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We all know that Lydia is pure evil, but I don't buy for a second that she was on board with hurting a child. Even threatening one would be a stretch for her. She doesn't believe in Gillead's leadership. She believes in the cause. She wants to produce and protect children. Are those handmaids stupid? They clearly knew that June must have been captured and would break eventually. Why didn't they move to another location? Even the woods are better than somewhere where you'll most certainly be found. At the end: What kind of stupid was that?! First they let those handmaids alone with an old, frail aunt. Second, the lock of that van used for prison transport can be pulled from the inside. Third the prisoners don't just whack aunt lydia over the head with that metal rod "because they can beat the train, dummy" when a whack would have been way faster than all that hesitating. Guess Lydia's plot armor is even thicker than Junes... Finally, they outran the train, well not all of them, because June's hesitation in just hitting Lydia over the head cost them valuable seconds and Lydia was able to call for the guardian who shot two of them, but what does that actually help them? I know trains in america can be long, but they are on foot and the guardian has a van. No way they are getting away. (although of course they will because the writers said so) God this show is stupid and lacks any kind of realism. Why am I still watching? But clearly she wasn't barren and so the sex they had was not for fun but for procreation. I doubt anybody will question it. Even if they do Serena and Fred can just say they got a sign from god that this time it would work and clearly it did. Nobody is going to be executed for that one. Serena would probably be executed for being a traitor though (after she had given birth). That is not the case in the show. I think you are confusing your book knowledge with what has actually been shown on TV. In the show most women are infertile. Otherwise Mexico wouldn't have a problem. They have a woman in charge, they are still using reproductive technologies like artificial insamination and if the men were the problem, they could insaminate like a hundret women with one fertile man's sperm. Also that doctor was not doing what he did to keep women from getting send to the colonies...

Sadly he didn't know that June has plot armor made of titanium and would have been fine regardless. There was really no reason for him to die. June is always going to be fine. You could drop a nuke on her.

Fine, call it nuclear powered shuttle. But maybe on a show about the advances in space flight they should have made it clear, that it's actually liquid hydrogen as a propellant that is heated rapidly to generate thrust (and that it's heated by nuclear fission is kinda incidental). I mean what else are we here for? Certainly not for reheated Baldwin family drama, that seemed to be resolved like a decade ago. There are so many problems with nuclear fission reactors on a space ship. The big one being how to dissipate heat. There is nowhere for it to go (except infrared radiation but that is very inefficient). When you want to stop, you need that reactor to cool. Really the only way is to dump your hydrogen and the heat with it. You can probably use some of it to slow down, but it gets less efficient the colder the reactor gets. So you'd need massive hydrogen tanks. At least on such a small shuttle, for such short flights I have to call "buh humbug". Maybe on massive ships for a long flight to Mars, it would make sense. NASA has a lot of smart people who could probably figure something out with enough funding, but I kinda doubt we'll see thermo nuclear engines before we don't have small fusion reactors, as those can be turned off instantly. On the plus side, with high temp super conductors going into mass production and becoming cheaper and cheaper, that might be soon-ish.

I came into this completely blind. Just saw it randomly on Prime and decided to give it a shot. Really glad that I did. I think what was fun in this episode was, that up until the last few minutes it presented itself like standard superhero fare, no guts, no gore, everbody survived the attack at the beginning. And then came that fight at the end. I was really surprised by that one. Then in the credits I saw that Kirkman was co-creator and it all made sense. I was asking myself the same thing, considering it almost killed him, but

Fun show. Is there going to be a second season? Minor nitpick: That subway train was driving into a station, not going 200km/h. They probably wouldn't have made it through the first cart before the train stoped. I was kinda thinking the opposite. A society where they culled like half of the population to find out who was "the strongest"? Would they accept somebody who is only "nearly a 100% Vultrumite" (and Mark looks way more like his mom, so how strong can that Viltrumite DNA really be)? Telling Mark everything really wasn't that much incentive for him to join up. If I was in his shoes I would have been pretty confident the other Viltrumites would kill me on the spot and probably whipe out the species with which that crossbreeding is possible.... Also I would assume a society that advanced would have cloning vats...

