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Has anybody watched Imposters? It stars Israeli smoke show Inbar Lavi. Further proof the Jews are God's chosen people. What is it with them turning out beautiful actresses. She's a con artist ran by a sinister controller. Things go south when three of her victims, who she married as part of the con, track her down.
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Watched Patriot on Prime and enjoyed it only to find out it won’t be back.

Started Locke and Key with the wife on Netflix and it’s good so far
 

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Has anybody watched Imposters? It stars Israeli smoke show Inbar Lavi. Further proof the Jews are God's chosen people. What is it with them turning out beautiful actresses. She's a con artist ran by a sinister controller. Things go south when three of her victims, who she married as part of the con, track her down.
Inbar (for research purposes).
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I'm watching a Netflix show that's dubbed in English (it's a Spanish show). The dubbing kind of sucks, but I'm watching it on the treadmill - so I half-ass pay attention - called Unauthorized Living. Not bad. I had a Spanish guy on a plane (after he saw me watching it on my device) tell me it was a great how, so I kept watching. I'm on the last episode of season 1 (there's 2 seasons). Each episode is around 75 minutes too, 12 or 13 episodes per season.
 

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Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 2 is out on Netflix. Awesome documentary about the F1 circuit. Had my wife and stepfather watching it and they both were totally into it even though neither of them knows or cares anything about racing. Check it out.
 

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Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 2 is out on Netflix. Awesome documentary about the F1 circuit. Had my wife and stepfather watching it and they both were totally into it even though neither of them knows or cares anything about racing. Check it out.
What's the time setting? Is it "today" or cover a period? I lived for F1 as a kid and teen.
 

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What's the time setting? Is it "today" or cover a period? I lived for F1 as a kid and teen.
Season 1 covered the 2018 circuit and Season 2 covers last year's circuit. Each episode covers a different angle so its not like the first episode it the first couple races and like that. Each episode might cover one of the teams or a particular conflict or whatever. The whole thing is extremely well done with lots of great race footage and unfiltered, raw commentary from the drivers and managers. Trust me you'll be hooked.
 

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Season 1 covered the 2018 circuit and Season 2 covers last year's circuit. Each episode covers a different angle so its not like the first episode it the first couple races and like that. Each episode might cover one of the teams or a particular conflict or whatever. The whole thing is extremely well done with lots of great race footage and unfiltered, raw commentary from the drivers and managers. Trust me you'll be hooked.
Single biggest thing I don't think most people get about F1? The sheer dollars involved. Moving an entire team from one continent to another like NASCAR changes states.

I remember a poll like 20 years ago asking people to rank who they thought was highest earning athlete in the world. Everyone had MJ at the top, Michael Schumacher at bottom. They were stunned to see who #1 was and by how much over MJ.
 

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Single biggest thing I don't think most people get about F1? The sheer dollars involved. Moving an entire team from one continent to another like NASCAR changes states.

I remember a poll like 20 years ago asking people to rank who they thought was highest earning athlete in the world. Everyone had MJ at the top, Michael Schumacher at bottom. They were stunned to see who #1 was and by how much over MJ.
:lol: No kidding! One of the episodes deals with one of the new kids moved up from F2 for last season, and he crashed twice during preseason practice causing over 2 million euros worth of damage. The money involved in this sport is insanity. Lewis Hamilton over 40 million per year in salary and his net worth is around 260 million. 35 years old.
 

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:lol: No kidding! One of the episodes deals with one of the new kids moved up from F2 for last season, and he crashed twice during preseason practice causing over 2 million euros worth of damage. The money involved in this sport is insanity. Lewis Hamilton over 40 million per year in salary and his net worth is around 260 million. 35 years old.
Yup, and that's just salary. And, as a pilot, think about the cost to charter an Il-76 or An-124 for every hop. Some just wet lease em for the season.
 

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Season 1 covered the 2018 circuit and Season 2 covers last year's circuit. Each episode covers a different angle so its not like the first episode it the first couple races and like that. Each episode might cover one of the teams or a particular conflict or whatever. The whole thing is extremely well done with lots of great race footage and unfiltered, raw commentary from the drivers and managers. Trust me you'll be hooked.
I watched Ford vs Ferrari on the plane yesterday... will post a review sometime today... been thinking about how I want to write the review because for me, it was so much more about what the events represented.
 

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Anyone watched Expanse? The Amazon Sci Fi series? Not too bad at all for a Canadian flick.
 

