Cara Gee is a Canadian actress of Ojibwe descent. She currently plays Drummer, head of security at Tycho Station and Fred Johnson’s second in command on SyFy’s series “The Expanse” – which is itself an adaptation of the amazing James S.A. If you’re not watching it/reading it – you are missing out big time. It is an amazing series, whether in book or television form.
Last night, there was a post-show podcast on which Cara Gee was a guest star.
Question: We were talking earlier about the representation on the show, particularly on the female cast – how it’s a very diverse group of women. Is that something you’re particularly proud of about the show?
Cara Gee: Yes! Yes! It’s the future. It’s so brilliant. You know, I have auditioned for shows in the past and there was one in particular where I got very close on a role and I didn’t get it and the note that my agent got was that they ‘already had a half-Asian person on the show’ and so I didn’t get the part … and what the actual fuck? Of course there were so many white people on the show … and of course that didn’t seem to be a problem. There is this idea that we have to have “one of each and only one and they stand in for all” … That’s bullshit … that doesn’t happen on [The Expanse] and I’m so proud to be a part of that. It’s amazing.
Then they were in full Drift together… with the brain of Baby Otachi Junior right there with them. Gottlieb had never Drifted, and his mind went through a moment of screaming dislocation before the Geiszler Array took over and performed the neural handshake. Newt had a complete tour of Hermann’s mind, within a fraction of a second.
numbers language of the universe and they will hide me I can hide behind them because they are never angry they are never wrong they choose no sides and expect nothing they are purely themselves and will never betray me
Newt had mud between his toes at Lake Como. Gottlieb was soldering together a robot can I build an intelligence that will pass the Turing test and if I could of course I can I must never say anything abut it until it is done or Father will
Something triggered a response deep inside Baby Otachi’s species memory. The light around them grew strange, water and distorted, the Anteverse seen through amniotic fluid, Baby Otachi perceiving its world through Otachi’s senses, aware in the womb, waiting knowing hungry
Precursor
Hermann had never seen one. Newt felt his mind unhinge and put itself back together. Is that what happened to me—
Pacific Rim, the official movie novelization, by Alex Irvine
“Back from the Edge” by James Arthur is a super good Newt recovery song if y’all are looking for one
Since it’s still iffy to make money off fanfic I’ve been on occasion mulling over the possibility of charging for beta reading and editing stories, maybe on a per 1,000 word basis depending on the depth of editing requested. Hmmm…
So I’m still trying to figure out how to patch the Uprising plot hole of where did Newt get a third Kaiju brain to Drift with? In the immortal words of others, who the fuck is Alice??
There’s really only two possibilities:
1) It’s a piece of Kaiju brain from some previous Kaiju that was miraculously preserved and Newt got ahold of it either in secret or because someone at the PPDC thought he’d know what to do with it.
2) It’s from one of the last three Kaiju that came out of the Breach during the Triple Event: Slattern, Raiju, and Scunner. It can’t be Slattern because it was driven into the Breach to destroy it. But Raiju and Scunner were not totally obliterated by the explosion, apparently (I had to look that up) and that’s where the really scary and interesting possibility sets in.
So the problem with getting brains before was that the Kaiju start dissolving right away and the brain dies before anyone can drill through the skull, right?
But the Kaiju are also highly adaptive based on Precursor designs. They’re literally constructed creatures adjusted for their purpose.
So what if this last, newest batch of Kaiju have one new, invisible tweak: their brains don’t break down as quickly?
There’s already a hypothesis out there that they sent Otachi pregnant to our world and had her look for Newt to try to lure him to Drift with her or the fetus. So what if the Precursors continue to adjust their design for this newest wave? They want to make contact with Newt again, so why wouldn’t they make it easier for him? That would be a truly insidious way to get a brain into his hands in the hopes he’d try it again, and given the lack of intelligence that can be gathered about the Anteverse, perhaps even at the urgings of the PPDC, Newt could very well Drift again OR Drift again and not tell anyone and bam, trapped.
I don’t think it’s a clone brain that Newt makes, for the record, in part because I hesitate to say whether or not it would have a live connection to the Hive Mind unless the Precursors were involved in the process? And I admit, it’s mostly a gaping plothole in the movies. But I wouldn’t put it past the Precursors to make all SORTS of adjustment to their designs to kick off their second attempt at Earth by Drifting with Newt and the possibility that “Alice” is a part of Raiju or Scunner seems the most likely possibility.
I think it was Word-of-God-ed somewhere that Alice is a clone of Newt’s make – but that doesn’t make it canon. I love the design tweak idea. It’s aaaalll in place to make it easier for Newt to get back to the hivemind. Very creepy.