Well that wasn't very smart. A missing guardian will draw attention, especially in this highly charged situation, where 86 kids were just shipped to Canada and the women responsible are still somewhere in Gillead. So taking him to the river, making it seem like he drowned, maybe got smacked against some rocks in the process, actually a good idea by one of the guardians. Especially since the guy was already drunk. Probably nobody would have thought twice about it. But no, June has to go for the big symbolism and make a child (her words) into a killer. Good job. You go girl... Just wanted to say, I did not think for a second that this was Kiernan Shipka and was really confused. I don't think they look alike at all, but I do see faces differently than most, I think. I see resemblances where others don't and the other way around. She doesn't care. She is a true believer. Not in the men, but in the cause. She thinks the end justifies the means. Also these writers are not that clever. That actually would have been an interesting twist. I'm still not sure if the entire world does have that problem. We know that there is a huge zone that is contaminated with radioactivity in the western US. That probably would have effected most of the US, Mexico and Canada to some extend and maybe it is the cause of the infertility. Of course that I'm still not sure what the cause is by season freaking 4 is a massive failure in world building. Maybe you can keep that vague for one season to build suspense but in season 2 you got to reveal it and open up the world. Even Atwood revealed the causes at the end of her book, even though her story was over and she technically didn't need to.

That nobody ever sees through the "Go away I don't love you anymore!"-thing is really annoying to me. It is such a bad trope.

I mean that might be the case, but as it stands, I probably wouldn't have finished the season if all we had had was bland and blanders story. I haven't read the books, but from what I could see on the show, it had all the worst YA tropes combined into one. The other storylines were much, much more interesting.

So the propellent is liquid hydrogen and the nuclear reactor is just used to heat it up. Calling that a "nuclear powered shuttle" is missleading at best. A show about space exploration and rapid technological advancement maybe should have explained the propulsion system a little. But I guess we had to make time for Baldwin family drama... Also "still in design and research" is imo going a little far. I'd call it "cold war wet dream that will never happen". Just because for a time people thought throwing nuclear fission reactors into everything was a good idea, doesn't mean it is. But thanks for explaining what they actually meant. 😃

Okay, I do like this show. I do wish they'd focus less on the family drama, especially of the Baldwins. But overall, really fun show. Still I have some nitpicks, I have to air: - I know, showing 1/6 gravity is hard to film on earth. But couldn't they at least have tried? Outside they sometimes do (but more often then not not even there). But as soon as they are in Jamestown, it's like they are back on earth. - On the same token, how hard is it to actually implement a two second delay in communication? That's a lot more than you would think and should be very noticeable. - I said it about the small Jamestown base already, but it goes double for the big one. That base does not look properly shielded from solar radiation, The walls are too thin, there are too many big windows. Everybody there is dying from cancer in a few years, if not directly from radiation poisoning after a few moths up there. No matter what those dosimeters supposedly say. - So that new space shuttle has nuclear engines? How? Does it have an open reactor and the drive spews radioactive waste everywhere? Through how much Uranium does it chew to get adequat thrust? In space there is no air. You actually have to output something to get an equal but opposite reaction. Regarding the original shuttles. They look an awfull lot like space shuttles in our world. And they are taking those to the moon? In our world they certainly weren't built for that. Maybe possible, but improbable. - The soldiers/astronauts and soldiers/cosmonauts weren't tought at least rudimentary russian / english? Buh humbug. That whole incident hinging on them not speaking those languages and needing translation cards is ridiculous. Also that a highly trained soldier who knows what a diplomatic incident it would cause, would fire before they actually saw a rifle seems really far fetched, too. It's not like the russians could quick-draw in those suits. There would have been plenty of time to shoot after seeing the rifle. In that episode was also the most cringe worthy expository dialouge. Regarding the cosmonaut burning: "We think the bullet made a spark. Like our suits yours contain pure oxygen." Um yeah, I'm pretty sure the russian cosmonaut knows what their suits contain... Regarding the last episode of season two, I won't even go into the political stuff that might only be explained if Reagan already had full blown dementia at that point. But I really want to know how Tracy and Gordo actually died, except from bad writing, where drama and faking out the viewer is more important than a modicum of realism. They made it back to the airlock, pressed the switch to repreassurize and took off their masks. So at that point they were still concious. Worst that should have happened in that short amount of time it would have taken to repreassurize is that they would have fallen unconcious. But they should have woken up again shortly after. But it doesn't even seem like that happened, since their eyes were still open. So how again did they die? Would it have been so hard to have them make it into the airlock but pass out before they could close the hatch or press the button? That would have been just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so. But noooo, the writers had to be clever and try and trick the audience. Which didn't work and all they achieved with me was massive annoyence when I should have been mourning those characters. The second reactor was already running. It wasn't hooked up to the second cooling loop yet, was close to melting down and exploding. Which means the sovjets were right, but too late. The nuclear material was already up there.

