Hey, gang! Long time, no post. Sorry about that. I blame the fact that my provider of Strange New Worlds doesn’t have subtitles for season 2, thus killing my ability to understand the episodes – not to mention being a barrier to my awful humour! Unfortunately, this post isn’t going to be very funny, and […]
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Today, Minogue and O’Leary are visiting a party house at 10:37 pm, far too loudly for a neighbourhood at that time of night! A knock at the door, slightly ajar; nobody enters, so our pair proceed with caution. Their first encounter is with a man that looks like he escaped from a human zoo’s 1970s exhibit, with a gigantic afro, who kindly lets our pair know where they can leave their coats! In the main room, we see that everybody is dressed for the 70s. Not the era I would have gone for, but… I won’t disrespect them. O’Leary delivers a warning about how quickly Twister can turn violent, before Minogue tries to get the party’s attention. But the moment they unplug the record player… poof. The house is empty, silent, and dark. Minogue, having tried his luck in the kitchen to get the partygoers’ attention, sprints back into the lounge, talking about a ghastly face he saw. It takes him a moment to realise that the partygoers are party-gone…
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We cut straight to Ceres, where Holden’s broadcast at the end of the previous episode has been repeated across any screen that’ll host it. Anyone and everyone gathers around, news comments on it, it’s all the rage – “rage” being the operating word, here. Holden’s managed to make a powder keg even worse by pouring petroleum on it, but Havelock’s having none of that. Instead, he’s paying to see a prostitute… and learn Lang Belta from her???
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Is this… what I think it is? Is this what I’ve been clamouring for ever since Star Trek: Beyond gave me a taste of the glory we could be basking in? It is. It is. It’s TOS but with a better budget!
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AKA: Wang Miao’s No Good Very Bad Day OVERVIEW Media type: TV showStreaming service: YouTube (free with ads)Genre: Sci-fi, thriller, horrorContent warnings: Suicide mentions (I think the record is about five in a minute), cosmic horror SUMMARY We open on… what I assume is… supposed to be a representation of an atom? A very boring
We begin in a meeting, wherein some officers are congratulated for rescuing a cow stuck up a tree! Unfortunately… another cow is stuck up another tree. Given how damn weird it is for multiple cows to be stuck in multiple trees across multiple days (how do they get up there???), Minogue and O’Leary are brought in on the case…
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Aboard the Canterbury, Ade explains the matchstick in coffee trick. She lists off the benefits before handing it to Jim. Jim hates it. But, apparently it’s an acquired taste. They exchange names, and Ade says her very mysterious thing again…
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We jump immediately into the action. Cuba Street, Wellington (hey, I’ve been there!), about midnight (not at that time, though), where a member of the Wellington Police, Officer O’Leary, is on the lookout. She brings us over to a young woman loitering, but as soon as she turns her head, it’s pretty obvious that she’s got something else going on. She responds to an innocent “are you alright” with… well, profuse vomiting. O’Leary is kind enough to point out that she probably isn’t…
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A revolutionary song plays in the background as ticker tape spills from a printer. A person grabs it, examines it. Oh, cool, this revolutionary song hates fascists too! They sit down at a computer, typing… “the deciphering was complete”.
The message we receive is simple, once decoded: “do not answer”. Seems to me like we shouldn’t answer, guys. Our mystery person continues, though, entering what’s clearly a control room. She sits down at a disgustingly, gloriously 70s console, and gets to work, referencing an astronomical almanac to program co-ordinates into a big satellite, pointed directly at the sun. As the seconds tick to noon, her finger hovers over the big red button…
We start out strong, with my favourite title sequence of any TV show, ever. In just under a minute, we’re treated to a series of beautifully rendered clips showing us how the Sol system has developed between today and the setting of The Expanse, in the year 22??. The wiki refers to this year in particular as “0 XTE”, for reasons that we will discover later…
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