So what do you think about it?
At episode 3-4 you really start getting into the meaty parts.
"Railguns online" ftw
>>63746990
Is this a screenshot from Babylon 5?
I just discovered this show last night and i loved the first two eps. I'm surprised no one has been talking about it. It's by far the best thing I've ever seen from the syfy channel. Sfx are nice and the story has tons of potential.
Awful effects ruin any immersion it may have had, if that wasn't already done by the terrible camera work and acting. Into the trash it goes like everything else from SyFy.
>>63746990
Shit got real in episode 4, now i have to wait for January to get more episodes, maybe i should pick up the books in the meantime.
>>63747533
Yeah, bigtime. Shame about the medic-guy though.
Im still thinking about the scene in the start of episode 1 where that chick watches an engine core devour some random dude...
>>63746990
I liked it a lot. Contrary to a lot of scifi we don't get bombarded by aliens and other shit. I can get into these kinda shows a bit easier. Except for the magical gravity drive.
I waskind of disappointed by the cqb space fightit just happened so quickly.How did they get boarded that fast? How did they get overrun so quickly? Do they not carry many Spes Marins? They knew they nuked the other ship, why were they so gung-ho?
>>63747618
There are a lot of unexplained things that they will hopefully shed light on later. A lot of tech and general language is unexplained as well which is neat (because why would they explain it when they are all familiar with it)
>>63747563
Yeah the looks of the suits are pretty sweet. Still thought there would be more "high-tech" guns and stuff though. So far they look a bit more CoD Ghost than "200 years into the future"
>>63747646
They didn't nuke it because they were after something or someone.
>>63747664
Without the pressure of war they would be no reason to develop things beyond some armor and general spacesuits I'd imagine. With the unknown faction seem to have some higher technology for the purpose of war.
>>63747646
Yeah was a bit surprised about that. Figured a ship that size would have a few thousand marines and shit. But like the CO said, she didnt really expect such a fight.
>>63746990
I was about to give up after ep 2, but eps 3 and 4 won me over. it's not quite bsg and the characters aren't terribly interesting, but I still like it.
>>63747667
I meant why wasn'tthe Mars ship more wary of the super nuke capable ships? The captain said she didn't think they could lose.
>>63747646
>They knew they nuked the other ship, why were they so gung-ho?
What other ship, the Canterbury? It's a freighter thingy, not a battleship, and this was the flagship. First fight against an unknown superior technology is always going to go like this. The boarding was a bit daft. I'd've liked someone to point out there was a bigger ship inbound otherwise it just sounds like a massive ship filled with troopers just got taken down by a handful of guys stuffed tightly into a couple of small fighters or whatever they were.
>>63747722
Yeah I misread your post. Captain seemed a bit cocky. She'd been chasing off pirates for a number of years and had never run into a real threat most likely.
>>63747773
I guess I have no frame of reference of what battleships can handle damage wise, it just looked like a superweapon when they blew up the Cant.
>>63747850
The Martians suspected that someone sabotaged the canterbury. They didn't really buy the whole stealth ship nuked us story.
>>63747844
You're (both) glossing over the drain the Mars railgun has on the (supposedly massive) power generation that ship had. It had to be unthinkable to the captain to face such small ships with that amount of firepower. They're like handguns that fire cannonballs or some shit.
>>63747894
Well that explains everything
>>63747922
I guess they couldn't have turned and burned to try and outrun them as soon as that guy said how advanced their torpedo guidence tech is.
>>63747086
I wonder when they'll do a remake of it. It's been like twenty years already.
>>63747712
That's pretty how they got taken down so easily. The crew of the Donnager have been wrecking pirates for so long that they thought any threat they faced would be no match, especially a bunch of smaller ships. If they had been prepared for war, they would've had the ship staffed with a bunch of Martian power armor (which was a book 2 thing). The enemy also being technologically superior helped.
>>63747618
>>63747650
The stuff in that scene will come back, it's pretty integral to the plot. I give it 2, maybe 3 episodes until you'll see it again. Then shit gets kinda real.
Also if I remember correctly, it was kind of that way in the books too. The Belter language being a jumble of many different languages and the way they communicate using hand gestures isn't exactly explained, but a lot of it was implied if you think about it.
>>63750980
January 5th.
>>63746990
I really hope the Martian survives.
>>63747712
I said it when I read the book and I said it again watching the show, it was pants on head retarded for a capital ship like that to be travelling without an escort.
>>63751042
>"i would have been nice to see an ocean on Mars"
>>63751386
Martians live for 120+ years. Then again he is living and working in the asteroid belt, so his life expectancy is probably halved. That lifespan + the unknown amount of time humans have been living on Mars suggests that it is possible for him to see it.