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Anyone watched Expanse? The Amazon Sci Fi series? Not too bad at all for a Canadian flick.
The Expanse is one of my top three series. The character development of Breaking Bad, the world building of GoT, against the SyFi adventure of Battlestar Galactic). The first book was great and I was excited when they turned it into a series. They did not disappoint. I don't love much of the casting but it's some of the best story telling with character development on TV. The backdrop is hard science fiction which I love (and there is way too little of). The first half of season 3 is the absolute best episodes of any series I've seen. I was re-watching a couple of months ago and found myself saying out loud "OMG this is good".
The show was cancelled on the SyFi channel but fan support convinced Amazon to pick it up for Season 4 and 5. Unfortunately Season 4 wasn't great. Granted it's following the books but gone was the Solar System wide intrigue and most of the action is confined to a single mining settlement. <sigh>. Hopefully Season 5 returns to it's "Expanse" roots.
Next to Westworld there's no other series I'm more anxiously awaiting.

I love The Expanse so much I'm gonna explain it. It takes place a few hundred years in the future. The key development has been the "Epstein Drive" a highly efficient rocket engine. So efficient that fuel is no longer a consideration. This allows ships to travel under constant acceleration so one may travel to a distant planet under 1G acceleration, turn around at the half way point and decelerate at 1G. Other than making travel comfortable it also means that a moon trip is a few hours, Mars a few days and the outer planets a few weeks. Travel outside the Solar System isn't a thing. The Expanse doesn't break physics with gravity plates or FTL travel. Because of the ease of exploring the expanse of the solar system and overpopulation on Earth, Mars has been colonized to the point of wanting autonomy from Earth. Both rely on materials mined in the asteroid belt which at this point has a several million residents working under the heavy hand of Earth/Mars. The Belters live in huge space stations or in large asteroids that have been hollowed out and spun up to simulate gravity. However it's only partial gravity and Belters have grown up tall with weak bodies. Like wise for Martians to a lesser extent. Martian Marines however train in simulated 1G environments in case they ever have to fight on earth.
So Mars and Earth exist in a cold-war environment. Mars has developed more advanced technology for it's Military however Earth has more weapons so there is an uneasy stalemate. The weapons are conventional. Nukes and ballistics. No Death Stars. Meanwhile the Belt while not having an official government has a loose coalition called the OPA which wants to achieve parity with Earth/Mars.
So that's the backdrop. A populated Solar System on the brink of war.

Enter our heroes, the crew of the Canterbury led by the altruistic Holden. And our antihero the cynical detective Miller. Miller is my favorite character. Miller is works for (Star Helix Security) which amounts to the police in the Belt. He's given an assignment to find the wayward daughter (Julie Mao) of a wealthy industrialist. The plot gets way complicated from here. The Canterbury goes to investigate a distress signal which turns out to be from Julie Mao's ship (the Scopuli). Stealth ships destroy the Canterbury while Holden and a few crew are exploring the Scopuli. Holden finds the distress beacon and discovers that it has Mars markings. Thinking that Mars destroyed the Canterbury he solar system wide broadcasts that the Canterbury was blown up by ships from Mars. This puts Earth/Mars on a war footing. And "Remember the Cant" becomes a rallying cry in the Belt.
A lot of shyt happens and eventually Miller and Holden are brought together when they both eventually find Julie Mao, who escaped, now dead having been infected by the "protomolecule". I've kinda buried the lead because everything revolves around this mysterious protomolecule. An asteroid from outside our solar system has been secretly discovered by daddy Mao. Mao's company has been working to discover it's secrets and weaponize it or save humanity depending on how you look at it. The protomolecule requires biomatter to grow and Mao sparked the war to hide his experiments which include infecting and thus killing the 6 million residents of Ceres. What is the protmolecule? Where did it come from? Was it sent by an ancient aliens to destroy us or save us?
 
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The Expanse is one of my top three series. The character development of Breaking Bad, the world building of GoT, against the SyFi adventure of Battlestar Galactic). The first book was great and I was excited when they turned it into a series. They did not disappoint. I don't love much of the casting but it's some of the best story telling with character development on TV. The backdrop is hard science fiction which I love (and there is way too little of). The first half of season 3 is the absolute best episodes of any series I've seen. I was re-watching a couple of months ago and found myself saying out loud "OMG this is good".
The show was cancelled on the SyFi channel but fan support convinced Amazon to pick it up for Season 4 and 5. Unfortunately Season 4 wasn't great. Granted it's following the books but gone was the Solar System wide intrigue and most of the action is confined to a single mining settlement. <sigh>. Hopefully Season 5 returns to it's "Expanse" roots.
Next to Westworld there's no other series I'm more anxiously awaiting.
I’ll be starting season 4 before too long. I need to read the books.
 

