The Expanse 3x13 Reaction
only now seeing that the last minute of the full reaction is missing , if you want i can rerender it or you can see it here in the edited one
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After watching this season again I have to say season 5 is conclusively the best season.
Excellent reaction girls. Again. as far as Clarissa i agree with you that on the show, we needed to see a bit more. Actually i was thinking about it, and the show actually handles the whole situation with Ashford way better than the books, however the books handle the situation with Clarissa way better, which is normal as Clarissa is actually a POV character, and we get a lot of insight into her pasyche. So it makes much more sense in the end that she does what she does. It's really fascinating. Keep up the good work.
Agree , but with Clarissa ( spoiler ahead ) you do get more later on in the show and they do answer a lot of questions on that way . And to a certain point I think they explain enough even in season 3 . You see she have regrets after killing Ren and even when she talk with Ana in her cell on Behemoth she cries so she does have doubts therefore not really out of realm of possibility that when she hear James she could have change of heart . But anyway I agree that story line suffered from trying to cramp Book 3 in half of the season .
I mean Clarissa pretty much tried to sacrifice her life to save the entire human race, if that is not enough to "redeem" her then what would be enough? If she hadn't acted then Holden and Naomi would have been killed, followed by the rest of humanity. I agree though that we need to see more of her character in the coming seasons.
Tags for the last 3 edited The Expanse reactions are missing. You know, I'd be willing to help you guys organize a bit including YT playlists. Just makes it easier for everyone coming in new to the channel :)
Not Lola saying she would choose Drummer. 😂🤣 😂🤣. I mean..same. hard Same. Sorry James.
Wow, I just noticed that the subtitles say "Angus" instead of "Amos" at 20:57 of the reaction. Way to go, Amazon closed captioning!
You've finally reached the true meaning of the show's title!
Looking ahead, I think you two are really going to enjoy the remaining seasons, despite the wide variation of comments about them. While it'd be difficult to be as good as S3, I think they come close (in varying degrees). Some of the disparaging comments I've seen are from people who don't seem to like them for the very same reasons I do like them. Oh well. We each have our own tastes, but judging from your past reactions, I know there are several scenes you're going to love.
I just realized there's 3 more seasons still. Oh lawd
Excellent reaction. Excellent episode and Excellent Season. I think that word explains the Expanse for me: Excellence.
Regarding the Martians and their racism: it's important to remember that Mars is a strong militaristic nation and mindset. The people of Mars grow up basically being taught that Earthers are lazy and Belters are selfish. They grew up with it being drilled into their heads that everything they should do is for the benefit of Mars and the dream of terraforming it. Add to that you're dealing with Marines, who are even more zealous about it. They live in bubbles where every bad thing that has been said about Earthers and Belters is constantly reinforced and reaffirmed. They have no real concept that it may be wrong. That's why Bobby is very much like that in Season 2. She feels the same about Earthers and Belters. Only through her experiences on Earth and with the Roci crew does she eventually come to realize that it's not as black and white as she has been taught.
Imagine if this was the last episode 😭
"Now I know why you don't need to carry a gun," is probably my second favorite line from the series - right after, "I am that guy." of course. It seems like everyone likes to make comparisons between SyFy and Amazon seasons. Although there are some apparent differences, the producers have said the budget was essentially the same<" Keep in mind that Amazon and Syfy essentially just bought the broadcast/streaming rights to the series and didn't actually produce the show (despite putting their respective branding on it. The show is actually the product of Alcon Entertainment which owns the video rights to The Expanse books, and the producers have said apparent changes from season to season are really the result of having gotten better as they "learned what they were doing."
I don't know if I buy that. If the budget was the same there was definitely some new software that was bought or something.
That scene with the ring gates opening up is really what I think about when I think of what the phrase "The Expanse" means. When I listened to it happen in the audiobooks it sounded like just the next event in a long line of crazy events. In the show it really hit. The known universe of places to live just expanded by a factor of 1300 and the possibilities were endless. What I love about this story is that no matter how much you throw all kinds of fancy science fiction technology or alien mystery at this story, it stays a story about human beings and how they treat each other. This is a story about the future, but as an American, it's not a story too different from our own history. We saw the economics and politics around colonialism and trade all shift with the introduction of new technology and new discoveries. Now there's new places to visit and fight over, and how people see each other and everything else around them is going to shift all over again.
Damn, that was a really good analysis of Ashford in the after show commentary
this filled the reaction end for me, thanks. One thing to revisit is the ship Clarissa destroyed was unmanned, so the plot she set in motion initially didn't have direct murders planned, until things got complicated by her supervisor ect..
Hmm I'm actually not sure if the Seung Un was unmanned. Various dialogue suggests she did kill some people there. I don't think she really cared or thought about casualties, until she finally sat back and reflected when talking to Anna. And that's something she'll have to live with.
The way I see it is that the protomolecule is designed to use existing life and repurpose it to make a ring so the only rings that will ever open are ones that are in systems that are already habitable. We only see the rings where the protomolecule landed on a planet with life already there, that is why every single one has a habitable planet in it.
I don't know if it was life that it was searching for as opposed to organic matter. Remember that they sent Eros to the Solar System billions of years ago, possibly before there even was life on Earth (Maybe Mars back then had organic building blocks?). It's just the fact that Eros was caught by Jupiter's gravity that put a wrench in their plans .