fuck this ima go punch someone and act super emotional and irrational” because that’s what a star fleet captain or anyone star fleet would actually do.

        Right. And nobody cares because he’s the best man for the job for some reason.

        • gregorum
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          77 months ago

          I also miss professionals exploring space, solving problems with science and diplomacy, engaged in intriguing stories that explored the complex moral and ethical issues of the day instead of just blowing shit up all the time and with some superficial lip-service pandering to certain social issues just to appease fans but without much more lasting presence than mere tokenism and self back-patting for the effort.

          • @gens@programming.dev
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            27 months ago

            Maybe that’s why i like voyager. Professionals trown into a hard situation. Although the maki were basically star fleet by episode 3.

            • gregorum
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              DSC: you want trans people to be seen in Trek? How about we make the only trans character a fucking ghost so they’re only visible to the only enby person in the galaxy, further isolating them both! How’s that for ‘being seen’? And, of course, because they’re both LGBTQ characters, they have to be in a tortured relationship. Sigh

              The queer characters in that show were written as queer first and people second, resulting in them just coming off as token caricatures rather than solid characters that feel like real people.

    • Blackout
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      287 months ago

      You can hear O’Brien cuss up a storm under his breath if you turn your volume up really loud

    • @MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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      127 months ago

      The lack of swearing wasn’t originally part of the “utopian ideal”, it was in fact censorship from the broadcasters.

      • Seven
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        77 months ago

        The universal translator autocorrect used to be turned up to high. Probably for the best.

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        Yeah, you’ve kinda just gotta suspend your disbelief. I’m going back and watching House for the first time since it ended, and it is RIDICULOUS how much these characters don’t swear at each other.

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          27 months ago

          Hugh Laurie deserved an Emmy for that alone. 

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    I hate her so much she was almost enough to stop watching my favourite show.

    Her voice and her character are terribly grating.