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I’ll be starting season 4 before too long. I need to read the books.
I read the first "Leviathan Wakes". I either start a book and put it down never to pick it up again or read it cover to cover in one or two sittings. The book alternates with each chapter from Holden's to Miller's POV.
Let me know what you think of Season 4. It's ratings are as high as other season's but I missed the action in space.
re: The casting. I notice that sometimes the streaming services (and low end networks like the SyFi channel) don't do a great job of casting. It comes down to q-factor. Do you immediately like the actor's face.
My favorite is Miller. He looks like a grizzled detective.
Julia Mao, She's pretty but only has a few minutes of screen time. Eye candy is important to me, okay.
Holden: I guess he's okay. Not a great actor.
Naomi: The love interest/Engineer. Prolly the best actor in the series but she doesn't do it for me. Definitely not what I imagined.
Amos: The muscle.Took a while to get use to but he does an adequate job
Alex: The pilot. Not a great actor either.
Shed: The red shirt. No one plays headless better.
Avasarala: Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a thick accent and bad acting. She struggles so hard to speak clearly that it's not acting so much as it's her struggling to enunciate. She shows up a lot in S4 and I'm not sure she's even trying.
Drummer: Speaking of accents. She has leaned so hard into doing a Belter accent that it sounds like she has a speech impediment. I've seen the actress (Cara Gee) in interviews and she's a delightful, funny person in 180 contrast to her character.
Bobbie: Frankie Adams is a big girl 5'11". I guess it makes sense for her to play a marine. She's okay. Another one that I don't find attractive. Damn it, whatever happened to pretty actresses? She seems to lose wight in later series. Another one whose character arc I don't particularly like in S4.
Most of the others kinda fit:
Sec Gen Gilis: The empty suit president.
Errinwright the shady politician
Fred Johnson. Meh
Ashford, Drummer's boss. He almost gets the Solar System destroyed but I like his performance.
Dawes: Leader of the OPA. I like him
Special shout out to Captain Yao commander of the Donneger. We only see her for two episodes but the actress plays her with a steely eyed confidence that you'd expect from the commander of the Martian Navy's flagship.
 

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I read the first "Leviathan Wakes". I either start a book and put it down never to pick it up again or read it cover to cover in one or two sittings. The book alternates with each chapter from Holden's to Miller's POV.
Let me know what you think of Season 4. It's ratings are as high as other season's but I missed the action in space.
re: The casting. I notice that sometimes the streaming services (and low end networks like the SyFi channel) don't do a great job of casting. It comes down to q-factor. Do you immediately like the actor's face.
My favorite is Miller. He looks like a grizzled detective.
Julia Mao, She's pretty but only has a few minutes of screen time. Eye candy is important to me, okay.
Holden: I guess he's okay. Not a great actor.
Naomi: The love interest/Engineer. Prolly the best actor in the series but she doesn't do it for me. Definitely not what I imagined.
Amos: The muscle.Took a while to get use to but he does an adequate job
Alex: The pilot. Not a great actor either.
Shed: The red shirt. No one plays headless better.
Avasarala: Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a thick accent and bad acting. She struggles so hard to speak clearly that it's not acting so much as it's her struggling to enunciate. She shows up a lot in S4 and I'm not sure she's even trying.
Drummer: Speaking of accents. She has leaned so hard into doing a Belter accent that it sounds like she has a speech impediment. I've seen the actress (Cara Gee) in interviews and she's a delightful, funny person in 180 contrast to her character.
Bobbie: Frankie Adams is a big girl 5'11". I guess it makes sense for her to play a marine. She's okay. Another one that I don't find attractive. Damn it, whatever happened to pretty actresses? She seems to lose wight in later series. Another one whose character arc I don't particularly like in S4.
Most of the others kinda fit:
Sec Gen Gilis: The empty suit president.
Errinwright the shady politician
Fred Johnson. Meh
Ashford, Drummer's boss. He almost gets the Solar System destroyed but I like his performance.
Dawes: Leader of the OPA. I like him
Special shout out to Captain Yao commander of the Donneger. We only see her for two episodes but the actress plays her with a steely eyed confidence that you'd expect from the commander of the Martian Navy's flagship.
Once I get in to season 4 I’ll let you know. I focus mostly on plot and believability. I like to learn new things and get into the physics of it.
 

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