It's done.
Yeah...
It's done.
I just loved it, and I was just like...
I remember reading it and being like,
Oh my god, Naomi...
I'm not sure I would have done that myself.
But cool, girl, I'm with you!
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When it came to the more personal stuff in this season,
I stopped reading the books, 'cause I was just like...
I just wanna be surprised every time
I open the script and read scenes.
And that's what happened, which was so much fun for me.
Do you seriously believe
we've got the only remaining sample in the system?
We just might.
We are this close to getting rid of it, once and for all.
We should kill it. Drive it into the goddamn sun.
Everything that Naomi's kind of preached about, in a way,
and tried to keep these men from turning into,
she's almost doing it herself.
And so, for me it was such a core
and human flaw that she had.
That she went off her own bat, and decided that this was what
was gonna be right for everyone.
Almost in a kind of dictatory,
terrorist almost, way.
She doesn't think that it's possible
to put the genie back in the bottle.
Maybe it is a good idea
to throw it into the sun and get rid of it,
but she doesn't believe that that's possible
to get rid of all of it.
And if you can't get rid of all of it,
then maybe everybody should have it,
because that's the only way to ensure that everybody
is on an equal playing field.
And that bad things happen
when one side feels much stronger than the other.
She's got a good argument. I mean, everybody has a good argument.
But, that's her argument, and that's why she keeps it.
Belters have to help each other.
No one else will.
What affects her is, she becomes
so angry with the injustice against her Belters and her people,
that it just spurs her into this almost
terrorist mind-set of the...
What she's saying, having the protomolecule,
maybe going towards violence, is the way to stop
Belters being the bottom of this chain,
and it was very interesting to play
and dip into that a little bit.
Solomon Epstein is a story that was included
in a short story collection
that Naren Shankar, our show-runner
had read and he fell in love with it.
Solomon Epstein invented
a new engine that would allow humans to move around the solar system.
And he didn't know where it was gonna take us, and in fact, he dies
in the process of inventing it.
But he knows it's gonna change everything,
and he just doesn't know how.
Then we cut to Bobbie, and the situation down on Ganymede,
and here's this new technology coming along,
this... this hybrid monster, created with the protomolecule,
that kills everyone that it comes in contact with.
And here's a new technology,
and we don't know where it's gonna take us.
We don't know what it's gonna mean for the future.
They're talking about the same thing.
It just felt like there was just too many reasons to include it.
It's the Martian history, it's the story of technology,
and the unintended consequences of it.
It just fits perfectly into that Bobbie narrative.
When we were on Ganymede, that was
a big episode for us because,
obviously, that's when the troops die, and
some things start to unravel and she starts to find things out,
that eventually become a huge part of the storyline
for the rest of the season.
The special effects,
it's tough because I had to be on my back, and
on my visor, they just kind of let me know like,
whereabouts I could look.
Luckily the director could speak during that scene, so he'd be like
"Uh, can you move your eyes to the right a little bit...
"And now he's getting closer...
"And now he's going away..."
And so it was just so that I knew when to kind of,
you know, play the...
different feelings of like "What is this?"
and, "Oh my god, now I'm terrified," and whatnot.
The Ganymede monster has gone through
several iterations and designs.
So there's a lot of stuff going into the design of it, but
it has to feel like the thing from the book.
But it also has to feel like something
that fits in the visual style of the show.
It hasn't been easy,
but I think we've landed on something that...
We we're like "I can't wait to see it actually animated."
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