2x03: I call bullshit on the cosmonaut bugging the base. Why would he have a bug on him while on a normal assignment? He couldn't have known that the base would be empty at any point beforehand. There clearly wasn't enough time to get to his base, get a bug (or even manufacture one, since why would you have a bug on the moon), come back and plant it. Not with how slow travel even with a rover is, how long the airlocks take, etc. 2x05: So at no point during construction did they ever vent the base? Because otherwise those ants couldn't have survived. Also you can't get earlugs on that moon base? That's like no weight or size and would probably help a lot with the astronauts mental health. 2x06: Ah come on. Am I really to believe that the sovjets would welcome the astronauts that way to their country? Like they wouldn't also make a great media spectical out of it to show what "gracious hosts" they are. But I guess we can't show the sovjets how we'd show the americans. Have to make show that they are depicted as eeeeevil. Edit: Or did that supposedly take place after the plane was shot down in 2x07? If so they really didn't make that clear. You shouldn't put shock value before good story telling...

There was also news about the first test tube baby in the news reel. I guess reproductive technology got advanced by the space program by a few decades and thus Camilla being older wasn't seen as that much of a problem anymore. At least that would be my guess. Yes and not really. If a massive flare hits us directly, a lot of the satelites will be kaputt. It's just very unlikely since those flares are really rare and the earth is tiny, but it's not impossible.

That moon base in the middle of season 1 doesn't look properly shielded. They are all going to die of cancer... Also I'm a bit miffed that they don't actually have the 2 seconds delay that they mentioned in one of the first episodes. The Expanse incorporated that to great effect. On this show, communication is just instant. So end of season 1: They didn't have enough guel left to even maneuver but they had enough fuel to get back to earth? Didn't sound like they had that just lying around earlier in the episode. They had to syphon it from an old lander. And they aren't producing fuel on the moon yet. So what gives?

Episode 1: I went into this cold, so it was a big (pleasant) surprise when the moon landing we saw in the beginning was the sovjets landing. Certainly makes things interesting. Not sure why Apollo 11 would have nearly failed in this universe? NASA pushing too hard after the sovjets got to the moon or just another ccoincidence? Are they seriously trying to make Wernher von Braum, the Nazi war criminal, into a sympathetic mentor figure? I mean seriously? I'm sad that this doesn't have its own sub forum. Now I have to catch up before I can actively discuss the episodes without being spoiled... Episode 2: LOL. Wernher von Braun arguing about a military installation on the moon and that his work should only be used for peacefull purposes. He never cared about these things. He only cared about advancing his work. I guess I just gotta think about this as an alternate universe (which it is) where Wernher von Braun wasn't the man he was in ours. Edit: I guess not, considering the hearing and the talk later in the episode. Then it makes no sense that he would argue against the military base on the moon.

There were cargo blimps in our world. Also those ships they sailed through the Fold were tiny. You couldn't put much cargo on there and the cargo hold we saw this episode had like 4 crates in it. Considering how dangerous a journey it is, driving back and forth 50 times a day seems unwise. So either they don't need to ship many supplies between the two parts of the country or the author and/or the showrunners didn't think that one through.

Yeah, but it should be possible in the parts we've seen, is my point. They have machineguns. Blimps were invented way before that in our world, Balloons even earlier. It's literally just hot air in a sack. In the Grishaverse you don't even need a propulsion system. You have air-Grisha who can easily push you wherever you want to go (as seen by the sails on the ship) and fire-Grisha who can heat the air. Even the first passanger glider plane was built in 1853, way before the machine gun. It took another 50 years to get something with an engine off the ground, but in this universe that wouldn't even be necessary, since they have literal air-witches. It seems to me like the author wanted to have her cake and eat it too. You can't have a society this technologically advanced and then not just have them fly over the rift... at least not how it was shown in the show. If it went up into space in the books, then no flying over it. Was there ever a height mentioned? That was pretty clear. But the show gave the impression that all the other amplifiers had already been hunted down and killed. I guess that's not the case? Then how do people know how the amplifiers work and that sometimes the results were meh, but with the right ritual they were increadible? That would mean at least two of the animals would have had to have been hunted down already (one for the increadible and one for the meh result).

