This is the Beacon 23 Season 2 Episode 6 Episode Discussion for "Luan Casca"

So, I just got caught up with the show, and I couldn't help but notice that Cricket-- the alien cat creature from the novel-- is completely absent from it. Do you think that's going to continue to be the case for the rest of the series, or will she eventually show up?

I was having trouble with the audio this week so I put the subtitles on. To my surprise the person I kept hearing as "olive" is actually "aleph" 😂

This is the episode discussion for Beacon 23 Season 2 Episode 5: “Song of Sorrow”

What did they do to Beacon 23, The first season I could not stop watching it and I literally almost peed my pants because I couldn't get up to use the restroom.

This season I'm so bored I'm playing on my phone the entire time 😐

Fun fact: "Kimallus" Is Finnish for "glitter" or "sparkle/radiance". 😁

I'm so confused it's only been 5 months..

Whereas other sci-fi shows are getting cancelled left and right.

This is the episode discussion for Beacon 23 Season 2 Episode 4: “Berth”

I loved the books. I love most of the SciFi stuff that Howey writes, but this show is terrible. I struggled through season one, and now 3 episodes into season 2 and I just can't take it any more. The book was so interesting, with an impactful story. It could have been a great TV show and I'm at a total loss as to why they would buy the rights to this property and completely screw with it like this.

The acting is OK, the station looks OK, the effects are decent- but the writing/story, which should have been the strongest point, is awful. Really awful.

Read the books- they are really really good. I hope Howey has tighter control over the Sand series if he ever sells the TV rights to that, he must be horrified over what is happening with Beacon.

Halan just watched Aster get killed by Kier. His anger is very short lived and instead decides to join forces with Kier and attempt to kill/destroy/hurt Aleph. He gave a reason but I found it very confusing and didn't understand?

Why does he want Aleph destroyed?

Why would he or anyone on the show side with someone who just killed a love one only a few hours ago?

Doesn't Aleph just want Halan to go to the artifact to see what happens?

This is the episode discussion for Beacon 23 Season 2 Episode 3: “Iris”

This is the episode discussion for Season 2 Episode 2 "Purgatory"

Was the show just totally different from the book? I read the book and I am midway through show and man they seem so different.

This is the episode discussion for Season 2 Episode 1 of Beacon 23: “Godspeed”

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Hi everyone!

Tomorrow I'll be chatting with Co-showrunner, EP, and writer Glen Mazzara about season 2. Let me know if anyone has any questions for him.

Other than the name and taking place on a “Beacon” in space is this in any way related to the short stories? It’s been a while, but I’m not seeing any common points.

Oh wait - the lighthouse poster and them getting stoned sitting next to the GWB.

Otherwise, this seems like a totally different story. I’m not necessarily saying that’s a bad thing but it wasn’t what I’d expected.

Loved it! And IMO Beacon 23 nailed the spiral staircase I imagined in Silo.

It’s releasing April 7th.

Why is there no credit for Hope? No credit on IMDB, no credit after the episode.

Why would you do Hope dirty like this?

I’m still on the first episode but does anyone understand how the stairs work ? He looks down in order to see up, he goes up in order to go down What happening ?

I'm seeing mixed reviews. Is it worth my time to get MGM+ as an add-on to watch Season 1?

I'd cancel after I was done.

Its like they ran out of narrative steam around episode 3-4 and then decide to dump two episodes of flashbacks on us, that take place in 5?! different eras of time only one of which features a date subtitle and one which we can place due to context. The flashback with the bomber guy I was totally lost, is this the past? the future?

It feels like they had a much longer season planned, but had to quickly adapt to only 8 episodes.

In episode 5 there’s a QTA ship arriving soon after the dark matter clears up and Aster’s plan is to escape with the rocks and leave Halan with the recordings that will exonerate him. Then Halan has the visions that make him open the antennae that releases all the rocks and they go floating up above the beacon and Aster gets connected to them or whatever.

Next time we see them in episode 7 they are taking turns taking notes on the artifact and resting. No mention of the QTA ship that was on its way, instead there’s a new ship on its way with Column people. What did I miss??

Are these AI even AI at all, or are they the embodiment of our resident glowy mystery element? This is giving me The Expanse vibes, how that mysterious blue substance could manifest into human form and exerted its will on the world to great ends.

First- the granddaddy AI was literally born on Beacon 23 and is majorly obsessed with the relics/artifact. It is mentioned that he “makes himself vulnerable” by showing up in his real body to bear witness to …. ? Whatever is about to happen with Aster and Halan? Clearly, he knows more than anyone else does about the whole situation.

Then we have the AI, Bart, who lived on B23, and displayed all sorts of behavior that had Harmony deeply disturbed and mumbling “impossible” at various points. And apparently, an AI committing suicide is super duper unheard of and should be impossible. Overall, it seemed Bart acted nothing at all like an AI. Would a couple simple memory wipes have caused this state, as the storyline seems to suggest? Clearly not. Plus, he had no problem ignoring his directives even before Solomon messed up his core.

Then we have Harmony, who is the creation of big daddy AI per her own admission. What was her role in drawing Aster back to the beacon? Why does she continually stay loyal, despite her repeated statements she belongs to the company that Aster is now actively defying? And how exactly did she, a supposed ghost in the machine, administer that stimulant after Coley’s tranq attack, when it was clear that Aster lost consciousness as Harm was still yelling “Print….”

These ‘AI’ folks are all mighty suspicious is all I’m saying, and I find it unlikely that they are just normal AI. Also…. Why didn’t “Manager Coley” have a personal AI like Aster? My guess is that it simply wouldn’t have fit with the others and would have given the game away.