Cara Gee in The Expanse (s5e3)

Could be a body double, but it looks like her.

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13 thoughts on “Cara Gee in The Expanse (s5e3)

  1. BTW, Dominique Tipper as a lead main character (romantic partner) did a nude scene previously in this show. So if it’s Gee, that wouldn’t be inconsistent with precedent.

    Still waiting for Frankie Adams & Shohreh Aghdashloo. 🙂

  2. Mike? What is going on with you? You made a 15 point reply to an idle remark about the set design on a show. (I’d call it a TV show, but it’s Netflix, and is that a TV show? IDK.) Maybe you need to turn off the computer, lie down and go to your happy place.

    Otherwise, thank you for your detailed answer. I am familiar with the concept of Belters, because I used to read all Larry Niven’s stuff, and I think he invented the concept of Belter used here. BTW, the used of indentured labor in a high-tech environment like space seems like an even worse idea than the interior design, but maybe I am just sick and tired of dystopian futures.

    BTW, I think when the oligarchs’ want cheap labor in the future, they are going straight to automation and smart machines. Human beings are too high maintenance and can be unreliable.

    Also, I still think that interior decor that constantly reminds your indentured slaves that they are indentured slaves is a dumb idea. Probably helps the viewers, though.

    1. Sure. Maybe someone shoulda made a Known Space show. No one did. Oh well. Meanwhile…

      Don’t stretch. You don’t get it. Either get educated or reserve judgment. An ill-informed opinion is needed by whom? Aren’t we angry at the wingnuts for their arrogant willful ignorance?

      You took indentured too literally. They simply have nowhere else to go. They do a lot of menial jobs. They’re needed in a similar way to cotton slaves. Mgmt thinks of them as lowlifes. This is somehow new & unbelievable? You haven’t shaken your liberal preconceptions yet, have you? I suppose myself disillusioned, but I was stuck in that same rut for decades.

      These particular belters are operating on their own. The ship is theirs. Their protocols are by their own choice. They’re spacers. They understand survival in deep (interplanetary) space.

      I don’t think you understand the labor market well enough to be able to explain to me why it is that automation hasn’t taken almost all our jobs both blue & white collar already. RIGHT NOW. Let alone some future where earthers have colonized the inner planets, Mars declared its independence long ago & has begun a centuries-long terraforming project.

      1. I’m glad to hear that this is a good show and has good reasons for the things it does. I guess my comment was inspired by watching too much MST3K and Rifftrax. It’s easy to get nitpicky but hard to be funny doing it.

    2. Oops. Mea culpa. Amazon, not Netflix. I knew that, as it was Bezos who rescued the show after SyFy cancelled it. That’s my bad. I should be embarrassed.

      BTW, you didn’t know it’s a series. As if “show” didn’t mean that. And “(s5e3)” was kind of a hint, too. I remain baffled why so many people seem to believe they must have an opinion & always form one instantly without the slightest bother to add some value to it by possessing a shred of information on the subject in question.

      1. OK, I have succeeded far beyond my expectations in this thread, so I am done here. Thanks, MikeP!

    3. FYI, how to find out how folks watch scripted entertainments.

      reelgood . com / show / the-expanse-2015

  3. I’ve watched a lot of MST3K and their successor, Rifftrax, and I’ve seen a lot of laughably dumb science fiction movies. I think that making a spaceship intended for long-term habitation this ugly, bleak, and depressing inside is as dumb as anything from the 1950’s.

    1. Maybe this is night mode and by day there are a bunch of bright colored lights and they crank some Creedence or something. Or have you actually seen the show? I agree, a non-stop diet of grim is no good in space or anywhere. Somehow Cleveland persists though.

      1. I have not seen the show (I don’t have cable), and yes, I am over-reacting to just one shot. I still think it looks like a prison, or at least the way bad prisons look in the movies. Is there some plot reason it should be like that? Are these people being punished? Because this is NOT the way to help keep a crew mentally healthy on a long voyage.

    2. 1. It’s on Netflix, not cable.
      2. You lack context. Cool your jets. Your opinion is “noted”.
      3. It’s a Belter’s ship. Not “fleet”, not even “company”.
      4. Belter as in asteroid belt miners.
      5. Think lower than blue collar.
      6. More like “16 tons” indentured slaves.
      7. Born & live in space, body incompatible with hi-G.
      8. Would die on a planet. Adapted to space & resourceful.
      9. The ship is either stolen or salvaged from parts.
      10. Everything onboard is recycled. They don’t waste.
      11. Tight energy budget. They light their work as needed.
      12. You’re criticizing a SF show whose science is superior to Star Wars, Star Trek.
      13. No other SF show or film springs to mind with the scope & sheer audacity of this one.
      14. Not that there couldn’t have been, but muckety mucks hold a low opinion of viewers. And mostly still do.
      15. FWIW, the cast is stellar. Even so, Cara Gee’s a standout.

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