What Are You Watching Now

I mean season one was OK - but definitely not the best SciFi out there. I suppose if hard science type stuff is more important to you, then perhaps - as the show seems to mostly build upon our current tech levels, and rarely makes leaps of technology magic (the cellphones are an obvious exception).

I do feel they glossing over the whole - time it takes to get places though. even at 1 G, the minimum time to get to Mars from earth is 3 days, yet the show seems to make that happen in mere hours of store time, yet - they talk about the time delay in receiving signals from one to the other.

Meh - it's SciFi.

pmoncho

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm on season two of The Expanse and it's finally really grabbed my attention.

I mean season one was OK - but definitely not the best SciFi out there. I suppose if hard science type stuff is more important to you, then perhaps - as the show seems to mostly build upon our current tech levels, and rarely makes leaps of technology magic (the cellphones are an obvious exception).

I do feel they glossing over the whole - time it takes to get places though. even at 1 G, the minimum time to get to Mars from earth is 3 days, yet the show seems to make that happen in mere hours of store time, yet - they talk about the time delay in receiving signals from one to the other.

Meh - it's SciFi.

It took about 5 episodes into the first season to grab my attention. It held it since, so if your grabbed now, it will continue.

I have a few issues with all of SciFi, especially around communications. I love it when space travel takes months to go "small" distances but they are able to have full real-time hologram conference calls across galaxies. Its TV, so I get over it. LOL

Dashrender

@pmoncho said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm on season two of The Expanse and it's finally really grabbed my attention.

I mean season one was OK - but definitely not the best SciFi out there. I suppose if hard science type stuff is more important to you, then perhaps - as the show seems to mostly build upon our current tech levels, and rarely makes leaps of technology magic (the cellphones are an obvious exception).

I do feel they glossing over the whole - time it takes to get places though. even at 1 G, the minimum time to get to Mars from earth is 3 days, yet the show seems to make that happen in mere hours of store time, yet - they talk about the time delay in receiving signals from one to the other.

Meh - it's SciFi.

It took about 5 episodes into the first season to grab my attention. It held it since, so if your grabbed now, it will continue.

I have a few issues with all of SciFi, especially around communications. I love it when space travel takes months to go "small" distances but they are able to have full real-time hologram conference calls across galaxies. Its TV, so I get over it. LOL

I though SG-1/Universe solved the transgalactic communication thing pretty well - at least they fit it inside their canon, communication stones.

WrCombs

Just purchased tickets to See "Star Wars Rise of Skywalker" tonight.. so I'm looking forward to that.

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:

Just purchased tickets to See "Star Wars Rise of Skywalker" tonight.. so I'm looking forward to that.

Yeah I won't be going to watch that ever. . .

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:

Just purchased tickets to See "Star Wars Rise of Skywalker" tonight.. so I'm looking forward to that.

I look forward to every day that I don't need to see it

WrCombs

well aren't you guys a bunch of rays of sunshine

DustinB3403

@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:

well aren't you guys a bunch of rays of sunshine

I like to consider myself a ray of reality. The movie was totally panned, along with the rest of the recent piles of crap that has been released under that title.

scottalanmiller

@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:

well aren't you guys a bunch of rays of sunshine

Hey, I found a happy place. I figured out that the Disney Wars were actively making me upset every time I saw one. I found them to be insulting and pandering and made by people who had to absolutely hate the original Star Wars and wanted to tarnish its legacy, and had to hate their audiences and wanted to mock them. That that crap exists in the world is a given. Getting to a point that I could walk away and no longer be swayed by Disney's marketing team and free myself of the shackles of that crap is a big deal. Marketers use strong emotional tools to make you keep coming back even when you know they don't care and that you want be happy. But we got over it and are free. So yes, actually rays of sunshine.