Pre-K-Day, he specialized in artificial tissue replication so it seems not entirely unlikely that he did in fact make the brain himself. I don’t like it, mostly because how would it link to the Hivemind if it was of earthly origin?
Oh yeah I mean, the cloning makes *sense* as a possibility, in that I totally believe that Newt could *accomplish* it, but it leaves some gaping questions like: how is the brain connected to the Hive Mind, and wouldn’t Newt mitigate for that? Unless he deliberately designed a brain to Drift with in order to connect with the Hive Mind on purpose? Which, btw, seen some fics with that assumption and they are ROCKIN’ so that is NOT a criticism! I could also easily see it that the Precursors already had their hooks in Newt so they sort of… guided him in the process? Because cloning is hard and there’d be a lot of false starts if he was working from scratch, but with a little voice in his head telling him how to do it and not mess it up…? Who knows. Interesting to consider it’s NOT connected to the Hive Mind UNTIL Newt Drifts with it, because HE serves as the conduit (gah!).
This more came up because for the Kidnapping AU I’m going with the idea that the Drift leaves a photocopy of the partner in your brain, but after the first 2 it wasn’t strong enough for the Precursors to take Newt, so there needs to be a third Drift. I also truly wanted to believe he and Hermann had some time together as a couple before the infection set in. So I sort of had this idea that Raiju and Scunner finally get recovered a few months later and everyone is shocked that the brain is still intact and, well, who are you going to give it to except Newt Geiszler? And then we need to know if the Anteverse might try for another invasion, and we have no other means of testing, and maybe he protected Hermann by not telling anyone Hermann Drifted too, and, well… maybe Newt doesn’t “find” anything, regretfully, and then maybe Newt suddenly decides to get a job at Shao Industries…
It’s an exciting day here in the Tumultus Dev/Kickstarter HQ! Photos of our test deck we use/analyze before mass production are here and in the editor’s hands- check ‘em out below!
Included in the 78 cards is a title card, a focuser with all five logos, and a booklet with a link to download the PDF and all contributor credits/links!
These pictures hardly do these cards justice; they’re smooth, high quality, and are 100% opaque as they let each and every artist’s piece really shine through. For those who’ve pledged to get physical tiers, I’m so, so excited to share these with you and ship them off, and thank you so much for your pledges already.
Despite how beautiful these cards are, we have a little bit of a warning: our campaign’s been hitting a bit of a flatline in the past couple of days!
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So I’m still trying to figure out how to patch the Uprising plot hole of where did Newt get a third Kaiju brain to Drift with? In the immortal words of others, who the fuck is Alice??
There’s really only two possibilities:
1) It’s a piece of Kaiju brain from some previous Kaiju that was miraculously preserved and Newt got ahold of it either in secret or because someone at the PPDC thought he’d know what to do with it.
2) It’s from one of the last three Kaiju that came out of the Breach during the Triple Event: Slattern, Raiju, and Scunner. It can’t be Slattern because it was driven into the Breach to destroy it. But Raiju and Scunner were not totally obliterated by the explosion, apparently (I had to look that up) and that’s where the really scary and interesting possibility sets in.
So the problem with getting brains before was that the Kaiju start dissolving right away and the brain dies before anyone can drill through the skull, right?
But the Kaiju are also highly adaptive based on Precursor designs. They’re literally constructed creatures adjusted for their purpose.
So what if this last, newest batch of Kaiju have one new, invisible tweak: their brains don’t break down as quickly?
There’s already a hypothesis out there that they sent Otachi pregnant to our world and had her look for Newt to try to lure him to Drift with her or the fetus. So what if the Precursors continue to adjust their design for this newest wave? They want to make contact with Newt again, so why wouldn’t they make it easier for him? That would be a truly insidious way to get a brain into his hands in the hopes he’d try it again, and given the lack of intelligence that can be gathered about the Anteverse, perhaps even at the urgings of the PPDC, Newt could very well Drift again OR Drift again and not tell anyone and bam, trapped.
I don’t think it’s a clone brain that Newt makes, for the record, in part because I hesitate to say whether or not it would have a live connection to the Hive Mind unless the Precursors were involved in the process? And I admit, it’s mostly a gaping plothole in the movies. But I wouldn’t put it past the Precursors to make all SORTS of adjustment to their designs to kick off their second attempt at Earth by Drifting with Newt and the possibility that “Alice” is a part of Raiju or Scunner seems the most likely possibility.
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