Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
And a second plea to keep it on the topic of the show?
Sorry, dude.
And a second plea to keep it on the topic of the show?
All of that is true, yes. But also true is that what we have been seeing consistently since 2002 is the shrinking Far Right xenophobic/racist segment. They are literally dying off and they are not being replaced nearly as quickly. I think it is a safe bet that there will NEVER be another Republican president in the White House again. GW Bush was the last. The politics of the far right are so out of touch with the American voting masses that they might as well be the Amish Party or the Flat Earth Party. Like you said, they will gerrymander, and they will come up with clever strategies to try and manipulate the votes, but as Mitt Romney saw in 2012, all of that and a bag of expensive chips is still not going to cut it. Spending billions in political advertising and lobbying is not going to make turd souffle any more appealing.
It's an interesting show so far and I really like the realism of living in space that they show. But I don't know if I will get hooked on it or not. I find the numerous use of fake words and languages to be annoying. I get it, the story takes place in the future and different cultures now inhabit the solar system, blah blah blah. Truthfully I'm willing to suspend my disbelief if they were to simply use good old 21st century English to describe things.
Episode 5 will be on Jan. 5.so i watched all 4 eps (now how long do i have to wait to get ep 5? mistake to watch ep 3 and 4 ?)
The aren't going to Mars. I could tell you the various other places they end up (from the first book), but not only would that contain spoilers, I also don't know how much of the story they'll be able to get to this season.if they drag out the Cant survivors trip to Mars into an Odyssey instead, that would probably be a bad thing. having the same group of people suffer a lack of oxygen crisis just 2 eps apart wasn't cool, I hope that it doesn't become an in-series tropish thing
Episode 5 will be on Jan. 5.
The aren't going to Mars. I could tell you the various other places they end up (from the first book), but not only would that contain spoilers, I also don't know how much of the story they'll be able to get to this season.
Well, the stories have already been written, and if the show follows the books, then yes, they will go on various "odysseys" throughout the course of however many seasons we are lucky to get. If you don't want to go along for the ride, then don't.
No, I'll just keep watching and complaining because it is my God given, 'Murican, tremendous and fantastic right to do so!!!!
seriously though--the Ulysses like travels are ok, so long as they don't keep having the same scenarios--like the thing with the depleting oxygen crises nearly 2 eps in a row
I see the mars ship they are in has quite a bit of weaponry, and Lopez gave full access to all systems for everyone on board-so I am assuming they may be involved in more shootouts
I also like the way the story has mass-organized religion in it as well. in the way that it intersects with space travel-here it is the Mormons prepping to go on a 100 yr trip to a new planet in a diff solar system. Not that I approve of organized religions (for myself), but they do help to make a story more interesting. Religions like the LDS or Scientology are nearly nation-states in their own right, so their inclusion brings another lay of dynamic-political, socio-economical and even perhaps, military.
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in the books-why is (and is it in the books) "Medina" used for the common area/market area of Ceres? And, there seem to be women in hijab--it is quite colorful hijab, but hijab none-the-less. Women in the "slingshot club" place were wearing them.
there are only 2 very specific meanings for "medina"; the city in Saudi or, as the arab quarter of a North African town (because north africans are not technically arabs)
so what is up with that?
It's an intermingling of cultures, traditions and languages. I like that they didn't resort to subtitles when they're speaking "Belter Creole." We have to surmise what they might be talking about in context. That and the hand gestures used by Belters, which came about from a lot of them working in space suits. No one could see facial expressions, and even a shrug might not have been possible in a suit. The use of Medina is no more unusual than the market square on Babylon 5 being the Zocalo, which is the central market of Mexico City.
Keep nit-picking, I'll try to fill you in on what's happening.
They're being PC, an unfortunate infection.
About the "gate like" travel, that won't happen this season. That begins in the third book, carries over into the fourth, and I assume later, but I haven't gotten to the fifth book yet.
I can't recall from the books if they used the term Medina for any place on Ceres. It is used in the fourth book, but as the name of a space station. Do you realize that it is not only the name of a market in Arab communities, the word itself is Arabic for "city" or "town"? It is also the name of two towns and one county in Texas, as well as a county in Ohio, and probably many others.
So, now I not only have to tell you about what's going on in the show and how it relates to the books, I also have to do google searches for you.
I can't recall from the books if they used the term Medina for any place on Ceres. It is used in the fourth book, but as the name of a space station. Do you realize that it is not only the name of a market in Arab communities, the word itself is Arabic for "city" or "town"? It is also the name of two towns and one county in Texas, as well as a county in Ohio, and probably many others.