<story><title>How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series</title><url>https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/the-expanse-james-sa-corey-syfy-amazon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yuters</author><text>Other nitpicky things:&lt;p&gt;- Lights inside helmets to light up a person&amp;#x27;s face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it, but it makes complete sense in a tv series, as you definitely want to see the actor&amp;#x27;s face.&lt;p&gt;- Transparent&amp;#x2F;Glass tablets &amp;amp; phones is still a complete mystery to me how this could be useful in any way... other than it &amp;quot;looks cool&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>bentcorner</author><text>Agree - I love the show but the two nits I have with it are the sounds in space (engines&amp;#x2F;guns most notably, although it makes for a better show) and the fact that they can&amp;#x27;t film in zero-G.&lt;p&gt;The weightless thing is obviously understandable but it&amp;#x27;s the kind of thing where you can&amp;#x27;t unsee the things they do to convince you there is no gravity (magnets everywhere!)</text></item><item><author>sillyquiet</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;d say the get the technical details &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; right, as there are some concessions to story-telling over physics - the (probably) impossibly efficient fusion drives, and the protomolecule is kinda magic sometimes, but it get is right &lt;i&gt;enough&lt;/i&gt;, and way more so than any other sci-fi show I&amp;#x27;ve seen.</text></item><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m kind of surprised how many nerdy people I know who have never watched this show. It is by far the best (maybe only?) hard sci-fi TV show ever, and almost every episode is better than any hard sci-fi &lt;i&gt;movie&lt;/i&gt; ever made.&lt;p&gt;If AC Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were alive they&amp;#x27;d be heaping praise on this show for getting so many of the technical details exactly right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>outworlder</author><text>&amp;gt; Lights inside helmets to light up a person&amp;#x27;s face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it&lt;p&gt;Only if you are doing EVA astronomy and need pitch black darkness to see stuff outside. Because you can light up someone&amp;#x27;s face enough and still not interfere with their activities.&lt;p&gt;Otherwise – it would be important to be able to see the other person&amp;#x27;s face, both to interact with them, and to gauge their well-being.&lt;p&gt;Their phones are not exactly transparent, they are &amp;quot;holographic&amp;quot;. They can project images larger than their own size. Same as many screens depicted in the show.</text></comment>
<story><title>How The Expanse went from game concept to blockbuster TV series</title><url>https://andrewliptak.substack.com/p/the-expanse-james-sa-corey-syfy-amazon</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yuters</author><text>Other nitpicky things:&lt;p&gt;- Lights inside helmets to light up a person&amp;#x27;s face is a pretty dumb thing when you think about it, but it makes complete sense in a tv series, as you definitely want to see the actor&amp;#x27;s face.&lt;p&gt;- Transparent&amp;#x2F;Glass tablets &amp;amp; phones is still a complete mystery to me how this could be useful in any way... other than it &amp;quot;looks cool&amp;quot;.</text></item><item><author>bentcorner</author><text>Agree - I love the show but the two nits I have with it are the sounds in space (engines&amp;#x2F;guns most notably, although it makes for a better show) and the fact that they can&amp;#x27;t film in zero-G.&lt;p&gt;The weightless thing is obviously understandable but it&amp;#x27;s the kind of thing where you can&amp;#x27;t unsee the things they do to convince you there is no gravity (magnets everywhere!)</text></item><item><author>sillyquiet</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if I&amp;#x27;d say the get the technical details &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; right, as there are some concessions to story-telling over physics - the (probably) impossibly efficient fusion drives, and the protomolecule is kinda magic sometimes, but it get is right &lt;i&gt;enough&lt;/i&gt;, and way more so than any other sci-fi show I&amp;#x27;ve seen.</text></item><item><author>dreamcompiler</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m kind of surprised how many nerdy people I know who have never watched this show. It is by far the best (maybe only?) hard sci-fi TV show ever, and almost every episode is better than any hard sci-fi &lt;i&gt;movie&lt;/i&gt; ever made.&lt;p&gt;If AC Clarke and Stanley Kubrick were alive they&amp;#x27;d be heaping praise on this show for getting so many of the technical details exactly right.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>musingsole</author><text>Are lights in a helmet dumb? Being able to see companion&amp;#x27;s facial expressions while not critical would be absolutely useful in day-to-day life in space - TV production reasons aside.&lt;p&gt;On the transparent glass phones: &amp;quot;looks cool&amp;quot; is reason enough for most any consumer product. I haven&amp;#x27;t read the series, so I don&amp;#x27;t know if there is some lore explanation somewhere -- but --- if the technology is lying around as some component of a space habitat AND it looks cool, yeah, that tech is definitely going in a phone.</text></comment>