Thanks for the explaination. I feel like they at least alluded to it in age of ultron. Maybe a more explicit version of it ended up on the cutting room floor (alongside all the good parts of that movie) I really don't like the idea of Bucky embracing his literal slave name. Yes, it's cool, but it's also tainted beyond recovery. Maybe they could replace one of his legs with Vibranium and call him the Fullmetal Soldier. 😁

Wait, is it just me or does this not make sense? In all other timelines Garry sacraficed himself. So how did Nightfall get final space poisoning thus requiring the implant. And how would she have survived the operation with her Gary dead?

Isn't Black Widow enhanced with a lesser form of the super soldier serum? I always thought she was. If not, I'm calling bullshit on her abilities, too. Hawkeye usually keeps sufficiently in the background and fires arrows from afar that I'm not too bothered.

Yes she is. She showed it off when she led Alina through the catacombs. It's in their bloodline (Alina mentioned that, not sure how she knows). They are also directly descendent from Morozova. So he was/is probably one too.

They said they tried to tunnel underneath but "something heard them digging", so I guess we are meant to assume that there are other creatures in there that can easily dig through solid rock. I don't think something man-made could withstand that either. What I don't get: From the level of technology they have, they should have planes or at least blimps and the fold doesn't extend up that far... so... I mean directly outside of it seems to be safe. They have harbors, camps and even cities a few meters away. So you'd think a few meters above should also be safe, too. I think only summoners live forever. So the shadow summoners and the sun summoner. Every other Grisha ages slower, but even with amplifiers it's doneso after a hundret years or two. But I could see the dude who created the stag showing up at some point. Kinda seemed like the Grisha testers didn't bother to show up again, even though they couldn't test everybody there. Which is weird, but whatever. I'm still not sure if Grisha or simply plot armor. Are there even any left? I think it was implied that the stag was the last one?

A lot of british actors in the show. Probably be easier than to let them try a russian accent and them failing horrible at it.

Shower thought: At the end of the episode they displayed the title "Captain America and the Winter Soldier". Isn't it pretty disrespectful to still call Bucky the winter soldier after he finished his book and made amends for the things the winter soldier had done. Not to mention that he was mind controled at the time. Shouldn't they have changed it to "Capatin America and Bucky Barnes"?

I think I got most of the information you gave from the show, if maybe not from the first episode, but for where everything actually is geographically. I know they mentioned it briefly in this episode with young Alina staring at a map, but that was over way too fast and before we actually knew anything about the world. So yeah, a GoT style map at the beginning of the episodes would have been pretty helpfull. Thanks for clearing that up. I'm not sure what the problem is with the Expanse, though. I haven't read any of the books and I don't think I missed anything. As far as I can tell I have a pretty good grasp on everything that's going on.

The Crows and Mal conveniently trusted each other really fast there... So did I get that right, the slave hunters were from the isles the Crows are from? But that would mean slavery is illegal there, right? Then how is Inej a slave there? They really didn't build up the rivalary between Alina and wind-bitch enough to make her turn at the end meaningfull. It was just like "whatever". All the protagonists ended up on the same ship at the end? Kinda seemed like they were saying goodbye at the fire? Weird. So Alexander could have controlled his shadow beasts and maybe the fold itself all along and he was just too scared to try? Didn't he say it would consume him without the sun summoner at his side or something? He seemed fine at the end there and in control. All in all I liked it. But probably the world more than the plot and certainly the side plots a lot more than Alina's main plot. That one dragged, especially since the writers insisted on making her and Mal braindead for half the episodes. Speaking of braindead characters, who can't see the obvious, Mathias refusing to understand that Nina called him a slaver to safe his life. It's the same dumb stuff as with the letters. How many seasons is this supposed to be? I hope it got more views than the posts on this board would suggest. Otherwise it won't even make it to Netflix's traditional post season three cancellation. Btw. are those old magic writings still in the fold? Alina could easily go in and read them, if she only knew about them... I was half convinced that he had to have some kind of Grisha-powers to survive all that. But maybe it's just good old fashioned plot armor... I haven't read any of the books and while in the first ~two episodes the Crows annoyed me and I wanted to see more of Alina's story, that flipped rather quickly and Alina's story became the boring one. It just kinda dragged and was pretty uninteresting and cliched. True, GoT was so much worse from season 5 onwards. The only way to watch it was hate-watching. At least this was enjoyable in parts. I wish there was a next The Magicians. I miss all "that gay shit"™. Now, that's just mean. ;)